Okay, okay, I'll write a more consistent blog later. For now, this is just it! Pretty Please !

I know I haven't written a blog here on GS in like...a month & a half, so I'll tell you a few words about how things are going...very well. School's OK, gaming is very well (finished Penubra Black Plague/Requiem, Burnout Paradise, Mirror's Edge & a couple of others). But what I'm really into right now is Heroes, you know the great sci-fi TV series, I almost watched the entire season 1 in three scooldays...that's something I am really proud of

But well, I wanted to tell you about www.noobfeed.com , a great gaming-related site you should definitly check out. I guess I'll slowly move over to there, I'll still post on GS but not too often. I'll be happy if nutcrackr or monica or more of you buddies would register there .

we'll stay in touch

So I guess you saw this comin' .I'm gonna show you my best of 2008, mostly games, but not only. Be warned, they are only PC games, so don't go looking for console ones. Let me start with games:

Best action game: Grand Theft Auto IV ;Mention: Dead Space

Best fighting game: Devil May Cry 4

Best driving game: GRID ; Mention: Pure

Best platformer: Tomb Raider Underworld ; Mention: Prince of Persia

Best puzzle game: World of Goo

Best music/rhythm game: Guitar Hero Aerosmith ; Mention: Audiosurf

Best RPG: Mass Effect ; Mention: Space Siege

Best FPS: Brothers in Arms-Hell's Highway ; Mention:Crysis Warhead

Best strategy game:The Political Machine 2008 ; Mention: King's Bounty-The Legend

Best adventure game: Sam & Max 2-04 Chariots of the Dogs ; Mention: Overclocked-A History of Violence

Best sports game: FIFA 09 ; Mention: NHL 09

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Best graphics: Crysis Warhead ; Mention: FarCry 2

Best artistic graphics: STALKER-Clear Sky ; Mention: Devil May Cry 4

Best Sound: Dead Space ; Mention: Penumbra Black Plague

Best Music: Command & Conquer-Red Alert 3 ; Mention : Pure

Best voice-acting: Grand Theft Auto IV ; Mention: Mass Effect

Best story: Grand Theft Auto IV ; Mention: Overclocked-A History of Violence

Best atmosphere: Penumbra Black Plague ;Mentions: Dead Space & STALKER Clear Sky

Most Surprisingly good game: Quantum of Solace ; Mention: Lost Via Domus

Most disappointing game: SPORE ; Mention: Assassin's Creed

Best new character:Niko Bellic ( Grand Theft Auto IV) ; Mention: The Prince (Prince of Persia)

Best new universe: Mass Effect

Best expansion pack: Crysis Warhead ; Mention: Warhammer 40000 Dawn of War Soulstorm

Most original game: World of Goo ; Mention: SPORE

Best Content: Grand Theft Auto IV ; Mention : SPORE

Best multiplayer: Left4Dead ; Mention: Crysis Wars

Best boss fights : Devil May Cry 4 ; Mention: Prince of Persia

Most improved sequel: Grand Theft Auto IV

Least improved sequel: STALKER Clear Sky

Worst game: Legendary

Best game nobody played: The Political Machine 2008

Best Bad Game: Hunting Unlimited 2009

Worst Good Game: FarCry 2

Best producer: EA ; Mention: Ubisoft

My game of the year nominees:

-Devil May Cry 4

-Dead Space

-Brothers in Arms-Hell's Highway

-Grand Theft Auto IV

-Penumbra Black Plague

-World of Goo

-Mass Effect

-GRID

-Crysis Warhead

-The Political Machine 2008

-FIFA 09

-Sins of a Solar Empire

7th: Devil May Cry 4

With great ,stunning graphics, awesome sound effects & voice acting , a captivating story and, most importantly, the great gameplay full of action, Devil May Cry 4 is simply one of the best games of the year.

6th: Brothers in arms-Hell's Highway

A few flaws drag it down, but Hell's Higway finally game us a vision over WWII without any compromises. Clearly the best game in the genre, Hell's Highway impressed me deeply so it had to get in my tops.

5th: GRID

The aproximate 60 hours I spent playing GRID will never be forgotten. Sitting on the edge of my seat with my eyes pinned in the screen, my ice-cold fingers on the keyboard, sweating like hell not too f**k up the last turn of the race. How the hell could I forget this game?

4th: Dead Space

EA surprised me, really. I did not expect much from their alien shooter horror game, but it surpassed all my expectations & managed to be one of the best games I have ever played. Also, the "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" sang in that low, scared voice will never be forgotten. Thanks, EA!

3rd: Penumbra Black Plague

A game from Frictional Games, that managed to get into my top 3 games of the year & also in my top horror games of all time. These guys had hit me deeply with Penumbra Overture in 2007, now they scared me even more with this masterpiece. Play it, damn it. You'll thank me after...if your nerves survive,that is...

2nd: Mass Effect

If I try to forget about the oldie RPG games I grew up with...Baldur's Gate, Planescape Torment...then Mass Effect is the best RPG game ever made. Technically perfect in almost all areas, with such a compex (new) universe, populated by great characters, with awesome graphics/sound/story, Mass Effect may really be all what you wished for. It would have most definitely gotten the Game of the Year title, if it wasn't for...

GAME OF THE YEAR 2008: GRAND THEFT AUTO IV

I never had a second thought about this. The moment I touched its box, I knew this woul be the Game of the Year. It's so damn good, I can't even tell you how good it is, you just gotta play it. When I saw this game getting all those perfect ratings in the spring on the consoles, I expected a lot from it. It surpassed every expectation I could have had. It's like a dream come trough. Another thing to say about it, I'm a great fan of the series, but GTA IV seems to be my first game of the year from the series. They were all so close, but GTA III got owned by Mafia in 2002, GTA Vice City by Rise of Nations in 2003 & GTA San Andreas by Indigo Prophecy & Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II-The Sith Lords in 2005. But in 2008, GTA IV has owned everything. All hail Rockstar & their game, which in my opinion, is the best game from the last 7 years. Yeah, the other one is Mafia.

Disappointments:

-I voted SPORE as my biggest disappointment. I expected a lot from it, it managed to be just a good & very innovative game, but that was all. Nothing epic. Very good, but not epic. Too bad...

-Assassin's Creed was again a huge disappintment, managing to bore me to death because of the repetitive gameplay & boring action, despite the awesome graphics & really interesting story.

-You know that STALKER-Shadow of Chernobyl is my favorite shooter, so you can guess that STALKER Clear Sky disappointed me. It was an excellent game in the second half, but it was buggy & practically unplayable in its early release. Also, the producers didn't learn from their mistakes, making some things worse than in the previous game & adding very few things, recycling the rest. Once again, too bad...

-I just recently got Fallout 3, & I'm very sad about it. Fallout 1 & 2 are some of the best RPG games ever made, & Fallout 3 is just a bad Oblivion with guns, a game for console players to love, as far as i see. As a funny guy described it, "The Casual adventures of Captain Cook in the Sandbox Country of the Radioactive Cannibals" .Too bad that Bethesda screwed up the Fallout series...

-Need for Speed Undercover got me sick, i expected EA to do something outstanding but they screwed up so bad, that I consider it being one of the worst racing games ever, not to mention one of the worst games of the year. RIP, NFS series....

-Call of Duty World at War managed to disappoint me quite badly. With few great things in the plot, despite the great visuals & audio part, & a multiplayer exactly as in CoD 4, but worse implemented. Oh wel...

*BTW, I voted Space Siege as the 2nd best RPG in 2008. Strange, but despite being a game I rated 7.5 ,it was quite good & I think it deserves the title. I would have put The Witcher Enhanced Edition instead, a much better choice, but The Witcher was my RPG of the year in 2007 & it's basically the same game. And of course, as much as I tried, I couldn't put Fallout 3 there...I simply couldn't.

Also, for my other awards:

Best album: Black Ice (AC/DC) ; Mentions: Death Magnethic (Metallica) & Nostradamus (Judas Priest)

Best film:No Country for Old Men

So that's about it with my awards. Tell me what you think .