My bad.

For me, Just Cause 2, just 'cause I put more hours into that than any other game this year - over 50. A very lean, balls-to-the-wall, enjoyable 50 hours that didn't waste my time with having to scan planets or forcing me to ride a slow-ass horse everywhere.

GOTY: Mass Effect 2

Best Music Game: Rock Band 3

Best DLC Game: Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

Best Racing Game: Gran Turismo 5

Biggest Disappointment: Gran Turismo 5 (I like the game, but it feels unfinished and still needs a lot of tweaking - even after a 5 year development cycle).

BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT OF THE YEAR:
Medal of Honor

BEST PLATFORMER: (I played this year)
Ratchet and Clank Future: A Crack In Time

BEST MUSIC/RHYTHM GAME:
DJ Hero 2

BEST RACING GAME:
Modnation Racers

BEST SPORTS GAME:
NCAA Football 11

BEST SHOOTER:
Call of Duty Black Ops

BEST ACTION ADVENTURE:
Assassin's Creed Brotherhood

BEST DLC:
Red Dead Redemption - Undead Nightmare

BEST MULTIPLAYER:
Assassin's Creed Brotherhood

BEST GRAPHICS:
God of War 3

BEST GAMEPLAY:
God of War 3

BEST CONSOLEINNOVATION:
Kinect

BEST PC INNOVATION:
Minecraft

DEVELOPER OF THE YEAR:
Rockstar San Diego

GAME OF THE YEAR:
Red Dead Redemption
Runner Up: God of War 3, Bioshock 2

the best games I have played in 2010
Mass Effect 2
RDR
Fallout New Vegas
Defense Grid

No worries. I wasn't terribly excited about anything this year anyway...much weaker than last year IMO.

Best games I played in 2010:

Red Dead Redemption
Mass Effect 2
Call of Duty: Black Ops
NBA 2K11
DJ Hero 2

Biggest Disappointments: Fable III & Medal of Honor

1. Red Dead Redemption - GOTY, hands down
2. Alan Wake
3. BioShock 2
4. Darksiders
5. Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
6. Dead Rising 2
7. Just Cause 2
8. Lego Harry Potter
9. Halo: Reach
10. Splinter Cell: Conviction

Biggest disappointment that continues to astound me in how many people like it: Heavy Rain

Games that I bought that might have made the top ten, except I haven't gotten around to playing them yet: Mass Effect 2, Super Mario Galaxy 2, Donkey Kong Country Returns, Fallout: New Vegas

360: Halo Reach
Runner Up: Bioshock 2

PS3: God of War 3
Runner Up: GT5

Wii: Super Mario Galaxy 2
Runner Up: Donkey Kong

GOTY - Heavy Rain

The stuff that happened while I was riding that slow-ass horse was more interesting than any part of Just Cause 2.

Who has two thumbs and was the star of the most disappointing game of the year?

I'm sorry that you find tedium interesting.

GOTY: Mario Galaxy. Best downloadable game: Super Meat Boy. Most disappointing: Fable 3.

Here are the console games I bought this year that I truly enjoyed:

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
Mass Effect 2
Red Dead Redemption
Rock Band 3

In terms of which game delivered the most overall satisfaction, I gotta go with Red Dead Redemption, by far. RB3 is a great game and a quantum step ahead, but it's not perfect (wonky at moments, "All Instrument Mode", DLC). ACB is worth the price of admission as continuation of AC2 but with enough new features and gameplay to keep it fresh and exciting, but the game gets rushed and sloppy towards the end, and the ending is not as interesting or satisfying as the end of AC2. ME2 is a fantastic sequel that improves upon the original considerably (although the storyline isn't quite as compelling), and is probably runner-up.

But RDR provided that great mix of gameplay, environment, DLC, multiplayer, and perhaps most importantly storytelling. I really cared about the characters enough to not even bother skipping the cut scenes (quality voice-acting from the cast throughout). Aside from all of that, the damn game was so much FUN. The game represents the whole package of what I'm looking for when I fire up the console. Besides the love that dare not speak its name.

Game of the Year
MLB 10: The Show

Runner Up
NBA 2K11


I have no bias towards sports games, but these two games were just so rediculously well done (although not perfect), that they hold the top spots for me this year.

Those were the only two sports games I didn't play this year. Couldn't pick a Best Sports Game between NCAA, Madden and Tiger Woods though... they were all so ho-hum.

NBA 2K11 would be one of my runner ups as well. Great game.

My personal favorite this year was:

Donkey Kong Country Returns

Changing my vote to Battlefield: Bad Company 2. For some reason I was thinking it came out in 2009, but apparently it was released in March.

The multiplayer in that game is jawdroppingly good.

OVERALL GAME OF THE YEAR:
* Fallout: New Vegas (Xbox 360)

MUSIC/RHYTHM GAME OF THE YEAR:
* DJ Hero 2 (Xbox 360)

DOWNLOADABLE GAME OF THE YEAR (XBLA, PSN, etc.):
* Scott Pilgrim (XBLA)
-- Runner Up: Super Meat Boy (XBLA)

MOBILE GAME OF THE YEAR:
* Word Feud (Android)
-- Runner up. Angry Birds Seasons (Android)

BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT OF THE YEAR:
* Game Room (XBLA)

GOTY 2010 - Super Mario Galaxy 2

Runner Up - Donkey Kong Country Returns

Best Shooter - Sin & Punishment: Star Successor

Best Fighter - Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars

Best Graphics - Kirby's Epic Yarn

Best RPG - Golden Sun: Dark Dawn

Best Downloadable Game - Fluidity

Best Puzzle Game - Picross 3D

Biggest Disappointment - Metroid: Other M