Game of the Year - The Shortlist

So here are our six best games of 2007. Best? Most important? Most worthy? Its tough to define the criteria for our shortlist of the six games we want to compete for Game of the Year – broadly we’ve looked for games that combined extraordinary enjoyment, innovation and that trickiest of things: emotion.

It didn’t help either that there were easily 16 games we could have included on this shortlist – 2007 has been an amazing vintage for gaming. Most of us here are well into our 30s, we remember 1978, we remember the C64 and the Spectrum, Amiga and ST – we’ve seen the glory years and we reckon they are now.

Six games we love, six games we feel deserve to be considered for Rodent’s Game of the Year 2007… over the next month we will publish a series of articles arguing for each. The first of those are included in this issue… let battle commence!

Super Mario Galaxy (Wii)
For sheer bloody joy

Halo 3 (Xbox 360 and PC)
For bringing us together like nothing before

Bioshock (Xbox 360 and PC)
For the greatest place ever made on computer

Forza 2 (Xbox 360)
For making online racing not just work but work perfectly

Portal (Multiplatform)
For shaking the world upside down behind you

Crackdown (Xbox 360 and PC)
For breaking the rules and setting us free

See who wins live in a crappy pub - free tickets here.

1. Technical Achievement
2. Gameplay
3. For the People, With the People
4. Game of the Year
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