X-Play Best of 2007 Awards

[BenKenobi88]

 My choices from that list:

Game of the Year * Super Mario Galaxy (Creative, brings me back to Mario 64 days, it's pretty much perfect)

Most Original Game
* Portal (It was based off Narbacular Drop, the Portal creators' original game, but I mean, it still hadn't been done or released to the mainstream until Valve picked them up and threw Portal into the Orange Box.  Zack and Wiki came close...)

Best Gameplay Innovation
* Mass Effect (conversation system) (Making choices in RPGs is old news, but the new system with nearly real-time conversations, and changing up the actual dialogue from the text is refreshing, I hope more games build off this.)

Best Multiplayer Game
* Team Fortress 2 (A game 8 years in the making, and it shows...it's well-rounded, extremely fun, easy to pick up but you get better as you go, it's nearly perfect.)

Best Action/Adventure Game
* Super Mario Galaxy (I mean...if it gets GOTY, I'd expect it to be the top of the list for its genre as well...)

Best Sports Game
* Forza Motorsport 2 (I haven't played any of the games on this list except for Forza...so yeah...)

Best Shooter
* BioShock (It was definitely a great game, second on the list of GOTY for me.)

Best Role Playing Game
* Mass Effect (Seems obvious to me...Bioware makes the best RPGs.)

Best New Character
* Weighted Companion Cube (Portal) (Duh...it will never stab you.)

Best Art Direction
* Super Mario Galaxy (The space setting gives them unlimited creativity and it rocks.)

Best Animation
* Heavenly Sword (I kinda just picked one here...I know they did a ton of work with motion capture and facial animations, and I liked what I saw.)

Best Writing/Story
* Mass Effect (Huge, epic game...they put a ton of work into making a world just as believable as the Star Wars universe, only this time there's no limitations, as well as no ewoks.)

Best Original Soundtrack
* Super Mario Galaxy (Can't beat the classics mixed with the new, with the great orchestral recordings.  Mass Effect's score sounded good from what I heard, but I'm guessing it's not really groundbreaking as far as soundtracks go.)

Best Sound Design
* BioShock (not really an expert on judging "Sound Design", but the voice acting and atmosphere was great)

Best Downloadable Content
* The Elder Scrolls IV: Shivering Isles (XBL) (Didn't own any of these, but I had played the Elder Scrolls expansion, and it was a good expansion from what I saw)

Best Strategy Game
* Supreme Commander (It's a sweeet game.  I like Company of Heroes, but Supreme Commander has sucked more time out of me.)