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Time Magazine reveals Top 10 Video Games of 2009

Posted Dec 10, 2009 at 10:06PM EST by Mabie A.

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With the big oh-nine winding down, publications are now coming out with their own year-ender countdown specials. Leading the pack is Time Magazine, and sitting prettily at the number one spot for Time's Top 10 Video Games of 2009 is Activision's Modern Warfare 2. Anyone surprised?

 

Time describes ModernWarfare 2 as "a game that sends a message." The magazine primarily commended how this particular game showed that "Video games have something intelligent to say about contemporary military conflicts."

 

Half of the list is composed of multiplatformers, while the other half consists of platform exclusives. Titles that made the cut include the following:

  1. Modern Warfare 2 (Xbox 360, PS3, PC)
  2. Batman: Arkham Asylum (Xbox 360, PS3, PC)
  3. DJ Hero (Xbox 360, PS3, Wii)
  4. Borderlands (Xbox 360, PS3)
  5. New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Wii)
  6. Geo-Defense Swarm (iPhone)
  7. Scribblenauts (DS)
  8. Halo 3: ODST (Xbox 360)
  9. Assassin's Creed 2 (Xbox 360, PS3, PC)
  10. Uncharted 2 (PS3)

Do you agree with their Top Ten Video Games? For more of Time's Top 10 Everything for 2009 issue, check out their online publication via the source link below.

 

 

Via [Time]

 



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# Joshua 2009-12-10 23:46
I personally believe that Uncharted 2 should have been a little further up the list.

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# Mabie A. 2009-12-10 23:47
i personally think uncharted 2 should have ranked much higher than 10th place. oh, and i just noticed. no psp game in the list?

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# Mabie A. 2009-12-10 23:51
haha! our comments are almost exactly the same. and posted almost on the same time. how weird is that.

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# Joshua 2009-12-11 00:10
Haha! Great minds think alike, son!

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# ...Silver-Tiger 2009-12-11 00:28
Another useless list...

If this list is based on sales, it might be correct, but in every otehr case, this list is just pure BS.

Geo_Defense Swarm, an iPhone game, ranked higher than Uncharted 2? Yeah, right.
DJ Hero was nothing more than a crap title, it was just another plastic toy where you just press buttons. It actually has nothing to do with the job of a DJ. Nothing at all.

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# Garb listMaster Chef 2009-12-11 03:09
MW2 is good but certainly not the best game of 2009. O well, not like lists mean anything

If I had to rearrange them it'd be:

Batman AA
Uncharted 2
AC2
MW2
Halo ODST
New Super Mario Bros
Borderlands
DJ Hero
Scribblenauts

And just leave it at that, like an iphone game? Really? wtf. Put Dragon Age or something else up there somewhere instead of that

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# lol corupted magazines are spreadingvizard00 2009-12-11 06:47
the top stupid list never seen , why qj post this .
lol uncharted 10 and MW2 1st wow , and assassins creed 2 beter than uncharted 2 , and the worse Batman: Arkham Asylum beter than uncharted and AC2 lol ,
1st Time magazine is a corumpted magazine , why ? chek amazon and gameplay.co.uk chek MW2 costumers feedback how they angry and want money back , bortherland is a game for kids dotn worth to be on list , uncharted is a nice game and deserve 10th posistition , assassins creed 2 is good game but uncharted 2 seem to be beter in game play and GFX . so my 2009 game shart is
1 - Uncharted 2
2 - Forza 3
3 - Killzone 2
4 - Fifa 10
5 - Street fighters 4
6 - Assassins creed 2
7 - Dragon Age origins
8 - Braid
9 - infamous
10 - resident evil 5

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# and the sh**t games arevizard00 2009-12-11 06:55
1 - MW 2 "teh ripp of the year"
2 - operation flash blablabla dragon ....
3 - the saboteur "is this a psx game"
4 - Tekken 6 "even tekken 3 is much better "

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# mARBLECAKEHungrymaN 2009-12-11 10:39
also, THE GAME

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# Luciddreamin92 2009-12-11 10:48
i bet they did this by sales, uncharted should be up more, and odst all the way in the bottum

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# i don't think so...rollypoly 2009-12-11 11:05
if they did it by sales, then DJ Hero shouldn't of made the list at all... let alone near the top. the sales for that game were abysmal.

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# List is a joke...squeeky_clean 2009-12-11 11:18
Put together by some second rate journalist that probably chases firetrucks or big payola from the publishers.

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# wow.Navani 2009-12-11 12:08
Terrible list. I don't think it should've been done by sales because sales don't necessarily mean a game is bad (Anyone remember Roadkill for Xbox and PS2? Didn't think so, amazingly fun game). Modern Warfare 2 isn't even that great a game, definitely undeserving of the number 1 spot.. A proper top 10 list would probably be more accurate if broken into genres =\ because Mario and DJ Hero are a little different.

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# olololololMaster Chef 2009-12-11 21:16
Quoting HungrymaN:
also, THE GAME


I lose.

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# oh greathouaruto 2009-12-12 04:04
time magazine + video games = natural diaster

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# Better Listsony_player 2009-12-12 16:56
Personally, I believe this list is far less "influenced". It's from the associated press so it's got some credibility as well.
http://ow.ly/KGK1

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# how much ?ghufranullah 2009-12-13 02:09
how much money did Time Magazine took to make this list?

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# AgreeBunjabin 2009-12-14 11:25
This list is waaaay better.

"a game that sends a message."- my a**

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# Yeah well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man.Guest 2010-02-15 03:46
Well, I gotta agree with them that Modern Warfare 2 did send a definite message; about both video games as a literary platform, and "contemporary military conflicts". Playing it, reminded me of the mentality you see in '50s - '80s political literature. Disturbing, thought-provoking and truly engaging.
The rest of the list though, does seem rather weird in my opinion. But I guess that list is just the writer's opinion. Personally I would rank Assassin's Creed 2 higher, along with Uncharted 2. Dragon Age: Origins and Left 4 Dead 2 should also have been there.

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