How long until good games are released?

[HappySqurriel]

Using Gamerankings.com

 Games with scores over 80% released in 2005:

Title	Plat	Company	Reviews	Avg. Vote	Avg Score
1. Call of Duty 2	X360	Activision	87	8.8	90.0%
2. Project Gotham Racing 3	X360	Microsoft Game Studios	93	8.6	88.4%
3. Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved	X360	Bizarre Creations	26	8.1	87.7%
4. Dead or Alive 4	X360	Tecmo	83	8.0	86.1%
5. Need for Speed Most Wanted	X360	Electronic Arts	71	8.0	83.3%
6. Condemned: Criminal Origins	X360	Sega	81	8.2	82.4%
7. Perfect Dark Zero	X360	Microsoft Game Studios	96	7.8	80.9%
8. Kameo: Elements of Power	X360	Microsoft Game Studios	93	8.0	80.6%
9. Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie	X360	Ubisoft	73	7.5	80.4%

 

 

 Games with scores over 80% released in 2006:

Title Plat Company Reviews Avg. Vote Avg Score 1. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion X360 2K Games 102 9.2 94.1% 2. Gears of War X360 Microsoft Game Studios 105 8.7 93.8% 3. Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter X360 Ubisoft 88 8.7 90.7% 4. Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas X360 Ubisoft 71 8.4 88.9% 5. Burnout Revenge X360 Electronic Arts 71 8.4 88.8% 6. Fight Night Round 3 X360 EA Sports 76 8.3 85.3% 7. Dead Rising X360 Capcom 91 8.3 85.1% 8. Viva Pinata X360 Microsoft Game Studios 61 7.8 85.0% 9. NBA 2K7 X360 2K Sports 47 8.0 85.0% 10. Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent X360 Ubisoft 59 8.4 84.8% 11. F.E.A.R. X360 Vivendi Games 46 7.8 84.0% 12. Call of Duty 3 X360 Activision 82 8.4 83.3% 13. Marvel: Ultimate Alliance X360 Activision 75 8.0 82.9% 14. Rockstar Games presents Table Tennis X360 Rockstar Games 83 7.7 82.6% 15. Hitman: Blood Money X360 Eidos Interactive 57 8.0 82.4% 16. Uno X360 Microsoft Game Studios 23 7.1 82.4% 17. College Hoops 2K7 X360 2K Sports 22 7.1 82.4% 18. Saints Row X360 THQ 82 8.2 82.1% 19. Tony Hawk's Project 8 X360 Activision 75 6.8 82.0% 20. Test Drive Unlimited X360 Atari 77 8.1 82.0% 21. Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy X360 LucasArts 51 8.1 81.8% 22. Tomb Raider: Legend X360 Eidos Interactive 61 8.0 81.7% 23. Cloning Clyde X360 NinjaBee 37 6.9 81.5% 24. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 X360 EA Sports 45 7.5 81.4% 25. Marble Blast Ultra X360 GarageGames 26 7.7 80.9% 26. Madden NFL 07 X360 EA Sports 56 7.7 80.7% 27. NCAA Football 07 X360 EA Sports 42 7.6 80.5% 28. WWE SmackDown! vs. RAW 2007 X360 THQ 47 7.2 80.4% 29. The Lord of the Rings, The Battle for Middle-earth II X360 EA Games 57 6.3 80.1%

 

 

Games with scores over 80% released in 2007:

Title	Plat	Company	Reviews	Avg. Vote	Avg Score
1. Guitar Hero II	X360	RedOctane	26	8.0	93.3%
2. The Elder Scrolls IV: Shivering Isles	X360	Bethesda Softworks	23	8.1	89.8%
3. Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2	X360	Ubisoft	44	8.6	87.7%
4. NBA Street Homecourt	X360	EA Sports Big	31	7.6	84.3%
5. Crackdown	X360	Microsoft Game Studios	70	8.3	83.4%
6. Virtua Tennis 3	X360	Sega	26	6.3	80.7%
7. Major League Baseball 2K7	X360	2K Sports	25	7.9	80.0%

 

Certainly 80% is a pretty arbitrary number, but it still demonstrates that there are a lot of good games available on the XBox 360 at any point in time