Best Action/Adventure Game

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.

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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.

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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.

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And the winner is…

Red Dead Redemption

Publisher: Rockstar Games
Developer: Rockstar San Diego

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	% 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

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Troika101

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

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