IMO, Orange Box was the best of the year. Between playing through HL2, the episodes & Portal, its kept me happily busy for a lot longer than other games.

I played through Bioshock once (for thepoints) but have no desire to play thru it again. The enemy variety is lacking and the feel of the weapons is not there, although it is very pretty and well scripted.COD4 is good, but not great (I dont understand the hype either).

Sadly, nothing as good as Gears of War in 2007 .....