GameSpy Game of the Year 2007 - Complete List

Here are the Games of the Year for individual platforms, as selected by GameSpy's editorial staff:

• PC - Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
• PSP - Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions
• DS - The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
• GBA - Final Fantasy VI Advance
• Xbox 360 - Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
• PS3 - Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
• Wii - Super Mario Galaxy
• PS2 - God of War II
• Multiplayer - Team Fortress 2

For each platform, GameSpy also selected as applicable: Top 10 Games of the Year, Action Game of the Year, Adventure of the Year, Expansion of the Year, Fighting Game of the Year, MMO Game of the Year, Multiplayer Game of the Year, Music Game of the Year, Platformer Game of the Year, Puzzle Game of the Year, Racing of the Year, RPG Game of the Year, Sports Game of the Year, Strategy Game of the Year, and Turn-Based Strategy Game of the Year.

GameSpy also selected the winners for their Special Awards. Noteworthy categories:

• Best XBLA Game - Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords
• Best PSN Game - Everyday Shooter
• Best Wii Virtual Console Game - Sin & Punishment
• Best Puzzle Game - Portal
• Best Sports Game - skate
• Best Soundtrack / Score - Mass Effect
• Best Voice Acting - Mass Effect
• Most Unique Art Style - Team Fortress 2
• Best Art Direction - BioShock
• Best Sound - BioShock
• Best Graphics - Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
• Best Character - GLaDOS (Portal)
• Best Developer - Infinity Ward (Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare)
• Best Story - BioShock
• Biggest Disappointment - Vanguard: Saga of Heroes
• Surprise of the Year - The Witcher

Additional Special Awards categories and winners are: Rookie Developer Game of the Year (Realtime Worlds, Crackdown), OverUnderAchiever Award (Avatar: The Burning Earth), Robocop of the Year (Crackdown), Game that Makes GameSpy's Editorial Staff Want to Treat Their Guitar Like The Who (Rock Band), Worst Thing Ever Done to a Videogame Girlfriend (The Darkness), Best Use of a License (The Lord of the Rings Online), Worst Use of a License (Shadowrun), Best Sidekick (The Weighted Companion Cube, Portal), Best Innovation on the Wii (Metroid Prime 3: Corruption), Best Trend of 2007 (Community Integration), Worst Trend of 2007 (Lousy Hardware), and The 6th Annual When It's Done Award (Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning).

Gamers' Choice - Games of the Year for individual platforms, as selected by readers:

• PS2 - God of War II
• PS3 - Uncharted: Drake's Fortune
• Xbox 360 - Mass Effect
• Wii - Super Mario Galaxy
• DS - The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
• PSP - Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of The Lions
• PC - Half-Life 2: The Orange Box

Additional Gamers' Choice categories and winners are: PC Action (Half-Life 2: The Orange Box), PC Roleplaying (World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade), PC Sports & Racing (DiRT), PC Strategy (World in Conflict), and PC Multiplayer (Team Fortress 2).

The Overall Top 10 Games of the Year - selected by GameSpy:

1. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Overall GOTY, Console GOTY)
2. The Orange Box
3. BioShock
4. Super Mario Galaxy
5. Rock Band
6. Galactic Civilization II: Dark Avatar
7. World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade
8. Mass Effect
9. Uncharted: Drake's Fortune
10. The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (Handheld GOTY)

Finally, GameSpy selected their Console Top 10 Games of the Year and Handheld Top 5 Games of the Year. The complete results are available at GameSpy.

[QuackPot]

Disappointed Gamespy didn't give UDF the Best Graphics award. I mean, are they blind or something.

So when the GT review said UDF was easily the best looking game on a console, they were lying.

Obvious GOTY would go to CoD4 or....SMG

[CeruleanSky]

After all the sad little fanboys at gaming sites resigned themselves to the fact that Halo 3 was going to turn out to be a last gen looking graphical turd CoD4 was seized upon as a substitute.

Acknowledging that the PS3 first party games absolutely destroy anything on the gimped 360 graphics hardware would be essentially throwing in their fanboy towels.

[InMyOpinion]

By UDF you mean Crysis, right?

[TheIneffableBob]

It took me a while to figure out that UDF means Uncharted: Drake's Fortune.

[Nevers]

come on GameSpy... no luv for Cane and Lynch now :D

[Cop_Boy]

uncharted has the best best graphics , believe it or not its a fukin fact

[Funky Town_TX]

that is why so many people purchased it. COD4 has more backgrounds so I would give it to COD4.

[MK_Red]

At least they got the best developer right (IW) but overall disappointing, BioShock should have won more.

[CeruleanSky]

"Best Graphics - Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare "

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What a bunch of pathetic losers.

[Shankle]

Basically, COD4 rules and you should get it now.

[etownone]

wait a minute!?! what about game of the decade fueled by dew award??

and although I agree COD4 beats most games as far as graphics, crysis beats it without a doubt.

[funkysolo]

But Uncharted has the best graphics on any console. You have to be a blinded fool to not think so. COD4 is the easily the best game of the year. I can't stop playing it reminds me of the first time I got gears of war and couldn't stop playing it....Overall we all win since COD4 is multiplatform

[Jack Bauer]

First thing i noticed about CoD4 was that the graphics were not that great, idk how they think it has the best graphics... imo thats a battle of epic proportions between ratchet and clank, uncharted, and bioshock.

and their GotY awards are retarded/flawed... thats the most boring platform goty i have ever seen...CoD4 on PS3, 360, and PC... when you're calling it GotY on 3 platforms, at that point its time to think... HMMMMM? maybe we make a multiplatform game goty award? and allow, only the 360s or PS3s exclusives be eligable...unless it shines on one platform, which obviously it doesnt.

[antoinetm]

i give them my best list of the year award!