As the past year of 2011 slowly grows ever more distant in our memory now is a good time to cast our minds back to the Xbox’s version of 2011 and reflect on what titles made 2011 an ‘X’-tra special year for Xbox owners.
Without further ado, here are the top games for 2011 based on unique users connected to Xbox LIVE or the number of full versions purchased between January 1st, 2011 and December 31st, 2011.
Xbox 360 Top LIVE Titles (based on unique users)
- Call Of Duty: Black Ops
- Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
- Modern Warfare 2
- Halo: Reach
- Battlefield 3
- Skyrim
- Gears Of War 3
- FIFA 12
- FIFA Soccer 11
- Madden NFL 12
- GTA IV
- NBA 2K11
- Battlefield: Bad Co. 2
- Call Of Duty 4
- Battlefield 3 Beta
- Halo 3
- Gears Of War 2
- Forza Motorsport 4
- Red Dead Redemption
- Call Of Duty: WaW
Top Arcade Titles (based on full versions purchased)
- Pinball FX2
- Full House Poker
- Castle Crashers
- Fruit Ninja Kinect
- From Dust
- Trials HD
- Magic: The Gathering — Duels Of The Planeswalkers 2012
- DEAD RISING 2: CASE WEST
- Torchlight
- Toy Soldiers: Cold War
- Plants Vs. Zombies
- Portal: Still Alive
- Bastion
- LIMBO
- Game Room
- DEAD RISING 2: CASE ZERO
- Peggle
- Dungeons & Dragons Daggerdale
- Battlefield 1943
- Beyond Good & Evil HD
Top Indie Games (based on full versions purchased)
- FortressCraft Chapter 1
- Total Miner: Forge
- The Impossible Game
- Avatar Paintball
- Toy Stunt Bike
- CastleMiner Z
- I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES!!!1
- Avatar Legends
- CastleMiner
- Miner Dig Deep
- Avatar Laser Wars
- Bird Assassin
- Voice Changer 360
- Nuclear Wasteland
- Avatar Karting
- Zombie Estate
- Avatar Drop
- Baby Maker Extreme 2
- College Lacrosse 2011
- The $1 Zombie Game
Games for Windows LIVE Top LIVE Titles (based on unique users)
- Age Of Empires Online
- GTA IV
- Batman Arkham City
- Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition
- F1 2011
- DiRT 3
- F1 2010
- Fable III
- Street Fighter IV
- Resident Evil 5
- AoE Online – Beta
- Fallout 3
- Colin McRae : Dirt 2
- Batman: Arkham Asylum
- Bioshock 2
- Bulletstorm
- Section 8: Prejudice
- Red Faction Guerrilla
- Dead Rising 2
- Operation Flashpoint Red River
Windows Phone Games (based on unique users)
- Angry Birds
- Fruit Ninja
- PvZ
- Need For Speed Undercover
- Full House Poker
- MONOPOLY
- Doodle Jump
- Bejeweled LIVE
- Rise Of Glory
- GeoDefense
- Ilomilo
- Assassin’s Creed – Altaïr’s Chronicles HD
- Sonic 4 Episode I
- Tetris
- Fable: Coin Golf
- Hydro Thunder GO
- The Harvest
- Tentacles
- The Sims 3
Many thanks to the good Major, Larry Hryb, Xbox LIVE’s Major Nelson, for the number crunching.
Source: Major Nelson
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Comments:
Wow it's interesting to see that MW2 and Black Ops are STILL going strong even with the release of the latest CoD game
i want to get kinect so i can get fruit ninja
WOW!!! looking at that list i gave Microsoft a lot of my money last year, i have all the 360 games (except for the sport titles) and few arcade games on the list. Now Microsoft give us some free stuff as we give you many,many moola for games and contents purchased.
I would love to get the full version of Fruit ninja, but I want to get Gunstringer first as it comes with a Fruit Ninja code. Keep up the good work Microsoft. Will support you all the way. (Big Microsoft fan)