Let's all try to be reasonable before yelling "BIAS!" As twesterm pointed out only a few multiplatform games on PS3 recieved a 9 from GS themselves and they could hardly give an 8.5 or an 8 GOTY nominations without getting other gamers upset that their game which earned a 9 was passed over. Plus of the games that got 9s the 360 version scored better on GS or GR or both.

Besides Sony wasn't completely left out as God of War II did get nominated.

i know...Twilight Princess won the reader's choice....!

have a Happy New Year everyone!!!! :) 

"Gears of War" as last year's game of the year - that's hilarious.

Nothing against "Gears of War", a fine game in its own right. But to say that GoW is superior to "Final Fantasy 12" is like saying Spiderman 3 is better than Spirited Away. Totally meaningless.

Videogame journalism is just plain crap, period. The only good thing about it is that it isn't responsible for starting any Middle Eastern wars, unlike the mainstream US press.

 That's the great thing about opinions, everyone has them.  In my opinion, Gears of War is far superiors to FFXII in every way (and this even coming from a huge RPG fan).  Gears had fantastic multiplayer, a short but sweet single player, great controls (coming from someone who doesn't like those type of games that means a lot), decent but typical story, not the best but still interesting characters, and most importantly, fun.

FFXII had really didn't have much going for it.  The base gameplay wasn't bad, but by the time you got decent gambits you just didn't care.  The leveling system was crap since it encouraged every character to be exactly the same since everyone had the same grid and license points were very easy to come by.  The license system in itself wasn't that much fun.  The story was painfully dull.  The characters were beyond boring and incredibly generic (even more than the Gears of War characters).  Most of the characters had no real reason to be there.  And the list goes on.  About the only real pluses the game had going for it were the graphics and the terrific voice acting (even with the funny pauses due to translation).  All in all, FFXII was bad.

I've always hated the silly notion that no game should get a 10 or a 100 because "no game is perfect".  If a game excels in every possible category (audio, graphics, gameplay) and especially if it includes some new innovative gameplay mechanics that help revitalize the genre or set some new standard, it definitely can be worthy of a 10/10.  10/10 shouldn't mean a game is "perfect" and can't ever be topped.  That rationale makes as much sense as English teachers giving kids A- all the time because no paper is "perfect".

That said you are the first person I have heard state that no game deserves a less than perfect score and for my own sanity I hope you are the last.

that's true....Super Mario Galaxy has super graphics, even if Wii is not that powerful, the graphics are nex-gen......sound is also super, and gameplay......the story is funny and there is the use of humor in the game, also it's not boring and it has many things to find out........!!

it deserves the score.....!!