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  • Year in review 2008

    A Year In Review: The Top Reviews Of 2008

    By Michael McWhertor, 6:30 PM on Wed Dec 31 2008, 19,617 views (Edit, to draft, un-top, Slurp)

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    2008 was the year that we decided to get off our butts, start reviewing games and finally tell the game blog reading populace exactly what we thought of Haze. It was a very good year.

    While we'd "reviewed" games in the past, we didn't have a format that we were happy with. We settled that in 2008, arriving on a format that was geared toward how we personally wanted games to be reviewed: keep it brief, keep it numerically score-free and ensure that we'd beaten the game (or come as close to it) before we weighed in. So far, it seems to be working out pretty well.

    As we head in 2009, we decided to take a look back at the biggest, most popular reviews on Kotaku. The list of games that received the most attention was sometimes surprising. Sometimes not. Let's revisit them, shall we? We'll be back next year with more reviews, refined previews and plenty of flaming opportunities.

    Top Reviews
    Grand Theft Auto IV Review: Life, Liberty City And The Pursuit Of Happiness
    The Force Unleashed Review: As If Millions of Star Wars Fans Suddenly Cried Out
    Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe Review: Finish Him
    Mirror’s Edge Review: Leaps of Faith End in Splat
    Call of Duty: World at War Review: The Modern Warfare Effect
    Left 4 Dead Review: 2 Good 2 B 4gotten
    Fallout 3 Review: Wasting Away Again In Radiationville
    Too Human Review: Dyack's Human Too
    Haze Review: It Sure Beats Pumping Gas
    Prince Of Persia Review: Like Sands Through The Hourglass

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    Novel, Write Thyself

    The fiction of a video game's universe is fertile ground for novels, sprouting dozens of books annually that tap into gaming's beloved and unknown back stories. Few though have had to tell a story in a universe almost completely controlled by the gamers themselves, the very people most likely to... More »
    Impressions

    The Saboteur Impressions: A New Way To Kill Nazis

    There is a game that will let you shoot Nazis, fire rockets at zeppelins, hang out in a brothel, climb the Eiffel Tower, oh, and try to maintain your career as a race car driver during all this. More »
    Multiplayer

    Forza 3 Will Deliver Nearly Limitless Online Multiplayer Variety

    More than anything, Forza Motorsport 3's greatest challenge is perhaps its greatest strength. As racing franchises continue down a diminishing road of more, with detailed engine tuning, real world physics, realistic damage modeling and road wear, they often leave all but the most devoted fans of... More »

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