25-th time Golden Joystick ceremony happened just a few days before. Games, which were released between August 2009 and August 2010, were competing for rights to be called Best of the Best. 1.543.309 people submitted their voices.

Well, Mass Effect 2 is the best of the best of the best. It is win not only RPG of the Year, but the Ultimate Game of the Year too. Guitar Hero 5 become Music game of the Year and Final Fantasy XIII has Soundtrack of the Year. That’s a strange. There are many good nominees, which you can see below:

• Assassin’s Creed II
• Brutal Legend
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
• Final Fantasy XIII
• GTA IV: Episodes from Liberty City
• Halo 3: ODST
• Heavy Rain
• Mass Effect 2
• Metro 2033
• Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

As you see, nominees are worth every penny, so we are a little bit surprised.

This year was poor for XBOX 360 exclusives that’s why Bungie had to quickly transform its underdone DLC (ODST was initially claimed as a stand alone disc game as a matter of fact) to a stand-alone game. As a result gamers got a nice though not very dramatically altered gameplay, outdated graphics and as many as 2 hours of music score. Fortunately, the rush hasn’t affected the quality of the product, nothing but its being annoyingly short. As for the music it’s quite the opposite – 2 disks after all.

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