NY Times gives Game of the Year honors to GTA IV
by Griffin McElroy 
on Dec 21st 2008 8:00PM
The New York Times gaming correspondent Seth Schiesel
recently defied the mold for year-in-review video game wrap-ups -- rather than handing out commonplace awards such as "Best Action Game" or "
Best Indie Game Fueled by Dew", his honorable mentions were awarded based on "Best Zombies" (
Left 4 Dead, natch) and the fairly inflammatory "Best Explanation of Why Nintendo Hardly Needs Big Games Anymore" (
the Wii).
However, at the bottom of his list of odds-and-ends, Schiesel follows the example of Time Magazine and the VGAs, ultimately choosing
Grand Theft Auto IV as his Game of the Year. Schiesel was swooned by Rockstar's crime drama due to its mature writing, which makes
GTA IV "one of the few games that even [tries] to take on the real world in any adult way." Obviously, he's never heard of
a little game called 50 Cent: Blood in the Sand.
