A lazy recommendation from my 27 years on this planet: 2 scoops of instant coffee to 3 scoops of sugar, then add a tiny bit of milk...and it's INCREDIBLE! P.S - Remember to brush stains off teeth afterwards, brush especially hard if you're a cigarette smoker or red wine drinker, I'm speaking from experience and slightly coffee, wine and smoke stained teeth here! ;)

@phantasm:

"It's hard to review this since it's more of a movie than a video game, consisting of more cutscenes and story than any other game I've ever played before"

Have you ever played Metal Gear Solid 4? I think it has roughly 10 hours of cutscenes from memory, and roughly a few hours of gameplay. Beyond: Two Souls has nothing on that in terms of how long you go without actually touching the controller, that game literally has huge bits to it that more resemble a film than anything in this game.

Anyway, I agree, the story was excellent. I definitely don't wish it was a movie instead though! The over-arching story was well suited to something you'd see in a film and not in a game but the beauty of it being a game is that a lot of us would have had different feelings to certain events, and likely responded to choices differently as a result, specifically the...

*SPOILER*

...birthday party scene. I just let the other kids walk all over me.

Overall, I played through the entire game pretty passively, but it felt right to me. I love that if I'm having a bad day though and I go back through it again ( just like 'Heavy Rain') it could be an entirely different experience and I could vent some frustration by going 'Carrie' on everyone to see what it feels like plus see what I missed the first time around. That interaction with the narrative is always a nice option to have. I'm yet to see a film that can give you such a bi-polar change in emotions towards it from one viewing to the next, perhaps something like 'Fight Club', 'A Beautiful Mind' or 'Memento' where the entire context is different on a second viewing...I don't know? I'm glad it was a game though!

How is a game that is so bug-ridden that one bug essentially renders it unplayable able to nab GotY? Shouldn't this be taken into account?MirkoS77

Though I've played just about every single/triple A this yeat except Skyrim, I get the impression it won based on how much the game offers you, as opposed to games with more of a linear focus.