Xbox 360
Amped 3 (2K Sports) Good
Call of Duty 2 (Activision Inc.) Not bad
Condemned: Criminal Origins (SEGA Corp.) Great
FIFA Soccer 06 Road to 2006 FIFA World Cup (Electronic Arts Inc.) Umm
GUN (Activision) Good
Kameo: Elements of Power (Microsoft Game Studios and Rare Ltd.) It's OK
Madden NFL 06 (Electronic Arts) I live in Australia
NBA 2K6 (2K Sports)
NBA LIVE 06 (Electronic Arts)
Need for Speed Most Wanted (Electronic Arts) Uhhh
NHL 2K6 (2K Sports)
Perfect Dark Zero (Microsoft Game Studios and Rare Ltd.) It's not as bad as some people make it out to be.
Peter Jackson s King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie (Ubisoft) Crap
Project Gotham Racing 3 (Microsoft Game Studios and Bizarre Creations Ltd.) Not bad
Quake 4 (id Software and Activision)
Ridge Racer 6 (Namco Ltd.) PGR3 is better
Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 06 (Electronic Arts)
Tony Hawk s American Wasteland (Activision) SK8TER 4 LIFE!
PS3
Resistance: Fall of Man - Sony Great
NBA 07 - Sony
Genji: Days of the Blade - Sony Not bad
Blazing Angels Squadrons of WWII - Ubisoft
Call of Duty 3 - Activision
EA Sports Fight Night Round 3 - Electronic Arts Better than Fight Night 4
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion - Bethesda Softworks The greatest RPG to ever be developed
F.E.A.R. - Vivendi Universal Games It's just sooo good.
Full Auto 2: Battlelines - Sega Meh
Madden NFL 07 - Electronic Arts -
MARVEL: ULTIMATE ALLIANCE - Activision It's OK
Motorstorm - Sony It's good, but the lack of co-op made it off putting
Mobile Suit Gundam: CROSSFIRE - NAMCO BANDAI Games
NBA 2K7 - 2K Sports
Need For Speed Carbon - Electronic Arts
NHL 2K7 - 2K Sports
RIDGE RACER 7 - NAMCO BANDAI Games The music is alright, that's all it has going for it.
Sonic the Hedgehog - Sega Furry love
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 - Electronic Arts
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas - Ubisoft Pretty good
Tony Hawk’s Project 8 - Activision
Untold Legends Dark Kingdom - Sony Online Entertainment It's exactly like the PSP game, which shouldn't be happening if it's on a PS3.
Wii
- Avatar: The Last Airbender ARGHH!
- Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII
- Blitz: The League
- Call of Duty 3
- Cars
- Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2 It was better on the PS2, not really.
- Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors It looks really good.
- Elebits
- Excite Truck
- Far Cry
- GT Pro Series
- Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers
- The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Gamecube game =/
- Madden NFL 07
- Marvel: Ultimate Alliance
- Metal Slug Anthology
- Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
- Monster 4x4 World Circuit
- Need for Speed: Carbon
- Open Season
- Rayman Raving Rabbids Pretty Damn awesome
- Red Steel Great concept, bad controls
- SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab
- Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz
- Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam
- Trauma Center: Second Opinion
- Wii Sports It was fun when it launched
So that's the launch line ups for the three current generation consoles.
The 360 is at a disadvantage because it released a year earlier, but it still had Condemned, Kameo, Perfect Dark: Zero, PGR3 and Amperd 3, which are all good games and it's fair to point out that development on the 360 went wild not long after.
PS3 fans are lucky that they got a lot of 360 ports right off the bat like Oblivion, F.E.A.R., Rainbow Six Vegas and Marvel: Ultimate Alliance. Sony also brought a few of their first-party games to the table with Resistance, Motorstorm, Untold Legends and Genji: Days of the Blade. It also helped that the two best launch games had been heavily bundled with the console (Resistance and Motorstorm).
The Wii had a mixed launch, when I looked at the list, I was surprised by the amount of movie shovelware games. I'd also argue that the Wii had a really good launch with titles such as Red Steel, Wii Sports, Final Fantasy: Crystal Bearers, Trauma Center, Twilight Princess, Metroid Prime: Corruption and Dragon Quest.
So, in my opinion the Wii comes first, the PS3 comes second and the 360 comes last. Though a year after their launches, I'd probably put it as the 360/PS3/Wii only because Gears and a heap of third party titles released for the 360, the PS3 got Heavenly Sword, Uncharted and Ratchet & Clank: Tools of Destruction, while I only remember playing Mario Galaxy and kinda playing Brawl for the Wii and not getting into them.
Who do you think had the best launch line-ups? Throw in a few more console launch battles if you want.
Note: The launch lists came from three different sites, so forgive me if something's wrong.
