Happy President's Day, everyone! To celebrate the holiday, a few of OXM's editors decided to honor the finest men (and women) to ever serve Xbox gamers. We all know of Mount Rushmore, the impressive national monument decated to our most esteemed Commanders in Chief, so we tackled the difficult task of picking a batch of Xbox characters, developers, and executives best suited to grace a Mount Microsoft. Read on for our choices!

COREY COHEN, EXECUTIVE EDITOR:
I love alternate realities, so my version of the Xbox's Mount Rushmore would be an evil reflection of a monument to its heroes. (Like something you'd see in Star Trek's Mirror Universe, or the world where Justice League counterparts The Crime Syndicate come from.) In other words, my sculpture would honor four of Xbox's biggest baddies. One would be a representation of The Flood; I'd have it be their Infection Form, as that's what traumatized us so much in the very first Halo. The other three would be Queen Myrrah (Gears of War series), Mr. Scratch (Alan Wake's dark doppelganger), and a Reaper (Mass Effect series). Naturally, each of them would sport a diabolical grin...even if not all of them have mouths.

RYAN MCCAFFREY, SENIOR EDITOR:
Master Chief and Marcus Fenix make half of the Xbox Mount Rushmore way too easy, so I’m spinning this question around and giving you my “Mount SucksMore” of Xbox – whether you asked for it or not! First up is the lizard guy from Brute Force. The amount of hype that game generated leveraged against the quantity of fun it ultimately delivered was, at the very least, radically unequal. Next, let’s pick on Jeff Bell. The former Xbox marketing bigwig was once dumb enough to make an account on a popular gaming message board just to troll a poster who had mocked his E3 stage presentation. Not smart there, Jeffy. Third, let’s pick on Leisure Suit Larry. Granted, he wasn’t exclusive to the Xbox platform. No, the whole world shared in the nails-on-a-chalkboard “entertainment” he delivered, but he belongs because not only were his games unbearably terrible, but the original PC adventure games were so good they were classics. The mighty fell very, very far. Finally, of course, you couldn’t carve the biggest Xbox failures into a mountainside without our old “buddy” Azurik. He will never live his game down, I’m afraid. 

KEVIN SMITH, FEATURES EDITOR:
First up is Bill Gates, who was basically the father of the Xbox brand. Next is Master Chief (he's still the undisputed face of Xbox) as well as Cortana -- you can't have one without the other, right? My final pick would be Marcus Fenix as he's an exclusive, consistent ass-kicker.

DAVE RUDDEN, WEB EDITOR:
The first choice is obvious: Master Chief. I’m going to take a slightly different tact for Gears and toss Cliff Bleszinski up there, since his work over the last half-decade has become synonymous with the Xbox 360. Xbox Live Arcade and Kinect deserve representation, so to round out the quartet, I’ll go with the Limbo kid and the lead from The Gunstringer. Oh, and I should mention this version of Mount Rushmore has all four of the subject performing a four-way high-five.