Category: Shooter

Title: Aliens: Colonial Marines
Publisher: Sega
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 2/11/2013
Overview: Enlist in the Colonial Marines and journey to the planet LV-426 in this story that plays as a true sequel to James Cameron’s hit Aliens. Face one of the deadliest beings in the universe as you battle the classic creature in all of its forms: the Facehugger, Chestburster, Warrior, Drone (seen in Alien 3), and Queen. You’ll also have to survive a new Crusher alien created just for this game. Customize weapon load-outs and explore environments from the movies. Need backup? Call in up to three friends to join your squad in drop-in/drop-out co-op play that spans the entire storyline. It may be just another day in the corps, but one day in the corps brings action unlike anywhere else!

Title: Dead Space 3
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 2/4/2013
Overview: NOTE: This game requires an EA Online Pass code to access online content. The Online Pass code is included with purchase, but not with rental of this title. This is a two disc game, but it only counts as one disc against your rental plan.

If you want the gear to survive Dead Space 3, you’ll have to build it yourself! Battle enemies with your own custom weapons on a mission to destroy the Necromorphs once and for all. Hero Isaac Clarke and soldier John Carver have crashed on a frozen planet. Your engineering skills will be stretched to their limit as you scavenge the icy world for parts to build weapons and the other gear you need to survive. If you can survive the wilderness, you’ll meet a Necromorph enemy that’s gained terrifying new powers in a battle to save humanity from extinction. The epic story spans the entire planet and can be played in single player or in drop-in/drop-out online co-op.

Title: Heavy Fire: Shattered Spear
Publisher: Mastiff
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 1/28/2013
Overview: A critical target deep behind enemy lines. A rogue plot that must be stopped. The only way to complete the mission is to survive heavy fire! You’ll wield plenty of firepower of your own in this first-person rails shooter that doesn’t lack for targets. Slip inside the Iranian border to find a captured spy with knowledge of a secret nuclear weapons program. Use military-grade weapons and technology on the ground and in the air, including remote drone strikes. Play the campaign as a solo soldier of fortune, or team up with three friends and unleash a squad attack.

Title: Far Cry 3
Publisher: Ubisoft
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 12/4/2012
Overview: NOTE: Rental of this title does not include the Uplay Passport required by Ubisoft for access to online features and game modes. The single-use code is included with purchase and is also available for purchase separately via Xbox LIVE. A limited multiplayer trial is available via your Xbox LIVE gamertag while renting this title.

You’re trapped on an island where the natives are not only restless, but also crazy in the head and armed to the teeth. The best way to find your way off? Shoot first and ask for directions later. Make your escape by taking the fight to two lawless factions – crazy warlords and ruthless rebels – in environments that range from mountain peaks to swampy island bogs. The wilds of the mysterious island hold secrets that might be worse than the people who call it home. Search for ancient relics, hunt animals, and travel by land, sea, and air in a single-player campaign or a co-op split-screen romp for up to four players online.

Title: Hitman: Absolution
Publisher: Square Enix
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 11/19/2012
Overview: You can’t defend against what you can’t see coming. In Hitman Absolution, you can use Agent 47’s masterful skills to eliminate targets with anything you can find and in any way you can imagine. The black-suited assassin returns for his hardest contract yet in a story that sends him through a world overflowing with corruption. Activate new Instinct Mode to sense where enemies lurk before you enter a room, plot escape routes, or sharpen your focus to experience firefights in slo-mo. Stay one step ahead of the police as you take down your enemies with cold-blooded stealth or overwhelming firepower, just try not to splatter anything on that crisp white shirt.

Title: Call of Duty: Black Ops II
Publisher: Activision
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 11/12/2012
Overview: In the not too distant future, two superpowers are dominating the world. The United States and China have pushed each other to the brink of destruction as they both seek rare elements required to create the most advanced communication and weapons technologies. But when a cyberterrorism strike unleashes America’s drones against its own cities, the situation goes from bad to full blown Armageddon. Experience a more branching Call of Duty storyline set in two eras – 2025 and the 1980s Cold War – and written by The Dark Knight’s David S. Goyer. Lead handpicked units on new Strike Force side missions where you’ll choose targets based on their threat level. Your success or failure will impact the fate of the world.

Title: Halo 4
Publisher: Microsoft
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 11/5/2012
Overview: NOTE: This is a two disc game, but it only counts as one disc against your rental plan.

Master Chief crash lands on a new world to begin a new chapter of the juggernaut FPS with the beginning of the Reclaimer Series. Explore a new planet, encounter a powerful new enemy, and carve out a new Spartan legacy in a solo campaign or split-screen play for up to four players. Use new armor, fight using new weapons, and battle an enemy unlike any the Spartan warrior has seen in the main campaign. In other modes, you’ll create a highly-specialized Spartan IV soldier and deploy from the Infinity, the largest ship in the UNSC fleet and ground zero for this new saga.

Title: Cabela’s Hunting Expeditions
Publisher: Activision
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 10/22/2012
Overview: Experience total freedom to map out your own hunt in this Hunting Expedition set in an open world. Cabela’s aims to re-create the thrill of venturing out into the wild unknown in some of the world’s most amazing locations, from Africa to North America. Track a variety of game using your own blend of strategy and stealth, patiently setting up the perfect shot. Customize your weapon in Gun Builder Mode, where you can fine-tune your firearm to match your preferred hunting style. To make sure you spend more time in the blinds and less time trekking to them, Cabela’s gives you a variety of ATVs to use so you can discover new, untouched territory.

Title: Cabela’s Dangerous Hunts 2013
Publisher: Activision
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 10/22/2012
Overview: In Cabela’s Dangerous Hunts 2013, you’re not just tracking one of the most ferocious beasts in the wild, you’re also hunting for redemption and revenge! Cabela’s adds an extra edge with a storyline from one of the writers of Fringe. After losing their father to the claws of a grizzly bear, two brothers reunite for a hunt ten years later, putting their past in the crosshairs and their own lives on the line. Track predators that move in coordinated packs, use social hierarchies, and ambush you with behavior driven by a smarter and deadlier AI engine. Things get really hairy in the new split-screen co-op Maneater Mode, where increasingly threatening animals come at you in waves.

Title: Medal of Honor Warfighter
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 10/22/2012
Overview: NOTE: This is a two disc game, but it only counts as one disc against your rental plan. This game requires an EA Online Pass code to access online content. The Online Pass code is included with purchase, but not with rental of this title.

This gritty military saga not only reminds you what modern soldiers are up against, but also what they’re fighting for. Written by actual military Operatives, the story in MoH: Warfighter occurs on two fronts. Fight terror in hotspots across the globe while facing the harsh reality of a family stretched to its limits by the strains of war back home. When that family is threatened by an extremely dangerous explosive, your mission isn’t just to stop a ruthless terrorist, it’s to protect those you love the most. Join an ultra-elite Tier 1 force in a campaign inspired by real-life counter-terror strikes or choose from over a dozen highly skilled international teams to lead in competitive squad-based play.

Title: Doom 3: BFG Edition
Publisher: Bethesda
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 10/15/2012
Overview: The FPS that started it all returns with a special edition collection that’s so awesomely massive they’ve named it after a really big weapon. Come out firing as you clean out the depths of Hell in Doom 3. Re-mastered presentation creates an even more bone-chilling environment, while a new checkpoint save system makes for a smoother experience. Plunge deeper into the nightmare with the never-before-seen single-player, seven-level expansion pack, The Lost Mission. Refined controls are more console-friendly, and you’ll be able to penetrate shadows with more than bullets thanks to an armor-mounted flashlight. To top it all off, you’ll even get full versions of the original Doom and Doom 2 games.

Title: Damage Inc. Pacific Squadron WW2
Publisher: Mad Catz
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 9/20/2012
Overview: For the United States, World War II began at Pearl Harbor. This WW2 flyer begins on the day that lives in infamy and continues in the skies all across the Pacific Theatre. Experience 23 of history’s greatest missions packed with over 100 mission objectives in air-to-air, air-to-ship, and air-to-ground scenarios. Take out your targets in the same combat situations that made heroes out of many, including dogfights, aircraft carrier takeoffs and landings, and torpedo-and-dive bombing runs. Complete the thrilling single-player campaign or play it with some wingmen in four-player co-op. Stare down additional challenges in a variety of multiplayer modes where you’ll fly alone or with a team.

Title: Borderlands 2
Publisher: 2K Games
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 9/17/2012
Overview: Borderlands 2 combines a love of firepower with a thirst for treasure in this sequel to the rowdy first-person looter. Return to Pandora and rampage through a chaotic wasteland, playing as four new Vault Hunters trying to stop the maniacal mastermind Handsome Jack. In co-op or split screen for up to four players, you’ll fight enemies that attack with more intelligence, precision, coordination, and determination than before. Whether they’re robots or creatures, they’ll keep coming until there’s nothing left for you to shoot. Blast them with your choice of thousands of weapon configurations, all lovingly rendered with remarkable detail, in relentless run-and-gun action that blows right past trigger happy and into trigger euphoria.

Title: Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor
Publisher: Capcom
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 6/18/2012
Overview: Step inside some Heavy Armor and command your own mech in a war where low-tech weapons pack the highest amount of firepower. Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor is set in a war-torn future that’s been stripped of semiconductors. Without weapons that use electricity, the war will be won by the machine you command: the Vertical Tank. Use a combination of controller-based and Kinect motion controls to pilot your mech, blast your enemies, and more on a mission that begins on U.S. soil and takes you across the world. Coordinate maneuvers with your in-game AI crew or team up with friends online as you destroy enemies, dominate maps, and earn upgrades for your Vertical Tank.

Title: Inversion
Publisher: Namco
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 6/4/2012
Overview: Inversion takes aim at first-person shooter conventions by taking aim at gravity itself. Battle through environments where gravity is as unpredictable as your enemy. Explore a city where the buildings – and gravitational pull – have been ravaged by an alien invasion in a third-person co-op (local or online) quest to find your missing daughter. Use weapons that have the power to disrupt gravity, sending enemies floating into weightlessness or causing objects – even really big ones – to plummet to the ground. Blast through enemy cover in fully-destructible environments where whatever is up one moment might not be up the next, assuming there’s anything to hold you down at all.

Title: Battleship
Publisher: Activision
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 5/14/2012
Overview: The battle for Earth begins at sea. Where it ends is in your hands! Battleship sets up a stand-alone story that puts you on the front lines of the fight for our planet’s survival. Lead the charge against an alien force in a combination of first-person shooter action and naval tactical command. The battle rages on the ocean waves, on the nearby shores, and in the skies above. Strategically direct your warships to launch airstrikes, battle enemy ships, and generate intel with radar sweeps. Upgrade your weapons with a full elite-grade military arsenal as you battle a foe that just keeps coming.

Title: Sniper Elite V2
Publisher: 505 Games
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 5/3/2012
Overview: The chance to shape history is in your crosshairs in this World War II stealth-action saga. Slip silently into Berlin and alter the battle between Russian and German forces from the rooftops, windows, and shadows of the war-ravaged city. Think, move, and and act like a sniper, mastering the patience, observation, and ballistic skill required to make precision rifle shots. Risk taking easier shots that leave you exposed to counterattacks, or take harder shots from deep within cover. Slo-mo Bullet Cam animations let you follow your shot all the way to – and through – its target so you can fully appreciate your work.

Title: Prototype 2
Publisher: Activision
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 4/23/2012
Overview: Prepare to meet your maker and…unmake him in this return to an infected New York City world where you are the ultimate biological weapon. Harness all-new shape-shifting abilities as Sgt. James Heller. Go on a rampage through the city, brutally wielding your biological weaponry to destroy your targets and ruthlessly consuming people to replenish your powers. Trigger a new sonar blast to locate enemies and disappear into the body of anyone you encounter. The sandbox world has been divided into three zones, the militarized Green Zone, the infected Yellow Zone, and the nightmarish Red Zone, where the man who made you – none other than Alex Mercer – awaits.

Title: Armored Core V
Publisher: Namco
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 3/20/2012
Overview: The planet has been ravaged. Resources are scarce. The must-have look? Metal. Heavy metal. Gear up in an armored mech and enter the battle for control of a post-apocalyptic planet in Armored Core V. Prep for combat with over 500 mech customization options you can layer on top of base Thermal, Chemical, and Kinetic weapons systems. Add Close Range, Long Range, or Area “Over” Weapons that can devastate the enemy with just one shot. Five-on-five online matches are guided by an Operator who dictates strategy and tactics for each side. Store backup Armored Core units in your garage, swap items with other online players, and more.

Title: Binary Domain
Publisher: Sega
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 2/27/2012
Overview: The battle between man and machine has begun. The challenge is knowing who – or what – is on which side. Tokyo, 2080: A corporation breaks an international accord and creates incredibly lifelike robots. The machines have disappeared into the sea of humanity. It’s your job to weed them out. Lead a squad of soldiers through a futuristic version of Tokyo that’s split between a beaten-down lower city and a posh upper sector. Strategically choose your weapons and analyze the damage you inflict, searching for the quickest way to destroy your enemies. As the squad begins to operate with robotic precision, the line between man and machine blurs with the blast of every bullet.