Game of the year is you win a game of the year award from any one, doesn't matter who and release the game as a game of the year edition. It's only done to make more money, it has nothing to do with sales or if the game is any good. So I agree with you, its a sham system.

- sorry for my bad english, I usually speak english -

hardest difficulty the second time through?! wow, that shows mild talent.

P.S. way to be humble

it's made by a team who made PoP:SoT and worked on alot of splinter cell. those are the two biggest sources of influence in the game. If you liked Sands of Time or any thing out of splinter cell thats what your looking to get in Assassins creed.

I do have fun. I take my time, but its apparently faster than other people. I never play a game just for the points, I have to have atleast considered playing it, regardless of gamerscore. Thats why I refuse to play sports games. I dislike sports, I don't care how many points or how fast I could get them, it wouldn't be fun, and its so easy its just not valuable.

I have played a few easy games like Call of Duty 2 that only took 15 hours the first time through to get all 1000.

I do have alot of time, and only two friends but one is too busy working and the other is too busy playing WoW. so I found myself putting alot of time into the 360, but I still got a 3.7 spring semester.

I got my x360 for christmas '06 and my goal was to get 36,000 gamerscore in one year, I'm at 27,560 right now and I don't think I'm going to make it :( note the only sports title I've played was FNR3.

personal side-note. I played 50 games on my original xbox, between fall 2003 and Fall 2006 and I've played almost 40 full (non-arcade) titles on my 360 this year.