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Calendar of Events

  • Monday
    • DEC 13
    • Awards Begin Categories Revealed
  • Monday
    • DEC 20
    • Editors' Choice Awards Special Achievements
  • Tuesday Dec 21 - Dubious Honors
  • Wednesday Dec 22 - Genre Awards
  • Thursday Dec 23 - Platform Awards
  • Friday Dec 24 - Game of the Year
  • Monday
    • JAN 10
    • Readers' Choice Awards Voting Ends

About the Awards

GameSpot's Best of 2010 awards cover special achievements in the field of advancements for games, dubious honors for less-than-admirable qualities, and full awards for individual genres and every major platform. Nominations and awards are the result of rigorous debate among GameSpot's editors, who select up to five finalists and one winner for almost every category (the Game of the Year category includes up to 10 finalists). To qualify for an editorial award, games must have been reviewed by GameSpot between January 1, 2010, and November 30, 2010.

Award categories are intended to call out those games that truly deserve the attention--therefore, while each award is meaningful, it's considered an honor simply to be nominated.

Genre Awards

Best Action/Adventure Game

An action adventure game is the ultimate balancing act. It's the type of game that lets you make bad guys feel a world of pain. But do you put the whole thing against the backdrop of a deep story, or make it a lighthearted romp where all you do is blow things up? Creating this kind of balance, while also developing an outstanding game, isn't an easy thing to do, so we've gathered the best action adventure games of the year for this award.

Watch the video below for more!

GameSpot's Best Games of 2010 Readers' Choice WinnerAnd the winner is…

Red Dead Redemption

This stunning Wild West epic raises the bar for open world action games, and stakes its claim as one of the most engaging games this year.

Readers' Choice Voting

  • Winner
  • Results
And the winner is…

Red Dead Redemption

GameSpot's Best Games of 2010 Readers' Choice Winner

Red Dead Redemption is a Western epic, set at the turn of the 20th century when the lawless and chaotic badlands began to give way to the expanding reach of government and the spread of the Industrial Age.

Title Vote Result Graph % of Votes # of Votes

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood

 
24% 10,635

Bayonetta

 
6% 2,754

Dead Rising 2

 
3% 1,362

God of War III

 
25% 10,923

Red Dead Redemption

 
32% 14,352

Alan Wake

 
3% 1,289

Enslaved: Odyssey to the West

 
1% 541

Just Cause 2

 
3% 1,160

Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light

 
1% 472

Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker

 
2% 848
9 comments
Troika101
Troika101

probably the toughest category to decide on this year, but i think the right game won in the end

ekhtiarzadeh
ekhtiarzadeh

RDR was a perfect game but after a while you (a long time) you will get bored from the game and you dont want to play the game again but the best story ever beside mafia1

RECONJON
RECONJON

RDR definitely deserved this for it's sheer epicness.

jalfrezy
jalfrezy

RED DEAD AGAIN!!! Awesome, love this game.

Namgis
Namgis

Yet another win for RDR. Might have to pick it up.

Ex-Ware
Ex-Ware

for me the best action/adventure games are red dead,AC Brotherhood & God Of War 3

Nibustan
Nibustan

Yeh probably my winner too..

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