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At the price rate i would fully say that WoG beats our Mario Kart Wii. Maybe not Brawl because theres so much stuff in theh gae, but definately MKWii.




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Voltaire said:
At the price rate i would fully say that WoG beats our Mario Kart Wii. Maybe not Brawl because theres so much stuff in theh gae, but definately MKWii.

 

Untrue sir.  Mario Kart is also better than Brawl IMO. 

You can get back at me by shooting me in MOH. 



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Best Action Game

No More Heroes
Art Style: Orbient
LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures

 

Best Fighting Game

Super Smash Bros. Brawl 
Castlevania Judgment
Naruto: Clash of Ninja Revolution 2

Best Music/Rhythm Game

Guitar Hero World Tour 
Rock Band 2

Best Platform Game 

de Blob 
LostWinds
Mega Man 9
Wario Land: Shake It!

 

Best Puzzle Game 

World of Goo 
Art Style: Rotohex
Boom Blox
Tetris Party
Toki Tori

Best Racing/Driving Game

Mario Kart Wii

Best RPG

Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo's Dungeon 
Dokapon Kingdom
Monster Lab

Best Shooting Game

Call of Duty: World at War
BlastWorks: Build, Trade, Destroy

Best Simulation Game 

Animal Crossing: City Folk 
MySims Kingdom

Best Sports Game

Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 
Shaun White Snowboarding: Road Trip
Skate It
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09 All-Play
Wii Fit

 

Best Graphics Technology

de Blob 
Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection
Shaun White Snowboarding: Road Trip
Sonic Unleashed
Super Smash Bros. Brawl

 

Best Artistic Design 


World of Goo
LostWinds
No More Heroes
Okami
Wario Land: Shake It!

Best Original Score 

Super Smash Bros. Brawl 
de Blob
World of Goo

Best Use of Sound 

de Blob
Call of Duty: World at War
Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party
Super Smash Bros. Brawl

 Best Voice Acting

Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People 
The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon
No More Heroes
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed

Best Story 

No More Heroes 
Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People -- Episode 1: Homestar Ruiner
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed

Best Family Game

Boom Blox
Animal Crossing: City Folk
Guitar Hero World Tour
Mario Kart Wii
Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party

 Best Local Multiplayer Game

 Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Boom Blox
LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures
Madden NFL 09 All-Play
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09 All-Play

Best Online Multiplayer Game 

 Mario Kart Wii
Animal Crossing: City Folk
Guitar Hero World Tour
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09 All-Play
Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Best WiiWare Game

World of Goo 
LostWinds
Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People -- Episode 1: Homestar Ruiner
Tetris Party
Toki Tori

 Best New IP

 World of Goo
de Blob
No More Heroes
Shaun White Snowboarding: Road Trip
Wii Fit

Best Use of the Wii-Mote 

 LostWinds
Boom Blox
Call of Duty: World at War
Okami
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09 All-Play

 Best Use of the Balance Board

 Wii Fit
Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party
Shaun White Snowboarding: Road Trip
Skate It
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09 All-Play

 Most Innovative Design

 World of Goo
Art Style: Orbient
BlastWorks: Build, Trade, Destroy
Boom Blox
de Blob

Wii Game of the Year

World of Goo
Guitar Hero World Tour
de Blob
Pro Evolution Soccer 2008
Super Smash Bros. Brawl

 

Best Passive Aggressive Awards

IGN Wii, Best of 2008

 

http://bestof.ign.com/2008/wii/1.html



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frybread said:

Best Action Game

No More Heroes
Art Style: Orbient
LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures

 

I hammered on your face a lot with my thumb while playing No More Heroes.  Great game.  



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Brawl and World of Goo each had the same Metacritic score. (93) I am surprised they had the balls to give it to a WiiWare game over a retail game. Good for them, it is a great game.

This would be the equivalent to Braid winning 360 game of the year over Gears2. (same metacritic scores as well)



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LoL nintendos game of the Year is a wii ware game thats available for the PC. The funny thing is that IGN is right World of Goo Was truly the best game i played all year outta games that i pla thats on the Wii however i didn't play it on the Wii I play it on my Lap top. Im pretty Sure IGN wont put WoG as the best PC game of the Year however.



I gotta give them props for having the cojones to give it to the little guy they thought deserved it rather than the uber hyped game from the giant 1st party producer.



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Hard to believe Mario Kart didn't make top 5 on the year. Look at its stats on Nintendo Channel, insane played amounts.

I am happy to see PES 2008 make the list though, another old-style game finding new life with Wiimote.

 

And Wii Music got SNUBBED!  Not a surprise, but it still rages me.



PC + Wii owners unite.  Our last-gen dying platforms have access to nearly every 90+ rated game this gen.  Building a PC that visually outperforms PS360 is cheap and easy.    Oct 7th 2010 predictions (made Dec 17th '08)
PC: 10^9
Wii: 10^8

Tales of Symphonia not even nominated for best RPG? Wonder what Soriku has to say about this...

Edit: nevermind.



akuma587 said:
If I had a Wii I would pick up this game off WiiWare. The trailer I saw looked awesome.

 

well, if you have a pc or mac made in the last 6 or so years, there is a PC/Mac/linux version as well.

http://2dboy.com/games.php

It's good to see a small dev studio take game of the year with a downloadable title. In this case, it had to take some guts to pick the one they thought was best instead of the ones everyone expected to win.



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