Best Platform Exclusive
The nominees are:
Gears of War 3
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
Super Mario 3D Land
Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings
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The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
In a dead sprint, you leap. In starfish formation, a horse-sized bird breaks your fall, and you glide with slight ease over the empty expanse of clouds below. It’s exhilarating – the moment of peril, the sudden freedom, the opportunity. You test the feathered companion’s resolve; dismount, freefall, whistle. It reappears, it catches you, and the skies open under your thumb again. (There is a 100% chance that you can fly to any available area, dropping to solid earth or floating rock, and proceed to any available Scenario…. The world is your unfolding cloister.)
– Dan Crabtree
Runner Up: Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception[/toggle]
Guest
WWE 12 beat out WWE All Stars? Absolute hogwash.
Anonymous
Yeah, we loved All-Stars, and some consider it more fitting for the “fighting” genre, but WWE 12 did a great job at pushing the sim side of pro wrestling, and felt deserving of the nomination.
It was a question whether or not to include a wrestling game here at all, actually.