Mon, Dec 08, 2008 | 19:57 GMT

Time does top 10 games of 2008, GTA IV is top

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Time Magazine has published its top ten video games of the year, with GTA IV at number one.

“It’s a grade-A shoot-’em-up that doubles as an interactive novel and triples as a sly critique of American consumer culture,” says the piece.

Jonathon Blow’s platformer Braid comes in at number two, while LittleBigPlanet takes third.

The full top ten:

  1. GTA IV
  2. Braid
  3. LittleBigPlanet
  4. Rock Band 2
  5. Gears of War 2
  6. Dead Space
  7. Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
  8. Hunted Forever
  9. FieldRunners
  10. Spore

Full thing through the link.

By Mike Bowden

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12 comments

#1

Gekidami
08/12/08, 8:10 pm

Well i wouldnt have put GTA4 up there, and i disagree from 7th and down.

#2

morriss
08/12/08, 8:23 pm

Yeah, Star Wars: TFU is a weird choice.

#3

Hero of Canton
08/12/08, 9:28 pm

GTA is not a ‘grade-A shoot-’em-up’. It’s a grade-A sandbox game, or a grade-A free-roamer, but there are many, many better shoot-’em-ups.

And yeah, what’s with The Force Unleashed on that list? Top 6 are fair enough really, though I’d only have one or two of them in my list.

#4

David
08/12/08, 9:31 pm

No left 4 dead I’m disappointed but very happy about dead space :)

#5

Syrok
08/12/08, 9:39 pm

Any game of the top 6 has would deserve the first place more then GTA, in my opinion.

#6

sanduixe
08/12/08, 10:13 pm

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, Hunted Forever, FieldRunners and Spore = not so good

Btw, Guitar Hero World Tour > Rock Band 2

Times does not understand nothing about videogames.

#7

absolutezero
08/12/08, 11:07 pm

Fieldrunners is awesome-tastic.

#8

SwiftRanger
09/12/08, 7:10 am

Spore ain’t bad either, far from it even. TFU on the other hand…

#9

Blerk
09/12/08, 8:16 am

O…kay. Why have I never even heard of Hunted Forever or FieldRunners? :-|

#10

Psychotext
09/12/08, 8:17 am

I don’t know them either… I think it’s because we’re gaming’s equivalent of chav scum.

That said, not even Wikipedia knows what they are.

#11

Blerk
09/12/08, 8:18 am

I… er.. okay. Thanks to Google, I now see why I never heard of them before. Great list, Time. No, really.

#12

mightyhokie
09/12/08, 5:22 pm

What? No Atari ET? =D

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