CNN writes:
"Now that video game sales have eclipsed Hollywood box office revenues and sales of music CDs, you can bet your bitmaps some extraordinarily good games were released in 2009.
In fact, therein lies the problem. With more than 1,500 games released each year -- for computers, consoles and handheld devices -- it's hard to narrow them down to a "Best of" list, let alone choose one as a holiday gift.
But how do you know which games are worth getting blisters over and which ones will quickly become drink coasters?
The following are the top picks for the best video games of the year (each of which cost $59.99 unless otherwise specified), divided by genre for your convenience."
CCG writes - "Star Wars Outlaws is fun, kept me engaged for about 90 hours, and Kay is a fun character to explore four fairly large environments with. It does a good job of faithfully representing the Star Wars galaxy far far away and stays mostly true to the lore and established characters. There are tie-ins to several of the movies and shows such as Solo and The Empire Strikes Back. If you like Star Wars and you can overlook the subtle and unnecessary woke expressions, then you'll likely enjoy the game. In my humble opinion Outlaws is over-priced at $70 for the standard game, so you may want to wait for a sale."
May is absolutely packed with new driving and racing games, from an indie police chase game to the next chapter of Codemasters’ F1 series.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 already has what it takes to follow in Stellar Blade's foosteps for its post-launch roadmap, and it arguably should.
lol cnn sucks
Why did CNN put Borderlands under shooter?
It's more like an RPG
Best to narrow down to best of each genre then to claim some game as "game of the year" which is comparing apples to oranges and kinda stupid. Though... I'm curious how exactly scribblenauts is a platformer seeing as it is a puzzle game. Which begs the question... no puzzle game award? In which case it should be Professor layton followed by scribblenauts.