Science: Uncharted 2 is the best game of 2009

by Justin McElroy on Dec 14th 2009 8:30PM

Who says so? Science says so. Just look at the numbers in this Metacritic round-up of the year's top games and it's pretty obvious that Uncharted 2 is the best. Also, according to math, the PS3 is better than the 360. This isn't us or even Metacritic saying it, people, these are innocent, irrefutable numbers.

In all seriousness, while Metacritic has collected some interesting, worthwhile data in its report, we're not sure what the point is in trying to pick the best system or game of 2009 just going by statistics. We've relied on numbers just to help us organize our annual Game of the Year selection, and even so, just look how much damage they were still capable of.

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Tags: DS, goty, metacritic, Microsoft, Nintendo, round-up, uncharted-2, Uncharted-2-Among-Thieves, Wii, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (248)

Fable 3 is also coming in 2010. I'm not sure if it will be a big hit but i'll by it regardless. I'm a big Fable fan. Hopefully it wont disapoint

that damn game is so over rated, i dont know why ppl cant see that they are just hungry for games on the ps3

I have all 3 consoles and I think it's the best game this year.

vOv

thats because you clearly havent played any other games this year, or any good ones

hungry for games on the PS3? uhhhh you DO realize this is 2009 right....not 2007....that shit doesnt apply anymore....it was 10+ EXCLUSIVE PS3 games that came out this year....and another 7 in the first 4 months of next year

I bought a PS3 just for UC2, and I have around 66000 gamerscore on 360, so im definitely not dying of thirst for games

dude thats cause you have a 360, also get a life jeez i thought i played to many video games

Try playing it. Do you think reviewers gave it 100's, and Spike awarded it Game of the Year for giggles?

This is a really horrible attempt at trolling. Yes, i do not have a thirst for games because I have a 360, and since my hunger was sated already, that should prove to you even more why Uncharted 2 is great, because I put even more in my already spilling over glass just for it

I'm pretty sure I've played more games than you have, dude. Definitely over a lifetime since I probably have a good 10 years on you. Plus, I even played some really bad ones this year (L4D2, Dragon Age come to mind)

10 years? I was born in 1939 gat dammit

I'm getting on friday, soo yay then?

I think Uncharted 2 should be game of the year. There were no reviews, people, Metacritic, or numbers to influence my decision, just the fact that I had such a blast playing it.

In terms of computer science Uncharted 2 was leaps and bounds ahead of everyone else this year. Those vehicle scenes were amazing.

Metacritic listed PS3 as system of the year because it had 10 games with a score above 90, compared to the 360 which only had 7. On the surface, it appears that the PS3 won, however only Uncharted 2 the only PS3-exclusive new game. The other PS3-exclusive games were Braid and God of War Collection. Braid came out last year for the 360, so it isn't really fair to use, and God of War Collection is just a rehash of a PS2 game. That leaves the PS3 with 8 to the 360's 7, which just shows that both systems are equally strong.

Well Uncharted 2 is the best game out. The story and the game play is unbeaten this year. The animation, the graphics and the voice actors are the best of the best this year.

True that Pybro, U2 story is great, and graphics are the best. People brag about the multiplayer, but really its a rip off from gears of war. The gameplay from U2 is very averge...u cant even melee and move at the same time. The multiplayer is defintly for the casual gamer and its funny how ps3 fanboys brag about this year being so great but this was like the only year to actually own one. You can only expect things to go down from here though...xbox releases Halo Reach...series that made shooters what they are today. Splinter cell, Fable 3, Crackdown, Alan wake,Possibly Gears, Natal( which has many exclusives from companies like rare and blizzard)

The online in Uncharted 2 isn't really a Gears rip-off. It's a lot more run-n-gun, and most of the gamemodes are very different from Gears. Hell, Gears doesn't even have team death match, it's all elimination gametypes.(and KOTH) I think the multiplayer in Uncharted 2 is it's own beast, and it's a pretty good game to play online, even if it's not as great as other titles.

You can melee and move at the same time in single player, just not in multiplayer, and for a good reason - melees take away more than half of your health. And Uncharted 2 is definitely not a rip off of Gears of War. Having played both I can say Uncharted 2 is way better - just my opinion but I'm sure plenty would agree. The multiplayer can get really competitive too, it's not just for casuals, and the game play is the farthest from average. You would know if you've played it, which by the looks of it, you haven't.

As for the PS3, it will only get better, with more exclusives than I can remember.

I think it's time for you to move out of that rock, PS3 is the future.

Uncharted 2 was pretty awesome, story was great, but to be honest I got a little tired of every bad guy being dressed in either gray or black and taking 2-3 clips of ammo to kill.

You know if there's one game this year I went out of my way to recommend to people it was Batman: Arkham Asylum. It just did everything right and felt rather fresh, even if it was basically Dead Space meets MGS4 meets God of War. Like that's a bad thing.

Are you trolling or something? Batman is Dead space meets MGS4 meets GoW? I want some of whatever you're smoking.

Killzone 2 was my personal GOTY. It was an innovative shoot that not only took tactical thought, but also skill and teamwork. A much better title than Camp of Camp: Camp Camp 2.

Couldnt agree with you more, LZ2 was just so tactical, basically if you dont se your teammates around you you are dead. And the way it is structured there is almost no camping, there is always a way around a choke point. Hated CoD:MW2, its all about reflexes and camping really

You always make me laugh.

I know I'm late to the party but the train level is better than 70% of the games I bought this year. I did the math, it's really 70%

2 paragraphs and 217 comments... i'm not sure if i'm reading the same article as everyone else.

Dragging that reporters ass around was a painful part for me, but seeing Tibetan women wield guns more than made up for it. At least I think it was Tibet, wait... I'm just gonna refer to it as the alps.

Uncharted 2 was an amazing game, beat it the other week. Personally I think lego rockband should be game of the year, AMAZING STUFF.

You know what should be GOTY?

.......... that one game.

Uncharted 2 is easily the best PS3 exclusive title, but despite what metacritic says, is it truly the best game of 2009?

COD MW2 will easily be the most purchased game of 2009 - so shouldn't it win? It will also garner the most play time online... that's another factor to look at.

So, what's more important, sales or ratings?

Then with solid games like Resident Evil 5 and Batman: Arkham Asylum available, I don't know if I could rank any of these 4 games above/below each other.

Then you gotta look at Metroid Prime: Trilogy - sure, it's a compliation of 3 older titles (with the first 2 reworked slightly to feel more Wii like), but they are among the greatest "First Person" games of all time! Of course, neither of the 3 are the GREATEST - that feat goes to Duke Nukem 3D, which coincidently was re-released on XBLA this year... maybe it should be in the GOTY running too!

In my opinion the best classification for a GOTY game is neither sales nor ratings, but the overall impact that game caused.

A game that makes everyone say "oh snap" and talk about it, a game that when you think back of 2009 in 10 years from now you will remember.

That's a game of the year, again, in my opinion.

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I didn't vote you down. But the fanboys are out! I didn't think it was goty.

We're not fanboys.

We just know a great game when we see one.

Unlike you...

...Cause you're an idiot.

and just for the record steven i played U2 and beat it...i own all consoles. U2 multiplayer is like gears(gears has way more modes fyi carmael zapper sorry it doesnt have respawns for you lol)...but gears is at a much faster pass of play. Basics are the same 3rd person cover system, action shooter...if u actually played multiplayers games you would quickly relize that U2 muiltplayer is average at best.

I haven't bought Spirit Tracks yet, but I'm pretty sure my GOTY will be Rhythm Heaven. That was the game I had the most fun with all year, even thought I suck terribly at it. After that would be Tokyo Beat Down, NSMBW and Professor Layton.

Of course, I have a stack of games between the Wii, 360 and DS that I haven't even opened yet...

Uncharted 2 is a weird way to spell Little Kings story.

lol

EL OH EL!! I know right Ashitaka.. Its crazy, its like I have personal taste or something! Whats wrong with me?

I should probability watch more spike tv so I can get my tastes more inline with the vocal 18-24 year old male crowd. The video game equivalent of
people who's music taste only goes as far as whats in the top 40 radio list.

These goty year lists are always such fucking bore fests. No matter who dose them.

1. It's everybody's right to have a personal favourite, but the way you said that your goty was little king's story made me post that comment.
2. You're sooo cool and underground for liking a game that nobody deems worthy of being goty.
3. Liking Uncharted 2 has got nothing to do with watching spike tv or only listening to the top 40 radio list.

Yes because Little kings story is "cool and underground" and just by mentioning it I'm now "cool and underground" as well. Out with the no-name cola and in with the pepsi, Im moving up one rung on the social ladder.

"Liking Uncharted 2 has got nothing to do with watching spike tv or only listening to the top 40 radio list."

You're right, liking uncharted 2 has nothing to do with watching spike tv or listening to the top 40 radio list, but GOTY lists do.

Little King's Story isn't an obscure choice of being named GOTY considering that it's a great game...

...but has an RTS ever been a GOTY?
...technically LKS is considered an RTS, just a different style of it (Pikmin style).

Why was atx1980 voted down? He is right, the fanboys are out! I mean, just look at him.

You used up your "lol"s for this year and if I recall correctly, the internet already advanced you most of next year's too.

Your not allowed to post anymore until next year.

The games are probably the only thing keeping my ps3 in use. Sony definitely has proven they don't know how to do anything with the hardware: why are we still waiting for cross game chat and why is the custom soundtrack only available for a half dozen games? In the meantime we get useless crap like trophies and facebook apps.

In fact, the only reason I don't have a 360 instead is because they're prone to spontaneous combustion and they charge for online; something sony plans on doing too even though they haven't earned it. Great choices we got this generation, eh? I hope onlive pulls through.

That's right, I'm ranking on both consoles.
Flameon!

I'd still rather play L4D2. Ohh noooooo.... here come the flames!!!!!

2 manee lols omgggggggggggg.

For a second I thought the research journal Science had somehow included an article about videogames and was about to freak out.

Yeah, Uncharted 2 deserves it. Attention to detail everywhere, and entertaining every second. I can't believe what I was missing out on, so I picked up the first game soon after finishing Uncharted 2.

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