gamrReview Overall Game of the Year Awards - Results!

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Killiana1a said:
No open world/sandbox/emergent game play category...I could further disagree with the results as Bulletstorm getting best FPS of the year was a good laugh, yet I will not.

I agree Skyrim is a game of the year contender, yet to not have a category for Batman: Arkham City to win is thoroughly disappointing and intriguing. Disappointing in that I thought it was a well done, latest iteration of Arkham Asylum. Intriguing in that not having a best open world/sandbox/emergent game play game is quite old school.

Overall, I can't quibble with the winners. All great games.

The funny thing is...can you think of any FPS games that are objectively better?  

Modern Warfare 3 was a multiplayer expansion pack, the campaign was a veritable joke (less than 4 hours long)
Battlefield 3 had an even more dismal campaign and was just as brown and grey as every other shooter
Killzone 3 was good most of the way through, but fell apart at the end and had lackluster multiplayer
Crysis 2 was good as well, but nothing special aside from "oooh, pretty"
I personally was a huge fan of Resistance 3 (I wrote the review), but realistically it was just a nice retro styled game, nothing more
Halo Anniversary was....a remake, so it's basically exempt
RAGE was pretty generic
FEAR3 was...do I need to continue? 

Bulletstorm may have been silly, but it actually had a shred of originality and innovation.  The Graphics were rather unique compared to other FPS games (not just brown and grey, but lots of yellow, blue, orange, and even green), the Kill with Skill system was a load of fun, and the campaign lasted longer than a football fan's average beer fart.  While I don't think ANY FPS game was far and away better than the competition, Bulletstorm was the only one I think really tried anything new or interesting, and the only one not just content to half-ass a cookie cutter sequel.  my own personal votes have only Resistance 3 and Bulletstorm as legit contenders (Resistance was a nice retro style, great graphics/audio/plot/setting, not to mention flawless controls), but Bulletstorm won becuase it was the only thing NEW.