MSNBC video game section has been polling gamers about their favorite games in a number of categories, trying to narrow down the search for the Game of the Year.
On Thursday the site put up the poll to decide which of the finalists, culled from the best of each genre, should be named the game of the year.
The finalists are:
• Madden NFL 08
• Project Gotham Racing 4
• Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree
• LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga
• Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock
• The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
• Mass Effect
• Bioshock
• Call of Duty 4
At the time of this writing Call of Duty 4 was leading with 31 percent of the vote. BioShock was close behind with 22 percent and Mass Effect was in a distant third with 8.6 percent.
[ Words: Kotaku's Brian Crecente ]
MW 2019 is five years old at this point and on previous gen hardware, but it is still the best looking Call of Duty game to date.
MW was an excellent videogame. They messed up Spec Ops big time, but aside from this it was a huge step in the right direction initially. Most notably, at launch it seemed to come from a very cohesive creative vision that was felt across gameplay, to story to art style/visual direction. It was also very notably written by prominent ex-Naughty Dog guys that quit almost immediately before release.
That COMPLETELY dissolved through post-launch content and the full pivot to a "cross-mode" narrative that completely obliterated the cohesion in overall story direction. Warzone then "became" the new face of Call of Duty and the franchise completely removed itself from anything remotely creatively "good". It is a pure money machine, so I kinda get why they're doing it....but I personally completely lost interest.
I would love to see Infinity Ward move off CoD and get to make their own product with full control. They clearly have some massive talent in their ranks but it's perverted by Activision's corporate interests.
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Let me guess how long it will be before PS3 fanboys start accusing MSNBC of being Xbots since there aren't any PS3 exclusive titles in this list...
XBOT
How on earth did Big Brain acadamy and Madden NFL 08 get on that list when the likes of Ratchet and Clank, Uncharted, Metriod prime and the orange box didn't
WTF are Brain Academy, PGR4 and Lego Star Wars doing there?
At least 2 of 2007's best games have highest number votes so far (COD4 and BioShock). Wish ME had more and also, AC was there.
Nice to see Halo off the list.