Official PlayStation Magazine #40 scores (GOTY Awards, DS2)

Cover: Dead Space 2

Game of the Year Awards 2009 (as voted for by OPM readers)

10: Street Fighter IV
9: Colin McRae DiRT 2
8: Ratchet & Clank A Crack in Time
7: Assassin's Creed 2
6: inFamous
5: Fifa 10
4: Killzone 2
3: Batman Arkham Asylum
2: Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2
1: Uncharted 2

Alternate Awards

Best PSP Game: GTA Chinatown Wars
Best PSN Game: Flower
Best Import: Demon's Souls
Best Use of Bins Award: Trash Panic
The Money to Burn Award: Avatar
The Won't Somebody Think Of The Children? Award: Modern Warfare 2
The All Hype Award: Beatles Rock Band (success wise)
Get Well Soon Award: PES 2010

Features

Dead Space 2
24 hours with Modern Warfare 2...sponsored by Lucozade Alert Plus!

Reviews

God Of War Collection: 9/10
Tony Hawk Ride: 3/10
The Saboteur: 7/10
Lego Rock Band: 9/10
Star Wars The Clone Wars: 5/10
Dragon Ball Raging Blast: 6/10
Avatar: 5/10
Zombie Apocalypse: 6/10
PixelJunk Shooter: 9/10
Borderlands (Online): 8/10
Call of Duty Classic: 7/10
Singstar Take That: 8/10

PSP

LittleBigPlanet: 8/10
Jak & Daxter The Lost Frontier: 6/10
Tekken 6: 8/10

Next Month

Heavy Rain reviewed

I'm sure the cover says something about the GOTY awards being controversial, but that seems a very agreeable list, really.

My subscriber copy hasn't arrived. :cry:

Killzone 2 could be deemed to be a bit high, but that's about it. Probably the most spot on list you're going to get during this period...

We've already had that diabolical 'The 10 Most Overhyped Games' from some arse hat on the internet.

Tony Hawk's downfall is complete

KKLEIN wrote:We've already had that diabolical 'The 10 Most Overhyped Games' from some arse hat on the internet.

Link?

rudolphless wrote:
KKLEIN wrote:We've already had that diabolical 'The 10 Most Overhyped Games' from some arse hat on the internet.

Link?

http://fidgit.com/archives/2009/12/10_most_overrated_games_of_200_1.php

Oh, it's Tom Chick. I quite like Tom Chick, actually. I might not agree with everything he says, but a man who's not afraid to pick House of the Dead: Overkill as his second-best game of the year is alright by me.

NickSCFC

Banukkah wrote:
rudolphless wrote:
KKLEIN wrote:We've already had that diabolical 'The 10 Most Overhyped Games' from some arse hat on the internet.

Link?

http://fidgit.com/archives/2009/12/10_most_overrated_games_of_200_1.php

Nowhere near as bad as this...

http://fidgit.com/archives/2009/12/the_ ... f_2009.php

Brutal Legend has to be the worst game I've played this generation.

NickSCFC wrote:
Banukkah wrote:
rudolphless wrote:
KKLEIN wrote:We've already had that diabolical 'The 10 Most Overhyped Games' from some arse hat on the internet.

Link?

http://fidgit.com/archives/2009/12/10_most_overrated_games_of_200_1.php

Nowhere near as bad as this...

http://fidgit.com/archives/2009/12/the_ ... f_2009.php

Brutal Legend has to be the worst game I've played this generation.

You can't have played many games then. It's not brilliant, but worst this generation? Nopeski.

FWIW, I'd have Uncharted 2 on both my Most Overrated and Best Of... lists. It's a lovely game, no doubt, but I can't agree with all the 10/10s.

Would have put Batman and inFAMOUS above Killzone 2 and MW2.

4: Killzone 2

Significantly worse than most of the games below it in the list imo, but other than that, it's a fair top 10.

The Modern Warfare 2 marathon article is good fun.

It brought a smile to my face.

The Full 40 as voted for by readers is printed in the magazine, but most of it is unreadable (or at least it is on my copy). The font of the text clashes with the background colour & it hasn't gone through the printers properly.

Rodders9 wrote:The Modern Warfare 2 marathon article is good fun.

It brought a smile to my face.

Yeah, OPM's features are turning into a real highlight every month.

Is it just me and Rik left on here who actually like Killzone 2? :lol:

Thongings wrote:Is it just me and Rik left on here who actually like Killzone 2?

I liked it myself. I didn't "top 10 of the year" like it, though, as there have been so many good games in 2009.

Elfhours wrote:
Thongings wrote:Is it just me and Rik left on here who actually like Killzone 2?

I liked it myself. I didn't "top 10 of the year" like it, though, as there have been so many good games in 2009.

Yeah, in fairness I'm not sure it would trouble my top ten either. But I did really like it. It's been a good year, I still baulk at people saying how rubbish it's been.

Thongings wrote:Is it just me and Rik left on here who actually like Killzone 2?

I loved it!
I still go online from time to time as well for a few games.

Thongings wrote:
Elfhours wrote:
Thongings wrote:Is it just me and Rik left on here who actually like Killzone 2?

I liked it myself. I didn't "top 10 of the year" like it, though, as there have been so many good games in 2009.

Yeah, in fairness I'm not sure it would trouble my top ten either. But I did really like it. It's been a good year, I still baulk at people saying how rubbish it's been.

It was very far from rubbish. I suppose it was a disappointment to some because the gameplay (and the characters) didn't live up to the visuals and the hype. Rico was one of the most annoying characters of all time, and I don't buy the "on purpose" excuse. Should probably give the online another go, though, methinks. That was great, the little I played of it.

Elfhours wrote:
Thongings wrote:
Elfhours wrote:
Thongings wrote:Is it just me and Rik left on here who actually like Killzone 2?

I liked it myself. I didn't "top 10 of the year" like it, though, as there have been so many good games in 2009.

Yeah, in fairness I'm not sure it would trouble my top ten either. But I did really like it. It's been a good year, I still baulk at people saying how rubbish it's been.

It was very far from rubbish. I suppose it was a disappointment to some because the gameplay (and the characters) didn't live up to the visuals and the hype. Rico was one of the most annoying characters of all time, and I don't buy the "on purpose" excuse. Should probably give the online another go, though, methinks. That was great, the little I played of it.

I meant the year as a whole (my post could have been worded better). But yeah, I thought it was a solid, chunky, exciting shooter let down mostly by having the most unlikable bunch of banana splits ever committed to CGI as your squadmates. I think there was a grain of truth to the 'on purpose' claims as it made his actions throughout the game make more sense, but that's no excuse to just make him an dull, irritating, vapid ringpiece.

I preferred the campaign to MW2's, but it wasn't as good as ODST's. IMHO of course.

Official PlayStation Magazine #40 scores (GOTY Awards, DS2)

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