Gamespot names 2001's best single-player game

[mysteryperfecta]

The nominees:
AvP2
Clive Barker's Undying
Max Payne
Op Flashpoint
Serious Sam

The winner:
Max Payne

Congratulations, Remedy.

http://gamespot.com/gamespot/features/pc/bestof_2001/p3_01.html

EDIT: Max Payne was also nabbed as the 2nd best game of the year behind, ahem, Serious Sam.

[ 12-26-2001: Message edited by: mysteryperfecta ]

[revenant100]

http://forums.3drealms.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=4;t=003527

I don't see anything wrong with Serious Sam being chosen GOTY.

[Homoludens]

Me neither, but whereas Serious Sam was the most mindlessly fun and purest, Max Payne absolutely possessed the highest caliber of cool and the sharpest edge!

[Sample_H5-180]

Yes, but you see, Max kicked a higher degree of ass, and therefore should now be judged on the same scale. This is blood. This is nothing. I am enlightened.

[biXen]

Serious Sam? Another boring FPS anyone? I'd rather pick RTCW than Serious Sam... never understood what's so good about that game, it's more boring than CS (fun for a while, but then it just get's too repetitive, like SS)

I wish RTCW dropped the zombies and went deeper into characters and stealth, could have been a ten times more amazing game if it did... now I'm gonna have to play... *gulp* ...multiplayer...

[Snyper578]

none of those other games have a chance in comparisin with max payne, any fool can see that!!!

[Homoludens]

http://www.plauder-smilies.de/laugh.gif Within the genre of action there are sub-genres, take your pick: fun but mindless and blatantly repetitive shooters (SS, Q3, UT); ballsy, linear story-based shooters (Max Payne, RTCW, HL); and open-ended gameplay, thinking person type shooters (Deus Ex, Hitman, Thief, NOLF). I like them all. images/icons/grin.gif