Roleplaying games
The Xbox 360 also has its fair share of RPG's, those more story-oriented, character-driven exercises for players who want to take a character and see them get better and better over the course of the game, gaining new abilities and equipment that can be tweaked, exchanged or sold for others in order to mold them into the kind of character that the player has in mind to play. The astounding Fallout 3 is the best example of a fantastic RPG available on the 360, with the main character exploring the post-nuclear ruins of Washington DC, meeting a vast spectrum of superbly written and voice-acted characters and becoming involved in multiple plotlines. This is one game that is so engrossing that simply walking around and surveying the world is an engaging and fascinating pursuit. If post-apocalypse is not one cup of tea and one wants a more traditional fantasy setting,
Fable and its successor Fable II are also both out for 360, and they offer a massive fantasy world and a chance to mold a character into whatever sort of role they like, hero or evildoer, embodiment of order or wild vigilante. As you play, you can see the ripples of the choices that you have made affect the world around you and all of its inhabitants. There is also the recent Dragon Age: Origins, a more plot-oriented fantasy RPG straight from the Tolkein rulebook, with a slew of deeply-written characters to journey their way across and world and, in the tradition of Don Quixote, smite evil, right wrongs, and dispatch giants and trolls to the fiery netherworld that awaits them all. The Xbox has a great variety of roleplaying games like these to keep players tramping across imaginary worlds and slaying evil monsters for a very, very long time to come.