advertisement
Click Here

Genre Awards

The 2009 awards break down the top games of the year into categories based on genre. As games grow increasingly diverse and inventive and incorporate multiple facets of various genres, it becomes harder and harder to assign them to a single category, but we've done so here to the best of our ability. Therefore, our awards represent the best game in the genre, and not the game that best represents the genre it's categorized as.

639 Comments

  • Dawn_oF_Doom

    Posted Jan 2, 2010 2:37 am PT

    wtf!! this is not a good review. Dragon age >>>> Demon Soul. In strategy: DOW 2 RULLZ!! i dont agree with this.

  • mitsaras11

    Posted Jan 2, 2010 2:09 am PT

    Call of Duty Modern Wafare 2 is the best first-person game!!!!!I don't think killzone is that good.

  • 4163982838

    Posted Jan 1, 2010 10:36 am PT

    2009 was the year of the PS3 bar none. On another note KIllzone 2? great game yes but not as addictive as COD: MW2 everybody knows that.

  • milkman56

    Posted Jan 1, 2010 10:34 am PT

    I dont know about that first person shooter on i mean killzone 2 is fun but mw2 story is awesome and border lands doesnt have a great story but is one of the best games ive played this year so i think mw2 or bl should have won

  • smurf5200

    Posted Jan 1, 2010 5:57 am PT

    well i guess boxing & basketball is not considered a sport for gamespot, Fight Night 4 & NBA 2k10 but UFC is. "HELLO!"

  • geedotherodian

    Posted Dec 31, 2009 7:57 pm PT

    Tekken 6 all the way

  • Vegeta-sama

    Posted Dec 31, 2009 9:47 am PT

    is it me or are they just trying to be different?

  • screech1941

    Posted Dec 30, 2009 9:50 pm PT

    WTF Killzone 2? It was worse than ODST, MW2, l4d2, and Borderlands!!

  • screech1941

    Posted Dec 30, 2009 9:44 pm PT

    I hated SF4, Dissidia is much better.

  • aslniake

    Posted Dec 30, 2009 8:20 pm PT

    poor x360 lol

  • d12rule1

    Posted Dec 30, 2009 9:52 am PT

    tats bs cod:6 is so much better than killzone 2

  • ss4brolyupth

    Posted Dec 30, 2009 6:51 am PT

    IDK if ur heads are screwed on gamespot but call of duty modern warfare 2 is the best shooter to date killzone died in less than 3 months this game will be played for a while

  • highvoltage32

    Posted Dec 29, 2009 10:38 pm PT

    Ridiculous since Killzone copied COD's gameplay but simply applyed it in another setting.

  • TheRavingRabbid

    Posted Dec 29, 2009 10:36 pm PT

    how do you screw up new super mario bros wii? FPS games suck. GTA sucks! what happened to the good games............Castlevania, MegaMan, Super mario bros, Metroid, Paperboy, or even Battletoads. I don't know why i play these games. They SUCK

  • highvoltage32

    Posted Dec 29, 2009 10:28 pm PT

    Live by the Creed!!!

  • electronic_eye

    Posted Dec 29, 2009 1:54 pm PT

    Dirt 2 owns!

  • XL_Zelestial

    Posted Dec 29, 2009 3:53 am PT

    Sims 3 is a strategy game? Not a Simulation Game?

    And for the Strategy arena, how Gamespot nominating 'plants vs. zombies' as one of the choices here. I think there are TONS of other quality strategy games out there that are not nominated.

    And the RPG, do you guys know that Gamespot rate Demon Soul a 9 rating in it's review and Dragon Age 9.5. Then how come in the genre awards Demon Soul come over DAO?

    As the PC version of DAO is much more advanced in terms of graphic performance as well as gameplay possibilities, my theory is that Gamespot compare PS3 version of DOA and Demon Soul.

    Looking at most of the game won are PS3 based, did Sony pay a bom to Gamespot that GS would lean towards PS3 games? Yes much of the PS3 games nominated are great but sure there must be much more worthy games on other platform worth nominated, if not won the award.

  • hameedullah

    Posted Dec 28, 2009 3:05 pm PT

    360's the best console there is and ever will be yay !!!!!!!

  • Hig1134

    Posted Dec 28, 2009 1:25 pm PT

    ya see these stupid graphics comparisons, trying to justify the 360 looking better....games like killzone 2 and uncharted 2 look better than ANYTHING on the 360 and are not even possible on that system! there's your graphics comparison....

  • NBcanuck

    Posted Dec 28, 2009 9:51 am PT

    I got a PS3 for Christmas and picked up Killzone2 yesterday on a boxing week sale.. It's a great game.. I've been playing Modern Warfare 2 since it came out and Killzone is hands down, the better game.

advertisement
Click Here

Table of Contents

Winner Reveal Schedule

  • Dec 21
    Special Achievement
  • Dec 22
    Dubious Honors
  • Dec 23
    Genre Awards
  • Dec 24
    Platform Awards
  • Dec 25
    Game of the Year

Readers' Choice winners are announced Jan. 27, 2010