Biggest WOW Factor

I have to give this one to LittleBigPlanet.

Best Multiplayer

Online: Call of Duty: World at War
Local: LittleBigPlanet

Most Overrated/Overhyped

LittleBigPlanet. Because of the control and server issues.

Most Underrated/Underhyped

Rainbow Six Vegas 2. I still have a lot of fun playing this game with a friend.

Best Surprise of the Year

MotorStorm: Pacific Rift has four player splitscreen! Yay!

Biggest Disappointment of the Year

Too many to vote for just one. LittleBigPlanet’s problems. Lack of save feature in splitscreen co-op in CoD:WaW. The totally broken splitscreen co-op in Resistance 2.

Best Party Game

Rock Band 2. What a fun party game.

Best Downloadable Game

Burnout: Paradise by a long shot! What an amazing game for the price.

Game of the Year

I don’t think MGS4 is that great – too much time spent watching and not enough time spent playing. LittleBigPlanet was a big disappointment too. So I’m gonna vote for Call of Duty: World at War.

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.

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

WOW Factor: Fallout 3. It blew me away when i escaped the vault.

Innovative: LittleBigPlanet. For the user created content and even the metal gear add on. Works so well and so much fun.

Multiplayer: FIFA 09. First ever football game to include 10v10 and it works so well.

Overrated/Overhyped: PES 2009. Same game every year now. Time to shake up the series.

Underrated/Under-hyped: Valkyria Chronicles. It’s got great reviews but no publicity, which has lead to undeservedly small sales.

Surprise of the Year: Home. Actually went public beta.

Disappointment of the Year: SSFIITHDR. Didn’t get released in europe. i guess you could say my disappointment has been the euro store not matching the american version. Also rans; MGO, GT5:P

Party Game: LittleBigPlanet. It’s just full of win. Everyone smiles when they see the sackboy for the first time. An endless charmer.

Downloadable Game: Wipeout HD. They could have charged full price and i still would of bought it with no complaints. The game is massive. And the fact it has online too is a dream.

Game of the Year: GTA4. The single player is good. The multi player is good. The game broke sales records for a reason. Phenomenal.

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 – GTA4
Biggest WOW Factor – Resistance 2
Most Innovative – Innovation in the games industry 2008? Well as I say I haven’t played LBP so my vote is for Burnout Paradise.
Best Multiplayer – Resistance 2, honourable mention for Everyone’s Golf.
Most Overrated/Overhyped – GTA4, it’s decent, but I can’t drive in it and can your remember the level of hype it received?
Most Underrated/Underhyped – Nothing springs to mind.
Best Surprise of the Year – I wasn’t surprised much this year.
Biggest Disappointment of the Year – WipeoutHD. Hated it.
Best Party Game – Buzz
Best Downloadable Game – Burnout Paradise
Game of the Year – Resistance 2