22% of 360's good titles are shooters

by David Dreger { Aug 10th 2007 at 2:45PM }

In response to our article about the percentage of shooter games for the Xbox 360, X3F reader Crazed Geek took it upon himself to see how many good games on the 360 are in the shooter genre. His method of weeding out the less than stellar games involved removing any game that scored under 80 on Metacritic, and produced the above pie chart. So, with TPS and FPS combined, they come in at 22% of the good 360 games, moving up to second behind the Sports genre which continues to lead the pack. So there's some more food for thought, and good shooters still only take up slightly more than a fifth of the better titles available. Crazed Geek also has a nifty Google Spreadsheet with all the games and their metacritic score.

Tags: FirstPersonShooters, FPS, xbox360

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Bravo6 @ Aug 10th 2007 2:57PM

Ha! Well done, Crazed Geek.

TORO @ Aug 10th 2007 3:04PM

I think CrazedGeek is promoting his blog ;) X3F you should send Dj an application...he's always on top of stuff!

Adam @ Aug 10th 2007 3:05PM

There is more colours in this world than yellow, blue and green.

Crazed Geek @ Aug 10th 2007 3:18PM

Toro: Promoting my blog? Why would you say such lies? :P Nah, my blog was the only place I had to put this (and I needed some more content for it anyway).

Adam: It was a bit of a rush job, and I'm partially color blind, so I just went with Numbers' default colors.

TORO @ Aug 10th 2007 3:25PM

Haha I don't mind, looks good Crazed Geek.

jkdoug @ Aug 10th 2007 3:44PM

That's kinda funny. Ask the colorblind guy to make the pie charts. :)

Maurice M @ Aug 10th 2007 4:02PM

Good work, so the good stuff on 360 is 22% shooter and 27% sports, and 16% driving (which to a lot of people is a sport)... 65%

Um, isn't that what people were complaining about anyway? 2 out of 3 (good) games... RPG, puzzle, and family games all less than 1 in 10 (good) games each. Hell, you could combine the 3 and still just 1 out of every 8 (good) games will be in those genres.

Shooters don't look like they dominate the 360 by these numbers. There's still a great big lack of variety in the other popular genres. The 18% (1 out of every 5 good games) for Action/Adventure games is both surprising and welcome though.

Mike-453 @ Aug 10th 2007 4:26PM

Any third-person shooter game that has more than constant combat can be called an Action Adventure.

Action Adventures that feature shooting are categorized into third-person shooters because of how many games that use shooting as their combat compared to melee-focused games. Which is a shame, I could do with more quality melee action games to go with my collection.

Who Flang Poo @ Aug 10th 2007 7:40PM

Lol, the PS3's would say 100% of PS3s good titles are an FPS.

MYPS3KilledMy360 @ Aug 10th 2007 9:15PM

i dont know about this. MS should advertise these other genres better all i see is Gears. COD, and Halo. Mass effect still end up being a shooter.

MYPS3KilledMy360 @ Aug 10th 2007 9:35PM

@9 what are you talking about you must be talking out your ass its more like 45% LMAO its a shame that people can talk about heavenly Sword being a total rip off God of War when there like 20 different FPS. i love video games and ill be the only dumass in the room screaming about how much ill kick your ass on games i have never played kinda like this. AH MAN! IM GONNA SO RAPE FACE WITH MY DEAGLE IN COD4! YEAH JACKBENIMBLE WILL ROCK YO DOME LIKE A EARTHQUAKE BIZATCH BLOW YO MIND LIKE HURRICANE YOU NUBSLET BURN YO ASS LIKE THE MOTHER FKIN SUN MOFO FILL YOU UP WITH SO MANY HOLES THERE GONNA HAVE TO START CALLIN YOU SPONGE BOB YOU FAIRY. thats just the warm up scare tactics man it works..........sometimes. if your not 1337 dont use it or else you will get no respect.

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ZeroCorpse @ Aug 11th 2007 12:52AM

Yeah? Do the same thing for the Wii and you'll get something like 80% party/family games.

Each console has it's target audience and strengths. Nothing wrong with that. If you want to play more party/family games, get a Wii.

And if you want to play more platformers, get an NES, or step out of the dark ages and play a genre that isn't as old as Aladdin's Castle.

Really... Who the hell plays platformers anymore? Damn.

SDG @ Aug 11th 2007 1:45AM

Great work, I posted it on my blog if you didnt mind, ahahah

I'm glad to see that something I thought of could lead to this.

Mike-453 @ Aug 11th 2007 8:31AM

"Mass effect still end up being a shooter. "

Ohs Nos Mass Effect is sci-fi and features long-ranged weapons, it's a shooter woe is me.

SDG @ Aug 11th 2007 11:17AM

Anything can usually be a shooter, its just whatever genre element is more dominant is usually what its classified under. tps, rpg and action can get confusing at times.

Mike-453 @ Aug 11th 2007 11:59AM

In this case, considering the extremely long lengths of time between combat due to simply exploring, talking, character customization and equipment/skill managing, I think it's fair to call it an RPG more than you would call it a shooter, even the shooting element is stat-based though.

James @ Aug 12th 2007 2:37AM

These concerns are right on the money -- I agree with #7, most of the popular "racing" games are simulation-type (not arcade-type or action-type), and so should be lumped with Sports, showing that a very strong majority of good 360 games are shooters or sports titles. I never touch the sports, which means if I'm not in the mood for a(nother) shooter, I'm starting with only ~40% of the library to look at. That's 40% of 59 games, according to Metacritic right now. Now, get rid of aberrations like King Kong (who the hell let that into the list?) and low-value XBLA titles (Uno? Cloning Clyde?) and you're probably left with about a dozen titles. Nice.

Man, this Christmas can't come soon enough.

KilgoreTrout XL @ Aug 13th 2007 9:47AM

The 360 is most certainly shooter-heavy, and I wouldn't have any other way. I'd say my collection is probably 60% shooters.

I hope you included Earth Defense Force in the mix as well.