No real surprises, but no complaints on my end either. (Well, maybe a few, but they have more to do with what people have had the time to play vs. what I preferred). Good fun, it's cool to see what the goodjer consensus is, and I'm glad the Orange Box took the glory. We did this at another forum I frequent and almost none of the games I liked won.

No big deal since they're runner ups but how did Halo3 beat out CoD4 in the 360 dept?

Glad Bioshock got recognition (if not a top category slot), as it's become de rigueur to trash it in retrospect.

Hee hee. Crackdown beat HALO 3. Pwnt.

But I do cry foul on naming an expansion pack as GOTY.

Civ 4 beat by WoW?

I'm suing for a recount!

You can expect papers from my lawer, J. Noble Daggett, any day now.

What I meant to say, was thanks for all the hard work in putting this together, its nifty to see the results

Look a little closer.

This is nitpicky to the nth degree, but the 360 version of the Settlers of Catan board game is simply called Catan.

Also,

Thank God UT3 ended up with a few more votes than Call of Juarez.

It's my impression that the backlash is more serious for BioShock than most games. As I've mentioned before, I've never heard a criticism of BioShock that I couldn't understand (well, except the person who found the game too hard), but I feel in trotting out the legitimate criticisms, people forgot the things that were really compelling about the game. In particular, while trashing the game for making the System Shock 2 mechanics too mainstream, people tend to gloss over how incredibly non-mainstream the background story was (and let's not minimize the incredible accomplishment of creating a million-plus seller using SS2 as the inspiration!).

It also seems like people forget in retrospect the ground-breaking nature of the Big Daddy/Little Sister relationship, and the concept of roaming boss battles.

As one reviewer mentioned at the time, the game had at least three great (and I'd say, unique) moments. How many games can claim that?

Nice list, I noticed Halo 3 not winning anything too.

Wasn't this supposed to be a great game and so on?

Anyway, I hope the developers appreciate the gold-plated Ferraris that the winners get.

I'd definitely agree with that -- there are a few legitimate gameplay issues that I can understand and even agree with myself, but none of them went anywhere near breaking the game for me. I was just talking to a mate of mine the other day though who basically said that he wanted back the hours of his life he wasted playing BioShock. He wasn't at all interested in the unique and brilliant setting, story or characters, so to him it was just another FPS with different textures on the walls and a few different weapons and some annoying niggles. For me, the game was all about learning more about Rapture, slowly piecing together its history, but he clearly had no interest in that, so apart from telling him "you're doing it wrong!" I really couldn't counter his arguments.

Noooo.... Crackdown fell out of the top 10. Dang. At least it beat Halo 3, the inferior experience on the original Crackdown disc.

Also, kind of warms my heart that All Pro Football 2k8 beat out Uncharted. I don't think that will happen on any other list. So we APF2k8 fans will take our victories where we can get them. Although this says more about the AAA Blitz the 360 received than the quality of Uncharted vs. APF, I'm sure.

Great job, Sinitar. Thanks.

Great Work Sinatar, you did a great job as usual

I am surprised that HL2 Episode 2 was so high not that it was a bad game or anything but because it's basically an expansion though so is Civ IV BYS so it's all good great list everyone

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