The top Xbox video games can be divided into different categories including:

• Video games that were made for the first Microsoft Xbox edition.
• Video games which were made for the second video game edition: the Microsoft Xbox 360.

Top Xbox Video Games for the Xbox

Any Xbox fan knows how popular the Halo game is.

The most popular edition is the Halo 2 game, this game developed by Bungie Studios is the sequel to Halo: Combat Evolved. This is the most popular game on the Xbox console having sold around 8 million copies worldwide. Halo: Combat Evolved is the second most popular game, though it is the first edition of the series, till date it has sold at least 5 million copies globally. After the Halo series, Project Gotham the series was the third most popular edition selling about 2.5 million copies. The game is also popular as the favorite video game of Microsoft CEO Bill Gates.

Tom Clancy’s: Splinter Cell is another video game edition in the list of Xbox’s most popular video games of all time. The total figure reportedly sold to date is about 2.4 million copies.

The most popular video game for the Xbox 360 is Halo, precisely as the Halo 3 edition of the series.

Since the launch of the Xbox 360 at least 5 million copies of the Halo game have been sold. Gears of War is the second most popular game for the Xbox 360 edition, the game was developed by Epic Studios in conjunction with Microsoft Game Studios. The game was launched in 2006 and ever since then the game has been hugely popular.

The Elder Scrolls IV is the next most popular Xbox 360 video game, the game was developed by Bethesda Game Studios and has sold about 3 million copies ever since its release.

It comes after the original Xbox release it was launched in 2005.

The Xbox 360 was envisioned in the year 2003 as a direct competitor to major console brands such as the Sony PlayStation Series and the Nintendo versions.

It was Microsoft’s upgrade of the largely successful Xbox console and its development was also helped by other companies.

Other companies involved in this development include ATI, IBM and SIS.

The three versions of the Xbox 360 are: the Xbox 360 Arcade, the Xbox 360 and the Xbox 360 Elite.

The Xbox 360 Elite is the most expensive and comes in matte black finish and has a 120GB hard disk.

In comparison the Xbox 360 comes with a 20GB hard disk which shows the strorage advantage of the Xbox Elite over the lesser versions.

Xbox Live is an online gaming service offered by Microsoft to complement the Xbox experience.

It has different subscription packages and supports multi player gaming as well.

The Xbox Live service is a needed service for those who find the Xbox 360 their main console choice

The Xbox GUI and System Software is otherwise known as the Xbox Dashboard and it was developed by AKQA which has its headquarters in San Francisco.

The Xbox Dashboard allows a person to launch a game automatically as soon as disc is placed into the console.

As of the third quarter of 2007, the Xbox 360 had sold around 14 million units and the figures are expected to rise a whole lot more in the year 2008 due to projected innovations and sales figures anticipated by Microsoft in the coming years ahead.