Dec. 26, 2007 - John Gaudiosi is a national journalist who has been covering the video game business for more than a decade. In addition to blogging for WRAL.com, he also writes about gaming for Wired Magazine, The Washington Post, Xbox.com and Yahoo! Games. Here are his picks for the best games of 2007:
• Mass Effect
• Halo 3
• BioShock
• Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction
• Unreal Tournament 3
• Rock Band
• The Orange Box
• Call of Duty 4: Modern Combat
• Super Mario Galaxy
• Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
Notes: In addition to his credentials already listed above, John Gaudiosi is a senior editor for Variety's Video Business and regularly writes about videogames for Electronic Gaming Monthly, GameDaily, GamePro Magazine, Kotaku, MCV, Prima Games, Business 2.0 Magazine, CBS, Chicago Sun-Times, ESPN, Home Media Magazine, NBC, Reuters, and The Hollywood Reporter. He also works on video game programming for networks like The History Channel, The Discovery Channel, Starz Entertainment and VH1.
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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My top 3 are Mario 3, Mario World and Mario 64. Mario Odyssey is also excellent, and I enjoyed Sunshine but didn't care for the Galaxy series.
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I could play Warhawk for hours...wait a minute I do. It was 1 of my favorite of 07.
who cares about this list.
Something tells me John Gaudiosi needs to start covering a different media if Uncharted isn't on his list, and although there appears to be no order to his list, I don't see how he can list COD4 and Mario Galaxy so far down.
My list would start off with (in no particular order) COD4 (best multiplayer / multiplatform title), Uncharted (best PS3 title), Bioshock (best 360 title), Mario Galaxy (best Wii title), then every other game as determined by the individual.
warhawk sucks, lair suck, ps3 sucks... cant wait for the wii games next year