The most played Xbox Live games of 2007

by Dustin Burg { Jan 5th 2008 at 5:30PM }

Mr. Xbox himself, Larry Hryb posted the Top Xbox Live games of 2007 over on MajorNelson.com and we don't think anyone will be surprised that Halo lead the pack. Among the post played retail games Halo 3 tops the list at number one with Gears of War at two, Call of Duty 4 at the third spot, Rainbow Six Vegas at four and rounding out the top five is Call of Duty 3. But onto news that may actually surprise you. Larry also posted the top ten most purchased XBLA games of 2007 and color us purple, TMNT came in at number one. TMNT! Who would have thunk that? Worms ranked at the number two spot, Castlevania: SOTN at three and everyone's favorite Vision camera enabled game UNO comes in at number four.

Check out the rest of the top ten lists and see which original Xbox games saw the most Xbox Live play time (hint: a different Halo game tops that list) after the jump. Gaming in 2007 ... oh the memories we have.

Tags: cod4, gears-of-war, gow, halo-3, xbla, xbox-live

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

kHz Glitch @ Jan 5th 2008 6:10PM

Why did you block out the 6/7 titles?

Dustin Burg @ Jan 5th 2008 6:17PM

Because I was trying to build some sort of excitement and anticipation for you to click over to Major Nelson's blog. I also wanted to use the nifty "blur" effect in photoshop.

NitroFrost @ Jan 5th 2008 6:36PM

That blur effect will get you every time

Boff @ Jan 7th 2008 8:02AM

It looked to me like you were hiding the fact Crackdown came in at a VERY respectable 6th place.

Yay for Crackdown!

JakubK666 @ Jan 5th 2008 6:28PM

Oblivion...am I the only one who disliked this game as it was too complicated to make a good 360 port.

Crackdown deserved it. I feel sad that the game was a treated as "That game that comes with Halo 3 Beta. HALO 3 BETA w()()t!". The game was a lot better sandbox than GTA...

lharmon @ Jan 5th 2008 6:38PM

I couldn't get into Oblivion either. Just not a game for me... Crackdown however, that was a really awesome game. Co-op for the win!

The360King @ Jan 6th 2008 3:41AM

Crackdown was an excellent sandbox and was very underrated. I still pull it out and play it ever once in a while.

Brave @ Jan 5th 2008 6:56PM

I just don't see how Halo 3 made the top when it's been out for mearly months, while the other games has been out a lot longer

and Gears of War is horrid :\

infact, every game up there Sucks except for Call of Duty 4...

NvM @ Jan 5th 2008 7:25PM

I really like CoD4, but Gears of War horrid?
Blasphemy!

JakubK666 @ Jan 5th 2008 7:38PM

Oh come on...I haven't played CoD4 yet but it's pretty much a similar sequel after all. Gears of War (FTW!) revolutionised game mechanics.And was the only game to ever top Halo 2 before Halo 3 came out.

StalkerofHades @ Jan 5th 2008 7:40PM

What some people are forgetting is that Halo 3 sold 8.5 million copies. Since the list is based on Unique users and that's why it is on top, despite only being out a short while.

mrhammerstein @ Jan 5th 2008 7:47PM

did they leave out Halo 2? i want to assume this still would have topped everything else.

SovietSpartan @ Jan 5th 2008 9:25PM

TMNT for the win. Its like one of the only Arcade titles i bought this year. COOP ROCKS>

xenocidic @ Jan 6th 2008 11:48AM

lol yea i just recently purchased TMNT 1989 so I guess I added to these figures, but I am quite surprised about the complete absence of "Space Giraffe" from the list...

Boff @ Jan 7th 2008 8:05AM

Ouch.

OBM @ Jan 5th 2008 10:25PM

I predict 2008 ending like this:
1. Gears of War 2
2. Grand Theft Auto 4
3. Halo 3

Just wait and see...

(If I'm wrong let's hope everyone forgets about this comment or I'll look a right idiot!)

Edzo04 @ Jan 5th 2008 11:40PM

halo 3 and gears blow complete asshole. they are both sad multiplayer games especially gears!

lharmon @ Jan 5th 2008 11:55PM

w00t! Halo 3 beats COD4! Halo is the greatest EVAR! HAHAHA! ok, that was for the COD-psychos... Why did you blur 6 and 7 on the list instead of just cropping the image?