SHOOTER OF THE YEAR

This award goes to my favourite shooter of 2010.

Runner Up

HALO REACH

What's this? My letdown of the year is also runner up for greatest shooter of the year? As much of a letdown as it was for me, Halo Reach was an excellent game. It had plenty of improvements over Halo 3, most notable was the amazing new forge mode, which I did spend a fair amount of time on. This combined with the dizzying options for game mode creation still makes this game the undoubtably best game on the 360 for private matches and customisation. The Campaign was good as well, relatively challenging on Legendary and a good end to the series. Multiplayer was the biggest letdown area for me but it was still good. As a game it's excellent, as a Halo game it's not so good which is why it was my biggest letdown. But it still held my attention for a few months, and it is definately worthy of being runner up Shooter of the year!

Winner

CALL OF DUTY: BLACK OPS

It had to win an award eventually, CoD Black Ops is easily the best shooter of the year, and for me probably the best shooter for the last few years. Campaign is amazing in traditional Call of Duty styIe. the Multiplayer is as addictive and expansive as usual, only now it's even better with theatre mode, private match customisation, more unlocks, credit system, file share, emblem editor and more. Also zombies returns in its greatest incarnation yet, with two great new maps and hopefully the WaW maps will be downloadable in the future.

If you want a more in depth look at the game check out my review.
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I will create some more awards for the next few blogs before unveiling my GOTY (although I'm sure you all could guess what it will be). Other awards I will reveal are Best News of 2010, best Film of 2010, I will think up more over the next few days, but please post ideas in the comments section if you want to see more!

Thanks!