Category: Shooter

Title: Halo: Reach
Publisher: Microsoft
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 9/13/2010
Overview:
The Halo legend continues with the story of how the Halo legend began. Make a harrowing last stand on the planet Reach in an attempt to stop the Covenant forces before they launch their assault on Earth. For the first time in the Halo franchise, you’ll fight with a squad of Spartan soldiers, each with elite skills. With the UNSC and Covenant forces at maximum military strength, you’ll use powerful new weapons in the largest-scale battles and darkest storyline Halo has ever seen. It’s all driven by a new game engine and backed by a set of multiplayer options that builds on the  experience delivered by Halo 3.

Title: Front Mission Evolved
Publisher: Square Enix
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 9/27/2010
Overview:
War evolves and a classic Square Enix franchise evolves along with it as the Front Mission strategy franchise morphs into a futuristic third-person action saga. Far in the future, mechanized battle suits called Wanzers are the weapon of choice. When New York City is attacked, a Wanzer engineer named Dylan jumps into his newly finished prototype and goes to battle to save his father. The battle soon evolves into something more sinister than it first appeared. You’ll load your mech with up to four weapons and blow away everything in sight. You’ll also be forced to leave your mech behind and try to survive in your own skin.

Title: Quantum Theory
Publisher: Koei
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 9/27/2010
Overview:
The human race, already ravaged by war, is pushed to the brink of oblivion in this third-person shooter where humanity’s last hope sits at the top of a dark tower. Following a devastating conflict, the last human survivors have banded together in a community called Cocoon. When a deadly black material known as Erosion threatens to destroy what’s left, a soldier sets out to destroy the source of the Erosion, a mysterious Living Tower. Team with an unlikely ally and explore a world teetering on the brink of apocalypse. You’re not only up against your enemy, but a shape-shifting battlefield that throws new obstacles at you in real-time.

Title: Greg Hastings Paintball 2
Publisher: Majesco
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 9/30/2010
Overview:
The battle for paintball supremacy begins here! One of the best paintball sharpshooters in the world delivers another virtual paintball experience that’s right on target. Greg Hastings Paintball 2 leaves no detail overlooked, with 62 fields spread across 12 locations around the globe. Load up on the newest gear and assemble a dream team of up to 10 world class professional paintballers. Take aim in seven single player modes and seven more multiplayer options. Win tournaments to earn cash and upgrade your gear, create your own maps, and use a new cheat meter to see if you can erase an opponent’s kill shot without getting caught.

Title: Medal of Honor
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 10/11/2010
Overview:
The war in Afghanistan called for a new kind of soldier to fight a new kind of enemy. The Medal of Honor franchise adapts to that new reality by leaving the World War II era behind and creating the first MOH game set in the modern age. Experience the Afghan war zone through the eyes of Tier 1 Operators. The ultra-elite squad of highly skilled operatives takes orders directly from the National Command Authority, and is not allowed to fail. Carry out critical missions in the fight for freedom in gripping, cinematic gameplay developed with help from real-life Tier 1 operatives who were on the ground in Afghanistan.

Title: Vanquish
Publisher: Sega
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 10/18/2010
Overview:
The battle for Earth will be fought in space in this futuristic showdown between two global superpowers. In the not-too-distant future, the United States and Russia compete for a dwindling energy supply. When the U.S. builds a space station to harness the sun’s energy, Russian forces capture the orbiting energy harvester and use it to destroy San Francisco. But that’s just a warning shot. Unless the U.S. agrees to total surrender, New York is next to go in this robot-blasting, third-person shooter. Don a special combat suit and lead a strike team on a mission to take back the station before the Russians take out the Big Apple. 

Title: Borderlands
Publisher: Take Two
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 10/20/2009
Overview:
Blending first-person sci-fi action with elements of RPGs, Borderlands delivers a combat experience unlike anything you’ve ever seen. Gameplay is powered by a groundbreaking new content generator, giving you an almost inexhaustible supply of missions, environments, enemies, item drops, character customizations, and weapons. And that’s no exaggeration. There are literally hundreds of thousands of different weapons to find. Complete missions in a bombed-out wasteland that makes the Wild West look like Sunday school. Level up your character in a massive single-player campaign or drop in and out of other games at will in online co-op play.

Title: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Publisher: Activision
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 11/9/2009
Overview:
You’d better catch your breath. Modern Warfare 2 picks up right where the original left off and doesn’t stop. Once again, you’re part of an elite strike team charged with taking down a rogue ultranationalist faction. You’ll face smarter enemies that attack as soon as you respawn, and, since cutscenes have been eliminated, you’d better find some cover if you want to get a breather. Play a new Special Ops Co-op Mode, blow up walls and doors with a new Breach Mechanic, and more. New weapons keep the arsenal on the cutting edge, enhancements keep the Multiplayer modes among the best out there, and truly amazing visuals must be seen to be believed.

Title: Left 4 Dead 2
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 11/16/2009
Overview:
Return to the zombie apocalypse for this co-op action horror FPS that has everything you’d want in a sequel: more enemies, more weapons, and more ways to do damage! Left 4 Dead 2 sends you into the deep South to battle a new horde of infection-ravaged former humans. Play as four new survivors and use 20 new weapons to shoot, slug, and saw through zombies. Fight for survival in five campaigns, each featuring a new type of “uncommon” enemy. The AI Director that guided the original returns to helm the sequel, now customizing level layouts, objects, weather, and lighting, in addition to tailoring the experience to suit your performance.

Title: Rogue Warrior
Publisher: Bethesda
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 12/2/2009
Overview:
The unthinkable has happened. War has erupted between North and South Korea. And you’re caught behind enemy lines. You’re outgunned, outnumbered, and completely cut off from friendly forces. Lead your team back over the South Korean border without alerting your North Korean enemy in team-based tactical combat. Whether you’re playing the single-player campaign, four-soldier co-op, or 24-person online multiplayer, you’ll enjoy complete freedom to take on objectives as battle demands. Maneuver through prison camps, shipyards, submarine depots, and other never-before-seen North Korean environments. The tactics and weapons have been developed and chosen in conjunction with real Navy SEALs, so the action is as real as it gets.

Title: Army of Two: The 40th Day
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 1/11/2010
Overview:
Co-op is once again king as the Army of Two returns to take on a whole new enemy. When Shanghai is hit by an epic disaster, some might call it a case of “wrong place, wrong time.” For Salem and Rios, the Army of Two, it’s a case of “right place, wrong time” for whoever is responsible. Fight your way through a city under siege with a constant AI or co-op partner as you pursue the truth behind the disaster. New moves have been added to your co-op repertoire, giving you more ways to collaborate as you battle enemies and work to keep each other alive.

Title: BioShock 2
Publisher: Take Two
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 2/8/2010
Overview:
Ten years after the original descent to Rapture, BioShock 2 takes you back to the underwater city as a Big Daddy. Rapture has a terrifying new ruler who’s grown from a forgotten Little Sister into the city’s most powerful being. Fight through dark city hallways as a Big Daddy, an armor-suited protector of the Little Sisters. You’ll have the option to harvest their genetic modifications or keep them safe. Experience a haunting new storyline with flashback missions, new weapons and plasmids, new multiplayer modes, and more. This time, you’ll be able to use weapons and plasmids simultaneously, and even create plasmid combinations.

Title: Aliens vs. Predator
Publisher: Sega
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 2/16/2010
Overview:
No matter what side you choose, any action fan comes out a winner in this battle to determine the deadliest species in the galaxy. Alien vs. Predator begins when a distant mining colony finds a mysterious pyramid containing a deadly secret. As Predators rally from across the galaxy to defend the pyramid, Aliens awaken within. The Predators are angry. The Aliens are hungry. And the Colonial Marines are stuck in the middle. Choose your side in three distinct single-player campaigns or fight furious online battles. Score trophy kills as a Predator, tear enemies apart as an Alien, or make a harrowing last stand as a Marine.

Title: Battlefield: Bad Company 2
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 3/1/2010
Overview:
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 builds on the original with more explosions, more maps, more tactics, more options, and more vehicles. The franchise’s trademark vehicular combat has gotten bigger, with every vehicle fined-tuned for precision realism and two new additions: an ATV and a UH-60 transport copter. An amped-up new single-player campaign takes a more seasoned B Company on a mission to prevent World War. Team up with three friends in all-new, squad-based play that features two squad-only game modes. In every mode, an updated tactical destruction engine lets you blow holes in cover or demolish entire buildings in a single blast.

Title: Metro 2033
Publisher: THQ
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 3/16/2010
Overview:
Leaving home for the first time is never easy. For Artyom, the journey is beyond his worst nightmares. Enter a shattered, post-apocalyptic world that has only one final hope for survival in this chilling first-person shooter. When a disaster turns the surface of the Earth into a poisonous wasteland, the remaining citizens of Moscow descend into the subway. Twenty years later, a new menace threatens to destroy their shattered underground existence. Leave your Metro Station city for the first time to save what’s left of mankind. Ghosts and other horrors lurk in the darkness of the forgotten Moscow subway tunnels. And creatures that are much worse wait for you in the wastelands above.

Title: Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Conviction
Publisher: Ubisoft
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 4/12/2010
Overview:
Conviction doesn’t just re-invent the Splinter Cell franchise. It threatens to redefine the entire stealth-action genre with revolutionary new gameplay mechanics! Sam Fisher is now a rogue agent, betrayed by his former agency. You’ll work outside the law to prevent a terrorist attack, and you’ll do it in all-new ways with a Mark and Execute System. Lurk in the shadows and mark your target. Then burst from the darkness with a flurry of bullets, eliminate your enemies, and disappear again. If you’re spotted, work back to cover using a Last Known Position System, a ghostly outline that marks your last location in the eyes of your enemies.

Title: Dead to Rights: Retribution
Publisher: Namco
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 4/27/2010
Overview:
Your enemies are going down. The only question is how in this shooter that gives you the option to holster your gun and make their demise a little more…personal. Vice cop Jack Slate is back in this third Dead to Rights title, and he’s ready to clean up Grant City. Fight gangs, crooks, and other corrupt forces as you attempt to return the once-great city to glory. A fluid combat system blends fast-paced gunplay with up-close brawls. Shoot from behind cover, blind-fire around corners, or grab a human shield. Then get up close for lethal finishers, bone-cracking disarms, or to use your enemies’ own weapons against them.

Title: Velvet Assassin
Publisher: Gamecock Media Group
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 4/28/2009
Overview:
Enter a dream world and live out a nightmare in this World War II stealth-action saga inspired by real-life events. As British Intelligence agent and WII heroine Violette Szabo lies in a coma, you’ll enter her mind and live out the horrors of World War II. Operate in the shadows of Nazi-controlled Europe, where you’ll work as an assassin using stealth tactics to combat the Germans. The missions are harsh and uncompromisingly real. Infiltrate Nazi camps and poison your own men before they talk. Sneak up on enemies and pull pins from grenades clipped to their belts, and more as you travel through WW2 locations rendered in surreal dream-like fashion.

Title: Raiden Fighters Aces
Publisher: Valcon Games
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 5/14/2009
Overview:
You can never have too many aces, and this collection serves up three of a kind with all three Raiden Fighters games together on one disc. Experience the classic shoot-em-up overhead action that made Raiden Fighters an arcade favorite. Each installment has been re-created for the 360 with the original gameplay fully intact. Fly solo or in two-player offline co-op mode. A new Training Mode lets you customize your ship, pick your wingmen, fly through any level, and play in slo-mo. Multiple display options let you pick from the classic vertical-scrolling look, a full-screen side-scroll, or a rotated full-screen vertical scroller.

Title: Damnation
Publisher: Codemasters
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 5/28/2009
Overview:
Two rival factions, the Coalition and the Nationalists, fought a bitter 20-year war. Each side emptied every weapon in its arsenal, fighting to a draw and leaving their country ravaged and ripe for the taking. A powerful arms dealer rises from the chaos, destroying what’s left of the two armies and quickly preparing for world domination. With the fate of the world in the balance, humanity must fight back in this epic shooter where the action unfolds not just horizontally, but vertically as well. The battleground is open and sprawling, with landscapes primed for insane vehicular stunts. With frantic combat and attacks from every direction, there’s nowhere to hide.