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You Wanna Review What?! Again!

GameSpot editors reveal the games they'd most like to review in 2010.

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You may recall that 12 months ago, I posted lists of our most wanted review assignments for 2009. Now celebrating its second anniversary, the "You Wanna Review What?!" e-mail thread is something that I send around to all of our in-house reviewers asking for a list of the 10 games that they'd most like to work on in the upcoming year. I'm not sure how the process plays out in our UK or AU offices, but here in the US, it invariably sparks some interesting conversations as editors compare lists in an attempt to avoid too much crossover and "wasted" entries. Personally, I keep my list a secret while I'm working on it and pay little attention to what anyone else is up to, but I did make a point of telling everyone what my number one choice is in the hope that nobody would be willing to fight me for it.

As in previous years, including games on these lists doesn't guarantee an editor the assignment, and you shouldn't confuse these lists with lists of our most anticipated games. Sure, these are games that we're looking forward to, but we don't necessarily want to review every game that we're looking forward to playing in 2010. Also, don't think that just because a game doesn't appear on any of these lists none of us are eager to get our hands on it. We already have a good idea of who will be working on some of the big upcoming releases--either because we're already working on them or because certain editors are obvious choices having reviewed previous games in the series. Anyhow, without further ado, here are the lists--minus the names of the reviewers they belong to and in no particular order:

METRO 2033
MAG
Deus Ex 3
Alan Wake
Dark Void
Battlefield: Bad Company 2
Super Mario Galaxy 2
Halo: Reach
The Last Guardian
Half-Life 2: Episode Three

Super Mario Galaxy 2
3D Dot Game Heroes
Dead Rising 2
Crackdown 2
Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands
Epic Mickey
Alan Wake
Thief 4
Enslaved
Fable III

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction
Final Fantasy XIII
Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty
Mass Effect 2
Split/Second
Star Trek Online
The Secret World
Max Payne 3
Deus Ex 3
Venetica

Heavy Rain
Dead Space 2
Dante's Inferno
Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow
Alan Wake
The Last Guardian
Metroid: Other M
METRO 2033
No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle

Red Dead Redemption
ModNation Racers
Dead Rising 2
Diablo III
Highlander
World of Warcraft: Cataclysm
APB
UFC Undisputed 2010
EA Sports MMA
Gran Turismo 5

Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth
Heavy Rain
Ghost Trick
Halo: Reach
The Last Guardian
Okamiden: Chisaki Taiyou
Professor Layton and the Last Time Travel
Alan Wake
LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
Ninokuni: The Another World

Super Mario Galaxy 2
Mass Effect 2
Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars
Star Trek Online
The Last Guardian
Scratch: The Ultimate DJ
(Anything with Natal)
(Anything with Sony's motion controller)
Professor Layton and the Last Time Travel
Okamiden: Chisaki Taiyou

Puzzle Quest 2
Super Street Fighter IV
Homefront
Singularity
Brink
The Agency
L.A. Noire
Six Days in Fallujah
Split/Second
METRO 2033

Gran Turismo 5
Metroid: Other M
BioShock 2
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction
Alan Wake
God of War III
Dead Rising 2
Monster Hunter Tri
(Next Call of Duty)
Skate 3

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