Xbox 360 Launch Titles

By Tristan Clark

We check out what will be gracing your Xbox 360.

Wondering what to get for your shiny new Xbox 360? Wonder no longer – we’ve compiled a list of the titles that will be available to you on release day, the 23rd.

Kameo: Elements of Power
Boasting impeccable next-generation graphics and innovative game-play, Kameo: Elements of Power shines as a giant leap in game development. Continuing its legacy of creating dynamic puzzles, immersive combat and enormous environments, Rare fuses multiple genres to create a strikingly fun gaming experience destined for widespread appeal.

Perfect Dark Zero
Set in the year 2020 – years before the original hit game – Perfect Dark Zero is the origin story of the legendary Joanna Dark, a perfect agent and ultimate weapon. Equip Joanna with definitive state-of-the-art weaponry, gadgets, and vehicles in the Xbox 360-exclusive prequel to the international award-winning and multimillion-selling first-person shooter "Perfect Dark".

Call of Duty 2
Developed by Infinity Ward, Call of Duty 2 returns with more cinematic intensity and chaos than ever before, delivering explosive action with bigger battles, more weapons, more troops and unprecedented special effects set in a wide range of locations and environments. Players find themselves thrown squarely into the chaos of WWII's most epic battles through Russian, British and American campaigns.

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter
Advanced Warfighter unfolds entirely in Mexico City, where numerous, meticulously researched and detailed environments will deliver complete immersion into the future of urban warfare. Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter will also include multiplayer and cooperative gameplay with exciting new elements, continuing the Ghost Recon tradition of setting the bar for multiplayer action.

Condemned: Criminal Origins
Condemned: Criminal Origins allows players to experience a heightened level of psychological tension as they use their instincts, forensic tools, and melee combat to track serial killers and bring them to justice. Presented in a first-person view for maximum visceral effect, this atmospheric thriller highlights the power of next-generation hardware with photo-realistic backdrops, life-like physics, and highly sophisticated artificial intelligence.

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
Oblivion is an epic, open-ended single-player RPG for the next generation providing gamers with one of the most life-like gaming experiences to date. The powerful combination of unprecedented graphics and freeform gameplay allows gamers to unravel the main quest or explore the vast world at their own pace.

Full Auto
Full Auto allows players to choose from a wide selection of unique vehicle designs and arm them with any combination of machine guns, cannons, and other deadly weapons. The rules of the road don't apply in this high-octane, no-holds-barred competition.

Need for Speed: Most Wanted
Combining the thrill of illicit street racing and tuner customization with over-the-top strategic police pursuits, players can customize their rides that include a wide range of vehicles from the BMW M3, Porsche Cayman S and Lamborghini Gallardo to Mazda RX-8, Ford Mustang GT and Mitsubishi Eclipse.

Ridge Racer 6
Ridge Racer 6 promises to deliver the most intense and immersive drift racing experience yet, with an unprecedented sense of speed, slick graphics and more than 130 cars that let players enjoy every hairpin drift and high-speed straightaway like never before.

Project Gotham Racing 3
PGR 3" creates the ultimate roster of the hottest supercars in existence, introduces them to the high-definition era, and drops them into a completely new gaming world, where style rules the road. Racers define and create individually customized gameplay, and can race each other — on or offline.

Fight Night Round 3
The award-winning Fight Night series is back to defend its title as the undisputed champion of boxing videogames. Round 3 brings the most intense boxing videogame experience to the virtual ring. Film-quality graphics and innovative gameplay establish this game as one of the best-looking and playing Xbox 360 sports game on the market.

GUN
As Colton White, players must straddle the line between good and evil as they showdown against corrupt lawmen, a murderous preacher, renegade army psychopaths, merciless outlaws and unforgiving Native Americans, while waging war on horseback, collecting bounties, and commandeering trains. Players travel through an action-packed landscape of high mountain wilderness, deserts and bustling territorial towns in an epic story of betrayal, greed, and revenge.

Tony Hawk's American Wasteland
No levels. No load times. Just never-ending action that doesn't stop until you leave the game! Tony Hawk's American Wasteland gives you - for the first time ever in a Hawk game - the freedom to skate, or bike, throughout a rich, expansive open environment. Once you arrive in Los Angeles, the vast city that gave birth to skate culture, the sky's the limit as you progress through the Wasteland story and choose missions that will have you immersed in the action without ever skating the same line twice!

GUN and Tony Hawk’s American Wasteland are available in a double-pack

Amped 3
Amped 3 stays true to its roots as the most authentic trick-based snowboarding game on seven new real-world resorts. Amped 3 is three times larger than the levels in the preceding Amped games. Given the vastness of the mountains, players explore the backcountry on snowmobile to find the perfect spots and then use the Park Builder for planting their own jumps and rails.

Madden NFL 06
For the first time in 10 years, the Madden NFL Football franchise has revolutionized its passing game-giving Madden NFL 06 the most groundbreaking and innovative offensive arsenal ever created. QB Precision Placement lets you put the ball exactly where you want it. Madden NFL 06 brings authentic NFL passing to video games like never before.

NBA 2K6
Achieve NBA superstar status with the new 24/7 mode, where created players now partake in training camps, competitions and even land endorsement deals. The Crib is where you customise your pad, buy music and unlock mini-games with crib credits earned playing the game. NBA 2K6 offers the most complete and entertaining roundball experience available.

NHL 2K6
NHL 2K6 continues its legacy as the #1 selling NHL game with more control, more emotion and more detail than ever before. ProControl lets you take command of the offensive zone with tape-to-tape icon passing, behind the net plays and precision give-and-go attacks. Featuring all-new presentation elements, cut-scenes, and commentary, NHL 2K6 brings the ice to you.

NBA Live 06
Feel the emotion and intensity of the most complete basketball experience with NBA Live 06. With a totally enhanced transition game, take the point and deliver fast break passes on the fly as teammates run the lanes awaiting your pass. On defense, get inside and feel what it's like to block a dunk—or to be dunked on—as big bodies collide under the basket.

Quake 4
In A Desperate War For Earth's survival against an unrelenting alien enemy, the only way to defeat them is to become one of them. Armed with advanced weaponry and vehicles and aided by an elite squad of marines, you take the battle to the heart of the Strogg home planet and become Earth's only hope for victory.

Peter Jackson's King Kong
King Kong is a videogame that will capture the imagination, vision and emotion of the epic film. Delve deeper into the film experience through alternative viewpoints designed to immerse the player into the action and truly "feel" the tension of the adventure.

Burnout: Revenge
Burnout Revenge lets gamers rip through rush hour traffic and lay waste to scores of rubbernecking roadhogs in an over-the-top scene of vehicular mayhem. In addition to tricked out new race, crash and road rage modes, Burnout Revenge takes the series' blistering speed and spectacular destruction to dizzying new heights with an all-new Revenge mode, challenging gamers to battle the clock and unleash their frustrations on rush hour traffic.

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 06
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 06 delivers ultra-realistic course environments, allowing gamers to experience the intensity of a championship golf tournament. With greatness comes pressure, as players are put to the test of making perfect tee shots or sinking tournament-winning putts in crunch time. Advanced lighting techniques provide a much better sense of terrain undulation and the contours that make each course unique.

FIFA 06: Road to FIFA World Cup
Fifa 06 brings the total football experience to your fingertips. It delivers a combination of attacking gameplay, complete customisation, pure authenticity and the deepest manager mode ever. FIFA 06 delivers the most comprehensive line-up of official, licensed leagues from around the world of football with an unprecedented level of real clubs, kits, stadiums and players.

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