Welcome everyone to our final day of our award show, The 30's! All week we've been posting up weird categories and the games that won them. Today is the last day, and we only have one thing to talk about: The Game of the Year. To be eligible, as always, your game must have been released in 2010.
Game of the Year
Mass Effect 2 was originally going to be the Best Game on 360 that we actually played, but then we thought about it a little bit, and remembered that it was also appearing on the Playstation 3. That would make it a great candidate for Best Multi-Platform Game that we actually played (despite it not being out yet), and also appeared on PC. Then we thought about it some more. Mass Effect 2 was definitely the best game we played all year. So, bringing all of this together, it seemed a natural choice that it was our pick of Game of the Year.
Mass Effect 2's story picks up where the original left off, and if you saved your save game from the first one, allows you to import your character and all of the choices you made to the new game. Those choices are then seen as you play through the excellent gameplay and storyline. Characters react to you differently, and remember what you talked about in the previous game.
The mix of RPG and Third Person shooter is done flawlessly. Combat sequences are action filled, and the RPG elements let you walk around and talk to people to explore how the universe works. There was never a feeling of being forced into a particular route or decision that happens with so many games of this type.
If you have an Xbox 360 or PC, get this game. If you have a PS3, reserve it now, it comes out in a few weeks. This is one of those games that everybody should give a shot, and earns the Game of the Year award.
