Top XBL games of '08 revealed (CVG 5/1/09)

Microsoft's official Xbox Live mouthpiece, Major Nelson, has coughed up the final word on what was the most played game on Xbox Live in 2008.

If you remember the almost-weekly stories about how the most played game kept swinging between Halo 3 and Call Of Duty (Modern Warfare and then World At War) then first and second place won't come as any surprise. Or will it? Nah...

Here's the top 20 Live games of 2008:

1. Halo 3
2. Call of Duty 4
3. GTA IV
4. Gears of War 2
5. Gears of War
6. CoD: World at War
7. Guitar Hero III
8. Battlefield: Bad Company Demo
9. Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Demo
10. Rock Band
11. Fable II
12. Mirror's Edge Demo
13. Madden NFL 09
14. BF: Bad Company
15. Rainbow Six Vegas 2
16. UNO
17. Castle Crashers
18. COD: World at War Multiplayer Beta
19. Forza Motorsport 2
20. Too Human - Demo


We think putting Fable II in at 11 is a bit of a cheat as the game automatically logs you in to Live so you can watch orbs floating around your single-player game. Lots of demo action in there too. Tell us what your favourite Live games of '08 were below in the comments.