The most surprisingly good game of the year award goes too.............

Castle crashers!

I recently took a day off work to catch up with some studying for my MCSE, but instead i ended up spending 18 hours at a friends house playing his most recent XBL game Castle crashers.

It was definitely with out a shadow of a doubt time well spent, this game is fantastic! By all means the greatest example of what downloadable games have to offer over normal retail games, castle crashers is money well spent and i was so surprised with the gameplay, the visuals and the general awesomeness of the game that i had to play through it 3 times before i left. All though the storyline is rather short and completed quite easily within 3 hours and bosses aren't at all difficult, this game was a fantastic play through that was hours of fun. I think that games like Castle crashers, braid and Flower are definitely what developers creating downloadable games need to aspire to. I mean to be honest there is not really a great deal of fantastic downloadable gamesoneither of the 3 consoles stores, but it is gradually getting better with games like Castle crashers.

I recommend castle crashers to anyone with a 360 honestly money and time well spent.