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A third-person shooter where you crouch behind waist-high walls and leapfrog between them, firing a gun with a chainsaw bayonet at an underground species called the Locust Horde. Gears of War was the killer app that proved the Xbox 360 had arrived.
Step out of the sewers and the whole world renders in front of you — go anywhere, be anyone, ignore the main quest for two hundred hours. Bethesda's 2006 fantasy epic was the game that made the Xbox 360 generation feel next-gen, gave us the Adoring Fan, and handed the industry its permanent shorthand for microtransactions: a paid suit of horse armor.