Game Room Holiday Gift Guide: Top 25

Author:
SI Staff
Publish date:
Dec 21, 2010

Game Room Holiday Gift Guide: Top 25

Halo Reach

Halo Reach earns our Game of the Year honors thanks to an outstanding campaign and amazing multiplayer action that'll keep you entertained for a very long time. Game Room Video: Top 10 Sports Games of 2010

Mass Effect 2

Join Commander Sheppard on a fantastically cinematic and immersive sci-fi adventure that integrates your decisions into the outcome of the game.

God of War III

Kratos is back, and he's mad. He's also hell-bent on kicking immortals and monsters all over Olympus and beyond.

Red Dead Redemption

Rockstar took its open-world gaming brilliance and applied it to the Old West for a rootin', tootin' epic adventure.

NBA 2K11

Michael Jordan plus the best NBA game ever equals hoops greatness. This one's a slam dunk and our top sports game of the year. Game Room Video: Top 10 Sports Games of 2010

Donkey Kong Country Returns

Donkey & Diddy Kong make another run for the bananas in a clever and colorful game that's a great throwback to the classic days of high-quality platformers.

Rock Band 3

With its amazing keyboard peripheral, revolutionary Pro modes and a gigantic song catalog, Rock Band 3 represents the pinnacle of the music game genre.

Vanquish

Strap on your battle suit and get down to some of the most frenetic and exciting third-person shooting we've ever seen.

Call of Duty Black OPS

Black Ops struts its stuff as the best war-based, first-person shooter thanks to stunning visuals, booming audio, a top-notch campaign and multiplayer options.

Need for Speed Hot Pursuit

The popular racing franchise adds the Burnout-arcade element in this cops vs. racers thriller.

Pro Evolution Soccer 2011

You won't find a soccer simulation with better feel for the game thanks to an intuitive control system that keeps you in tune with every player on the pitch.

Super Mario Galaxy 2

Our favorite plumber returns, this time to a massive sandbox-like universe that picks up right where the original smash-hit left off (and where up is never down and down is never up).

Assassin's Creed Brotherhood

The single-player mode is a polished, exciting third chapter of the series, but the stress-inducing multiplayer is truly revolutionary and addictive.

MLB 10: The Show

The Show continues to reign as king of the baseball games. We already can't wait for next year's version to take the Halladay/Lee/Oswalt/Hamels rotation for a test drive.

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11

Not the best year for Tiger the golfer, but Tiger the game was rock solid thanks to improved graphics, more multiplayer options and Move support.

Metroid Other M

Guide bounty hunter Samus Aran for a bomb-dropping, missile-shooting adventure to once again save the day for the Galactic Federation.

GoldenEye 007

You'll be shaken, not stirred as you revisit the glory of split-screen mayhem in the James Bond universe.

Fallout New Vegas

Fallout: New Vegas takes you back to the post-apocalyptic Wasteland on a mission of revenge, this time the desert in and around Las Vegas.

Gran Tursimo 5

Strap on the leather racing gloves and prepare yourself for countless hours behind the wheel of this generation's top racing simulator.

Super Street Fighter IV

Street Fighter returns with a loaded fighting game that will leave you dreaming of Haduken's and getting stomped online by a 12-year-old in Japan.

DJ Hero 2

Open a can of cool and challenge your eye-hand coordination as you work a deck to pace a fantastic collection of mash-ups songs.

Kirby's Epic Yarn

Take the always adorable Kirby for a spin, bounce and glide in this visually impressive platform adventure.

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Conviction

Sam Fisher's fifth adventure is his most action-packed yet, with equal parts Bourne-style gunplay and cat-and-mouse stealth combat.

Alan Wake

Channel your inner Stephen King in this dark, creepy adventure that unfolds like any good electronic nightmare, one scare at a time.

Transformers: War for Cybertron

Michael Bay continues to ruin the cool of the Transformers franchise, but thankfully Activision transformed this game into an enjoyable shoot `em up through the streets of Cybertron. Honorable Mention : Bioshock 2, 3D Dot Game Heroes, Fable 3, Final Fantasy XIII and Split Second

Game Room Holiday Gift Guide: Top 25