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GOTY 2009: Best Xbox 360-Only Game

Giant Bomb's 2009 Xbox 360-Only Game of the Year.

Discover the best and worst games of the year with your friends from Giant Bomb.

Jan. 1 2010

Cast: Jeff, Vinny

Posted by: Drew

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Edited By skrutop

Interesting choice.  SC was also one of my favorites of 2009.

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Edited By mrfluke

im not surprised games great

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Edited By Legend

Wow! The winner is an XBLA game; that's CRAAAZY.

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Edited By dhuff

Loved it.  Even better than Bionic Commando Rearmed.  And Bionic Commando is awesome.

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Edited By binqer

I don't know whether to be disappointed in the X-Box for having an XBLA title win GOTY, or if I should be proud of Shadow Complex for being so damned awesome.  I'm leaning towards the latter....

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Edited By Dany

Hmm, that is surprising, it is an original and unlike other exclusives it was not a iterative sequel. I think that is why they chose it.

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Edited By NukeGoBoom

" I would like to see more of this sorta competetive leaderboard achievement sorta things"
Have you heard of this litle indie thing called Facebook?

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Edited By Mrnitropb

Hell I'll buy that for $1(5)

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Edited By sandwich_adjustment

f yeah

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Edited By Luke

Wow, out of left field.  This was a great game! 
 
This game was number 11 on my Top 10 of 2009 :p 

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Edited By OmnomnomPancake

Yep, that was on my best of '09. Wasn't ahead of ODST, but a good choice nonetheless!

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Edited By JJOR64

I need to get this game now.

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Edited By adziboy

Don't suppose it's coming to PC?

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Edited By RedSox8933

Whoa, I'm a little surprised. I probably would have picked Batman or Modern Warfare 2.

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Edited By JJOR64
@RedSox8933 said:
" Whoa, I'm a little surprised. I probably would have picked Batman or Modern Warfare 2. "
Those are multiplatform games.
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Edited By RisingRaiden
@RedSox8933 said:
" Whoa, I'm a little surprised. I probably would have picked Batman or Modern Warfare 2. "
This is best Xbox 360 ONLY game
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@RedSox8933 said:
" Whoa, I'm a little surprised. I probably would have picked Batman or Modern Warfare 2. "
That's why I really appreciate that they chose to call the category "Best 360-only game." I'm sick of seeing media outlets award Modern Warfare 2 best 360 game of the year. Their should be platform-specific categories that award platform-exclusive titles and a multi-platform category to award game like Batman: Arkham Asylum and Modern Warfare 2.  
 
So far, from what I've seen at least, Giant Bomb is the only outlet to get that right.
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Edited By RedSox8933
@JJOR64:@RisingRaiden:@Kajaah117: My bad, guys. Thanks for correcting me.
 
Now that I think about it, I do think that Shadow Complex is a good choice, but I probably would have chose Forza 3.
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Edited By Atilac

The mechs were ripped off from ghost in the shell...

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Edited By carlthenimrod

This is my personal GOTY of 2009. I just hope they make some kind of a sequel at some point.

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Edited By swoxx

Forza or ODST would've been mine, truthfully, i didnt even finish this game

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Edited By wrecks

Perfect. The game defines everything that is great about this new age of downloadable games.

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Edited By Death_Burnout

This made me really wanna play shadow complex again.

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Edited By Addfwyn

I want a 360 just to play this game, but it's not exactly worth buying an entire console for.  Need to kidnap my brother's 360 next time he visits :P

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Edited By Besetment

Jeff is level 50 and doesn't have the fusion helmet? That's insane.
 
Oh wait, I think you have to go collect it even if you beat the game with it?

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Edited By Nemesis

Shadow Complex was better than most of the games released this year, and it was a downoadable game! Epic pretty much embarrassed 90% of the games that came out this year with Shadow Complex. Much deserved.

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Edited By Sharpshooter

Shadow  Complex? Well isn't that interesting. I never would have thought that an arcade game would have been the choice.  But it is a really good game.
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Edited By unsolvedparadox

I'd argue that it was Forza Motorsport 3, but Shadow Complex is pretty awesome. I'm gonna go back, almost at level 40...

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Edited By squidracerx

i hope they bring this to Steam! But it seems like the 360 is hoarding its exclusives from us PC gamers lately :(

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Edited By MeatSim

Yea weird having a downloadable game as best 360 game but their weren't any other big exclusives this year or any games that matched the quality of Shadow Complex.

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Edited By MjHealy

Man I love this game. Great choice lads.

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Edited By Senate4242

Great game. This or Forza 3 would have been my pick.

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Edited By Plipster

Really? Shadow Complex? Really?

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Edited By AV_Gamer

I love Super Metroid and this game reminds me of Super Metroid.  I hope they bring it to Steam.

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Edited By nStruct

I could not possibly agree more with this choice.

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Edited By crashtanuki

This game was a bit too buggy for me to really consider over something like Splosion Man.

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Edited By Media_Master

So nice!!

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Edited By Reff888

Got this for 560 points 
Its amazing! 
The shooting is a little hit and miss but besides from that its brilliant!
Get before this week is up!!!!