Its not a huge suprise to me that Gamespot's revealed choice for Game of the Year is Super Mario Galaxy. People have been hinting at it for a while and now its officially confirmed on the site. I have to say I'm honestly not very happy and would have preferred nearly any other nominee to win, except maybe Rock Band (which I enjoy, but have no idea why Gamespot is so obssesed with it). I would have really liked Halo 3 to win game of the year, but I wrote that off from happening shortly after the game was released. Halo 3 has enough hype going for it that it doesn't really need GotY and, as much as I'd like to see it, I don't know that it really deserves it (there is a lot of competition). I have only played SMG on the display unit at Best Buy, and although I thought it was fun, I didn't find it so compelling that I had to go out an buy it. As I've said before, SMG might be the best 3-D platformer ever made, and I would believe anyone who argued it was better than Mario 64 (because it is), but I feel the 3-D platformer genre is just about played out, at least for me, and SMG isn't going to change that.

On another note, I'm kind of upset that they gave the Xbox 360 Game of the Year to Call of Duty 4. I wouldn't have minded so much, but it also won on the PS3. Though I believe the game is good enough to warrent both awards, again, I would have preferred Halo 3.