Best of 2010 Awards: Shooter
Shooter: Halo: Reach Bungie's final Halo game is arguably its best, representing all of t
Bungie's final Halo game is arguably its best, representing all of the lessons learned from 10 years with the franchise. The campaign tells a great story within Halo's fiction and introduces us to some of the series' best characters. Firefight returns with countless improvements over ODST's incarnation making it a full-fledged mode. Multiplayer, of course, remains the game's strongest pillar with an amazing experience out of the box for both casual and serious players along with a super-charged Forge mode and Forge World, which will ensure that user-created content continues to flow for years to come. Few shooters can capture the pure-fun created by the weapons, vehicles, abilities, and physics of Halo's sandbox.
Runner-up: Battlefield: Bad Company 2
Bad Company 2 triumphantly brought the series back to the PC with an class-based, visceral multiplayer mode and an enjoyable single-player campaign thrown in for good measure. Bad Company 2's objective-based multiplayer rewards teamplay and creates intense frontline-based virtual warfare that mixes infantry and vehicle combat as only the folks at DICE can do for military shooters.
Nominees: S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat, Metro 2033, BioShock 2, Singularity, Call of Duty: Black Ops.
[Best Shooter is part of Shacknews Best of 2010 Awards. For more information, including selection methodology, see this introduction.]
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Halo reach over BC2 makes me very, very sad :(
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I can't contest to MP as I never spent more than an hour into either but for single player I lost interest in BC2 about four hours in. I just got Reach for christmas and I haven't been able to put it down. I plan to go back and finish BC2 and maybe my opinion will change after I am done both but so far I am enjoying Reach single player more.