Special Achievement

Best Story

A good story can move you to tears. It can make you think. It can stay with you long after you've finished the game. In other words, while the gameplay may be what first draws you into a game, it's the story that so often keeps you invested. But a story isn't just about what happens between the beginning and the end; it's also about the delivery. Great dialogue delivered by great characters, the twists and turns of a winding plot, and the thrill of extraordinary circumstances can make a great story wriggle under your skin and keep you thinking about it even when you aren't playing. This year's greatest stories took us across the world, through fantastical realms, and into the past, but one compelling tale stood above the others.

Editorial Nominees

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23 Comments

  • Metalhed4lyfe

    Posted Dec 29, 2009 3:25 pm GMT

    Dragon Age no question

  • milan4554

    Posted Dec 27, 2009 8:07 pm GMT

    UNCHARTED 2 should hv won...thee best story lol

  • Racer850

    Posted Dec 27, 2009 7:20 am GMT

    Personally i think Uncharted 2 should have won best story.

  • Tomrock101

    Posted Dec 23, 2009 5:52 pm GMT

    Uncharted

  • English-Lion

    Posted Dec 23, 2009 10:29 am GMT

    And the winner is… Cryostasis???????
    Dragon Age: Origins win the Best Story!

  • Nuggetol

    Posted Dec 23, 2009 6:00 am GMT

    @Aurora268 I'm guessing the point in voting would be to see just the viwer's opinions. Also how many people have cryostasis here? ( i haven't and don't know if it got a lot of copies sold).

  • Flameberge

    Posted Dec 22, 2009 2:36 pm GMT

    Ok, what? Cryostasis? Erm... how? Especially when you could have Uncharted 2 or Dragon Age this year, both of which (especially the latter, imho) had great stories well told. Cryostasis had a pretty clichéd story told in a not particularly convincing manner. As a gameplay mechanic the reversing-things-in-the-past was pretty cool, as an instrument of story telling, its no more than an interactive version of reading journals/electronic logs/whatever that has been around for about 14 years....

  • Aurora268

    Posted Dec 22, 2009 11:03 am GMT

    i don't get this!? dragon age was voted best and GS come up with crysostasis with 2% of the vote!! what's the point of voting then!!!

  • sambob530

    Posted Dec 22, 2009 9:50 am GMT

    MW2? WTF? That had an AWFUL story

  • Scythestrike

    Posted Dec 22, 2009 3:16 am GMT

    @mister dan: cryostasis won the editor's choice, the gamers' choice voting ends in january..... I am however disappointed DA didn't win best writing and dialogue

  • andy_lyall

    Posted Dec 22, 2009 2:40 am GMT

    While the story in Dragon Age was well told and acted, it wasn't anything I'd write home about. Fairly standard fantasy rpg stuff without any real originality.
    For me Uncharted should've taken this award but whoever nominated (and worse still voted for) MW2 needs to see a professional. The story in that game was utterly terrible and absolutely not the reason millions of people bought it.

  • samedizombie

    Posted Dec 21, 2009 3:30 pm GMT

    Cryostasis: The Sleep of Reason - spot on.

  • mister_dan

    Posted Dec 21, 2009 3:20 pm GMT

    is this a joke or what? how on earth did Cryostasis win in this category, when it was actually listed at seventh place by the Gamespot voters?! pull yourself together, GS. honestly, anyone would think you chose it at random.

  • bm1212

    Posted Dec 21, 2009 2:16 pm GMT

    Uncharted 2 owns this award.

  • ace-of-spades93

    Posted Dec 21, 2009 3:22 am GMT

    AC2 for me, how the hell is MW2 even up there =/

  • myungish

    Posted Dec 20, 2009 1:32 pm GMT

    how is assassin's creed 2 beating uncharted 2?

  • efc91

    Posted Dec 19, 2009 12:54 am GMT

    Uncharted 2 had a great story why isn't it in the top 5?

  • smithster118

    Posted Dec 18, 2009 11:58 am GMT

    Got to go for Uncharted 2.

  • Racer850

    Posted Dec 18, 2009 10:44 am GMT

    Uncharted 2.

  • rht992

    Posted Dec 18, 2009 8:25 am GMT

    call of duty? are you mad?

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