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Xbox 360 Games Surprise With Variety

In the days of the original Xbox, the console was seen in the public eye as being a haven for first-person shooters that appealed directly to the l337 gamer demographic. Its Xbox Live online play infrastructure seemed to cater that sort of deathmatch gameplay, and its flagship title was the massively-popular shooter Halo.

When the Xbox 360 was announced in 2005, the gamer public anticipated that the software lineup would continue to cater to the hardcore Western gamer niche, and the subsequent announcement that Halo 3 would bow as one of the tentpole Xbox 360 games of 2007 didn't do much to dissuade that notion.

While Halo 3, Call of Duty 4 Xbox 360 Games, and other shooters have been popular Xbox 360 games, what's surprising is the amount of support the 360 has received in other genres. Where its predecessor had the stigma of having few worthwhile exclusive titles and a plethora of ports from the PlayStation 2 library, the opposite is true now. Microsoft's upstart console secures the lion's share of exclusives and timed exclusives in the gaming market today in several genres.

Role-playing games – especially the tradtional eastern RPGs of the 8 and 16-bit gaming eras (dubbed JRPGs) – never found any purchase on the original Xbox platform. A quick look at the library of Xbox 360 games reveals quite a different story. The 360 has several hot console-exclusive RPGs like Eternal Sonata, or Lost Odyssey, the newest game from Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi's Mistwalker Studios. Mistwalker created a buzz in the industry when it partnered with Microsoft in 2004, and the two games they have released for the console to date have had a warm reception from critics.

Another genre that the 360 has gotten surprising traction in is the family games market. Its downloadable assortment of Xbox Live Arcade games contains popular arcade games and board games that a family can enjoy together, it's the platform of choice for the mega-popular rhythm franchises Guitar Hero and Rock Band, and its had a great run of quality all-ages games, from Microsoft's own Viva Pinata to the runaway hit Lego Star Wars Xbox 360 Games (which are spawning Lego Batman and Lego Indiana Jones cousins later this year). It's clear that Xbox 360 games are not, as once feared, solely for the CounterStrike aficionado in the family.

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