Historical for Xbox 360 — top best games in the Historical genre

Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag - a game in the Historical genre

Action, Adventure, Stealth, Warships / Submarines, Third-person view, Historical, Open world

Game released: Xbox 360 → 17 December 2013

VGTimes: 8.7/10

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 85/100

Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag is a stealth action game with a third-person view in a historical setting. In this part of the game, you will explore the Caribbean...

World of Tanks

Action, Shooter, Online, Third-person view, Historical, Tanks, Tactics

Game released: Xbox 360 → 12 February 2014

Players: 3.8/10

Steam: 73/100

Metacritic: 78/100

An online simulator in which players control tanks in battles on various maps. You can choose from over 600 tanks from different countries and eras, each with its...

Call of Duty: World at War

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Historical, Zombies, Online

Game released: Xbox 360 → 21 September 2010

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 82/100

This first-person shooter is set during World War II on the Pacific and European fronts. Players fight as U.S. Marines and Russian soldiers against Imperial...

Call of Duty

Action, Shooter, Online, First-person view, Historical

Game released: Xbox 360 → 10 November 2009

Players: 7.4/10

Steam: 57/100

Metacritic: 80/100

This first-person shooter depicts World War II through the perspectives of American, British, and Russian soldiers. Its interconnected campaigns follow fighters...

Assassin's Creed 3

Action, Adventure, Stealth, Third-person view, Historical, Open world

Game released: Xbox 360 → 26 March 2013

VGTimes: 7.6/10

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 66/100

Metacritic: 84/100

An action-adventure game from a third-person perspective with stealth elements in a historical setting and an open world, Assassin's Creed 3 was released in 2012...

Assassin's Creed 2

Action, Stealth, Third-person view, Historical, Open world, Parkour

Game released: Xbox 360 → 28 September 2010

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 89/100

Assassin's Creed 2 is a stealth action game with a third-person view. The game will take you to Florence during the Renaissance. Your hero, the assassin Ezio...

Assassin's Creed

Action, Stealth, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Historical, Beat them all, Adventure

Game released: Xbox 360 → 3 August 2010

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Assassin's Creed is a pseudo-historical stealth action game with a third-person view in a medieval setting. The game takes place in parallel in 2012 and 1191...

Sniper Elite 3

Simulation, Action, Shooter, Stealth, Third-person view, Historical, Online

Game released: Xbox 360 → 27 June 2014

Players: 7.3/10

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 67/100

Sniper Elite 3 is a continuation of the sniper shooter with stealth elements in the popular Sniper Elite series of games. The main character, Karl Fairbairn, makes...

Medal of Honor: Airborne

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Historical

Game released: Xbox 360 → 1 June 2010

Players: 8/10

Metacritic: 75/100

Medal of Honor: Airborne is a continuation of the series of military first-person shooters. In the new part, the game will offer increased freedom of action. Now...

Assassin's Creed: Revelations

Action, Adventure, Stealth, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Historical, Open world, Parkour

Game released: Xbox 360 → 22 May 2012

Players: 8/10

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Assassin's Creed: Revelations is a stealth action game with a third-person view in a historical setting. In this part of the series about the adventures of Ezio...

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood

Action, Stealth, Third-person view, Puzzle, Historical, Open world, Adventure

Game released: Xbox 360 → 16 November 2010

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 89/100

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood is a stealth action game with a third-person view in a historical setting. The game takes place in Renaissance Italy. YOU play as a...

Valiant Hearts: The Great War

Action, Adventure, Puzzle, Historical, Logic

Game released: Xbox 360 → 25 June 2014

Players: 9.4/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Valiant Hearts: The Great War is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer set during the First World War. The game tells the story of five people who help a...

Battlefield 1943

Action, Shooter, Flight Simulator, First-person view, Third-person view, Historical, Tanks

Game released: Xbox 360 → 8 July 2009

Players: 7.5/10

Metacritic: 84/100

Battlefield 1943 is a first-person shooter. The game allows you to fight as the United States Marine Corps (USMC) or the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) with support...

Sniper Elite V2

Action, Shooter, Stealth, First-person view, Third-person view, Historical, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Xbox 360 → 4 September 2012

VGTimes: 7.0/10

Players: 7.4/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 68/100

A tactical shooter set in Berlin during the final days of World War II. American sniper Karl Fairburne must prevent the Red Army from acquiring technology from the...

Assassin's Creed 4: Freedom Cry

Action, Adventure, DLC, Warships / Submarines, Third-person view, Historical, Open world

Game released: Xbox 360 → 17 December 2013

Players: 7.4/10

Steam: 75/100

Metacritic: 74/100

Assassin's Creed 4: Freedom Cry is a paid add-on for the stealth action game with a third-person view in the historical setting — Assassin's Creed 4. Having...

Assassin's Creed: Rogue

Action, Adventure, Stealth, Third-person view, Historical, Open world, Parkour

Game released: Xbox 360 → 13 November 2014

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 73/100

Assassin's Creed: Rogue is a stealth action game with a third-person view in a historical setting. Players will be able to explore the northern part of North...

Air Conflicts: Secret Wars

Action, Shooter, Flight Simulator, Historical, Simulation, Arcade

Game released: Xbox 360 → 10 April 2012

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 74/100

Metacritic: 56/100

This arcade flight simulator stages aerial combat during World War I and World War II. Its seven campaigns, based on resistance movements of the Second World War...

Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Third-person view, Historical, Tactics

Game released: Xbox 360 → 6 May 2010

Players: 6.2/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 77/100

This tactical World War II shooter is set during Operation Market Garden, the war’s largest airborne operation. Players lead Matt Baker, Joe Hartsock, and the...

Dynasty Warriors 6

Action, Strategy, Fighting, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Historical

Game released: Xbox 360 → 7 March 2008

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 54/100

Dynasty Warriors 6 is a tactical action game set in third-century China, where battles unfold across fields crowded with thousands of soldiers. Its characters have...

Blazing Angels 2: Secret Missions of WWII

Action, Flight Simulator, In real time, Third-person view, Historical

Game released: Xbox 360 → 8 October 2007

Players: 9.5/10

Metacritic: 71/100

Blazing Angels 2: Secret Missions of WWII — The game begins with the player taking control of Captain Robinson (the main character) during a post-World War II...

Call of Duty 3

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Historical

Game released: Xbox 360 → 10 November 2006

Players: 7.5/10

Metacritic: 77/100

A first-person shooter about the Allied offensive during World War II, connected to the Normandy Breakout and the liberation of Paris. Call of Duty 3 tells the...

Birds of Steel

Simulation, Action, Shooter, Flight Simulator, First-person view, Third-person view, Historical, Sandbox

Game released: Xbox 360 → 4 September 2012

Players: 6.6/10

Metacritic: 75/100

Birds of Steel — the gameplay is a further development of another game developed by Gaijin Entertainment — IL-2 Sturmovik: Winged Predators. Unlike the...

Battlestations: Pacific

Action, Shooter, Warships / Submarines, Flight Simulator, First-person view, Third-person view, Historical, Strategy, Simulation

Game released: Xbox 360 → 12 May 2009

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 68/100

Metacritic: 75/100

Battlestations: Pacific is a realistic military simulator with first and third person views. You have to go to the historical battlefields of World War II and lead...

Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII

Action, Flight Simulator, Third-person view, Historical

Game released: Xbox 360 → 31 March 2006

Metacritic: 65/100

Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII — Dunkirk Angels — is the name of the player's squadron in the game. It consists of the player, Tom "Shield," Joe "Mechanic...

Enemy Front

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Historical, Online

Game released: Xbox 360 → 10 June 2014

Players: 7.5/10

Steam: 61/100

Metacritic: 43/100

Enemy Front is a historical first-person shooter in which American war correspondent Robert Hawkins fights alongside Resistance fighters against Nazi forces in...

Battlestations: Midway

Action, Shooter, Strategy, Warships / Submarines, Flight Simulator, In real time, First-person view, Third-person view, Historical, Simulation

Game released: Xbox 360 → 30 January 2007

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 78/100

Metacritic: 75/100

A military action and strategy game about air, sea, and undersea battles in the Pacific theater of World War II. Its campaigns span the events from Pearl Harbor...

Darkest of Days

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Historical

Game released: Xbox 360 → 10 September 2009

Players: 6.8/10

Metacritic: 48/100

Darkest of Days is a first-person shooter. The player controls Alexander Morris, a soldier fighting in General Custer's battalion during the Battle of Little Big...

Assassin's Creed 3: The Tyranny of King Washington - The Infamy

Action, Adventure, Stealth, DLC, Third-person view, Historical

Game released: Xbox 360 → 19 February 2013

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 73/100

Assassin's Creed 3: The Tyranny of King Washington — The Infamy is a paid add-on for a stealth action game with a third-person view in a historical setting...

Assassin's Creed 3: Liberation

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Stealth, Third-person view, Historical

Game released: Xbox 360 → 15 January 2014

Players: 5.5/10

Metacritic: 70/100

Assassin's Creed 3: Liberation is a stealth action game with a third-person view in a historical setting. You have to take control of a girl assassin &mdash...

World of Tanks: Xbox 360 Edition

Online, Action, Shooter, Historical, Tanks, Free game

Game released: Xbox 360 → 21 August 2014

Players: 5.9/10

World of Tanks: Xbox 360 Edition is a free-to-play multiplayer tank shooter with a third-person view for the Xbox 360. You can expect updated tank controls and a...

Assassin's Creed: Birth of a New World — The American Saga

Action, Stealth, Third-person view, Collection, Historical

Game released: Xbox 360 → 3 October 2014

Players: 6.3/10

Assassin's Creed: Birth of a New World — The American Saga is a collection of three games from the Assassin's Creed series: Assassin's Creed 3, Assassin's...

IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey

Simulation, Flight Simulator, First-person view, Third-person view, Historical

Game released: Xbox 360 → 8 September 2009

Players: 6.1/10

Metacritic: 81/100

IL-2 Sturmovik: Winged Predators — The gameplay is based on large-scale air battles and ground operations of World War II. The player can take part in the...

Shellshock 2: Blood Trails

Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Historical

Game released: Xbox 360 → 24 February 2009

Players: 5/10

Metacritic: 35/100

Shellshock 2: Blood Trails — the continuation of the famous project returns players to Indochina. Burning napalm, clever traps, mass executions of civilians...

Assassin's Creed 3: The Tyranny of King Washington - The Redemption

Action, Adventure, Stealth, DLC, Third-person view, Historical

Game released: Xbox 360 → 23 April 2013

Players: 7.9/10

Metacritic: 63/100

Assassin's Creed 3: The Tyranny of King Washington — The Redemption — a paid add-on for a stealth action game with a third-person view in a historical...

Damage Inc. Pacific Squadron WWII

Shooter, Flight Simulator, Third-person view, Historical, Action, Simulation

Game released: Xbox 360 → 28 August 2012

Steam: 61/100

Metacritic: 49/100

This flight-combat game with shooter elements is set in the Pacific Theater of World War II. Players pilot fighters, dive bombers, and torpedo bombers in battles...

Samurai Warriors 2

Action, Fighting, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Historical

Game released: Xbox 360 → 26 September 2006

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 55/100

A historical action game about samurai and ninja in Japan, where powerful warlords fight to unite the country. Samurai Warriors 2 features 26 playable characters...

Pirates of the Caribbean: Armada of the Damned

Role-playing game, Action, Third-person view, Historical

Game canceled: Xbox 360 → 14 October 2010

Pirates of the Caribbean: Armada of the Damned — was conceived as a third-person action-adventure role-playing video game set in an open world based on the...

Assassin's Creed 3: The Tyranny of King Washington - The Betrayal

Action, Adventure, Stealth, DLC, Third-person view, Historical

Game released: Xbox 360 → 19 March 2013

Players: 9.4/10

Metacritic: 67/100

Assassin's Creed 3: The Tyranny of King Washington — The Betrayal — a paid add-on for a stealth action game with a third-person view in a historical...

Samurai Warriors 2: Empires

Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, Fighting, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Historical

Game released: Xbox 360 → 14 May 2013

Players: 5.5/10

Metacritic: 54/100

This tactical action game with strategy and fighting elements is set during Japan’s Warring States period, when the country is divided into 25 rival states. The...

Naval Assault: The Killing Tide

Simulation, Historical

Game released: Xbox 360 → 15 June 2010

Metacritic: 40/100

This historical submarine warfare simulator is set against the events of World War II and follows a covert operation. The player commands a fully armed submarine...

Historical

Best Games in the Historical genre for Xbox 360