Portal: Design brilliance. This game was just a perfect amalgam of cleverness, humor, and atmosphere.
Zack & Wiki: Point and click revived? Hell yes! A brilliant puzzle/adventure game that really showed how the Wii can be different from the other consoles.
Metroid Prime 3: The firs time I've ever played an FPS (/Adventure) on a console and thought "Wow, this is as fun as shooters on PC." Now, before my fellow PC gamers shoot me, I didn't say it was a precise or accurate, but it was as fun. Absolutely incredible, and far above dual analog controls. The first next-gen console FPS controls.
Call of Duty 4 (PC): I used to be one of this game's biggest critics, but when I finally sat down with it, and got into the multiplayer, I was blown away. The single-player was like playing the best action movie ever made (also as short as an action movie hehe), but the multiplayer experience is second to none. Many have described this as the next counter-strike, and I think they are right. 50 man Team Deathmatch is insanely awesome, and this game really blew me away.
Super Mario Galaxy: Pure, untainted, child-like wonder is all that I felt as I played this game. It was simply an incredible feeling that I hadn't felt while playing a video game in at least 10 years. Thank you so much Super Mario Galaxy for bringing that back. Next comes Brawl!
