And what does six months of perspective get us? Halo 3? You've got to be kidding me...

Are you serious? Halo 3?

Hell, Halo 2 is way more fun than Halo 3... Not to mention that MUCH better games have come out in that time slot.

Like anyone clearly updated on the game list released this year would say: "Halo 3? What the hell?"

Like the previous posts here, I think all Halo 3 deserves is the award for Most Conservative Game of the Year - not Game of the Year. Probably a typo from their part :)

Halo is polished. Probably more than most games I have played. But if you like playing inside an alien rectum (those of you who finished the game will understand what I'm referring to here...), then you should seek mental help. I thought the game's Campaign was tremendously deja vu.

Yea, Halo3 is polished, but its polished to the point where it polished out a lot of the fun.

I don't see why anyone can complain about these results... It's not like these were chosen by a 'select' few on some committee...G4 did not pick these. These are direct customer votes...maybe we should look at the list as a free generic 'what our customers like' focus group... instead of trying to marginalize and tear down the winners.

I'm not surprised by anything on that list...Congrats to all the winners!

I agree. It should be pointed out that these were all voted on by fans of G4 through G4's website. Therefore, it's a display of "What does the audience of G4's programming enjoy the most?"

Halo 3 is a good choice; the online feature set is not only light years beyond other console games, but outshines a lot of pc titles too.

It's the right stuff on the list, but still tragic. Halo 3 and Call of Duty 4 are still several steps behind Battlefield 1942 in terms of game design and features, they're just polished mini-games by comparison but that's all the consumers really have to choose from. Winners by default. GTA 4 seems like an amazing set of environments, but I got bored right about the time I finished taking my character's girlfriend out for bowling... Way to make me wait forever to find out my character's actual goals. Is it to just look nice and have a girlfriend? Where's Gannon, where's my Triforce, where's my MOTIVATION???

Although I do agree that these votes came directly from users that vote on the web site, let's consider this: Xbox 360 owners were swarmed by a freight train containing Halo propaganda and probably the most expensive marketing campaign Microsoft has ever done on his console.

It is only normal that after 6 months of intensive "You will love Halo, you will buy Halo" brainwashing has led to this result. We know how the impressions on the player will greatly be influenced by an immense number of factors outside the gameplay of the game itself. It doesn't surprise me that Halo has sold that much - that it's considered such a "good game".

If we back up from the "What do players want" (AKA what our marketing departments MAKE them want), I do agree that Halo is polished, but in no way it should receive any award for Game of the Year, or "Most Original/Best Design Game of the Year".

Congrats Bungie, hats off for the great game.

Shame on you reviewers for lying to yourselves and the players.

It's amazing how some of you think that YOU are the ones that decide what makes a game good or bad, and the ONLY way someone could like such a 'horrible' game like Halo 3 is by being brainwashed by the media. I don't even own Halo 3, but you self-righteous know-it-alls make me want to go buy it just to annoy you. It's all opinion people, and the majority of the people involved with these awards think that these are all great games. Get over yourselves.