Giant Bomb Game of the Year 2010

Game of the Year

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1. Mass Effect 2
2. Assassin's Creed Brotherhood
3. Red Dead Redemption
4. StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty
5. Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit

Best Multiplatform Game

• Mass Effect 2
• Article

Runners-Up

• Assassin's Creed Brotherhood
• Red Dead Redemption
• StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty
• Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit

Best PlayStation 3 Game

• God of War III
• Article

Runners-Up

• Heavy Rain
• Sports Champions

Best Xbox 360 Game

• Halo: Reach
• Article

Runners-Up

• Limbo
• Dance Central

Best Wii Game

• Super Mario Galaxy 2
• Article

Runners-Up

• Kirby's Epic Yarn
• GoldenEye 007

Best PC Game

• StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty
• Article

Runners-Up

• Sid Meier's Civilization V
• VVVVVV

Best DS Game

• Picross 3D
• Article

Runners-Up

• Super Scribblenauts
• WarioWare: DIY

Best Download Only Game

• Pac-Man: Championship Edition DX
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Runners-Up

• Super Meat Boy
• VVVVVV

Worst Game of the Year

• PowerGig: Rise of the SixString
• Article

Runners-Up

• Motion Sports
• Tony Hawk SHRED

Best Motion-Controlled Game

• Dance Central
• Article

Runners-Up

• Sports Champions
• Wii Party

Best Game Room Release

• Food Fight
• Article

Runners-Up

• Jackal
• Pitfall II: Lost Caverns

The "Take a Break" Award

• Final Fantasy
• Article

Runners-Up

• Guitar Hero
• WWE SmackDown!

Best Ending

• Red Dead Redemption
• Article

Runners-Up

• Bayonetta
• StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty

Best Competitive Multiplayer

• StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty
• Article

Runners-Up

• Call of Duty: Black Ops
• Halo: Reach

The Northies

• Mafia II
• Article

Runners-Up

• Assassin's Creed Brotherhood
• Army of Two: 40th Day
• Tron: Evolution
• Call of Duty: Black Ops
• Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions
• Singularity
• Alpha Protocol
• Final Fantasy XIII
• Dark Void
• Transformers: War for Cybertron
• Trauma Team

Best Story

• Red Dead Redemption
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Runners-Up

• Mass Effect 2
• Alan Wake

Worst Trend

• Retailer Specific Pre-Order Bonuses
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Runners-Up

• Social Network Support
• Eco Boxes
• Color Separation
• Motion Controls
• Vignetting

Dave's Eastern Bloc Game of the Year

• S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
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Runners-Up

• Metro 2033
• Machinarium

Character We'd Most Like to Party With

• The Illusive Man (Mass Effect 2)
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Runners-Up

• Frank Woods (Call of Duty: Black Ops)
• John Vignocchi

Worst Accent

• Heavy Rain
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Runners-Up

• Call of Duty: Black Ops II
• Dead Rising 2

Most Egregious Use of Product Placement / In-Game Advertising

• Shaun White Skateboarding
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Runners-Up

• Alan Wake
• Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit

Most Improved Franchise

• Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit
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Runners-Up

• Red Steel 2
• Just Cause 2

Most Ridiculous Use of FMV

• Comic Jumper
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Runners-Up

• The Fight: Lights Out
• Alan Wake

Best-Looking Game

• Kirby's Epic Yarn
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Runners-Up

• Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit
• Limbo

Best Co-Op

• Halo: Reach
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Runners-Up

• Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
• Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction

Best Downloadable Add-On

• Minerva's Den (BioShock 2)
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Runners-Up

• Undead Nightmare (Red Dead Redemption)
• Lair of the Shadow Broker (Mass Effect 2)

Best Debut

• Bayonetta
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Runners-Up

• Super Meat Boy
• Limbo

Best Original Song

• "Entrance Theme" (Pac-Man CE DX)
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Runners-Up

• "Betus Blues" (Super Meat Boy)
• "Life Is Beautiful" (Deadly Premonition)

Best New Character

• Bayonetta & Mordin Solus (tie)
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Runner-Up

• Francis York Morgan

2010's 2009 Game of the Year

• Borderlands
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Runners-Up

• Forza Motorsport 3
• Dragon Age: Origins

Jeff Gerstmann

1. Mass Effect 2
2. Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
3. Rock Band 3
4. Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit
5. Call of Duty: Black Ops
6. Bayonetta
7. DJ Hero 2
8. Darksiders
9. Pac-Man Championship Edition DX
10. StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty

Ryan Davis

1. Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
2. Mass Effect 2
3. Red Dead Redemption
4. Pac-Man Championship Edition DX
5. Sid Meier's Civilization V
6. Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit
7. Rock Band 3
8. Limbo
9. Super Mario Galaxy 2
10. DJ Hero 2

Vinny Caravella

1. Mass Effect 2
2. Red Dead Redemption
3. Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
4. Sid Meier's Civilization V
5. Bayonetta
6. Call of Duty: Black Ops
7. Darksiders
8. StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty
9. Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse
10. The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom

Brad Shoemaker

1. Red Dead Redemption
2. StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty
3. Limbo
4. Mass Effect 2
5. Super Meat Boy
6. Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit
7. Enslaved: Odyssey to the West
8. Alan Wake
9. Heavy Rain
10. Dead Rising 2

Drew Scanlon

1. Limbo
2. Mass Effect 2
3. Heavy Rain
4. Halo: Reach
5. StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty
6. Pac-Man Championship Edition DX
7. Blur
8. Super Meat Boy
9. Minecraft
10. Alan Wake

Alex Navarro

1. Limbo
2. Rock Band 3
3. Sid Meier's Civilization V
4. Kirby's Epic Yarn
5. Super Meat Boy
6. Super Mario Galaxy 2
7. Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit
8. God of War III
9. RISK: Factions
10. Costume Quest

GAME (# OF LISTS, TOTAL POINTS)

1. Mass Effect 2 (3841, 33897)
2. Red Dead Redemption (3258, 25619)
3. Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (2061, 14075)
4. StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty (1689, 11385)
5. Super Meat Boy (1628, 9511)
6. Halo: Reach (1675, 9419)
7. Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (1334, 8184)
8. Heavy Rain (1434, 7861)
9. Fallout: New Vegas (1329, 7719)
10. Sid Meier's Civilization V (1249, 6884)