Your game of the year(Xbox 360)

What is your pick for game of the year for xbox-360 for 2007? Once you pick it give your example for it and give your three honorable mentions. My game of the year has to be!!!!!

Mass Effect: Bioware is known for making great games, but Mass Effect is a fantastic package, with so much depth. You really feel like your talking to someone because there is so much depth and variety in the conversation. The combat may not be intuitive but you will forgive this flaw because this game is amazing . you will eventually get lost in this galaxy.

Honorable mentions:

1.The Orange Box

2. Halo 3

3. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

Maybe Bioshock... as much hype as that game gets, it deserves most of it. I got more out of Mass Effect in the long run, but Mass Effect was far from perfect. Bioshock was pretty damn close. Honorable mention goes to that game.

As much as I love Orange Box, the fact that the bulk of that game is a game from several years ago (that one GOTY then) and it's two add-ons, it would leave the GOTY up to Portal and TF2, neither of which are full-featured enough to really merit the title, good as they both may be.

it's a tough choice... i think i have to say Mass Effect though. even though the combat can be flawed at times (such as the mission i am playing through right now...grr) and some of the indoor environments are repetitive, i've never seen such an interesting story and interesting characters in a game. plus, the world (or worlds) is massive. i've been playing it for about 12-13 hours and i've only gone through two or three central story missions. everything is just so...engrossing.

runners up:

1. Bioshock - probably the first game that made me feel emotions other than anger or happiness. it really paves the way for future games in all genres.

2. Crackdown - ok, so it's really nothing compared to Mass Effect and Bioshock, but Crackdown's extremely open world and awesome usage of superpowers is so addictive that i would be playing to this day had my save not been mysteriously deleted a few weeks after i beat the game...i love how you can explore every nook and cranny of the world in whichever way you choose.

3. Eternal Sonata - i'd have to say that ES just barely nudges Halo 3 out of the 3rd position. it's bright visuals, excellent music, and the mixture of turn based and real time combat using light and shadow are all things that had been sorely lacking on the 360.

Bioshock is a good game but has ZERO replay value, they could have easily added a +NewGame feature where everything from your last game transfers over to a new one...Same with Mass Effect. Awesome games, but no reason to continue playing unless your an achievement whore and must complete the game in every which way.

Charlie Oscar Delta has cheats like Infinate Ammo that can be enabled not to mention the endless multiplayer slugfest which makes it game of the year.

If it had to be a 360 exclusive game then I would choose Crackdown.

Call of Duty: It just did everything right for me. With such realistic graphics and weapons and the rpg elements of the multiplayer it just keeped me hooked

Honorable mentions:

1.Assassin's Creed

2.Guitar Hero 3

3.Halo 3

Bioshock. Great story, great setting, just a great game.

Honorable mentions are Orange Box & COD4.

Bioshock. I don't play many fps's but that game stood out to me. I thought it had a great combo of plasmids and guns and the environment was something unique.

Runners up for me would be: Eternal Sonata, Blue Dragon, and Call of Duty 4.