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Calendar of Events

  • Monday
    • DEC 13
    • Awards Begin Categories Revealed
  • 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
  • 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.

Dubious Honors

Most Disappointing Game

It's easy to get excited about an upcoming game while waiting for its release, but sometimes, all that excitement ends up leading to a big bucket of depressing mediocrity. And when that happens, those games end up on our list of the most disappointing games of 2010.

Watch the video below for more!

GameSpot's Best Games of 2010 Readers' Choice WinnerAnd the winner is…

APB (All Points Bulletin)

There were many disappointing games this year, but APB wasn't just a huge letdown; it also led to the shutdown of promising game developer Real Time Worlds.

Readers' Choice Voting

  • Winner
  • Results
And the winner is…

Final Fantasy XIV Online

GameSpot's Best Games of 2010 Readers' Choice Winner

Take up arms with adventurers from around the globe and embark on an epic journey within the unforgettable realm of Eorzea - the stage for a revolutionary new MMORPG designed to fit the lifestyles of players everywhere, from casual users to the most hardcore gamers.

Title Vote Result Graph % of Votes # of Votes

APB
 
 12% 4,701

Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight
 
 15% 5,574

Disciples III: Renaissance
 
 2% 902

Disney Epic Mickey
 
 12% 4,592

Final Fantasy XIV Online
 
 31% 11,673

Aliens vs. Predator
 
 8% 3,027

Alpha Protocol
 
 6% 2,424

Elemental: War of Magic
 
 1% 426

Fallout: New Vegas
 
 9% 3,587

Star Trek Online
 
 3% 1,234

747 Comments

  • colossus235890

    Posted Jun 1, 2011 7:29 pm GMT

    I for one hyped this game Final Fantasy XIII was amazing and this... this is what I would call a failure just like sonic unleased, except this game looked nice

  • AvatarMan96

    Posted Apr 2, 2011 6:03 pm GMT

    All Final Fantasy games are the worst games

  • Mr_Pieman

    Posted Feb 16, 2011 10:15 am GMT

    @thaobserva6160 - speak for yourself bro, this game was anticipated to rival with GTA, then it fell through, leaving alot of people hanging

  • Blood-Online

    Posted Jan 23, 2011 3:38 am GMT

    Come On. APB was fun for sure. It just was a bit repetitive.
    I wish they somehow manage to get it back or at least release it for an offline gameplay with some kind of story.
    It felt a lot like Saints Row series.

  • thaobserva6160

    Posted Jan 17, 2011 6:38 pm GMT

    nobody was looking forward to (or even knew of) APB, so how is it disappointing?

  • tonyhawksP8

    Posted Jan 17, 2011 5:30 am GMT

    Lost Planet 2 where is it?

  • Devvy01

    Posted Jan 16, 2011 4:20 pm GMT

    APB took forever to come out, and it should'nt have.....

  • sissywoo

    Posted Jan 16, 2011 10:24 am GMT

    to square enix: get your heads out of the gutter and start making real jrpg's again, signed: former square enix fan

  • Wormkid_64

    Posted Jan 16, 2011 9:01 am GMT

    Hey where's Lost Planet 2? I was pumped for that game,and it let me down with all those terrible knock-back attacks.

  • pyro_fighter_3

    Posted Jan 15, 2011 2:52 pm GMT

    @pumpkinhead3
    I agree there. New Vagas was no where near as good as Fallout 3. I put 121 hours into Fallout 3 fromt he first time I put it in my system untill I took it out and finaly played another game. New Vegas only got about 15 hours of attention untill I quit. C&C4 is also way up there on this list.

  • Pumpkinhead3

    Posted Jan 14, 2011 9:49 pm GMT

    Hmm. Didn't play either of these, but New Vegas was quite a let down after Fallout 3. It just wasn't as fun. Too many fetch quests, speech driven subplots, an awkward map layout (Freeside as a whole/ the three gates WITHIN the strip itself), and all those bugs. Maybe my expectations were too high, but I don't think so.

  • rubbertoe123456

    Posted Jan 14, 2011 8:05 am GMT

    I just have to get this out there; ok, final fantasy was a disapointment for the first 5-10 hours that had slow gameplay and character developement. but then, the character developement opened up soooo much and the gameplay picked up a little bit. The story also got much better, and i thought it had one of the better stories this year, not including red dead redemption. I think that people didn't give it enough chance and just left after a few hours.

  • Freynow

    Posted Jan 14, 2011 2:44 am GMT

    haha really deserved it..

  • Femto513

    Posted Jan 14, 2011 12:17 am GMT

    New Vegas should have won this category hands down. And why isn't Fable 3 on this list?

  • DCuong

    Posted Jan 13, 2011 9:53 am GMT

    Though I'm a big fan of FF series, but I must say: yes, FFXIII should be nominated for "Most Disappointing Game", I played FFXIII for only more than 1 hour, and it's so boring I couldn't continue anymore.

  • progamemania

    Posted Jan 13, 2011 12:39 am GMT

    both FF13 and XIV suck big time, I don't know what has gotten into square enix. I miss their old Japanese RPG's

  • vedant_261

    Posted Jan 12, 2011 10:28 am GMT

    XIV sucked, but get a life guys XIII rocked!!!

  • Nikkeloodeon

    Posted Jan 12, 2011 5:44 am GMT

    Square Enix has really gone wrong with the new generation games...