When I saw LBP I knew that my kids and I would have fun with it. I burned out on platformers back in the 16 bit era when they were as common as shooters are nowadays, but LBP was a game in which the characters did stuff in a physics based world never before seen in a platformer. Of course, what gave LBP its insanely long legs was the create element (the community really ran with that ball) but even the basic game brought sorely needed innovation to a tired genre which had shrunk down to a tiny handful of franchises whose makers focused on recapturing old glories.
I also thought that Dead Space was great. The sequels sucked, but the original game was true successor to RE4 (and the game RE5 should have been). The entire game was extremely well done, but the zero G segments and boss battles were outstanding.
Valkyria Chronicles also springs to mind. Great strategy, strong characters and a lovely art style. Its a damn shame it did so poorly that a console sequel was never made (and that VC3, by some accounts the best game in the series, doesn't look like it will ever leave Japan).
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