i thought mario kart was a shoe-in. i've played all 3 (goo, ssbb, mk) and own two of them and while brawl is amazing and is a big improvement over melee in graphics, and several modes its not actually a huge step up from melee cuz the main thing needed to perfect melee was online and they put crappy online in brawl.
world of goo is an amazing game, i love it. definitely the best downloadable title of the year for any system. but mario kart is clearly superior to both of these games. while there are a couple of disappointing things for MK like battlemode, still it brought back another great edition of the best mulitplayer franchise in gaming and gave us probably the best version of mario kart plus good online multiplayer. in a year when the only brilliant games for the wii was mario kart, brawl, and goo i don't understand of ign doesn't even put kart in for the running for GOTY.
end of '08 predictions: wii - 43 million, 360 - 25 million, ps3 - 20 million
Games I've beat recently: Super Mario Galaxy, Knights of the Old Republic, Shadow of the Collossus
Proud owner of wii, gamecube, xbox, ps2, dreamcast, n64, snes, genesis, 3DO, nes, atari, intellivision, unisonic tournament 2000, and gameboy
