SWF's Game of the Year Awards

[Cashed]

Best Action Game: Tie:

Super Mario Galaxy and God of War II

Best Fighting Game:

Virtua Fighter 5 Online

Best FPS Game:

Halo 3

Runner Up:

Call of Duty 4

Best Music Game:

Rock Band

Runner Up:

Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock

Best Puzzle Game:

Portal
Runner Up: Picross DS

Best Racing Game: Tie:

DiRT and Forza Motorsport 2

Best RPG:

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Mass Effect

Runner Up:

Pokémon Pearl/Diamond

Best Sports Game:

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Madden 2008

Runner Up:

Mario Strikers Charged

Best Graphics: Tie:

Mass Effect and Crysis

Best OST:

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Super Mario Galaxy

Runner Up:

Mass Effect

Best Story:

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Mass Effect

Runner Up:

Bioshock

Best Local Multiplayer:

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Rock Band

Runner Up:

Halo 3

Best Online Multiplayer:

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Halo 3

Runner Up:

Call of Duty 4

Best Downloadable Content:

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Rock Band

Runner Up: Warhawk

Most Innovative:

Portal

Runner Up:

The Legend of Zelda: The Phantom Hourglass

Best Developer: Nintendo
Runner Up: Bungie

Wii GOTY:

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Super Mario Galaxy

Runner Up:

Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

Xbox 360 GOTY: Tie:

Halo 3 and Mass Effect

PS3 GOTY: Tie:

Heavenly Sword and Uncharted: Drake's Fortune

DS GOTY:

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The Legend of Zelda: The Phantom Hourglass

Runner Up:

Pokémon Pearl/Diamond

PSP GOTY:
Tie: Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords, Metal Slug Anthology, Syphon Filter: Logan's Shadow

The GOTY: Tie:

Mass Effect, Super Mario Galaxy, Halo 3

 

[Mr.GAW]

Mass Effect is really that good, eh?

I was probably going to get Oblivion first, but now I dunno. Anyways, I'm glad to see all of you appreciate Rock Band as much as I do.

 

[Sensai]

Need moar Portal!

[Edit:]

And how in the hell did Crysis NOT get best graphics?

 

[Gerudo Warrior]

portal. i'm loving it

EDIT - you forgot something

best RTS

supreme commander

 

[Cashed]

Mass Effect is really that good, eh?

I was probably going to get Oblivion first, but now I dunno. Anyways, I'm glad to see all of you appreciate Rock Band as much as I do.

Mass Effect is just an all around better game than Oblivion. Sure, Oblivion took me about 100 hours to beat because I got so caught up in the side quests and just running around the world, but Mass Effect was definitely the best game of 2007 for me.

Sensai, have you not seen Mass Effect in action?

 

[Pey]

those games are ok.

 

[Pit 42]

Mass Effect is game of the year? Sick...

 

[#HBC | marshy]

Mass Effect is really that good, eh?

I was probably going to get Oblivion first, but now I dunno. Anyways, I'm glad to see all of you appreciate Rock Band as much as I do.

They're both awesome on the first playthrough, but Oblivion's difficulty can be abused too easily. I'll admit I did play Oblivion WAY too much when it first came out. If you can, get Oblivion for the PC, my friend showed me a ****load of cool stuff you can do in that game that you can't do on the 360 for obvious reasons. If you were to pick between those two rpgs, all I can tell you is to flip a coin and get the other one later, both are some of the best games on the 360(ever, imo).

I'm starting to wonder if I'm the only person who votes on nearly every category, I doubted that VO5, Forza 2, and Metal Slug Anthology would actually win when I cast my votes for them. I think this happened last year too.

I'm glad Mass Effect and Super Mario Galaxy got the most votes on OTS, both are really great.

It's crazy to think that all of these games came out in the same year.

 

[Sensai]

@ Cashed: No, I haven't seen Mass Effect in action...but I know that the hook to it was the story, not the graphics, whereas for Crysis it was the graphics, and not the gameplay/story, that was the draw.

 

[Mr.GAW]

I dunno, there was a lot of hype about Mass Effect graphics as well.

 

[AltF4]

Lol @ not-so-astonishingly low amount of PS3 games on the list. No Lair for GotY? lulz

I'd agree with just about everything on there. Good list.

Mass Effect really is that good. I think IGN's review was spot on. There's a couple of small issues that irk you from time to time that could easily have been polished, but overall the game does so much so well.

 

[bballstar23]

Wow, Mass Effect did better than I thought it would

Around this time next year Brawl is going to dominate virtually every category.

 

[Drclaw411]

pretty much how i thought it would be, expcept for i thought Syphon Filter would have taken the PSP GOTY without a tie

 

[nobletoast]

Pleasing results.

I think Halo has the best multiplayer but its nowhere near as good as Call Of Duty 4 in any way for the main game.

And Bioshock got shafted, easily the best first person shooter.

Hooray for Mario Galaxy and Mass Effect.

 

[The Star King]

Metroid Prime 3 is way better than mario galaxy.....

 

[Near]

I find it pretty amusing that Galaxy ties with God of War 2 for best action game, yet God of War 2 didn't tie for GOTY while Galaxy did.

I mean, by saying they were both the best action games of 07, you're saying they're equal.
If so, why isn't God of War 2 GOTY like Galaxy is?

 

[Evil Eye]

SMG is an adventure game as much as an action game and much more innovative.

Hey wtf, Syphon Filter fans on this forum? Argh if I voted SF would get its proper props!