GOTY 2010: Game Of The Year Nominees
- While we do have the console specific awards, this is the big daddy of all the awards, the Game of the Yeard Award. There have been hundreds of games released this year, b...
| 9 | The problem with most game series is that over time something goes wrong. Characters could become old or overused, and the mechanics too repetitive and boring. Naturally FPS games have a little more room to change since fans are more open to shifts in game design, but the fact still remains that sooner or later the series will mess up. Even Halo (as a series) has not been immune to this, as ODST was considered to be questionable on a lot of levels. It was my one fear that Halo: Reach would be a failure on some level. That the multiplayer would rapidly stagnate over time, Firefight and Forge World would be a bust. Furthering that or even that the co-op would fail to be fun. It just seemed like there was almost too much happening in a single game that somewhere along the line, something had to go wrong. I went into Reach filled with caution and scepticism, and left it impressed and wholly satisfied. Here's why. » Read the full review |
- While we do have the console specific awards, this is the big daddy of all the awards, the Game of the Yeard Award. There have been hundreds of games released this year, b...
- Microsoft's Xbox 360 is best known for Xbox Live and its huge online community, and of course, Halo. Even so, there have been some interesting - surprising, even - release...
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- Halo Reach is only a few days away, and we all know that multiplayer is going to be where the real excitement is. Much like everyone fought over earning the hayabusa armo...
- The original Halo game changed the face of console FPS. This is a fact, impossible to deny or ignore. When Halo first began sweeping through college dorms and group LAN ...
- When I look back at my time spent with Halo 3, I immediately remember all of the competitive multiplayer matches with friends. Looking ahead to Halo Reach, I find myself e...
- Most huge game releases have gone hand-in-hand with some extremely expensive marketing pushes. Web advertisements, mass emails, promotional goodies flying everywhere, and...
- 2010 has already been a fantastic year for gamers, with an abundance of quality releases throughout the first half of this year. However, the fall holiday season is typic...
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- Microsoft's pre-E3 press conference has come and passed, and with it plenty of details with it on a relatively small amount of Xbox 360 exclusive games, and quite a few Xb...
- So, Microsoft's E3 press conference just finished up and they gave us the details on eleven exclusive titles that will be coming out on the Xbox 360. Only four of them are...
- Epic battles, dynamic choice-based events, in-depth character customization, and amazing cut-scenes. What I just described may sound like this years next generic AAA singl...
- Halo is easily one of the most identifiable First Person Shooter games out there, and despite criticism over its easy difficulty and simple mechanics, one of the most play...