Theres not going to be any ordered structure here. Just a quick note on what i enjoyed.

Fifa 09.

Probably the best sports game of the year. Its incredibly fun and very playable.

Rock Band 2

More of a thick layer of paint than a fully fledged sequel. A highly enjoyable game with some of the best music about (Billy idol ftw).

Left 4 Dead.

An incredibly interesting experiment in terms of what it does with Co-Op, thankfully pulled off and what is left is a great and fun game.

GTA 4
A massive improvement over the highly over rated San Andreas, I actually cared about the story with this game and I also didnt use any Weapon cheats. It was an incredibly satisfying game that I enjoyed throughout.

 Bits and Bobs.

So yeah i played  GoW2..and I did enjoy it, the story was vastly improved but it was still pretty bad with characters that i really couldn't connect with, i still hate the multi player..

Fable 2..A hard choice to leave out it was quite a good game but I dont know, as the game on the more i just wanted to finish it, there is allot to do but non of it particularly compelling. 

Fallout 3 i played for about 1 hour and then gave up it just bored me, you could say its oblivion with guns but the comparison ends at the open world, it lacks the playablity of oblivion, the fun of oblivion, i didnt find the story particularly interesting either, i was really lookign forward to it but i was mightly dissapointed by it.

P.S Jeff Buckleys Hallelujah should have been christmas number 1!