Top 10 Xbox 360 Exclusives

Hand over your hard-earned cash for some seriously good games.

IT'S CHRISTMAS!!! And you know what that means don't you? It's time to whip out your wallet and hand over your hard-earned cash for some seriously good games. In this special series of VideoGamer.com Top Tens, we list the best exclusive games for each of the seven major platforms. In our final list, we go out with a bang, bringing you the ten greatest Xbox 360 exclusives. Microsoft's mean machine has got loads of monstrously good games just gagging to be played. Read on for our run-down of the cream of the crop.

10. Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts - 2008

We kick off with Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts, the follow-up to the classic N64 series of games. When the game was first revealed, its vehicle driving sent many a forum into meltdown. "WE WANT CLASSIC BANJO-KAZOOIE" old school N64 fans cried. As Rare tried to calm the doom-mongers down, everyone else rubbed their hands with glee: Nuts and Bolts is one of the best platformers of this generation. Colourful, slick and accessible, it is for many the 360's answer to the PS3's LittleBigPlanet. User-created content is core to the experience; simply making vehicles is good fun, and with the ability to instantly test them out you can sink hours into one creation alone. There is an argument to say Rare hasn't justified the enormous price Microsoft paid for the developer back in 2002. While the games it makes today haven't had the same hardcore impact as those of old, they're no less innovative.

9. Geometry Wars Retro Evolved 2 - 2008

Bizarre's addictive retro shooter begins by showing you your high scores and how they compare with those of your friends. What genius! Immediately you can tell how close you are to overtaking that gloating git on Deadline, or how close the gloating git is to overtaking your score on King. But even if Retro Evolved 2 didn't have such cleverly designed online leaderboards, it'd still be brilliant. The game's striking vector graphics look lovely in high definition, the banging electro soundtrack's iPod worthy, and the game modes are varied and addictive. All you're doing is moving a little ship around a blank space, directing its laser fire and dodging squirming shapes, but oh what fun! Retro Evolved is Xbox LIVE's best game, and a worthy entry on this list.