Tough choice between Arkham Asylum and Wii Sports Resort. The latter is the personification of fun, while the former is the standard for 3d Metroidvanias and superhero games. I'm gonna go with Arkham as a more 'complete' game and to try to combat my Nintendo fanboyism.
Bayonetta, Left for Dead 2, and Assassin's Creed 2 are also amazing games. I have always found the Uncharted games and Modern Warfare 2 to be very overrated. I do get the hype for MW2, at least, but for me it's when COD began to lose its identity and devolved into playable Michael Bay movies instead of the gritty war games the franchise had strived for before, and only the first 2 Black Ops games approached the quality of the pre-MW2 CODs. I vastly prefer the gameplay of the first 2 Tomb Raider reboot games to anything from the Uncharted series. Naughty Dog games just never click with me and outside of the graphics I don't get the hype.
New Super Mario Brothers Wii is probably underrated these days because of how the series stagnated and died with the 2012 releases. But in 2009 it was incredibly fresh and a joy to play, and the 4-player co-op was innovative. But it wasn't game of the year material the way something like Wonder is.
Last edited by h2ohno - on 17 November 2023
