Best of 2009
**DISCLAIMER** I don't own a 360, so no 360 games on the list (though I'm pretty damn sure Shadow Complex would be on there if I had one).
2009 was quite possibly the year of open world gaming, and even though I'm a total sucker for the genre, in the end all the great open world games probably just divided the base and stole votes from one another. Out of the Assassin's Creed 2, Prototype, inFAMOUS, Red Faction: Guerilla, Saboteur (yes, I actually really liked The Saboteur), GTA: Chinatown Wars tangle, only Assassin's Creed 2 managed to backstab its brethren and wallclimb into the Top 10.
It's also been a fantastic year for digitially distributed games, from the aforementioned Shadow Complex to the Tales of Monkey Island episodes to Torchlight, Fat Princess, Trine, the Bit.Trip games, Shatter, Gravity Crash, Comet Crash, PixelJunk Shooter, Trash Panic, Splosion Man, and many others. Two digitally distributed games made my list, but even though I played and enjoyed a bunch of them, there's just too damn many for a single Top 10.