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Giant Bomb's Users Pick Uncharted 2 As Best Game Of 2009

Jeff Gerstmann
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Nathan Drake does it again!
As you've been out building your Best of 2009 lists, we've been secretly staring at them, picking them apart, weighing them, and totaling them up to form a list of the top 20 vote-getters. And we're done! Actually, it wasn't so hard. I think Andy just had to make a couple of simple database requests. But that doesn't make it any less impressive! This list was built using your lists. Essentially, if you put a game in the #1 slot, it got 10 points, #2 got 9 points, and so on.

The end result is one of the closest vote tallies I've ever seen when it comes to this sort of user-voting thing. The first and second games are exactly 130 points apart. Looks like you guys came down to the same dilemma that we did when making our choices...

OK, now that you know how this list was built, let's stop screwing around and get to the list itself!

  1. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (16,839)
  2. Batman: Arkham Asylum (16,709)
  3. Modern Warfare 2 (14,161)
  4. Assassin's Creed II (11,956)
  5. Dragon Age: Origins (11,921)
  6. Borderlands (11,406)
  7. inFAMOUS (6,256)
  8. Shadow Complex (5,631)
  9. Street Fighter IV (4,927)
  10. Left 4 Dead 2 (4,149)
  11. Resident Evil 5 (3,896)
  12. Killzone 2 (3,154)
  13. Forza Motorsport 3 (2,975)
  14. Halo 3: ODST (2,636)
  15. The Beatles: Rock Band (2,606)
  16. New Super Mario Bros. Wii (2,600)
  17. Demon's Souls (2,596)
  18. Torchlight (2,220)
  19. Red Faction: Guerrilla (2,101)
  20. Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time (1,620)
 
Congratulations to the winners and thanks to all of you who took the time to build a list!