Game of the Year will be RE4.

Clearly one would have to be an idiot to consider God of War or Ninja Gaiden Black after both games lost to RE4 for the Best Action/Adventure Game category.

And Civ 4 does have the same addicting qualities that Gamespot said about World of Warcraft last year.  But it still got a 9.4 AFTER GS had rated RE4 9.6 and quite frankly they are not going to dismiss 25 hours worth of non-stop amazing action over a long addicting game.

Civ 4 grows on you slowly over an extended period of time.  RE4 starts at a "9" on a level from 1 to 10, and then proceeds to climb up continuously non-stop.

This is one of the best action games ever made, period.  Its already the considered the single greatest survival horror game.  A game that gives you that good of an impression simply does not become forgotten.

RE4 is the Game of the Year.