This game had a lot of hype to live up to. It did a very good job at it too; it just fell a little short. Don't get me wrong, I do enjoy the game, I just don't think it really deserves the GOTY award. The only flaws the game had were its short story that was hard to follow at some points, the repetitive action during campaign mode, and the fact that the game seemed to rely more on graphics then game play. When I checked the achievements for the game, I was happy to see that it had 5 acts of campaign mode to get through, little did I know that they would be short, as I beat the game within 12 hours of buying the game, btw, it was on hardcore. That really disappointed me. The game play throughout the campaign mode is really repetitive. All you do it take cover, shoot, run and repeat. That got annoying quite fast. And then there's the story, I just couldn't follow it and had no idea what was going on the entire time. I just ran and shot. The game overall is still pretty good, and this is just the first step that Epic is taking into this universe. Hopefully, they will work on these flaws for the sequels. Hmm, it always seems that when the game is called the next Halo, it doesn't even come close to being Halo (Brute Force, Perfect Dark Zero, Gears of War, What's next?) My choice for GOTY would have to go to The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. I just loved that game from start to finish, and it still has new content coming out every couple of weeks.