Xbox Live top ten most played

By Ellie Gibson Published 31 May, 2006

CoD2 tops the charts.

It's official: Call of Duty 2 is the most popular Xbox 360 title currently being played via Xbox Live.

That's according to the latest Live charts, which were revealed by Microsoft's Major Nelson over on his blog. CoD2 is followed by Ghost Recon 3, then Oblivion and Battlefield 2: Modern Combat.

In fifth place it's Final Fantasy XI, then comes Project Gotham Racing 3 and Fight Night Round 3. Eighth place is occupied by the only Xbox Live Arcade title in the chart, Uno. Lurking at the bottom of the chart are Perfect Dark Zero, in ninth place, and Dead or Alive 4.

As for the original Xbox - well, Halo 2 is still the most popular game on Live, more than 18 months after its release. Battlefield 2: Modern Combat is in second place, followed by Counter-Strike, PES 5 and Splinter Cell Chaos.

The Americans are still mad for Madden, it seems - NFL 2006 is in at sixth place, despite the fact there are only eight people in the whole of Europe likely to be playing it. Rainbow Six: Black Arrow is at seven, followed by Star Wars: Battlefront 2 and Forza Motorsport. And to finish things off, we have Ghost Recon 2: Summit Strike in tenth place.

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Since joining Eurogamer in the mid 2000s, Ellie has written about subjects as diverse as the fall of Gizmondo, the rise of Hollyoaks actresses in Red Alert games and the noise a bear makes under NSFW circumstances.

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Comments (29) Latest comment 6 years ago

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  • blender #1 6 years ago

    why not display the chart in order? rather than 'trying' to make a story of it by jumbling it all up in waffle.

  • PlugMonkey #2 6 years ago

    How can Oblivion be the 3rd most popular Live game? It doesn't have any online play!

    Edit: Blender, I completely agree. They do that with the sales charts as well. It's like those logic puzzles you got at school. "If Peter is 3 years older than Mark, and Mark is twice as old as Alan, and Alan will be half as old as Maurice in 6 years time, then what position was FIFA Street in the UK All Formats sales chart?"
    Edited by 1 at 31/05/06 @ 11:46

  • KingOfSpain #3 6 years ago

    i dont mind making a story out of the news but please please please show tables also. This also goes for the sales charts for the week.

    Just show the god dam chart

  • JediMasterMalik #4 6 years ago

    @PlugMonkey, exactly what I was thinking.

    They must be games played total, not online only.

  • mazzl #5 6 years ago

    @PlugMonkey
    LOL ! and i hate does puzzles

  • BravoGolf #6 6 years ago

    Here they are according to the site


    Xbox 360 Top Live Games:

    1 Call of Duty 2
    2 Ghost Recon 3
    3 Oblivion
    4 BFMC
    5 Final Fantasy XI
    6 PGR3
    7 EA SPORTS Fight Night Round 3
    8 UNO
    9 Perfect Dark Zero
    10 DEAD OR ALIVE 4

    Original Xbox Top Live Games:

    1 Halo 2
    2 Battlefield 2: MC
    3 Counter-Strike
    4 Pro Evolution Soccer 5
    5 Splinter Cell Chaos
    6 Madden NFL 2006
    7 Rainbow Six 3 BA
    8 Star Wars: Battlfrnt 2
    9 Forza Motorsport
    10 Ghost Recon 2: SS

  • Moogrose #7 6 years ago

    How can Oblivion be the 3rd most popular Live game? It doesn't have any online play!

    Instead of played online, it should really read - played while online. The list is from monitoring what people are playing while connected to live. Not what they are playing over live.

    basically.

    EDIT: Spaling
    Edited by 2 at 31/05/06 @ 12:01

  • myrmican #8 6 years ago

    Yeah, Oblivion is number 3. In a few weeks time, the World Cup will be the number 1 title played on Live. Well, by 'played' I mean 'the Xbox was on when they watched it'.

    Xbox! Number 1 for foopball!

  • DrDamn #9 6 years ago

    I would guess that EG don't have permission to put the tables in (i.e. would have to pay a fee to the people who created it). They can however report on it - thus the news story without the table.

  • nickthegun #10 6 years ago

    Table Tennis for no1 next month.

    Everyone I know has bought that damn game and what a game it is. I think I even dreamt about it last night which is the sign youve been playing it too much.

    Still wasnt as bad as my Super Puzzle Fighter dreams, though. They were like something out of Jacobs Ladder.....

  • #11 6 years ago

    Man, this sucks.

  • reality_cheque #12 6 years ago

    Only 7 people in Europe playing NFL2k6 now - I took my copy back to Game because of the fucking awful post season nonsense.

    I also can't believe COD2 is the top game considering how awful the MP is imo, it's not a patch on GR:AW and the maps looks like they were designed for 16 players rather than the 8 it actually supports.

    Still, I have GR:AW and Uno so I'm happy :D

  • Pho-Zoon #13 6 years ago

    New Splinter Cell game out?

    Splinter Cell: Chaos? New to me.

    /imagines 'wacky' Sam Fisher-themed party game

  • Zero_ #14 6 years ago

    "Still wasnt as bad as my Super Puzzle Fighter dreams, though. They were like something out of Jacobs Ladder....."

    Sounds intruiging, tell me more.

  • #15 6 years ago

    COD2 is very playable since the patch.
    It is weird how this can be the most played game of them all while people are connected though. I could understand it if it was the most played in MP.
    Have you played some of the COD2 maps on Deathmatch - fragfest city even with only 8!

    Oh GOD - being repeatedly spawn-killed in GRAW in mp - agaggahhhh!
    GRAW does have huge ammounts of options for mp though, and the co-op games are jolly good fun. IMO though COD2's controls are a lot better than GRAW's, but then they are almost completely different games, designed to be played very differently.

  • bauhaus #16 6 years ago

    > Instead of played online, it should really read - played while online.


    In that case No1 should be "Fuck all cos they are downloading a bloated Demo"


    (followed by Gravity Wars)

  • reality_cheque #17 6 years ago

    @JamesPhillips: Yeah, I played all of the old maps before I traded it in, and just hated it - but then I like team games, and 4vs4 just doesn't work on the game types available imo.

    Most GR:AW maps have multiple spawn points iirc, so I don't have a problem with spawncamping :)

  • #18 6 years ago

    @ reality_cheque
    Thanks for the great spelling of my name! Anyway, I find 4x4 pretty hectic at times. Some maps are better than others, but I thinkn comparing COD2 and GRAW a bit moot anyway.
    I really enjoy a good game of COD2, I find it a bit more of a thinker's fragfest.
    The table does seem odd though, depending on how it's calculated. I can't quite believe SO many people are still playing SO much COD2.

  • reality_cheque #19 6 years ago

    @jamesphilp: Gah, that'll teach me! That's the last time I type a name in rather than C+P it :)

    I never actually managed to get a full 4v4 game, there was always one or two people that dropped out - maybe I just got unlucky and teamed up with complete morons :( Even so, I consider an 8 player limit to be really bloody awful in this day and age, considering Halo 2 can manage that on a previous generation machine in a period where broadband speeds were slower.

  • #20 6 years ago

    4x4 is a lot more commonplace since the patch.
    I actually quite enjoy 2x2/3x3 just as much - it can get quite tactical.
    Quality, not necessarily quantity my man!

    /Anyway - play you at Table Tennis yeah?

  • bivith #21 6 years ago

    "why not display the chart in order? rather than 'trying' to make a story of it by jumbling it all up in waffle."

    Because one is fair use commentary, and the other is copyright theft.

  • Xerx3s #22 6 years ago

    The question is; Does CoD2 top H2? :)

  • reality_cheque #23 6 years ago

    I've not played it since the patch, I have GR:AW if I feel like shooting people :)

    I'll play you at TT when I get it, assuming you all haven't become grand master ping pong ninjas by that point :( However I've got about 5 games to finish before I can buy any more :( *sniff*

  • binky #24 6 years ago

    If UNO is in the top 10, how comes when I tried to "quick game" the other night no one would play with me :(

  • Mr_Brown #25 6 years ago

    Shocked FFXI got in at number 5. There many people who play this on Xbox 360?

  • blender #26 6 years ago

    dont people find it disturbing that ms is monitoring everything you do

  • Wobble #27 6 years ago

    dont people find it disturbing that ms is monitoring everything you do

    well you're hardly going to be plotting world domination on your 360 are you? The typing interface with the joypads is just too slow.

    I wonder if they capture info on mp3's streamed thorugh it, that would be an interesting chart :)

  • binky #28 6 years ago

    ManicMiner, Im usuing a usb modem in the PC and a crossover to the 360 so no router. hhhmm, maybe no one wants to play with me :(


    - oh and its from an REM song actually :)

  • miiiguel #29 6 years ago

    Some people I know also have some issues about this supposed lack of privacy, with the shareable profiles "thing", but IMO, I find it very nice.
    For example, when I see a friend playing a new game, I usually ask him/her is it's any good, hoe it plays etc.
    The "confidenciality freakeness" lacks a bit of sense.

    binky: this sort of problem you encounter in UNO, happens also in other games ?, how fo you have your 360 set up, you've got NAT configured in your firewall ?
    Edited by 1 at 01/06/06 @ 12:21