Xbox 360 Game of the Year: Nominees 2012

How can you give a cross platform game the console title? Halo 4?

Even though Halo 4 was the most polished game this year, I'd go for Dishonored. I believe the game has a lot of potential to grow even more!

I would say Far Cry 3, because Halo 4 was a mediocre game, but even then it was the best Xbox exclusive this year so Halo 4 should still win this one.

this is gettin retarded. halo 4 was the best FPS, while on Xbox, the best game is Dishonored followed by FC3 and Halo4. Yet, Halo is the best FPS? Seriously?! Sorry Gamespot, but this is the last time I checked your site for any game scores. you obviously don't know what the hell you are doing. Good bye and good luck earning monies from developers who make shitty games to make money on kids.

Lol games!!

Really tough call, but I'd say XCOM!

Side note: Games that bizarrely didn't take the place of Mass Defect 3, off the top of my head, include Borderlands 2, The Walking Dead, Fez, Trials Evolution. Wonderful "Games Journalism", Gamespot, wonderful...

This should go to the only exclusive on this list.

Dishonored is the best game out of those, but no doubt the Halo fanboy GS editors will give it to Halo 4 even though its not even that good.

Halo 4 or Borderlands 2

And the Xbox fans will choose Halo 4.

lack of exclusives much? almost every console has the same games now..

Not a good year for the Xbox if Halo wins best game. Campaign was boring without real epic moments. Graphics look good only as long as you don't look to close. MP without the opton to search for good connection is pointless unless you live in the US of A. But most of all 343 managed it somehow to make the enemy A.I. worse that Halo3 and Reach and that was a big disapointment.

Seriously need I say more? Halo 4 without even looking at the nominees :)

Hmm, DISHONORED is a good game but good enough to come up as winner for near enough all categories? Nay. Just easier to copy and paste the winner hey GS?

halo 4 without thinking

i would choose xcom, but as i wrote in the ps3 category, i think in console categories there should be only exclusives, and in this one the winner will be halo 4, anyone has a doubt of that??

How bout throwing Witcher 2 on that list? Sure the original was from 2011 but this was a different version and it's at least exclusive to Xbox among consoles. I think they threw the PS3 version of ME2 on some lists when it finally came out on PS. I know it was the best game I played on my Xbox this year and it's not even close(and I thoroughly enjoyed H4, ME3, MP3, AC3, SD and FC3).

I agree this category should be Xbox 360 exclusives only. That said we have here, a game which is what you'd get if someone described the plot of Witcher 2 to you while you were playing Deus Ex next to someone playing Fable 3. Just Cause 2 with crafting and hunting. Halo 2 Remixed. Plan 9 from outer space the game, and a niche game which happens to have a cult like following. I'm going for the niche game with the nerdgasms.

Halo 4 without a doubt.

Halo 4... 'Nuff said...

>=)

FC3

Gamespot why do you choose the best game for console X while that game is multiplatform? You should choose exclusives like for X360, it should Halo 4, Horizon, Fable the Journey etc.

The Witcher 2!

Obviously Halo 4 gets this... Dishonoured and Far Cry 3 can duke it out for the PS3 award.

the last game I played on the Xbox 360 was Alan Wake. I surely have missed a lot of episodes here. :-)

dishonored has better gameplay, but for the graphic halo 4 WIN

that's it?

It should be Halo 4 since it is an Xbox 360 exclusive, not to say the other games aren't worthy, but they are multiplatform.

Dishonored is my GOTY. Halo 4 was good, but the campaign wasn't as long as I was hoping.

Halo 4

They'll give it to Far Cry 3. AC:3 deserves special mention for it's shipboard missions though, no other game for Xbox has done that before.

halo 4 for the win

halo 4