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Sunday Comics: Dead Island Sports titles just aren’t supposed to be game-of-the-year contenders. Their annualized nature sends the message that this year’s game, no matter how great, won’t be worth owning in 365 days. If anything could rise above that, it is NBA 2K11.
While the jury may still be out on our Game of the Year, we’ve already rolled the dice on the Best Role-Playing Games of 2009.
Taking nearly half of the more than 16,000 votes in our Game of the Year poll, this PlayStation 3 exclusive garners Kotaku’s 2009 Reader’s Choice Award for Game of the Year.
We’ve had our say, announcing which three games we think should be named game of the year for 2009. Now it’s your turn.
Not all video games last year were released on tangible discs. There were also games released via digital means, and some of those games were without a doubt among the strongest titles to hit in 2009.
There aren’t many ways that the multimillion-selling Assassin’s Creed II can be seen as an underdog, but in a discussion of 2009′s Game of the Year, it’s the dark horse.
The brilliantly immersive Demon’s Souls, unfortunately known better for its brutal difficulty than its rebellious game design, is my choice for the title most deserving of the accolade “Game of the Year”.
You might be wondering what happened to our annual Game of the Year awards.
