The Top Played Games on Live for 2009

[Queasy]

Xbox Live's Major Nelson (aka Director of Programming Larry Hyrb) has let slip the top 20 games played from Xbox Live. He breaks things up into four categories to differentiate between games played on the Xbox 360, Xbox Live Arcade, Indie Games, Games for Windows, and the Original Xbox.

A few surprises make their way to the list but Halo and three Call of Duty titles dominate the Xbox 360 list as expected.

Battlefield 1943 took the top spot of Xbox Live Arcade games after its server melting debut in July. Surprisingly, Uno was still able to take a spot in the top 10 despite being released in 2006.

The amusing I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES!!!1 is the top game played on the Xbox 360's Indie Games service. The game itself is only a dollar so if you enjoy quick dual-stick shooter with self-referential humor that it is worth a look see.

The full lists are below.


Xbox 360 Top Live Titles (based on UU’s)
1 Halo 3
2 Call of Duty 4
3 Modern Warfare 2
4 Call of Duty: WaW
5 Gears of War 2
6 GTA IV (Purchase and download the full game)
7 Left 4 Dead
8 Halo 3: ODST
9 FABLE II Episode 1 (of 5)
10 Resident Evil 5 (Japanese version)
11 Halo Wars - Demo
12 RESIDENT EVIL 5
13 Fallout 3
14 UFC 2009 Undisputed Demo
15 Left 4 Dead 2 - Demo
16 Gears of War
17 1 vs 100
18 Guitar Hero World Tour
19 Guitar Hero III
20 FIFA 09


Top Arcade Titles (Full Versions purchased)

1 Battlefield 1943
2 Castle Crashers
3 Trials HD
4 Hasbro Family Game Night **
5 Shadow Complex
6 Marvel vs. Capcom 2
7 Magic: The Gathering
8 UNO
9 Worms
10 Peggle
11 Worms 2: Armageddon
12 Turtles in Time Re-Shelled
13 'Splosion Man
14 A Kingdom for Keflings
15 3 on 3 NHL Arcade
16 The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition
17 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1989 Classic Arcade
18 Marble Blast Ultra
19 Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3
20 Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix


**Combined sales of all Hasbro Family Game Night titles


Top Original Xbox Titles (based on UU’s)
1 Halo 2
2 Star Wars: Battlfrnt 2
3 Fable
4 Counter-Strike
5 Conker: Live Reloaded
6 Doom 3
7 Splinter Cell Chaos
8 SW: KOTOR
9 Star Wars: Battlefront
10 SW: Republic Commando
11 Burnout 3
12 Fable: Lost Chapters
13 Call of Duty 2
14 Call of Duty 3
15 Call of Duty Finest
16 MechAssault 2
17 Crimson Skies
18 Guilty Gear XX #Reload
19 Rainbow Six 3
20 Gauntlet Seven Sorrows


Top Indie Games (Full Versions purchased)
1 I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES!!!1
2 Avatar Drop
3 RC-AirSim
4 Headshot
5 Miner Dig Deep
6 Rumble Massage
7 Who Did I Date Last Night
8 Kodu Game Lab
9 Avatar Golf
10 Aquarium HD
11 myFishtank
12 Head Shot 2
13 DrumKit
14 A Perfect Massage
15 The Impossible Game
16 Inside Lacrosse's CL2010
17 ZP2K9
18 ezmuze+ Hamst3r edition
19 The Drinking Game
20 Physics Sandbox

 

[mugs]

Unique users is a fine stat for weekly charts, but I don't think it makes much sense for an annual chart. It'd be much better if they used "Unique User Months" or "Unique User Weeks" so that a person who played a game during every month would count as 12, while a user who only played the game once would count as 1. But then the problem is that a recently released game could only be played in one or two months so you'd have to adjust for that, but you can't assume that because someone played a game in November and December, that means they'd have played all 12 months... I guess it's not so easy to come up with a more useful statistic, but I just think there should be some accounting for how much people play.

 

[JoPh]

I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES!!!1

this game is great. the theme song is awesome