[STEAM] Today is the Xbox 360’s 20th birthday. What are your favorite games of its time?

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The former is something my pals and I played religiously at the time, spending ungodly hours competing on the field to see who's best, which usually turned out to be the luckiest rather than the more skillful. It was a fast-paced, easy-to-play game that could be taken up by literally anyone, lending itself perfectly to PES parties where even those who've never seen a controller could participate.

****** Ops 2, on the other hand, was a different beast. It's probably the only game I actually completed on the 360, having never been a fan of controllers in FPS games. Being a PC kid from day one, I grew up playing Modern Warfare (2007) on a mouse and keyboard, as I did with every other CoD game from United Offensive to this very day. So it was a daunting experience, but one that I remember fondly, and will forever do so.

Where BO2 stood out for me was when a friend and I discovered Zombies. It was a cracked Xbox that played pirated versions of games, so we only had the base few Zombies maps to play, like Farm and Town, but that was enough for us. We spent an unhealthy amount of time on BO2 Zombies, and we did, occasionally, put that controller-shooter skill to use in Modern Warfare 3, where we'd duke it out on Dome to see who'd mastered this new way to play better.

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****** Ops 2 was a high point in my childhood. Image via Activision I'm a late adopter of the Xbox 360 era, someone who came in just as the lights were turned on at the party. Everyone was leaving, and I was grasping for that last bit of beer on the table. It's still a memorable experience and a valuable addition to my gaming journey.

But I believe our readers, that is you, have a lot more to share about their Xbox 360 days. It's a legendary console that is remembered to this very day, what with everyone always mentioning kids these days wouldn't survive 360 MW2 and Halo 3.

So, what would be your favorite Xbox 360-era games? What marked the ancient days that have stuck with you all this time? It's a major anniversary, and we should celebrate what made us into who we are as players, and probably even people.

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