shoryuken 2009 awards
Don your waist coats gentlemen, it’s award giving time.
In May this year, our little site began life as a humble experiment to write freely about games. A few crazy folk who shared the dream joined me in this writing-about-games lark, and as the year went on we got better at it, and took a lot of viewers into our vortex of nerd-dom. We’ve built a very, very good site now. 2009 for most was a horrific year that we’ll be delighted to see the end of, but at least we can smile when we think about our little site that went big.
2009 didn’t just give birth to gaming sites, oh no, there were games to enjoy, too! And here we’ll run down all of the games in one big post. Nope, not drawing it out over a laborious week long affair. One post, folks. There will be more later in the week to discuss what the entire decade gave us, but first, let’s see who came up big in 2009!
The votes were cast by the guys who write for shoryuken, so with that in mind I polled the guys and came up with this list of the finest collection of gaming in 2009. Enjoy.
Best PS3 game
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
Honourable mention: Killzone 2
Best 360 game
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Honourable mention: Batman Arkham Asylum
Best Wii game
New Super Mario Bros. Wii
Honourable mention: Wii Sports Resort
Best PSP game
Dissidia
Honourable mention: Pixel Junk Monsters Deluxe
Best DS game
Spirit Tracks
Honourable mention: GTA Chinatown Wars
Best PC game
Left 2 Dead 2
Honourable mention: World of Warcraft, WOTLK patch 3.3
Best mobile game (iPhone, android, symbian, etc.)
Flight Control
Honourable mention: DOOM Classic
Best driving game
Wipeout HD Fury
Honourable mention: Forza 3
Best shooter
Killzone 2
Honourable mention: Call of duty: Modern Warfare 2
Best RPG
Dragon Age: Origins
Honourable mention: Borderlands
Best sports title
FIFA 2010
Honourable mention: Forza Motorsport 3
Best PSN title
Final Fantasy VII
Honourable mention: Pixel Junk Shooter
Best XBLA title
Battlefield 1943
Honourable mention: ‘Splosion Man
Best multi-platform title
Batman: Arkham Asylum
Honourable mention: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Best Multiplayer title
Killzone 2
Honourable mention: Battlefield 1943
Game of the year will be given its own post.
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been a good year for you guys. congrats on lasting!lol
good list. interested to see whos goty
Killzone fanboys
Why? Because we overlooked MW2 for best shooter, a game that's got shooter mechanics just like every other shooter, and did nothing new since COD4? And best MP over MW2 too, because MW2 was released with the same game code as COD4 but still has countless exploits, hacks and broken bits.
Or are you suggesting something better, because if you are – do so.
Actually I'm a Halo fanboy
it's a testament to how good the game is really cus most of the guys on here are much more hardcore PC xbox gamers. Luckily we ain't the only site that gave KZ some love. MW2 maybe be brilliant but it refined it's old formula KZ re defined and pushed multiplayer FPS forward.
Agree, if your comparing single player campaigns on their own you might come to a different conclusion but as a whole, KZ2 multiplayer lifts it above MW2.
Perhaps because it was an exclusive and all those 360/PC owners never actually got to play it is why they don't understand
killzone was defo the best of the year. shame ye couldnt give it to team fortress this year!
killzone was my goty anyway
Ah, good to see this
Wow, A lot of the ones i voted for got in
Let's hope this year can be as awesome (I suspect FFXIII dominating…. hopefully)
I found a lot of the voting was fairly unanimous actually, which makes life a lot easier. Win!
I assume I was the odd one out then…?