Via
the weblog of staffer Larry 'Major Nelson' Hryb, Microsoft has announced the top ten Xbox 360 games currently being played over Xbox Live for the week of November 20, 2006, as well as the top titles for the the original Xbox being played over (or while connected to) the online service.
As expected, the popularity of Microsoft's Epic-developed action shooter
Gears of War shows no sign of waning, and once again was found to be the most played Xbox 360 title over the online service for the week. Activision's World War II shooter
Call Of Duty 3 ranked second on the Xbox Live chart, followed by the demo for the forthcoming
Superman Returns: The Videogame.
Making a respectable debut at number four this week is Gastronaut Studios' long-awaited Xbox Live Arcade game
Small Arms, followed by the multiplayer demo for
Rainbow Six Vegas and Electronic Arts' popular football release,
Madden NFL 07. At number seven is the newly released multiplayer demo for Capcom's
Lost Planet, followed by Activision's
Call of Duty 2, the
Tony Hawk's Project 8 demo, and
Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter, holding it position on the charts at number ten.
This week's charts covering the full versions of games being played over Xbox Live Arcade is itself topped by the aforementioned new release of Gastronaut's
Small Arms, moving Konami's
Contra to number two. XBLA mainstay
UNO comes in at number three, followed by classic shooter
Defender at four, and Midway's popular fighting game
Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 at number five. Capcom's popular 2D fighting game
Street Fighter II' Hyper Fighting moves up two slots to number six, followed by a return from
Geometry Wars Evolved, id Software's
Doom, arcade classic
Pac-Man at number nine, and
Texas Hold 'em rounding off the chart at ten.
Turning to the original Xbox,
Halo 2 once again held its by now near unshakable slot at the top of the chart. EA's
Battlefield 2: Modern Combat once again was the second most played Xbox title on the chart for the week, followed by
Madden NFL 07 and the Xbox port of
Counter-Strike. The Xbox version of
Call of Duty 3 moved up two slots to number five, followed by LucasArts'
Star Wars Battlefront II.
Microsoft's popular racing game
Forza Motorsport also rose to number seven, followed by Ubisoft's
Rainbow Six 3: Black Arrow and
Call of Duty 2. The weekly chart was rounded out by Ubisoft's
Ghost Recon 2 in tenth.
