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 13, 2006, as well as the top titles for the the original Xbox being played over (or while connected to) the online service.
Following months of anticipation building to its recent release, Microsoft's Epic-developed action shooter
Gears of War was predictably 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 Xbox Live Arcade release
Contra.
While the sequel surged upwards on the chart, players continued to play Activision's
Call of Duty 2, which ranked as the fourth most played Xbox 360 title for the week, just ahead of Electronic Arts' popular football release,
Madden NFL 07. A pair of downloadable demos for
Rainbow Six Vegas and
Tony Hawk's Project 8 ranked sixth and seventh on the chart respectively, followed by Ubisoft's
Splinter Cell Double Agent and
Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter. EA's racing title
Need for Speed Carbon rounded out the current chart in tenth.
In addition, this week Major Nelson also released data concerning the full versions of games being played over Xbox Live Arcade, of which Konami's
Contra proved to be the most popular. Classic shooter
Defender ranked second for the week, followed by
UNO and Midway's popular fighting game
Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3. id Software's
Doom was the fifth most played title over the service for the period, followed by puzzler
Lumines Live! and arcade classic
Pac-Man. Capcom's popular 2D fighting game
Street Fighter II' Hyper Fighting was the eighth most played arcade title for the week, followed by
Dig Dug and
Texas Hold 'em.
Turning to the original Xbox,
Halo 2 unsurprisingly remained on top of the chart. EA's
Battlefield 2: Modern Combat 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. Ubisoft's
Rainbow Six 3: Black Arrow took the fifth spot on the chart, followed by LucasArts'
Star Wars Battlefront II.
The Xbox version of
Call of Duty 3 proved slightly less popular than its next-generation alternative, ranking in the seventh spot for the week, followed by Microsoft's popular racing game
Forza Motorsport and
Call of Duty 2. The weekly chart was rounded out by Ubisoft's
Rainbow Six 3 in tenth.
