2007 vs. 2008: Which year has the best games?

By Tom Orry - 24/07/2008 - 1:35pm GMT

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Depth of quality

Picking 10 games leaves a lot of great releases on the cutting room floor. The following lists are the games that scored highly in 2007 and 2008 or look likely to receive a 9 or above when reviewed later this year. The majority of hardcore gamers buy well in excess of 10 games a year, so this is what else there was or will be to choose from.

The rest from 2007
Crysis
Forza 2
GRAW 2
Command and Conquer 3
Metroid Prime Corruption
Elite Beat Agents
Ratchet and Clank: Size Matters
Final Fantasy XII
World in Conflict
Skate
Pursuit Force Extreme Justice
Virtua Tennis 3
FF Tactics: War of the Lions
Supreme Commander
Virtua Fighter 5
Okami
Super Paper Mario

The rest from 2008
The Club
Ninja Gaiden 2
Zack and Wiki
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Boom Blox
God of War: Chains of Olympus
Prince of Persia
Burnout Paradise
Street Fighter 4
GRID
Crysis Warhead
Tomb Raider: Underworld
Resistance 2
MotorStorm Pacific Rift
Red Alert 3
Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts
Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise
Hell's Highway
Guitar Hero World Tour
Rock Band 2
FF VII: Crisis Core

Overall

It's a risky thing to say, but we think 2008 might edge out 2007. With GTA 4 and Metal Gear Solid 4 in the bag already, as well as a huge number of solid 9/10s 2008 got off to a great start. If a couple of our proposed top 10 for the year achieve 10/10 status then we might just have one of the best years in gaming history. 2008 also appears to be higher on originality and the games could well last us longer. We didn't think we'd see a year better than 2007 in a long time, but it might well come very soon indeed.

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FantasyMeister wrote at 14:11 on 24 July 2008

Unless there's a bunch of titles released this year that nobody told us about and turn out to be hits then 2007 was one of the best years for gaming in... years. It was the year that gamers were pulling their hair out over whether to get Assassin's Creed or COD4, or Forza 2 or PGR 4, or they were nicely loaded and got all of them.

2007 was basically defined by the number of "Versus" threads popping up from gamers wanting to get the best value for their parents' money.

Too Human is up for a "Most likely to blow my socks off 2008" award, but even if it gets a 10/10 it's an action-RPG so not quite as 'mainstream' as the usual titles.

Therefore I think 2007 will be remembered as a vintage year, and deservedly so. 2008 is a cracking year for RPGs though, so an RPG-fan might push for 2008 making it two great years in a row, and of course 2009 sees FFXIII arrive ;)
El-Dev wrote at 14:19 on 24 July 2008

Forza or PGR? Just buy a ps3 and get Gran Turismo, better than the both of them.

If videogamer.com give a PS3 exclusive a 10/10 then 2008 will be the best year ever lol, no chance of that happenin though.

For PS3 owners this has definatley been a better year though still had a good few games last year, Motorstorm definately under-rated! Still playin it!
Ghost5 wrote at 14:31 on 24 July 2008

uuhh you do realize you put Super Smash Bros. Melee instead of Super Smash Bros. Brawl on the last page

Other than that an excellent feature. I Cant wait for Fallout 3 and Mirrors Edge.
IRohanIgame wrote at 14:41 on 24 July 2008

Well, do u guys have any blood-fued sort of thing with crytek???
THEN WHY THE BLOODY HELL ARE U SO BIASED WHILE HANDLING CRYSIS???
First u under-rate it , to me it was a 10/10 game and damn better than cod4 , mass effect , etc(and to me itz the game of the year)
Also i 've so far completed the game more than 10 times and i have no intentions to stop the number growing as the game's so very dynamic ,each time u play the levels come out differently(and i didnt even touch Mass effect onnce after completing it )
And u people havent even mentioned Crysis in the list of the remaining good games of 07 and nor in the articles.I ask u???

"This is madness , this is blasphemy , this is.........." -Crysis
"No Dude ,this is their love for X-Box 360 and itz games" -Call Of Duty 3
"Hmph" -Resistance,fall of man
"So thats why we dont get decent scores" -Mgs4
"....................." -Crysis

Just joking.But seriously crysis shud be on the list
IRohanIgame wrote at 14:45 on 24 July 2008

Yup this features excelent ,so is the site.
xboxlive wrote at 15:14 on 24 July 2008

the feature is looking good just hope the game play as good
TomO wrote at 16:25 on 24 July 2008

IRohanIgame: Crysis was intended to be on the rest of 2007 list. Somehow we forgot to add it. Thanks for pointed it out. It also nearly made our Top 10 of 2007. It was in the top 20 until we whittled that down to 10.
TroofMAn wrote at 17:42 on 24 July 2008

Probably go with 2007 just cos of halo 3 but rpgs wise definitely 2008: fable 2 and fallout 3 wa BAM!!
TroofMAn wrote at 17:43 on 24 July 2008

Oh yeah and forgot to say Too HUman looks awesome too...
Deto wrote at 19:02 on 24 July 2008

OK, nice feature, but seriously: Smash Bros Brawl NOT among the best games of 2008? That's insane.
Kurt wrote at 02:24 on 25 July 2008

Assassins Creed?
Bloodstorm wrote at 13:22 on 25 July 2008

World of Warcraft Burning Crusade?
Higgins wrote at 00:41 on 29 July 2008

WoW? You've got to be kidding me. It definitely doesn't deserve to be on the list.