It's early in the year, there are a bunch of great games coming out this year, Empire is a month away from release, but I'm willing to make the claim now. Empire: Total War will erase every single claim about PC gaming being dead. It will be 2009 game of the year. Game of the century even!

rawr.

You might be right. I like the things I've heard Creative Assembly saying about the way the new AI behaves. They might have solved my one big complaint with the series (at least since Rome and the introduction of the 3D map).

Don't think so.
To not sound fanboyish, I'll name a multiplatform GOTY title:

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2

call of duty has 0% chance of winning. it's become a mainstream shooter that doesn't change anything in it's delivery.

Well if you think so.....

I'm sure you will be proven wrong.

Ummm...

No it won't.

What will? I have no idea. Definitely not CoD Modern Warfare 2, they just gave all of these awards to the original! Plus it won't innovate. At all. Killzone 2 has more chance of winning than MW2, and Killzone 2 does NOT have a high chance of winning.

sweet, ive been waiting for this game, i might mainly game on console, but i love a good strategy game..... rock on empire total war i support your GOY run

heck yeah one of my most anticipated titles this year is empire: total war!!

The problem is, it's being released too early in the year. For most award competitions, the game needs to have been released in the last two months to be considered GOTY. So while it will deserve the title, it probably won't get it.

Not necessarily. GTAIV, MGS4, and Brawl were all earlier games last year, and all got goty from somewhere