Best Xbox 360 RPG

We've all played role playing games sometime or the other, whether on our gaming consoles or on plain old pen and paper! Xbox brings you some intensely exciting role playing Xbox 360 games, both single as well as multiplayer ones, which is sure to keep you glued to your remote control for long periods of time! RPGs are a great way to have fun while being involved in the plot at the same time! Also, the fact that you have the power to alter the course of the plot of most of these games means you are the master here - the game proceeds the way you want it to and not the other way round! Let us take a tour of some of the best RPG for Xbox 360 and find out what makes their claim over being the best RPG for Xbox 360 valid!

Best Xbox 360 Role-playing Games

Check out the following best Xbox 360 RPG of all time and read along to find out what makes them so special.

Lost Odyssey: Set against the background of a magic industrial revolution, this game is a sure shot winner amongst all RPG's till date, qualifying even as Xbox's answer to Final Fantasy! Great graphics, amazing music and astounding dream sequences give this RPG a permanent place among the best Xbox 360 RPG ever!

Tales of Vesperia: An awesome JRPG for Xbox 360, the plot of Tales of Vesperia is set against the backdrop of the fictitious planet Terca Lumireis. The plot incorporates many strong characters such as a prominent hero figure, a mage, a healer and a fighter. This RPG comes complete with phenomenal sound, great dialogs besides relevant characters and has several enjoyable combat situations and fight sequences. All in all, a worthy relic in any gamer's collection!

Mass Effect 2: Mass Effect 2 takes up from the year 2183, several weeks ahead of where Mass Effect 1 ended. This single player sci-fi RPG requires the player to assume the role of Commander Shepard, the chief protagonist of the game plot, and take decisions which are for the greater good. Shepard's character and personality totally depends upon the individual player and different players can take the plot in a different direction based on individual decision-making pattern! A great story coupled with awesome sound and graphics makes this RPG a trailblazer of sorts as well as rank among best Xbox 360 games of all time!

Fallout 3: Set against a post apocalyptic Washington D.C., parts of Virginia and Maryland, this RPG takes you to the year 2277, which is two hundred years post a world war over resources concluding in a nuclear holocaust in 2077. The current game scenario makes it clear that the characters either stay in special vaults to escape the lethal radiations of the war-torn wasteland or perish on venturing out! The plot setting is amazing coupled with huge scope for exploration. The V.A.T.S combats are absolutely exciting and near perfect sounds and graphics guarantee to keep you hooked for a number of hours! No wonder this one shows up as a staple in all top Xbox 360 games lists!

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion: The plot for this game opens on the arrival of Uriel Septim VII, accompanied by "the Blades", to the Imperial City prison, in a quest to flee the Mythic Dawn assassins. Oblivion is not a direct take off from where Morrowind ended but carries allusions to the events of the latter. This one's a massive game which gives you a lot of options to explore the game topography as well as creating individual characters. It also gives the player the option to play the game in either first or third person. The combat sequences are grandiose and perfectly executed and it's absolutely thrilling to earn new weapons during the course of the fights! The quests are intriguing and exciting which will guarantee to engage you for hours together!

These 5 are the best of the best Xbox 360 RPG that have ever existed in the Xbox gaming scene. Other honorable mentions among RPG category in the Xbox 360 games list include Eternal Sonata, Fable II, Blue Dragon, Resonance of Fate, Arcania: Gothic 4, Dragon Age: Origins, Two Worlds II, Infinite Undiscovery, Final Fantasy XIII (Xbox 360 version), Star Ocean: The Last Hope, Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, Magna Carta 2, The Last Remnant and Robert Ludlum's: The Bourne Conspiracy among others. Do check these RPGs out if you haven't yet!