Table of Contents
Calendar of Events
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Monday
- DEC 13
- Awards Begin Categories Revealed
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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
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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.
Special Achievement
Best Original Game Mechanic
The Best Original Game Mechanic category recognizes games that have a new gameplay style or mechanic, which adds a great deal to the gameplay experience and is a unique feature we've never seen implemented in quite that particular way.
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GameSpot's Best Games of 2010 Readers' Choice WinnerAnd the winner is…
Vanquish
Vanquish kind of looks like any other cover-based third-person shooter, but the game's unusual rocket -sliding mechanic turns it into a whole new experience, since because it acts as both a defensive escape and an offensive setup that opens up a whole new world of gameplay possibilities.
Readers' Choice Voting
- Winner
- Results
And the winner is…
Red Dead Redemption
- Publisher: Rockstar Games
- Developer: Rockstar San Diego
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
Flashlight (Alan Wake) |
18% | 4,942 | |
Ruses (R.U.S.E.) |
8% | 2,290 | |
Mexican stand-off (Red Dead Redemption) |
28% | 7,694 | |
Mark and execute (Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction) |
14% | 3,802 | |
Rocket sliding (Vanquish) |
20% | 5,474 | |
Matching colors puzzles (Alice in Wonderland) |
1% | 255 | |
Freezing water (Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands) |
4% | 1,173 | |
Combo weapons (Dead Rising 2) |
8% | 2,244 |
8 comments
With vanquish ,devil may cry 4, bayonneta and ninja gaiden sigma 2, God of war can go and sleep. When japaneses do action games, they do great!
Mark and execute wasn't all that "innovative" following it's featuring heavily in Rainbow Six Vegas etc... just saying.
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