Welcome to the Best HD Third Party Elimination Game. This thread was inspired by *Sound of Rain's Elimination Game threads for first party developers. Now I want to try the same game for third party games.

The game is now over, but the last 5 games died out within 1 voting cycle of each other (3 hours), and last minute we saw numerous voters push hard to have their favorite franchise win. However is Batman really the best 3rd party franchise? I will close the poll at the end of the day, so lets see some inputs.

59. Call of Duty (Treyarch) 

58. Rock Band

57. Sonic

56. FIFA Soccer

55. Pro Evolution Soccer 

54. Saints Row 

53. Medal of Honor

52. Lost Planet 

51. DJ Hero

50. NHL

49. Condemned

48. Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 

47. F.E.A.R.

46. Midnight Club 

45. Madden NFL

44. Guitar Hero 

43. UFC Undisputed

42. Unreal Tournament

41. Fight Night 

40. Skate

39. Prince of Persia

38. Rainbow Six 

37. Grid

36. Star Ocean

35. Ninja Gaiden

34. Need for Speed

33. NBA 2K

32. Star Wars 

31. Final Fantasy

30. L.A. Noire

29. LEGO Franchise 

28. Fallout 

27. Dragon Age 

26. Mirrors Edge

25. Virtua Fighter

24. Tekken 

23. Devil May Cry

22. Vanquish

21. Dead Rising

20. Battlefield

19. Soul Calibur

18. Dead Space 

17. Borderlands

16. Crysis

15. Call of Duty (Infinity Ward-Modern Warfares)

14. Burnout 

13. Bayonetta

12. BlazeBlue

11. Marvel vs. Capcom

10. Street Fighter 

9. Resident Evil 

8. The Elder Scrolls

7. Grand Theft Auto

6. Red Dead Redemption

5. Mass Effect

4. Bioshock

3. Assassin's Creed

2. Portal

1.  Batman

Note: There are no exclusive third party franchises on this list, and Machina has given permission for this thread after the console specific franchises died (Sony is over, Nintendo will be over by the time this is up, and MS is nearing completion). I also took the 1 page of votes from the prior thread that was locked (have permission now) and incorported them.

Best Wii Third Party Elimination Thread: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=132024&page=1#

New Rules starting Page 4 onward! + is worth 3 instead of 2 and - is worth 5 instead of 3!

My original vote was:

+Lost Planet
-Ghost Recon

So I'll wait to vote again.

If I missed ANY games, tell me now. I will only be adding games nominated on the first 2 pages. Then it will be too late.

+ Fallout
- Red Dead Redemption

+ Lost Planet
- The Elder Scrolls

+ Blazblue

- Rock band

+ Bioshock

- Call of Duty (Treyarch)

+ Mass Effect
-CoD (Treyarch)

+ Assassin's Creed
- Madden NFL

+ Red Dead Redemption
- COD (treyark)

That's a lot of games don't ya think?

Lost Planet -

Bioshock +