The best videogames of 2009

lol i don't think COD MW2 is "strictly R18" if a 13 year old in my class at highschool gets his dad to buy it on the day it came out in new zealand. btw nintendo sucks. it has crap gameplay and worse graphics. James: just becos you were playing with camper noobs, doen't mean everyone camps, or the game sucks. Brad: yes. so you finished single player in 5 hours. WOW. not. try the other modes.

LOL Brad you 'finished' this game in 5 hours. That means 100% on spec ops, single player and multiplayer? Didn't realise that was possible...

@Brad, Your looking at only one aspect of the game which is its single player mode, had you bothered to go online or try anything else out? The online multiplayer play is in huge part of what made MW so famous, it holds many characteristics that are specific to COD and are just down right awesome. You have to move away from the narrow-minded single player approach and realise that the biggest games of today are ones in which multiplayer is a central theme among many games. As for the Single player mode, almost everything has been done and no doubt everyones gonna get bored of the same war-themed game, i for one think the single player was freaking awesome, try playing it on the hardest difficulty then tell me how long it took you to clock it.

@Blair - suggesting we get 'paid' by Wii's competitors (presumably Sony & Microsoft) is a very misguided and naive thing to suggest. Wii games didn't make many of these lists because their games did not meet the high standards the others set. Aaron's list does include a Wii title if you bothered to read it. Obviously, the above is only the opinions of the critics who submitted lists, and they're just guys who have opinions on games like anyone else. But out of interest, what Nintendo games do you think were the best of the year? @James - thanks for the feedback. Again, this is just our opinions, and mine (and Farrier's) is that MW2 is the best game of the year. It's great you have a different opinion and 'many critics' also do, thanks. @Charlie - can't speak for the others, but L4D2 is extremely good, but didn't effect me as strongly as the other games did. It's a great bit of fun with a few of your mates, for sure, but for me not as mindbogglingly awesome as the 5 games I listed are.

number 1 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 what crap i played this game it only took 5 hours play to finish it yes it has great graphics but games have to last these days and the cost is going up i have played far cry 2 2 times and it took a long time to finish

Blair, it's because Nintendo games are terrible.
It's really just novelty.
It's not the NZ gaming community it's the Nintendo community that fails.

Blair - It's hard to pick a Nintendo game that really stands out. Scribblenauts.... maybe? What would you suggest?

say wat whers l4d 1 or 2?

LOL, MW2 is a noob campfest online, doesn't deserve GOTY, many critics haven't even nominated it for GOTY.

Wow, is Nintendo not included, or just dont get payed by them? This is why NZ gaming community fails.