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Best Xbox 360 games of 2008

The 42 best Xbox 360 games released in 2008, ranked from 16,633 critic and player ratings.

The best Xbox 360 game of 2008 is Burnout Paradise, with a critic score of 93/100 — updated November 2026.

How this ranking is built
  • Games are ranked on the aggregated critic score out of 100 imported from IGDB and Metacritic, never on Tier's own grades.
  • A game only enters the ranking with at least 80 external ratings, so a single enthusiastic review never outranks a proven classic.
  • Community grades from F to S are shown next to every game, and only stated as a fact above 5 Tier ratings.
  • Release window covered: 2008.
  • 42 games are listed on this page, carrying 16,633 ratings between them.
  • Rankings are recomputed hourly; this one was last rebuilt on 14 November 2026.

Top 42

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01 Burnout Paradise Burnout Paradise 2008 · 521 ratings · finished by 20% Evolve or die. For Paradise, we knew we had to change everything. Burnout was a killer arcade driving game, but for a new generation of hardware and connected player Burnout had to become something more ambitious. Closed tracks made way for an expansive, open city, and we seamlessly synced your friends into the action and let you loose on a heap of cool challenges that unsurprisingly rewarded you for driving like a lunatic. Hey, it’s us after all. 93 /100
02 Rock Band 2 Rock Band 2 2008 · 113 ratings Rock Band 2 is the sequel to the 2007 musical simulation game Rock Band and offers similar gameplay. Directly competing with Guitar Hero: World Tour, the game allows different people to play together as in a band, with the same peripherals as the first game: lead guitar, bass guitar, microphone and a drum set. The new drum and guitar controllers for this version, bundled or sold separately, have been revised and older controllers are also supported. The guitar controller, modelled after the Fender Stratocaster, has five additional fret buttons near the neck, for fast fingertapping sessions. There is also an effect switch to toggle between five different effects. Players use the instruments to match notes on the screen, divided in different portions for different instruments, along with the lyrics for the singer who need to match the pitch. 93 /100
03 Gears of War 2 A Gears of War 2 2008 · 453 ratings · 1 Tier vote · finished by 26% In Gears of War 2, The COG continues its fight against the Locust horde, who are attempting to sink all of the cities on the planet Sera by using a big riftworm to eat the ground beneath them. Sergeant Marcus Fenix leads Delta Squad into the depths of the planet to try to stop the worm from eating but instead they discover the true intent of the Locust actions. 90 /100
04 Street Fighter IV A Street Fighter IV 2008 · 185 ratings · 1 Tier vote Street Fighter IV brings the legendary fighting series back to its roots by taking the beloved fighting moves and techniques of the original Street Fighter II, and infusing them with Capcom’s latest advancements in next generation technology to create a truly extraordinary experience that will re-introduce the world to the time-honored art of virtual martial arts. Newcomers: - Abel - C.Viper - Rufus - El Fuerte - Gouken 90 /100
05 Fallout 3 C Fallout 3 2008 · 1,784 ratings · 2 Tier votes · finished by 34% Fallout 3 from the creators of the award-winning Oblivion, featuring one of the most realized game worlds ever created. Create any kind of character you want and explore the open wastes of post-apocalyptic Washington D.C. Every minute is a fight for survival as you encounter Super Mutants, Ghouls, Raiders and other dangers of the Wasteland. Prepare for the future. The third game in the Fallout series, Fallout 3 is a singleplayer action role-playing game (RPG) set in a post-apocalyptic Washington DC. Combining the horrific insanity of the Cold War era theory of mutually assured destruction gone terribly wrong, with the kitschy naivety of American 1950s nuclear propaganda, Fallout 3 will satisfy both players familiar with the popular first two games in its series as well as those coming to the franchise for the first time. 89 /100
06 Dead Space (2008) B Dead Space (2008) 2008 · 1,258 ratings · 1 Tier vote · finished by 26% Dead Space is a 2008 science fiction survival horror video game developed by EA Redwood Shores (now Visceral Games) for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The game was released on all platforms through October 2008. The game puts the player in control of an engineer named Isaac Clarke, who battles the Necromorphs, reanimated human corpses, aboard an interstellar mining ship, the USG Ishimura. 88 /100
07 Grand Theft Auto IV S Grand Theft Auto IV 2008 · 1,929 ratings · 5 Tier votes · finished by 26% · 10 h to beat Grand Theft Auto IV is an action-adventure video game developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games. It is the eleventh title in the Grand Theft Auto series, and the first main entry since 2004's Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. The game is played from a third-person perspective and its world is navigated on-foot or by vehicle. Throughout the single-player mode, players play as Niko Bellic. An online multiplayer mode is included with the game, allowing up to 32 players to engage in both co-operative and competitive gameplay in a recreation of the single-player setting. Two expansion packs were later released for the game, The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony, which both feature new plots that are interconnected with the main Grand Theft Auto IV storyline, and follow new protagonists. 88 /100
08 Battlefield: Bad Company Battlefield: Bad Company 2008 · 157 ratings · finished by 22% Set in the near future, the Battlefield: Bad Company single-player campaign drops gamers behind enemy lines as part of a squad of four soldiers - risking it all to go AWOL on a personal quest. Featuring a dramatic storyline flavoured with attitude, Battlefield: Bad Company leads gamers far from the traditional frontlines on a wild ride with a group of renegade soldiers who decide that sometimes the gratitude of a nation just isn’t enough. Battlefield: Bad Company is the first game built from the ground up for next-generation consoles using DICE’s bleeding-edge Frostbite game engine, delivering unrivalled graphics, effects and gameplay. Join Bad Company now. 88 /100
09 GRID (2008) GRID (2008) 2008 · 531 ratings · finished by 6% 87 /100
10 Braid Braid 2008 · 617 ratings · finished by 17% Braid is a puzzle-platformer, drawn in a painterly style, where you can manipulate the flow of time in strange and unusual ways. From a house in the city, journey to a series of worlds and solve puzzles to rescue an abducted princess. In each world, you have a different power to affect the way time behaves, and it is time's strangeness that creates the puzzles. The time behaviors include: the ability to rewind, objects that are immune to being rewound, time that is tied to space, parallel realities, time dilation, and perhaps more. Braid treats your time and attention as precious; there is no filler in this game. Every puzzle shows you something new and interesting about the game world. 87 /100
11 Fable II Fable II 2008 · 279 ratings · finished by 22% 86 /100
12 Left 4 Dead Left 4 Dead 2008 · 772 ratings · finished by 20% · 7 h to beat 85 /100
13 Prince of Persia Prince of Persia 2008 · 342 ratings · finished by 27% 84 /100
14 Pure Pure 2008 · 164 ratings 83 /100
15 Guitar Hero World Tour Guitar Hero World Tour 2008 · 130 ratings 82 /100
16 Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2 Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2 2008 · 153 ratings · finished by 16% 82 /100
17 Soul Calibur IV Soul Calibur IV 2008 · 125 ratings 82 /100
18 Devil May Cry 4 Devil May Cry 4 2008 · 460 ratings · finished by 35% 81 /100
19 Saints Row 2 Saints Row 2 2008 · 323 ratings · finished by 11% 81 /100
20 Call of Duty: World at War S Call of Duty: World at War 2008 · 989 ratings · 2 Tier votes · finished by 37% 80 /100
21 Bully: Scholarship Edition B Bully: Scholarship Edition 2008 · 228 ratings · 1 Tier vote · finished by 17% 80 /100
22 FIFA Soccer 09 FIFA Soccer 09 2008 · 95 ratings 80 /100
23 Banjo Kazooie: N n B Banjo Kazooie: N n B 2008 · 128 ratings 79 /100
24 Castle Crashers A Castle Crashers 2008 · 345 ratings · 1 Tier vote · finished by 14% 79 /100
25 Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway 2008 · 88 ratings 78 /100
26 Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe 2008 · 83 ratings 77 /100
27 LEGO Batman S LEGO Batman 2008 · 286 ratings · 1 Tier vote · finished by 19% 76 /100
28 Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 2008 · 225 ratings · finished by 17% 75 /100
29 Mirror's Edge Mirror's Edge 2008 · 976 ratings · finished by 26% · 3 h to beat 72 /100
30 Tomb Raider: Underworld Tomb Raider: Underworld 2008 · 261 ratings · finished by 11% 72 /100
31 Overlord: Raising Hell Overlord: Raising Hell 2008 · 207 ratings · finished by 5% 72 /100
32 Army of Two Army of Two 2008 · 111 ratings 71 /100
33 Dark Sector Dark Sector 2008 · 81 ratings · finished by 12% 70 /100
34 Spider-Man: Web of Shadows Spider-Man: Web of Shadows 2008 · 132 ratings 70 /100
35 LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures S LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures 2008 · 229 ratings · 1 Tier vote · finished by 26% 69 /100
36 Quantum of Solace Quantum of Solace 2008 · 133 ratings 67 /100
37 Silent Hill: Homecoming Silent Hill: Homecoming 2008 · 179 ratings 67 /100
38 Sonic Unleashed Sonic Unleashed 2008 · 138 ratings 66 /100
39 Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2008 · 453 ratings · finished by 54% 62 /100
40 Far Cry 2 A Far Cry 2 2008 · 567 ratings · 2 Tier votes · finished by 20% 58 /100
41 Need For Speed Undercover Need For Speed Undercover 2008 · 307 ratings · finished by 30% 57 /100
42 Alone in the Dark Alone in the Dark 2008 · 96 ratings 45 /100
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Frequently asked questions

What is the best Xbox 360 game of 2008?

Burnout Paradise currently tops the ranking with a score of 93/100 across 521 ratings. Ranking updated November 2026.

How is this ranking built?

Games are ranked on their aggregated critic score out of 100, with a minimum vote threshold so a single glowing review never outranks a proven classic; the Tier community's own F-to-S grades are shown alongside each game.