Best Narrative/Fiction – Valkyria Chronicles
Biggest WOW Factor – Valkyria Chronicles
Most Innovative – Valkyria Chronicles
Best Multiplayer – LBP
Most Overrated/Overhyped – Fallout 3
Most Underrated/Underhyped – Valkyria Chronicles
Best Surprise of the Year – Valkyria Chronicles
Biggest Disappointment of the Year – Home
Best Party Game – LBP
Best Downloadable Game – Burnout Paradise or if not applicable, WipeOut HD
Game of the Year – Valkyria Chronicles

Best Narrative/Fiction – GTA4
Biggest WOW Factor – Mirror’s Edge
Most Innovative – Mirror’s Edge
Most Overrated/Overhyped – MGS4
Most Underrated/Underhyped – Valkyria Chronicles
Biggest Disappointment of the Year – platform specific DLC
Game of the Year – Valkyria Chronicles

I also liked Fallout, but it didn’t really fit into any of the categories.

Best Narrative/Fiction – Of the games I own and have played a bit – prince of persia, but it isn’t much – although I must admit I had a bit of thing for elika by the end. But to be honest, most game’s narrative’s are pretty shit (and often worse) and it isn’t why I buy games.

Biggest WOW Factor – burnout paradise. Great crashes and silky frame rate and other terrific technical feats.

Most Innovative – Little Big Planet, there’s just nothing like it.

Best Multiplayer – little big planet, setup/connection couldn’t be easier, and even the frustrating bits are fun most of the time.

Most Overrated/Overhyped – Gran turismo 5. I was already bored with GT4 so i’m not sure what I expected. Actually at least GT4 keeps a solid 50fps frame-rate, unlike GT5 ‘HD’ which struggles and tears all over the place, so even the graphics aren’t that amazing. I very much doubt i’ll buy the final release.

Most Underrated/Underhyped – prince of persia. maybe I was hiding under a rock but I can’t remember seeing much about it (compared to say mirrors edge).

Best Surprise of the Year – nothing. With so much coverage these days well before games are released, it’s almost impossible to be surprised by anything. As with many movies, many of the key moments are already revealed even in the shortest of trailers.

Biggest Disappointment of the Year – Home is disappointing – not sure why since it’s just a service and pretty much does what they always said it would – I think i’m just over my ‘irc’ days. But it isn’t a game either so I don’t think it counts. Pretty obtuse, but for me it would have to be lack of control options in resistance 2/fps’s in general. Or – perhaps as a result, just Resistance 2 itself if I must state something ‘votable’. But there’s been plenty of other disappointments too – that LBP didn’t sell better, that the ps3 isn’t selling better, among many others.

Best Party Game – I don’t have too many, but LBP is the only one I’ve put infront of a few people that they actually enjoyed and didn’t think sucked or got annoyed with. Toy home isn’t bad for kids.

Best Downloadable Game – Burnout paradise (i got the disc mind you)

Game of the Year – Little Big Planet. Now they’ve addressed many of the problems with the search, you can find good user levels. And there’s some gems there.

I haven’t bought a lot of games either. Actually about one third of my games for the PS3 have been bought inside this december and january. I have for instance just bought Kane and Lynch and Mirror’s Edge this week. So my list will pale in comparison with others, I’m afraid.

Best Narrative/Fiction – Resistance 2

Biggest WOW Factor – The videos promoting Little Big Planet

Most Innovative – Little Big Planet

Best Multiplayer – I haven’t really played a lot of online multiplayer, so I’ll have to go with offline and say Little Big Planet.

Most Overrated/Overhyped – The so-called “Console War”. There are no casualties. Only three different consoles with different agendas. There should be room enough for all of them.

Most Underrated/Underhyped – Don’t really know.

Best Surprise of the Year – Mirror’s Edge

Biggest Disappointment of the Year – Home.

Best Party Game – Singstar for the PS3. Ok, I know it’s cheating a bit, since the game actually came out in 2007. But since I have no other good party games for the PS3 yet, and since Singstar came out on the 12th of December 2007 in Europe I still think it’s a bit eligible. Wait, when did it actually come out in USA?

Best Downloadable Game – GT5 Prologue

Game of the Year – Little Big Planet!

Best Narrative/Fiction – Bad Company (drama don’t work in video games yet, but humor does)

Biggest WOW Factor – Burnout Paradise’s stunt driving followed close second by Dead Space’s scare and ambience factor

Most Innovative – Little Big Planet

Best Multiplayer – Resistance 2 Co-Op

Most Overrated/Overhyped – Fallout 3

Most Underrated/Underhyped – Lost Planet (single player mode and story). Also Tom Clancy’s Las Vegas 2 had some fun co-op and cool maps.

Best Surprise of the Year – Getting ambushed in Dead Space again, and again, and again; the character customization in Saints Row 2 was a surprising hoot

Biggest Disappointment of the Year – Metal Gear Solid. I think long time fans are blinded to the fact that Konami’s time has come and gone. Although the female harpy bosses were fun to fight I was overcome with the uber-long cut scenes, the endless nostalgia for old games, the clunky user item interface and very, very portentous voice acting.

Best Party Game – No opinion

Best Downloadable Game – Out of all the stuff I downloaded – which ain’t much – the only thing I really played over again was the Pure demo

Game of the Year – Resistance 2 with close second Dead Space

Add’l categories:

Best reason not to be playing PS3 – Left 4 Dead PC game and Team Fortress 2 unlockables on the PC

Best reason to be playing the PS3 – Resistance 2 (all modes); Dead Space

Well, as I wrote, I haven’t played every PS3 game that’s come out this year.

And yes, Metal Gear Solid 4 is one of thos games that I havn’t played. So is Fallout 3, Dead Space and so on.

But I can’t praise a game, that I haven’t played. Therefore they are not on my list.

So yes, Nawxfreak, You are absolutely right about the first part of your statement. The latter half I don’t know about. Since I, you know, haven’t played the game.