Fable II
(Microsoft, 2008, Metacritic Score: 89)
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Journey back to the land of Albion and raise your character up from childhood to become a savior or a sinner in a massive medieval environment. Fable 2 offers unparalleled levels of control as you build your character just the way you want, including fully customizable attacks, defenses, and abilities. The game also lets you jump into a friend’s Albion over Xbox Live and battle through their missions cooperatively, an innovative idea that rounds out the deep role-playing experience available in Fable 2.

Gears of War 2
(Microsoft, 2008, Metacritic Score: 93)
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The mantra behind Gears of War 2 is ‘bigger, better, and more badass,’ and that is exactly what you will find when you boot up Epic’s latest shooter. Gears 2 takes the cover-based gameplay of the original and drops it into new, massive environments that include some truly epic (no pun intended) set pieces, playable both in single-player and 2-player cooperative modes. The fan-favorite versus mode also returns, this time with oodles of new match types, maps, and options, including the new cooperative Horde mode that has you and a team of your buddies trying to survive 30 waves of increasingly difficult monsters. More importantly, the guns in Gears 2 still have chainsaws on them, which guarantees hours of Locust-tearing fun.