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Calendar of Events

  • Monday
    • DEC 13
    • Awards Begin Categories Revealed
  • Monday
    • DEC 20
    • Editors' Choice Awards Special Achievements
  • Tuesday Dec 21 - Dubious Honors
  • Wednesday Dec 22 - Genre Awards
  • Thursday Dec 23 - Platform Awards
  • Friday Dec 24 - Game of the Year
  • Monday
    • JAN 10
    • Readers' Choice Awards Voting Ends
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About the Awards

GameSpot's Best of 2010 awards cover special achievements in the field of advancements for games, dubious honors for less-than-admirable qualities, and full awards for individual genres and every major platform. Nominations and awards are the result of rigorous debate among GameSpot's editors, who select up to five finalists and one winner for almost every category (the Game of the Year category includes up to 10 finalists). To qualify for an editorial award, games must have been reviewed by GameSpot between January 1, 2010, and November 30, 2010.

Award categories are intended to call out those games that truly deserve the attention--therefore, while each award is meaningful, it's considered an honor simply to be nominated.

Genre Awards

Best Action/Adventure Game

An action adventure game is the ultimate balancing act. It's the type of game that lets you make bad guys feel a world of pain. But do you put the whole thing against the backdrop of a deep story, or make it a lighthearted romp where all you do is blow things up? Creating this kind of balance, while also developing an outstanding game, isn't an easy thing to do, so we've gathered the best action adventure games of the year for this award.

Watch the video below for more!

Readers' Choice Voting

Voting Ends 1/10

Title Vote

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood

Vote

Bayonetta

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Dead Rising 2

Vote

God of War III

Vote

Red Dead Redemption

Vote

Alan Wake

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Enslaved: Odyssey to the West

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Just Cause 2

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Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light

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Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker

Vote

192 Comments

  • tonitorsi

    Posted Dec 18, 2010 12:20 pm PT

    I honestly believe thatb this is a tie between God of War 3

    Red Dead Redemption

    and Assassin's Creed Brotherhood

    ^ amazing games.

  • Savvy30039

    Posted Dec 18, 2010 12:17 pm PT

    Bayonetta was nothing BUT ridiculous nonstop action, so while it may not be the best overall, I gotta go with that.

  • WickerShade

    Posted Dec 18, 2010 12:03 pm PT

    i just loved alan wake, even more then RDR, but sadly everyone seems to vote for RDR in every single flippin catagory, even in ones it doesnt deserve, but RDR does kind of deserve this one, i just had more fun playing alan wake

  • grgolj_blaster

    Posted Dec 18, 2010 11:42 am PT

    Amnesia dark descent

  • DPX-360

    Posted Dec 18, 2010 8:44 am PT

    Alan Wake...

  • oulele

    Posted Dec 18, 2010 7:38 am PT

    I'll pick AC Brotherhood even if I haven't played it yet.(I am still waiting to be released on pc...Thanks ubisoft...)

  • TransvormerSCol

    Posted Dec 18, 2010 6:58 am PT

    I'd sat GoW3, Baynoetta or AC Brotherhood...

  • AC-FAN-I-AM

    Posted Dec 18, 2010 6:35 am PT

    AC brotherhood is the best for sure, but there are a lot RDR fanboys

  • mhasouna

    Posted Dec 18, 2010 6:32 am PT

    RDR again.... I like though AC: Brotherhood...

  • tmaclabi

    Posted Dec 18, 2010 5:52 am PT

    Metal Gear Solid.

  • semozlive

    Posted Dec 18, 2010 3:02 am PT

    vote for ACB

  • DEATH775

    Posted Dec 18, 2010 2:29 am PT

    God of War 3 it was so damn amazing that it was my first plat

  • King-And-Knight

    Posted Dec 18, 2010 1:03 am PT

    Vote Red Dead Redemption

  • Hailfire704

    Posted Dec 17, 2010 6:59 pm PT

    Every year there seems to be one game that gets almost every vote. It's just as annoying each time it happens.

  • marceleleco

    Posted Dec 17, 2010 5:07 pm PT

    ah man,I don't believe gow 3 is losing to rdr.red dead sure is good but gow 3 is the best of the year.

  • killerjay13

    Posted Dec 17, 2010 2:57 pm PT

    ALL THESE GAMES ARE AMAZING

  • 10matt1995

    Posted Dec 17, 2010 1:33 pm PT

    God of war or ACB, then rdr.

  • RockefellerMD

    Posted Dec 17, 2010 1:30 pm PT

    This is a tough one... RDR or Assassin's Creed Brotherhood.

  • original_elite

    Posted Dec 17, 2010 12:54 pm PT

    damn! all of these nominees are great

  • mariostar0001

    Posted Dec 17, 2010 12:38 pm PT

    RDR winning again.