From Gears of War to Uno: the 15 most important Xbox 360 games

Originally featured as a minigame in Project Gotham, this 80s-style twin-stick shooter was rebuilt as a standalone digital-only release, attracting a huge new fanbase. Fast, frenetic and super stylish, with lovely vector visuals, it was the game that first showed the potential of Xbox Live Arcade. A time-sink of epic proportions The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (screenshot from the 2025 remake) Tens of millions of hours must have been spent in this foundational text of open-world role-playing games - one of the first video games where you really could go where you wanted and do pretty much as you pleased. Riding around Cyrodiil on horseback, taking in its gleaming city and backwater towns, it was so easy to get drawn into unexpected shenanigans that closing the story's threatening hell-gates became a distant second priority. The most addictive version of the classic card game Uno on Xbox 360 Look - don't @ us - Uno was one of most important Xbox 360 games.