Ben-DutkaLast year, we knocked Time Magazine for their Top 10 Video Games list and this year…well, we're gonna do it again.
Time has named Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 as the best game of 2009, which is certain to spark some controversy. There are those who say they only did it because it's also the most popular title, but if you read their description of the game, I'm leaning in another direction:
"Video games have something intelligent to say about contemporary military conflicts. In Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, you hop around the globe, chasing the front lines of globalized, asymmetrical combat, where not everybody wears uniforms, war isn't always declared, and the battlefield isn't clearly marked — battles rage through suburbs, airports and people's living rooms."
In reading between the lines, it seems like – surprise, surprise – Time wants to make a "statement" concerning the politics of Modern Warfare 2 ; i.e., the standard far-left media slant that embraces the "war touches us all" and "you never know who your enemy really is" ideals. Game-wise, I think we all know that Uncharted 2: Among Thieves is a lot better than #10 of 2009, and I think we all know that Time doesn't feel like employing real gamers. At this point, I'm thinking we should just turn our hopes to the Spike TV Awards, where the nominations are almost realistic.
The mainstream media hasn't caught up quite yet. I know Hollywood can't keep their big yaps shut (since when is anyone over there smart enough to lecture on world topics?) but let's not have it in gaming. Please?
Related Game(s): Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
You know, I read that about Batman and it went right over my head. Wow … how dare they write that?
1) Modern Warfare 2 because it's the best game of 2009
2) Batman AA because it's the highest rated superhero game ever
3) DJ Hero because it's innovative
4) Borderlands because it rivals Fallout 3
5) ………..
6) @$#@%#$%@@#$
7) What?
8) Halo ODST because it's HALO so it have to make the list!
9) Assasin's Creed II because it looked the same
10) Uncharted 2 because it lack originality
No 1 starting from the bottom is more like it.
Oh wow cool, they left out Left 4 Dead 2, Street Fighter IV, inFamous, Killzone 2.
I wouldn't be surprise if MW2 were to win many GOTY award like MGS4 did.
It's just the name CoD that get the score, not the game and I'm not buying a CoD game unless they make the single player longer.
Last edited by Snaaaake on 12/10/2009 7:06:16 PM
We can only hope the gamers who voted in the VGA awards had more of a clue than these idiots did.
did they say assassins creed 2 was an rpg?? LMAO
Shows that their list is a joke.
lol they need to spend some "Time" really playing/investigating games.. not just going off sales and hype. Just wait untill the 12th @ the VGAs we will all see a more realistic list.
oh please its a news magazine. who cares? Next we'll be complaining about Good Housekeeping thinking the Wii is the greatest system ever made.
Never heard of them. Seriously.
Never heard of Time Magazine?
and we are surprised why?
ive never agreed with GOTY awards, never.
07 went to oblivion or MW.
08 went to left for dead or GTAIV.
09 will go to MW2 or L4D2.
none of the games that deserve the title ever do.
id put exclusive of the year as inFAMOUS.
and multiplat of the year as assassins creed 2, with honorable mention of batman AA.
batman was good, but assassins creed 2 was much better.
i was expecting nothing out of batman and got allot so that was impressive.
but i was expecting everything out of assassins creed 2 and it still somehow managed to blow me out of the water.
so that was more impressive.
come to think of it, AC2 is the only game this year that has exceed my expectations.
o, that and infamous.
Dude, no, just no. Ok? Infamous should get game of the year period. not best exclusive, just game of the year. I haven't played U2 but it sounds as though it's the fantastic gfx that has everyone struck. Gfx are part of the immersiveness (word? lol) of a game but it takes alot more than gfx to deserve GOTY. Now remember I'm basing this on what I've read from many of you. The story is probably way better than U1. But meh we'll see.
Last edited by LowKey on 12/11/2009 12:47:03 AM
I'm not mad at Infinity Ward. No matter how much I hate to love MW2…I understand why it deserves GOTY although it is pretty much an exact replica of MW1 with some new elements like: new guns, and a new but same short ass story. Uncharted 2 has shown us so much. It was greatness. The best visual experience I have ever had in a game before. Not to mention very enjoyable (We can thank Chloe for that one). However, it like some people have said, lacked originality. Although its competitor, MW2, also lacked originality, it was expected of it. In order for MW2 to maintain its former glory it needed to be clone with slightly disfigured features. And that's exactly what it became. I applaud Naughty Dog. But the Modern Warfare franchise is delicately molded by greedy GOTY rendering geniuses. Visual Game of the Year goes to UC2 easily. But most Addictive Game of the Year goes undoubtedly to MW2.
Shoddy journalism, simple as, otherwise they would not have been caught up with the media hype and and gone along with the rest of the flock.
Thumb down? blah your an idiot, go over to Time and have a look at the full top ten and see if you still think shoddy journalism is not involved.
Last time i thought about Time my country had a lovely front issue on our youth issues, which was just pathetic considering the murders that go on in the US all the time, not bashing btw. Modern Warfare 2 is probally the worst game i bought that has come out this year, a disgrace to COD4. Uncharted 2 is HANDS-DOWN GOTY.
simply put MW2 is GOY in sales. Magazines like TIME will make that GOY every year, despite a games technical achievements.
I will sau this, im enjoying MW2 a lot and ive more than got my moneys worth out of it! But compared to Uncharted 2 well… Nothing really comes close!
Time's list is chalk full of fail.
Great pic