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2010: Year in Review

Breakdown

Consoles (9 PS3, 3 360, 2 Wii)	Downloads (8 PSN, 5 WiiWare, 2 PC, 1 XBLA)	Handhelds (3 DS)
Mass Effect 2 Enslaved Super Street Fighter 4 Splinter Cell: Conviction God of War 3 Darksiders Vanquish Red Dead Redemption Assassin's Creed Brotherhood Kirby's Epic Yarn Halo: Reach Final Fantasy XIII Castlevania: LoS Super Mario Galaxy 2 BF: Bad Company 2	Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light And Yet It Moves VVVVVV Shank Scott Pilgrim vs The World Cave Story Limbo Mega Man 10 Sonic the Hedgehog 4 PB Winterbottom Sonic Adventure X-Men Arcade Jett Rocket Castle Crashers Pearl Harbor: Rising Sun DeathSpank	Final Fantasy: 4 Heroes of Light Pokemon HeartGold Professor Layton and UF

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1. Mass Effect 2

Score: 9.5/10 
 
One of best games of this gen I've played so far.
2. Enslaved: Odyssey to the West

Score: 8/10 
 
Alex Garland needs to write for more videogames. Amazing experience, even if the controls were a bit clunky at times.
3. Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light

Score: 8/10
 
The new take on the Tomb Raider series is a fucking fun as hell success in my book. I'd love to see more Lara Croft adventures like this.
4. Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light

Score: 8/10
 
It's been awhile since a JRPG actually held my interest. Fun combat, charming world, and lack of long-winded chatter will do that I guess.
5. And Yet It Moves

Score: 7.5/10
 
Quirky platform/puzzler with interesting world-rotating mechanics, momentum physics, and blending of music.
6. God of War III

Score: 7.5/10
 
Don't really know what the hell was going on, but it's never a dull moment with angry Kratos.
7. VVVVVV

Score: 7.5/10
 
Crazy ass platforming with death around every corner. Love it.
8. Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction

Score: 7.5/10
 
Got it for $20...very pleased! The latter stages sorta stagnated in terms of stealth gameplay and turned into more of an all-out 3rd person shooter.
9. Shank

Score: 7.5/10
 
If Robert Rodriguez's movies were videogames...
10. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game

Score: 7.5/10
 
Love letter to old-school beat 'em ups with homages galore. Absolute kickass soundtrack to boot.
11. Darksiders

Score: 7/10
 
Great game at the core, but does everything it can to piss you off with stupid fetch-quests, arena battles, and a never-ending portal dungeon.
12. Cave Story

Score: 7/10
 
Clearly a labor of love through and through.
13. Mega Man 10

Score: 7/10 
 
Classic Mega Man is back!
14. Super Street Fighter IV

Score: 7/10
 
My Bison still sucks. I need more practice.
15. Vanquish

Score: 7/10
 
An intense, adrenaline-pumping ride from start to finish, but damn that final boss was a bitch and a half.
16. Limbo

Score: 7/10
 
Giant Spider = best boss of the year?
17. Red Dead Redemption

Score: 6.5/10
 
Not a big fan of the GTA-sandbox kind of games, but this is one of my favorites of that genre. Great music pieces that really stamped certain moments into my mind (like entering Mexico for the first time).
18. Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode I

Score: 6.5/10
 
Not quite a return to Sonic 1-3, S&K glory, but it's getting closer. The new physics were a mess, but it's still an enjoyable experience once you get down the handling.
19. Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood

Score: 6.5/10
 
Some interesting stuff they've added here with the assassin recruits and not to mention that ingenious multiplayer mode. I just wish they focused some more time getting the controls right.
20. Pokémon HeartGold/SoulSilver

Score: 6.5/10
 
Yep, I'm still playing Pokemon games after all these years. And with what I've seen of Black/White, that trend will probably continue.
21. The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom

Score: 6/10
 
Neat clone puzzles that are reminiscent of Clank's temporal tasks in A Crack In Time. I dig the whole classic silent film vibe and it's got orgasmic music.
22. Kirby's Epic Yarn

Score: 6/10
 
I loved the level design...so friggin' cute. It was a fun diversion, but I think making it faster and more challenging would've helped me stay engaged more.
23. Halo: Reach

Score: 6/10
 
First Halo game I've played (hey, better late than never, right?). Most of the finer winks and nods are probably lost on me, but I did enjoy the ending. Poignant stuff.
24. Final Fantasy XIII

Score: 5.5/10
 
All kinds of disappointing. The battle system has promise, but I just couldn't stand the stupid characters and the boring story. Took way too long getting underway.
25. X-Men

Score: 5.5/10
 
WELCOME TO DIE!
26. Castlevania: Lords of Shadow

Score: 5.5/10
 
A bit of a turd. The camera is absurdly bad, the combat is so bland (but then again, I was spoiled by God of War 3 earlier in the year), nothing about the story or the way it's presented keeps me engaged, there's stupid glitches, the platforming is flat out terrible...ugh.
27. Sonic Adventure

Score: 5.5/10
 
I only finished Sonic's story mode. It has it's moments, but the controls and camera angles are so dreadful that I don't really want to go back for more.
28. Super Mario Galaxy 2

Score: 5.5/10
 
Controls are everything for me when it comes to platformers, and unfortunately, the shitty wiimote+nunchuck just doesn't cut it.
29. Jett Rocket

Score: 5/10
 
Decent platformer, but the camera angles can be atrocious and flat-out ruin the fun.
30. Professor Layton and the Unwound Future

Score: 5/10
 
My first venture into the Layton series. It delivers some interesting brain teasers to kill some time and an overarching story to give it purpose.
31. Pearl Harbor Trilogy - 1941: Red Sun Rising

Score: 4/10
 
It was okay for an hour or two. Not the kind of game that sticks with me.
32. Castle Crashers

Score: 4/10
 
Only played an hour or so of it, and it seems very 'meh'. I preferred Scott Pilgrim and Shank a lot more when it came to beat-'em-ups this year.
33. DeathSpank

Score: 4/10
 
Only played an hour or so, but I didn't get the laughs it promised. Plus, the combat was very blah and I can barely see what the hell was getting hit half the time.
34. Battlefield: Bad Company 2

Score: 1/10
 
The singleplayer campaign's quite possibly the worst thing I've ever played. Although I gotta admit the last level was pretty cool.