10 Great Xbox Shooters That No One Played

Whether it's poor marketing, poor media coverage, or just pure bad luck, some games end up not getting the recognition they deserve. Now, with the original Xbox being a figment of a past generation, we go for a stroll down memory lane and reminisce the great shooters that happened to fly under the radar.

[decapitator]

Wait...Max Payne 2 was on the Xbox ?

[FLOPbox 360]

They mean nobody played on Xbox. PS2 sold a ton.

[sonarus]

i played max payne 2 on pc. Pretty good game. I would say even though it is last gen, it is still better than stranglehold

[poopface1]

I rented MP2 on xbox. It was pretty short and easy for me. I bought riddic used and was actually really surprised when I found out how good it was. On the back it says "best grafx on xbox" and that was probaly true. After I got a 360 I tried to play it again but it wasnt BC. I wonder why???? ohh because they want to remake it so they make that one not work on 360.

[dragunrising]

Actually, they are not making Chronicles of Riddick backwards compatible for other reasons. One reason: the graphics are excellent and harder to emulate. The original Xbox had an Nvidia graphics chip; the 360 uses an ATI. Many Xbox games are not backwards compatible because of this obviously. Taking in consideration how hard COR pushed the Xbox it should make sense why it isn't BC. Also, Chronicles of Riddick is coming out for PS3 and 360 to reach the audience it never found last generation. It deserves to sell well, as it is a gem of a game.

[JasonPC360PS3Wii]

Max Payne looked and played better on the Xbox, much like games on the current gen. Max Payne floped everyware, thats why the franchise almost ended, nice try though.

[TheKungFool]

Nice pathetic little jab about things looking better on XBOX, its just too bad nobody cared and still bought a PS2, lol.

[poopface1]

It looked and ran like crap. The xbox was a little better. Both sucked though compared to the pc. I made fun of my friends who had MP1 on xbox and ps2.

[GCO Gamer]

Red Dead Revolver??????? it came out for xbox?????

[decapitator]

Dude I have no idea...color me surprised.

[Z F1GHT3RS]

yeak it did
i still got it.
GUN was better though

[Frag Monger]

Good call on XIII. I still need to finish that game. LOL I like the style, I just got too 'busy' w/ ohter games at the time & never got back to it.

PSI Ops was OK too, but I just never played it beyond the demo.

[ericnellie]

I thought XIII was a pretty cool game but was too busy with other games to finish it;) I do have to say, I didn't like brute force at all! The Chronicles of Riddick was awesome too!

[Dpa]

XIII was great but a bit simplistic and on rails.

[heyheyhey]

why Xbox?

all those were on PS2 bar Escape From Butcher Bay

and yeah, i didnt know RDR was on Xbox

[InMyOpinion]

Why not? This is News 4 Gamers after all. Not News 4 Playstation.

[General Pinky]

Man..some people here dont get it...this is not sony website...this is N4G.COM = News For Gamers
Not = News For PS2/3
Get it..
and guys brute force was good..maybe you guys did not play it for to long..anyways i think microsoft needs to remake that game...maybe they are...who knows...they dont tell till the game is coming out in a years time...unlike other companies

[LaChance]

riddick was great and the graphincs were MINBLOWING , completely OUTSATNDING.I cant believe this game didnt sell , there really was no reason for it to flop.

[heyheyhey]

two reasons:

1) it was on the Xbox only

2) every shooter was overshadowed by Halo

[kewlkat007]

you act like the PS brand is sononymous with shooters or something...

What the highest selling "Shooter" on a PS console ever?

It's fair to say Xbox is well known for shooters, now being overshadowed by halo is somewhat correct.

[heyheyhey]

@kewlkat

i meant the install base

im not sure what the install base was when Riddick came out, but since it topped out at 25mil it cant have been more than 20mil

of those 20mil, most were primarily PS2 gamers anyway and just bought an Xbox to play (you guessed it) Halo and didnt bother with many other games that came out for it

[tony]

riddick is in my top 5 list ever. i don't know either why it wasn't as big as halo. oh, i know no multiplayer. duh.

[BLaZiN PRopHeT]

psi-ops was the sh1t.

[tony]

with that too.

[permutated]

LOL WORST LIST EVER.

1/2 of those games were sh!t, that's why no one played them (Brute Force is a prime example), and the other half were played by alot of people (Max Payne 2, Psi-Ops, etc).

What a stupid article, written by people who don't know sh!t about games!

[heyheyhey]

agreed

[Evil Rant Monkey]

<You're mom doesn't know $hit about games!)
<... wait a minute... either does mine!)

[General Pinky]

LOL...nice one...bubble for you son

[Zhuk]

Pretty sure a lot of people play Brute Force, there's a ridiculous amount of pre-owned copies at nearly every game store

[witchking]

Brute Force and "great" do not belong in the same sentence. Unless it's "Brute Force is a great big pile of crap."

[onyxbox]

yes Brute Force does not belong in there it was utter rubbish.

[ChaosKnight]

I've played all those games before - 7 of which i've played on my PS2 - and 8 of which I've beaten. I do consider Red Dead Revolver and Second Sight low in popularity, and I also heard Psi-Ops' sequel is halted cuz of low sales, but Max Payne and Riddick did very well.

[kcdude]

I played Max Payne, Max Payne 2, Freedom Fighters, Chronicles of Riddick (great game slow load times,) and Red Dead revolver all on the Xbox and enjoyed them all.

[Captain Tuttle]

And like a dumba$$ I traded it in for some piece of crap game. I'm still kicking myself.

[InMyOpinion]

I actually played all of the games. My 2 favorites from the list would be Freedom Fighters and Psi-Ops. Freedom Fighters used squad based tactics and was ahead of it's time in both gameplay and level structure. The intro is one of the most memorable ever. Psi-Ops used physics in a way we are used to in games coming out this gen.

Of course Riddick was great too, but I wouldn't label it as a 'shooter'.

[LJWooly]

Yeah, Freedom Fighters was t3h sh1z, I had it on PS2. Can't believe it didn't sell well. Same goes for Riddick, it probably had the best graphics of any game at the time...

[Dpa]

Freedom fighters was a good game. Just like riddick, looking at it on the shelf you would never have guessed it was actually a really good game. Hence the failure for both.

[JasonPC360PS3Wii]

I played and still own everyone of those games.

[sleepbox]

Riddick was such an awesome game. I hope more people get to play the next gen re-vamp.

[marcellizot]

What a lazy piece of writing. More than half of those games were multi-platform and to include two games from the same series is a bit of a cardinal sin in list making.

Where's Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath, Star Wars: Republic Commando, Doom 3 (a very good conversion overshadowed by the superior PC version), Half Life 2 (came out just before the 360 so barely anyone bought it) and Bad Fur Day, the list goes on.

The inclusion of Butcher's Bay is relevant but everything else here is mostly nonsense.

[Harry190]

Riddick was the best of the lot.