"Why It Rocked: If you can only have one title on the Xbox 360 in 2006, Gears of War is it. Yes, there were plenty of excellent games on the console. There were so many that we could only thing of one question that could settle the heated debate between games like Rainbow Six: Vegas and Oblivion: If you could have only one title on the Xbox 360, what would it be?

Gears of War sets the standard for graphics and sound on the Xbox 360, pure and simple. Gears looks so good that games that once scored in the 9s in graphics are now 8s. Thankfully, Epic's awesome third-person shooter is pretty fun as well, featuring a different take on the shooter genre that had every writer in the industry typing "stop and pop" ad nauseam. Although the single-player campaign is a bit short and the multiplayer options relatively slim, playing with a friend in the seamless cooperative mode or in the four-on-four team deathmatch will leave you white-knuckled and covered in a blissful sweat. And we haven't even started talking about Insane mode.

Runners-Up:  
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion & Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas"