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From the awesome scope of its exotic, international locales to the detailed character design and the incredibly fluid, naturalistic animation, the visuals consistently impress during both quiet dialog scenes and crazy explosive set-pieces. Zombies Best Graphics Uncharted 2: Among Thieves All three of our nominees in this category aim to achieve very different things with their graphical presentation, and while each is stunning in its own way, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves takes it to another level. Runners-Up: Borderlands - The Zombie Island of Dr. As long as Valve keeps expanding on the zombie milieu in such imaginative ways, we'd be happy to receive a third Left 4 Dead game any time. The new additions like the spitter, charger, and jockey act and attack in unique ways you'd never expect out of the docile, shambling mall-dwellers originally envisioned by George Romero.
And it must be said that the "special" infected enemies transcend the form of the zombie altogether. Left 4 Dead 2 amped up the action with a greater range of common infected enemies-zombies in HAZMAT suits, zombie riot cops, zombie clowns (!)-and a wonderfully visceral new dismemberment system that let you take those guys out by blowing their arms, legs, and heads off with glee. But Valve is still doing a fantastic job of using the undead tastefully that's easy to still feel good about. We get it, zombies are scary/funny/ironic/insert-superlative-here.
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image courtesy Runners-Up: Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Resident Evil 5 The Brad Shoemaker "I'm Callin' It" Award For Best Use of Zombies Left 4 Dead 2 If 2009 was the year of the zombie, let's all hope that 2010 is the year of games (and movies and TV and every other conceivable form of media) giving the undead a well-deserved break. Spec Ops simply sets a new standard for cooperative online play. Every one of the 23 missions feels different and satisfying in its own way, and they're all completely new, punishing, insane experiences on Veteran difficulty.
Spec Ops succeeds through its sheer number and variety of missions that have you doing everything from working tag-team with one player in the air and another on the ground, to working stealthily in tandem, counting down over your voice chat to pull off synchronized headshots. It's got to say something that your two-player co-op mode is more varied and intense and satisfying than modes that support, three, four, or more players in other games. But Modern Warfare 2 might have shipped without a single-player campaign at all, with only its Special Operations cooperative mode to supplement the multiplayer, and still felt like a complete, satisfying package. Runners-Up: Borderlands, Shadow Complex Best Co-Op Modern Warfare 2 The quality and breadth of the competitive multiplayer in the sequel to Call of Duty 4 was always a given.
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InFamous is a textbook example of how to roll out a great new franchise and give it legs that will carry it into the future.
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and all of it swaddled in a rough, sinister comic book world full of larger-than-life heroes and villains that will certainly lend itself well to the game's inevitable sequels. An intriguing story with twists and momentum, a slew of side missions that tied into the game world and the fiction, a moral-choice system without much contrivance but with real effects on the gameplay. Not that there's anything wrong with Sly Cooper-and InFamous does retain some of that series' most notable mechanics-but it was a treat to see this talented studio come up with a new, darker setting and wrap it around some of the best open-world gameplay of the year. Best Debut InFamous It's notable enough that Sucker Punch came out swinging on the PlayStation 3 with a game that was. Giant Bomb's 2009 Game of the Year awards feature rages on! What else needs to be said? Crank up today's podcast supplement and let's get right to it.
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