For this and many other things, Xbox 360 was the most powerful console of its generation

The HD generation really started with Xbox 360.

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For years, it has been repeated that the generation of Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 was very evenly matched, but when you get down to the technical details, the picture is quite different. In an era where marketing constantly talked about “high definition,” what really mattered was how many pixels were being drawn for each frame inside the console, not what was later scaled up to the TV.

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That’s where Xbox 360 marked its territory. Throughout its commercial life, there were many more games that reached high resolutions, but in this analysis, we have focused on the 160 most important and representative titles that actually worked in 1280×720 native pixels, the standard known as real HD or H2. This is no small feat: we’re talking about the core, the most powerful catalog of the entire generation.

Xbox 360 and true native HD

Rendering at 1280×720 means that the game engine draws each scene with over 921,000 pixels per frame. For a console launched in 2005, that was a huge load, especially in titles with open worlds, advanced lighting, complex physics, or post-processing effects. Yet, Xbox 360 was able to sustain that resolution in a surprisingly large part of the big releases of the time.

In that collection of 160 games, you’ll find heavy hitters like Assassin’s Creed, Batman: Arkham City, Forza Horizon, Forza Motorsport 4, Red Dead Redemption, GTA IV, Dead Space, Mass Effect, BioShock, Borderlands, Skyrim, Burnout Paradise, Mirror’s Edge, Halo 4, or Left 4 Dead. These are not technical exceptions or minor titles: they are the games that defined a generation.

Xbox 360 — Games at 1280×720 native (real HD)

A

• 50 Cent

• Afro Samurai

• Alice: Madness Returns

• Army of Two

• Assassin’s Creed

• Assassin’s Creed II

• Assassin’s Creed II: Brotherhood

• Assassin’s Creed Revelations

• Assassin’s Creed III

• Assassin’s Creed IV

• Azura’s Wrath

B

• Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts

• Batman: Arkham Asylum

• Batman: Arkham City

• Batman: Arkham Origins

• Battle Fantasia

• Battlefield: Bad Company

• Battlefield: Bad Company 2

• Bayonetta

• Beijing 2008

• Beowulf

• BioShock

• BioShock 2

• Blacksite: Area 51

• BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger

• Blue Dragon

• Blur

• Borderlands

• Borderlands 2

• Bulletstorm

• Burnout: Paradise

C

• Castlevania: Lords of Shadow

• Catherine

• Cars: Mater-National

• The Club

• Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3

• Condemned 2

• Conflict: Denied Ops

• Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Athena

• Crackdown

• Crash Time

D

• Dante’s Inferno

• The Darkness

• Dark Sector

• Dead or Alive 4

• Dead or Alive Xtreme 2

• Dead Rising

• Dead Rising 2

• Dead Space

• Dead Space 2

• Dead Space 3

• Deus Ex: Human Revolution

• Devil May Cry 4

• DmC Devil May Cry

• DiRT

• DiRT 2

• DiRT 3

• Dishonored

• Dragon Age: Origins

• Dragon Age II

• Dragon Ball: Raging Blast

• Dragon Ball: Raging Blast 2

• Dynasty Warriors 6

• Dynasty Warriors 7

• Dynasty Warriors: Strike Force

E

• EDF: Insect Armageddon

• End War

• Enslaved

F

• FEAR

• FEAR 2

• FEAR 3

• F1 2010

• F1 2011

• FaceBreaker

• Fallout 3

• Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

• FIFA 2008

• FIFA 2010

• FIFA 2011

• FIFA 2014

• Fight Night Round 4

• Fracture

• Forza Horizon

• Forza Motorsport 2

• Forza Motorsport 3

• Forza Motorsport 4

G

• Gears of War

• Gears of War 2

• Gears of War 3

• Gears of War: Judgment

• Ghostbusters

• Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2

• GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra

• The Godfather II

• Golden Axe: Beast Rider

• Golden Compass

• Grand Theft Auto IV

• Grand Theft Auto V

• Guitar Hero 3

• Guitar Hero Aerosmith

• Guitar Hero World Tour

• Guitar Hero 5

H

• Halo 4

• Halo Wars

• Hitman: Absolution

• HAWX

• HAWX2

• IL-2 Sturmovik

• The Incredible Hulk

J–L

• James Bond 007: Blood Stone

• Juiced 2

• Kameo

• Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning

• Kung Fu Panda

• Left 4 Dead

• Left 4 Dead 2

• The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon

• Legendary

• LEGO Batman

• LEGO Harry Potter 1–4

• LEGO Indiana Jones

• LEGO Star Wars III

• Lord of the Rings: Conquest

• Lost Planet

• Lost Planet 2

M

• Madden NFL 09

• Mafia II

• Marvel: Ultimate Alliance

• Marvel vs Capcom 3

• Mass Effect

• Mass Effect 2

• Mass Effect 3

• Mercenaries 2

• Medal of Honor

• Midnight Club: Los Angeles

• Mirror’s Edge

• Mortal Kombat 9

• MotoGP 09/10

• MotoGP 10/11

• MX vs ATV: Alive

• MX vs ATV: Reflex

• MX vs ATV: Untamed

N–P

• NBA Live 08

• Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit

• Need for Speed: ProStreet

• Need for Speed: Shift

• Need for Speed: Shift 2

• Need for Speed: Undercover

• NFL Tour

• NHL 09

• Ninja Blade

• Ninja Gaiden 3

• Operation Flashpoint 2

• The Orange Box

• Overlord

• Portal 2

• Prince of Persia

• Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands

• Pro Evolution Soccer 2008

• Pro Evolution Soccer 2010

• Pro Evolution Soccer 2011

• Project Gotham Racing 4

Q–S

• Quake 4

• Quake Wars

• Race Driver: GRID

• Race Pro

• Rainbow Six Vegas 2

• Red Dead Redemption

• Red Faction Guerrilla

• Resident Evil 5

• Resident Evil 6

• Rise of the Argonauts

• Rock Band

• Rock Band 2

• Rock Band: The Beatles

• Rock Band: Green Day

• The Saboteur

• SEGA All-Stars Racing

• SEGA Rally Revo

• Shadowrun

• Shadows of the Damned

• Silent Hill: Homecoming

• The Simpsons Game

• Singularity

• Skate

• Soul Calibur V

• Spider-Man: Web of Shadows

• Splinter Cell: Double Agent

• Split/Second

• Star Wars: The Force Unleashed

• Stormrise

• Street Fighter IV

• Super Street Fighter IV

• Syndicate

T–Z

• Tales of Vesperia

• Test Drive Unlimited

• Test Drive Unlimited 2

• Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09

• Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11

• Tomb Raider

• Tony Hawk’s Proving Ground

• Top Spin 3

• Top Spin 4

• Tron

• Turning Point: Fall of Liberty

• Turok

• UEFA Euro 2008

• UFC 2009

• Unreal Tournament III

• Virtua Tennis 2009

• Virtua Tennis 4

• WALL-E

• Wheelman

• Wolfenstein

• WWE All-Stars

• X

  

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