Special Achievement
Best Original Game Mechanic
If you think that games aren't innovative anymore, you just haven't been paying attention. Every year, games are released to store shelves that either introduce brand-new features or take familiar ones and turn them on their heads. In 2009, the most original games combined multiple genres into a single enjoyable package, showered you with rewards even when you were floundering, and even turned death into a useful learning tool. Each nominee for Best Original Game Mechanic touted an important mechanic that was both novel and imaginative--and each game was the better for it.
Our nominees include Demon's Souls integrated help, Half-Minute Hero's 30-second RPG gameplay, the ability to write nearly anything in Scribblenauts, the hybrid puzzle-platforming of Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure, and the Copycat perk from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.
Editorial Nominees
Editors' Choice Winner
Readers' Choice Voting
Table of Contents
Winner Reveal Schedule
- Dec 21Special Achievement
- Dec 22Dubious Honors
- Dec 23Genre Awards
- Dec 24Platform Awards
- Dec 25Game of the Year
Readers' Choice winners are announced Jan. 27, 2010
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