Hey everyone,
Welcome, once again,to our Official Game of the Year Awards. Just as with last year, we're also going to include the winners selected by you, the forum users, as well as those selected by the site staff. So simply follow the instructions below to get voting:
1) You vote simply by listing your winners (there's a sample ballot below which serves as an example) and posting them in this thread. There are other threads out there for each console, handheld and overall.
2) Voting is open straight away, but you only have until the 17th of December to get your votes in, so make sure you vote before that deadline otherwise you'll miss out on your chance to influence the winning games. You may edit your votes up until that deadline - votes won't be counted until the threads are locked.
3) Only votes from users with more than 100 posts will be counted.
4) Staff votes don't count here - all staff should head over to the staff forums to vote.
5) Please try and pick as many games as possible, up to a maximum of 5 games in each category. Note that voting is weighted to give those listing more games a stronger voice.
6) The list of nominees below is not definitive, feel free to vote for games that haven't been listed as long as they were released in NA or Europe during 2010, but do not vote for games that were released in the US in 2009.
7) Please check out the sample ballot below. If you fail to follow it and your votes are not clear then they will not be counted. If you're uncertain about anything just make a post in this thread or send Naznatips, myself or Torillian a wall post/pm.
Thank you for participating in the VGChartz Game of the Year Awards. Happy voting!
Sample ballot:
First Person Shooter
1. Halo Reach
2. BioShock 2
3. Call of Duty: Black Ops
4. Metro 2033
5. Battlefield: Bad Company 2
Third Person Shooter
1. Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Conviction
2. Crackdown 2
Action-Adventure
No vote.
Fighter
1. Super Street Fighter IV
360 Game of the Year (open voting)
1. Halo Reach
2. BioShock 2
3. Call of Duty: Black Ops
4. Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Conviction
and so on.
note - the sample ballot lists 360 categories and nominees, but the principles are the same for all of the voting threads.
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The Nominee:
PC:
MMORPG
Age of Conan: Rise of the Godslayer
City of Heroes: Going Rogue
EverQuest II: Sentinel's Fate
WoW: Cataclysm
Global Agenda
Shooter
Call of Duty: Black Ops
BioShock 2
Battlefield: Bad Company 2
Metro 2033
Singularity
STALKER: Call of Pripyat
Medal of Honor
Serious Sam HD
Alien Swarm
Just Cause 2
A v P
Mafia 2
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Conviction
RPG
Mass Effect 2
Fallout: New Vegas
Mount and Blade: Warband
Recettear: An Item Shop’s Tale
Din’s Curse
Divinity II
Dragon Age Origins: Awakening
Strategy:
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty
Sid Meier’s Civilization V
Supreme Commander 2
RUSE
Napoleon Total War
Worms Reloaded
The Settlers 7
Victoria II
Sol Survivor
Heroes of Newerth
Racer
F1 2010
Nimbus
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit
Blur
Split/Second
Puzzle
Bejewled 3
Puzzle Quest 2
Puzzle Dimension
Bob Came In Pieces
Tidalis
Puzzle Agent
Toki Tori
Action
Assassin’s Creed 2
LEGO Harry Potter
Dead Rising 2
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Darksiders
Shatter
Lara Croft & the Guardian of Light
Just Cause 2
Plain Sight
Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands
Transformers: War for Cybertron
Shank
Toy Story 3
Adventure
A New Beginning
Runaway: A Twist of Fate
Monkey Island 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge
Sam & Max Season 3: The Devil’s Playhouse
Jolly Rover
The Whispered World
DLC/Expansion Packs
Borderlands: The Secret Armory of General Knoxx
Borderlands: Claptrap’s New Robot Revolution
Mass Effect 2: Lair of Shadow Broker
L4D2: The Passing
Napoleon: Total War – Peninsular Campaign
Sins of a Solar Empire: Diplomacy
Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War II – Chaos Rising
Dawn of Discovery: Venice
King’s Bounty: Crossworlds
The Sims 3: Ambitions
Dragon Age: Origins – Return to Ostagar
Sports
Fifa 11
Football Manager 11
Blood Bowl: Legendary Edition
Tiger Woods PGA Tour Online
Pro Evolution Soccer 2010
Best Graphics (open voting)
Best Original Music Score (open voting)
Most Innovative (open voting)
Biggest Disappointment (open voting)
Best Game No One Played (open voting)
Most Anticipated Game (open voting)
PC Game of the Year (open voting)
