Most Surprisingly Good Game
Each year there are games that seem destined for greatness, along with a bunch that seem doomed to failure. Although it's sometimes easy to spot the destinies of big-name games, it's the under-the-radar gaming surprises that make this category one of our annual favorites. Maybe it's a sequel to a game with a spotty track record; maybe it's a great result from a game that had an unusually long development cycle. Sometimes it's a game so obscure and quirky that it manages to far surpass our expectations. If you're looking for a gaming revelation, you won't find a better list than our surprisingly good games of 2008.
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Air Traffic Chaos
- Majesco Games
- Majesco Games
- Review score: 8.0
Air Traffic Chaos has all of the fun of controlling the friendly skies, without any of the...
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Braid
- Number None Inc.
- Number None Inc.
- Review score: 9.5
Travel seven platforming worlds to save a princess, but be wary of the peculiar flow of time in...
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Dead Space
- Electronic Arts
- Electronic Arts
- Review score: 9.0
Dead Space is a survival-horror game in which you must explore terrifying environments and battle...
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Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Conspiracy
- High Moon Studios
- Sierra Entertainment
- Review score: 8.0
Play through Jason Bourne's transformation from deadly government operative to wanted rogue agent.
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WALL-E
- Asobo Studio
- THQ
- Review score: 7.5
Based on the Pixar movie, this game puts you in the the treads of WALL-E and EVE as they adventure...
Voting Results:
Most Surprisingly Good Game| Air Traffic Chaos | 4% | 572 |
| Braid | 23% | 3,539 |
| Dead Space | 61% | 9,309 |
| Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Conspiracy | 9% | 1,360 |
| WALL-E | 4% | 561 |
Readers' Choice Winner
Dead Space
- Publisher: Electronic Arts
- Developer: Electronic Arts
GameSpot's Best Games of 2008 Readers' Choice Winner
The Dead Space experience is all about surviving in its sci-fi world through strategic dismemberment, so experience the horror before the Necromorphs dismember you. After all, you are never truly safe in Dead Space. When an immense mining ship, the USG Ishimura, comes into contact with a mysterious alien artifact in a remote star system, its communications with Earth are mysteriously cut off. Engineer Isaac Clarke is sent to repair the Ishimura's communications array, but he arrives to find a living nightmare. The ship is a floating bloodbath, the crew unspeakably mutilated and infected by an ancient alien scourge. Clarke's repair mission becomes one of survival as he fights not just to save himself, but to return the artifact to the planet at any cost.
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