Games of the Yearies!
By RelentlessKnight 2 Comments
It's nothing flashy like other blogs but I decided to just do lists of the categories of Best Of/Worst games in this year.
Same Engine/gameplay/style, different game
For the 2010 awards
 | 1. Fallout: New Vegas Same engine from Fallout 3 but even more bugs to shake your ''severed'' head at. Though the gameplay has not changed to be fun and enjoyable. |
 | 2. Dead Rising 2 Feels the same as the first Dead Rising, now with a workbench, better AI and the like. Also it still fun as heck to use customize weapons like paddlesaw or emp amplifier gun at zamibes. |
 | 3. Fable III I really love Fable II but thinking that this is better than that is just disappointing what it came out of Lionhead. Seriously....bad storyline and less fun than its original. |
 | 4. Medal of Honor After much of the controversy, the game is just like Modern Warfare or Battlefield Bad Company smashed together and it offers yet an all flash but no substance vibe to it. |
 | 5. Crackdown 2 I would say that both games are broken and bad to me but this is even worse than the first one seeing that there's even more bugs in it. |
This category is Same Engine/or similar to another one, Different gameplay which may or may not be different. This list is design for games that plays the same and like the previous one, Fallout NV for example may be much worse in terms of the technical side of things than the previous game. You may think this list should be called Worst Sequels or ''Last installment of this game was better'' but like I'm using the Fallout NV example similar engine (Havoc) and improvements are not much improve but worser though unlike the previous one improve aspects of the gameplay like the original Fallout. Also examples like Medal of Honor is just derivative in terms of multiplayer and singleplayer in such cases as 'middle-eastern' style conflict and trying to be somewhat similar to another game. But anyways, Fallout NV takes the lead because of being more fun to play than the rest of them below. This may not be better but its way more fun than the others I listed.
Best Soundtrack 2010
Every year, a game has an astounding soundtrack that is either epic or memorable - this year is no exception.
 | 1. StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty The jukebox in the game shows how Chris Metzen could sing "Sweet Home Alabama'' and "Freebird" and like J.E Sawyer performing at the Tops Casino in New Vegas, I just love it. Though Unfortunately Blizzard didn't release the jukebox soundtrack probably due to copyright violations or something but listening to it is probably the reason why I hardly played the main campaign or play it more. |
 | 2. Mass Effect 2 When I say epic, Jack Wall who composed Mass Effect 2 delivers so much. I got to say this but not only that this is the best game of this year but the soundtrack is just like a blockbuster movie and the cutscenes and moments in that game alongside with the soundtrack feels like a living breathing world with a immerse experience. |
 | 3. Red Dead Redemption Even though I didn't really hear "Far Away" in the game (when you are going to Mecheco), the second song was quite a great moment for me riding back to the Marston's ranch. |
 | 4. World of Warcraft: Cataclysm The new soundtrack is even more impressive than Wrath of the Lich King, it's just amazing and epic! |
| | 5. Fallout: New Vegas Sorry but Fallout 3 selection of music was better and addicting and the fact that there's only a few songs that have the Mojave/New Vegas feeling to it but there should be more. But the songs that aren't in the radio stations of NV is quite excellent actually, when you finish ''Talent Pool'', and go to the Aces Theater in the Tops, you get a spectacle of performances written and performed by J.E Sawyer one of the developers of this game. ANd I have to say, its awaesome! |
 | 6. Deadly Premonition Life is Beautiful and seriously I cannot get that song out of my head! |
 | 7. Rock Band 3 Bohemian Rhapsody.... |
 | 8. Halo: Reach |
There is always a Best Soundtrack in every Game of the Year lists - I'm really fond of this year's selection of soundtracks in games, from the blasting music of epicness when the Normandy goes into a Suicide Mission to the lone Jack Marston riding his horse in the barrens of Mexico, it's always a different and overpowering experience of changing the music/score into something worth enjoying. Though there are songs that I cannot take my mind off, like ''Life is Beautiful'' from Deadly Premonition and it takes months to finally not remember it. Anyways the Best Soundtrack of 2010 is Starcraft 2, why because of the jukebox in the game - it's comprised of rehash popular songs like ''Freebird'', ''Suspicious Minds'' and such and such but these fictitious bands that play these songs are quite impressive. There are also other songs that are original like ''Zerg, Shotgun and You'' and ''Terran Up the NIght'' by LV80 Elite Tauren which I liked as well. Aside from that the soundtrack for the main game isn't that great as Mass Effect 2 or Red Dead but gosh dam.. the jukebox in that game is the reason why I never bothered multiplayer.
This is yet the first part of the GOTY awards.. now I will find something to make this blog even flasher