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In a Specific Context: Games of the Year
By Rodentia
Best game for making you miss your bus stop
Elite Beat Agents
A game that, once started, is simply impossible to pause - let alone stop.
New Super Mario Bros
For some of us, our first 2D Mario. Dear god, what have we been missing all these years?
Every Extend Extra
As close as it is possible to get to having a transcendental experience on the 7:43 to Waterloo.
Loco Roco
Utter obsession in a portable form.
Best game to play with your mates
Guitar Hero
Enough to bring out the inner rock god in just about anyone.
Rayman Raving Rabbids (Wii version)
Funny. Yes, really. Yes, we know it's French.
Ridge Racer 6
Any game that can make us set our Mario&Luigi alarm clocks for 5am just so we can play our mates on different continents has to be doing something right.
GoW
The greatest co-op play ever. Stuck on the horribly tedious final boss? Bored? Feeling like crying? From right where you are, from right inside that exact moment - from right inside the game at-that-actual-second: zip into your friends list, see that somebody has their GoW disc spinning and call them in. Suddenly your epileptic death-wish computer-controller partner stops putting his head in-front of your gun and becomes a cunning and powerful wingman. Boss dead. Tedium gone. Delirium overtakes. Amazing feeling.
The 'Ooh, can I have a go please' award for most inclusive game
Wii Sports
A game that everyone, from your Gran to sour old Uncle Frank, already knows how to play. The greatest party game ever.
42 All Time Classics
Stretching the definition of 'classic' to it's absolute breaking point. Great fun though.
Guitar Hero
For that controller. People see it and they want to play it.
Singstar Rocks
Yes there were Singstars before 2006 and they were fine. But Tesco’s choosing to knock out two mics and a game for twenty quid shot ‘Rocks’ into council living rooms up and down the land and the track list gets every attractive single-mum convinced she’s Gwen Stefani to your moustache-man out of the Killers. In our world that’s special.
Best unexpectedly-good shoehorned license or existing IP 
Mario Hoops 3 on 3
We absolutely loathe Mario-shoehorning. Mario is for jumping around platforms with – end of. Mario Baseball is one of the very worst games ever made – we thought this would be the same. It isn’t – it’s a fucking delight. So we both love it and hate it.
FIFA 2007 (360 version)
Looks like someone in EA had been taking notes.
Lego Star Wars II (all versions except the awful unfinished DS and PC ones)
Okay, maybe not 'unexpected', but still much more ace than even the most optimistic among us believed possible.
Marvel Heroes Alliance
We were pushed for four nominations here so we’ve shoehorned this one into the shoehorn category. We like that kind of thinking. It’s what gets us Mexican pie.
December 2006
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