Game of the Year Award Winners 2009

2009 is officially over and it’s about time I posted the winners of the Pixelated Sausage ’09 Gaming Awards. If you listened to the latest episode of Distributed Failure then you already know the outcome, but If you haven’t (what are you waiting for?) then this will all be new to you. We received twenty one votes in total and we had some very close categories. With all that said, it’s about time I revealed the answers.

1) Best Achievement/Trophy

• Winner: My Brother is an Italian Plumber (Borderlands)
• Runner Up: Be Gentle… It’s My First Time (BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger)

2) Best Collectible

• Winner: Riddler Challenges (Batman: Arkham Asylum)
• Runner Up: Audio Logs (Halo 3: ODST)

3) Best New Franchise

• Winner: Borderlands – 12 votes
• Runner Up: inFAMOUS– 4 votes

4) Most Disappointing Game

• Winner: Brütal Legend – 11 votes
• Runner Up: Bionic Commando – 4 votes

5) Best Game No One Played

• Winner: Dead Space: Extraction – 8 votes
• Runner Up: Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars – 4 votes

6) Best Downloadable Game

• Winner: Plants vs. Zombies – 6 votes
• Runner Up: Shadow Complex & Battlefield 1943 – 5 votes (each)

7) Best Handheld Game

• Winner: Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars – 9 votes
• Runner Up: Scribblenauts – 8 votes

8) Best Single-Player Game

• Winner: Dragon Age: Origins – 8 votes
• Runner Up: Batman: Arkham Asylum – 7 votes

9) Best Multi-Player Game

• Winner: Modern Warfare 2 – 10 votes
• Runner Up: Left 4 Dead 2 – 6 votes

10) Game of the Year

• Winner: Batman: Arkham Asylum – 11 votes
• Runner Up: Dragon Age: Origins & Modern Warfare 2 – 4 votes (each)

______________________________________________________________________

...That's it and that's all. I want to thank everyone who participated in the voting (everyone's vote truly counted) and I look forward to doing more features like this (and more polls as well) in the future. I hope you're at least somewhat satisfied with the results and let it be known that Modern Warfare 2's single-player campaign is absolute garbage and Uncharted 2: Among Thieves would have been better titled as Uncharted 2: Scooby Doo! Where Are You? Sorry, but I had to throw my personal feelings out there in the end.