14 Rarest XBox 360 Games Ever

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00:00Not saying the Xbox 360 is up there entirely with the PlayStation 2, but it's pretty damn close.

00:05The early days of Crackdown collectibles, Gears of War blowing our hair clean off,

00:09Halo 3's legendary ending and the legendarily tiny cat helmet collectible,

00:14Xbox Live Arcade achievements, the Blades, there was so much to love,

00:18collect and all out enjoy about being an Xbox fan.

00:22Speaking of, chances are you hoovered up your fair share of collector's additions.

00:25Smaller titles may be given boxed releases,

00:27or any number of cool things you may or may not have realised would go on to be worth far more than they were at the time.

00:34I'm Scott from WhatCulture.com and these are the 14 rarest Xbox 360 games ever.

00:39Number 14, Dead Space, Ultra Limited Edition.

00:42One of the coolest versions of an already incredible game,

00:45there were only 1,000 of these made for Dead Space's debut run.

00:49Comprising a graphic novel, the first Dead Space animated movie Downfall,

00:53a signed custom lithograph by legendary comic artist Ben Templesmith,

00:56the game itself, an artbook, Ishimura crew patch and a custom box to put it all in,

01:01combined with a limited production cycle and you have to embark on an Isaac Clarke sized mission yourself

01:06if you want to track one down.

01:08Number 13, Aliens vs Predator, Hunter Edition.

01:11Once a proud gaming franchise morphed into a laughable one thanks to some naff movies,

01:16AVP on 360 is actually super recommendable,

01:19coming with three overlapping story campaigns and lots of Xenomorph or Yautja finishes.

01:23The Hunter's Edition then was an AVP fan's dream,

01:26coming with an actual replica facehugger and tie-in graphic novel,

01:30plus assorted trinkets and materials.

01:32Considering how starved for genuinely cool things this fandom are,

01:35the Hunter's Edition has turned into a highly sought-after collector's item.

01:39Number 12, DJ Hero, Renegade Edition.

01:42For a while across the late 2000s,

01:43Activision were pumping out hero games like there was no tomorrow,

01:47going from guitar to band, DJ and back again.

01:49For DJ Hero's Renegade Edition, it's the one that came with the Jay-Z and Eminem twin CD pack,

01:54along with changing the colour of the hardware itself to a slick black and gold combo,

01:59perfect for collectors.

02:00Thanks to being a new and unproven franchise though,

02:02not many people snapped this up immediately,

02:05meaning such a limited run never had the demand to be followed up on,

02:08resulting in a paltry amount circulating online and in many storage units around the world.

02:13Number 11, Fallout 3, Survival Edition.

02:15The one thing that makes this so special isn't necessarily the freestanding Pip-Boy wrist clock,

02:20but an awesome little Pip-Boy figure.

02:22These little guys are incredibly hard to come by in versions that aren't bobbleheads,

02:26making for an irresistible combo when taken with everything else.

02:29A robust bundle in itself, both the aforementioned items sit alongside some limited edition art,

02:34a soundtrack and the collector's edition of the game too.

02:37Bethesda knew exactly how to make an entrance with their take on Fallout.

02:41Number 10, Spider-Man Shattered Dimensions Limited Edition.

02:44Now, this isn't anything fancy in terms of what you could take home physically,

02:48as instead the limited edition of Spidey's cross-dimensional outing came with a code to

02:52redeem a negative zone suit.

02:54Shattered Dimensions tended to go down well with fans and no one else,

02:57so thanks to the game's lacklustre scores and the suit's limited availability,

03:01it's combined to drive prices up to ridiculous heights.

03:04Unless you find someone randomly posting the code online having not used it this whole time,

03:09you can literally only get one from these editions.

03:11Number 9, Darksiders 2, Collector's Edition.

03:14Hidden gems of the shiniest kind, all four Darksiders games are just great action titles,

03:19filled with fun, intricate lore, chunky characters and meaty combat.

03:23Though Darksiders 3 was a bit of a dud compared to its predecessors,

03:26Darksiders 2 saw vigil games shoot for the stars,

03:29introducing a more open world, mounted combat, a complex loot system and plenty more.

03:34To mark the occasion, we got a couple of limited editions,

03:36one with a hulking statue and one ultra-rare variant featuring Death's Mask itself.

03:41The latter only seems to surface every few years at one place or another across entire countries,

03:46remaining an ultra-valuable collectible if you picked it up in the first place.

03:50Number 8, Kingdoms of Amalur Reckoning, Signature Edition.

03:53Seems that having your development team go out in a blaze of glory does wonders for the trading market,

03:58as 38 Studios had one hell of a time getting Kingdoms of Amalur out the gate as a franchise.

04:02Included in this signature edition, the rarest of the special and collector's variants,

04:07is a unique Todd McFarlane signed sketch,

04:09a sizable troll figure also signed by either McFarlane, Ken Ralston or Curt Schilling,

04:14the game's soundtrack, the game itself,

04:16a set of playing cards modelled after in-world Destiny cards,

04:19more unique artwork, a dice set and a themed playing mat.

04:23Oh, and there are only 300 of them on the planet Earth.

04:26Happy hunting.

04:27Number 7, Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2, Prestige Edition.

04:30The one with the Night Vision goggles was a landmark moment in gaming for pre-order bundles,

04:35as not only had Activision gone slightly mad by including what was touted to be a working pair of Night Vision goggles,

04:41but we all immediately realised there were clearly no limits on what could be packaged in with our favourite titles.

04:47Sadly, in action, as reality settled back in, these advanced goggles were not military-grade,

04:52and instead were pretty blurry and lo-fi when using them in the dark.

04:55Still, it remains the coolest pack-in this side of Saints Row 4's $1 million pre-order

05:00that aimed to send a lucky fan to the moon.

05:03Yes, really.

05:04Number 6, The Beatles Rock Band Limited Edition.

05:07Ask a Beatles fan how much they'd pay for a guitar that was actually used by the members of the band.

05:12Exactly.

05:13Now, think about how MTV and Harmonix clearly had that idea in mind when they created The Beatles Rock Band,

05:19as the limited edition features a whole band's worth of instruments licensed to be replicas of those used by John, Paul, George, and Ringo.

05:26It's a shame this didn't take off more in retrospect,

05:28as from the incredible setlist to cartoonish takes on locales ranging from the Apple Building to The Ed Sullivan Show,

05:34Rock Band's first major spin-off remains one of its best.

05:37Number 5, Halo 3, Legendary Edition.

05:40The entire launch of Halo 3 was more like a cultural event than a game release,

05:44with Times Square plastered in Master Chief adverts left, right, and center.

05:48Before launch, though, fans who coughed up the substantial asking price for the Legendary Edition

05:52thought they were getting a life-size Chief Helmet to wear.

05:55Instead, the reality was storage for the game itself,

05:57leading to the Cat Helmet label I mentioned at the beginning.

06:00To this day, fans trade the Legendary Edition online for hugely varying amounts,

06:05depending on what state it's in.

06:062015 saw one signed by the entire Bungie team go for $10,000,

06:11so if you plumped up the cash at launch, hold on,

06:14because a time might come where you can make that money back many times over.

06:18Of course, that's providing you can let that beloved Cat Helmet go.

06:21Number 4, The Legend of Spyro, Dawn of the Dragon.

06:24A game that's not worth a huge amount of money compared to many other entries on this list,

06:28but one that came in the midst of a franchise changing hands multiple times,

06:32right before Spyro would end up with the Skylanders crew.

06:35We're literally talking about the base game here,

06:37but through the factors mentioned, it became a collector's item through sparsity alone.

06:41Looking back, Dawn of the Dragon is a total hidden gem for fans of Spyro himself.

06:45A fairly bold, mature take on his aesthetic that included Elijah Wood as Spyro himself,

06:50plus Mark Hamill, Gary Oldman and more reprising their roles from A New Beginning

06:54and Eternal Night to wrap up the Legend of Spyro trilogy.

06:57Number 3, Bioshock Infinite, Songbird Edition.

07:00Bioshock's status in the industry is legend at this point,

07:03a genre-bending fourth-wall breaker that anyone who favours the original

07:06will shout about from the rooftops any chance they get.

07:09By the time we'd had one awesome underrated sequel, though,

07:12it was time to shift gears and journey out from Rapture up into the clouds.

07:16This produced Bioshock Infinite,

07:17a real head-scratcher with more iconic elements,

07:20great characters, and one of the best world designs of all time.

07:23From its hulking songbird statue,

07:25who you'll have grown to love over the course of the game,

07:27to the tiny handyman figure,

07:29artbooks, posters, a small Murder of Crow's tonic keychain,

07:32and the game itself,

07:332K knew exactly how to capitalize on such a dedicated fanbase.

07:37Number 2, Mass Effect, Limited Collector's Edition.

07:40Back when Bioware set the Mass Effect ball rolling in 2007,

07:43even just looking at how conversations work was genuinely mind-blowing.

07:48For this fancy collector's edition, then, you get a limited edition artbook,

07:51making of DVD with exclusive footage never seen anywhere else.

07:55The game, a really neat Shepard-slash-Seren steel boot case,

07:5836-page galactic codex guide to the Mass Effect universe,

08:02and some unique art from the base game's cover.

08:04Mass Effect, of course, blew up beyond Bioware's wildest dreams,

08:07and this has gone on to become a bona fide legacy item only a few can call their own.

08:12And number 1, Combat Wings, The Great Battles of World War II.

08:16Do yourself a favour and pick up a game from a known-name studio every now and then.

08:20You never know what's going to develop a devoted following

08:22comprised of people who'll do anything to get their hands on it at some point in the future.

08:26Combat Wings is such a game, especially on Xbox 360,

08:30where a copy is rarer than a 2K title without microtransactions.

08:33Developed by Citi Interactive, the game received fairly mixed to negative reviews.

08:37But as flight sim lovers are a dedicated bunch,

08:40Combat Wings' inherent rarity through a very limited production

08:43has made it one of the most valuable games on the system.

08:45To this day, even the Metacritic page for Combat Wings 360 version is completely empty,

08:50setting up insane prices to own a copy,

08:52like at one time a copy shifting for $10,000.

08:56And those are the 14 rarest Xbox 360 games.

08:59Maybe you've just realised you're sitting on a goldmine.

09:02Let me know your favourite titles down in the comments below,

09:04and please subscribe to the WhatCulture Gaming Podcast.

09:07For now, I've been Scott from WhatCulture.com, and I'll catch you soon.

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