Top games to buy 2009

Bloodkult says: "Yeah, I missed it on Xbox It really is just as good as everyone says. It's about as perfectly made as you can get.

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If you click on one and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our policy. Jump to comments Feature This console transition period has been a mess, and will continue through Hitman Year 2 will include new map, roguelike mode.

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Premium only Off Topic: An end-of-the-year miracle! The 10 most popular stories of the day, delivered at 5pm UK time. Never miss a thing. Loco Roco is one of the few Sony properties left that I still go ga-ga over. How can anyone hate such a cheerful and happy game? The Legendary Starfy DS. Muramasa: The Demon Blade Wii. Made by the same people who did Odin Sphere. Great 2-D ninja fun with artistically beautiful graphics. New Super Mario Bros. Wii Wii. I did like all the classic Mario gameplay references and the return of the Koopa Kids, though.

I loved the original game on the NES. Sure the game was full of bugs and other problems, but I liked the gameplay idea of feeding different flavor jelly beans to a blob so he could change into different items for the boy to use.

The original NES game was basically another version of Pitfall 2, what with the giant cave maze and all. Which makes sense since both games were made by David Crane. I met David Crane at an E3 once, which was pretty cool.

You can find hidden treasures and secret levels, too. There are a few control issues and inaccuracies here and there, but overall WayForward did a fantastic job. And I love the hand drawn animation of all the characters.

Klonoa Wii. Hey, what can I say? It was my favorite game on the PSOne, and the Wii remake does everything right. If you want a good example of the kinds of games I like, here you go. It may be short and easy, but even hardcore gamers can appreciate the solid gameplay, bittersweet story, imaginative characters and worlds, and all the hidden secrets.

In the comments section, feel free to speak out on my picks. Do you agree with them or am I off my rocker? What were YOUR favorite games of ? If I had my own awards show on TV, would you watch it? What do you think it would be like? Next time on my blog, the award show continues with a special feature on my Best Games of the Year for every year of the past decade! So until then, see you next year! Tags: Misc. Great call Cary! GD: Yeah, there were other, possibly more deserving games this year, but I enjoyed Klonoa just as much as the others, so I wanted to give it some recognition, too.

Unless you got it somewhere else. I think it was bone-headed for them to release it so soon after Beatles though. Hmmm… favorite company is an interesting question… probably the guys who made — especially wrote and plotted Dini! Batman: Arkham Asylum. SMB Wii is a good one.

MP is great because, tah dah, it allows my son and I to play at the same time. It was a bit frustrating here and there. But give it some time and try and go back and play by yourself.

You miss mp. You have to restart levels if you fall into a pit. I miss not having to do that in mp as long as your teammate is still alive. WiiSports REsort was great, but only got play for 2 weeks here.

But we played it enough to get unlock Super Excite mode if I remember right. And the mp was a blast. Really solid with the only knock being the usual friend codes crap.

The over the top racing was insanely weird and fun. The split-screen mp mode was fun for an hour. The sp game we completed up to where the fighters repeat with different abilities.

Fun, but grew tired of it after a few days. Forgot if we rented it or bought and sold. I have WiiFit Plus and there are some fun mini-games there, but have been too lazy to check it out for more than an hour. Ok I did play or sample a few 3rd party games. HotD:OK had too many f-bombs to keep around. And really it was too much of a straightforward generic lightgun game to be fun for me.

MadWorld had a seamless gameplay original world. I liked the look and style too, but the violence? I like games that I can play with my son or with him watching which brings me back to the violence part.

Son took over after 10 minutes and I never played it again. Games is Enjoyable for every human in the idle times. Unfortunately, the graphic novel genesis is probably part of the current hold-up. But it was not always thus. Konami is notoriously uninterested in getting good ports out to PC though MSG V turned out OK , so pulling the original Metal Gear out of the archives for our benefit is probably low on their to-do list. Side-scrolling adventure games were everywhere, and LucasArts was the master them.

It has Mark Hamill voicing a scheming corporate tool! LucasArts moved on to other things before digital sales hit their stride, then the company floundered a bit and became one with the Force in Of all the games on this list, Full Throttle is the story with the happiest ending. After Full Throttle and almost all of the old LucasArts adventure games spent many years being unavailable, DoubleFine began remastering and releasing the old classics, starting with Grim Fandango and Day of the Tentacle.

Last year, they announced that Full Throttle would return sometime in The names of doomed developers pop up again and again: MicroProse, Interplay, Raven. Now that Star Trek is finally coming back to TV and the movies keeps on making money, maybe the time for new releases of Trek classics is nigh. If you get the test wrong and liquidate a human, things go very badly for you. EA bought Westwood in and then closed it down completely in —somewhere in there, the original source code and assets were lost, according to Westwood co-founder Louis Castle.

Unlike almost every other game on this list, Battlefield 2 was not created by a long-dead developer or owned by a long-bankrupt publisher. Battlefield 2, like all of the other Battlefield games, is wholly owned by EA, a little operation you might still hear from occasionally.

So what gives? Both Battlefield 2 and Battlefield ran multiplayer services on GameSpy, which sadly shut down in Fixing these classics to work outside of GameSpy may be a larger project than EA wants to tackle. The spirit of Battlefield 2 lives on in a few places, though, most notably Squad , which began as Project Reality, a mod for Battlefield 2.

Mafia was a big deal because it took all of the same parts as Grand Theft Auto—third-person perspective, explorable city, gritty violence—and offered them as part of a less campy atmosphere.