Microsoft launching XBLA Awards

I think that Sonic the Hedgehog 2 should win the best classic game award. And Hexic 2 should win the best original game. That would be awesome.

Undertow and Puzzle Quest.

Where is WORMS ?!!!!?

so they are gonna be giving out awards instead of showcasing games and stuff??

i guess rez didnt make it in early enough.....but if it just didnt make the cut they're insane.

I thought Carcassone was overrated. Puzzle Quest is okay, but it moves really slow.

im-a-roustabout, way to call the entirety of XBL customers stupid. The older classic arcade games cost $5. There are a lot of orignally made titles on XBL that haven't been seen on other platforms.

cocomacoco, it's the same exact situation with me. I have 15 arcade titles, I bought 12 of them. ALL of them turn into trials when I'm not online. Also, when I get on GH3 or Rockband my downloaded songs AREN'T EVEN THERE, that is when I'm offline! There is def. something strange going on that needs an update. If someone knows how to fix this problem message me.

No Rez?

CastlevaniaSOTN, best on XBLA \,,/,

don't really care

Where the hell is castlevania for best overall arcade?

hmmmm....Microsoft setting up awards that will be given to...um...Microsoft.

Aegis Wing all the way

everytime when i'm offline my games go to trial, and that's really anoyying, i paid for Uno, carcassone, undertow, and then what a get offline, a trial, suit them should i!!!!!!

Alien Hominid is awesome. It deserves an award or two. I hope it wins some.

Hey , I know UNO wasn't really that original but c'mon, it translated really well to the console. I was actually impressed with UNO and it was funner than I thought it would be. I think its better then a few of those on that list.

Instead of messing around with stupid awards that no-one could really care less about why not fix the stupid DRM issue that makes all my arcade games when I am offline go to trial. 2 SEGA game always keep asking to be unlocked and sometimes IPS's don't always have perfect servers so they need to be turned off to be fixed thus why I would be offline. Awards yeah I'll them an award with a shiny boot where the sun don't shine.

You can write-in whatever game didn't make the list when voting ppl. I myself I had to put Worms in a number of times.

Worms should've gotten an award or two..

kriptonzz, Hexic 2 is an original game because... it hasn't been ported from anywhere, I guess. It's a brand new game made exclusively for Live Arcade. It's the original version of Hexic 2.

How is Hexic 2 under best original game if it's a sequel and plays like Hexic? Explain me that Microsoft.

Ummm. wheres uno at?

The award should go to MS for charging such a premium for old @$$ games, and yet still getting such a high content download from customers. Hats off to you MS for charging 10 dollars for cheaply made video games! You guys realize there is a paticular website I can think of right now that lets you download emulators and you can play any of these games for FREE? right? Oh well.

Pac-Man : CE is the most fun game on XBLA, glad its on the list.

No Geometry Wars!? Boo!!

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Lost of time, nobody bought those games. and now they try to get them in the spotlight again.

woot for castlevania

wtf... XBLA... awards?! What the hell...

interesting idea. I'd be even more interested if there were more good games on XBLA.

mergedsalem23, there are options in each category for you to fill in your choice (select other, then type it in).

Something isnt right why is some of the best titles missing from this list street of rage, and metal of slug 3?

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XBLA games suck

time to go vote

I voted!!!!!

Puzzle Quest!!

I voted! Thanks Gamespot.

This might have been more interesting if they didn't have such a weird list of games. I mean, I like Golden Axe and Double Dragon a lot; but they don't compare to Streets of Rage 2. That's one of the highly praised beat em' ups and it is for a fact better than the previous two; certainly when you consider how old those games are in comparison when the genre just started.

i dont play arcades that much but i loved the fighters such as streets of rage , street fighter. im such a cheapo xD i never want to use my ms points and i only have 1450 now which i plan to save for halo or cod

Puzzle Quest and Catan were the two best for me. Catan is very addicting expecially if you have like a couple friends and you talk them into getting it.

I voted, it was short and easy.

Best overall game for me: Puzzle Quest

sounds like a good idea. some of those games were awesome. i hope they start helping those devs who are making their own games. that laundry samurai game is one the best looking games i have seen so far for arcade

sounds good to me

"Aegis Wing, Undertow, and Carcassone are amazing" Ha, yeah, all free

Geometry Wars is from 2006 if I am not mistaken (or is it?).

Streets of Rage 2?

Golden Axe and Double Dragon over Streets of Rage 2? Odd.