Top 5 console games that defined last generation

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Angelus said:
In no particular order:

Mass Effect
Gears of War
CoD
Assassin's Creed
Uncharted

Anyone who says otherwise is wrong

There's no way to properly describe last gen without Wii Sports. Also, we have to include Guitar Hero to represent all the music games (and dancing games) that spawned from its success.

"Over the period from 2005 to 2008, video game software sales grew by 81 percent, with the music genre accounting for one third of the gain," Pachter said in January. "From 2008 through 2010, software sales declined by 14.9 percent, and the music genre accounted for over 80 percent of the decline."

 

For the reasons stated above, in no particular order, I would say:

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare

Wii Sports

Guitar Hero

Gears of War

Mass Effect

 

5 is too restricting. I wanted to include Uncharted because it was able to change the direction of a classic like Tomb Raider, but I had to drop it because more games were influenced by GOW's cover system. Indie games boomed last gen and games like Braid should be listed, but I had to list Mass Effect for the impact it had on other games. So many of them try to include "your choices matter to the outcome of the story" elements now, even the non RPG games