September "Game of the Month"

There has been a bit of a dispute lately over Game Informer's choice for Game of the Month. The two most obvious games in question are Halo: Reach and Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty. Starcraft scored a review of 10/10 while Halo Reach fell short at 9.5/10. Despite Starcraft's lead, Halo: Reach was crowned Game of the Month and featured in a full page while Starcraft was awarded PC Game of the Month. Both games are (imo) the best to date in their respective genres.

Did Game Informer make the right decision?

After a while, I'll toss in my own opinion.

StarCraft II is probably among the best in the RTS genre, but I'm iffy on Reach. From what I can tell, it's a very mindless run and gun FPS, and while it's probably among the best of that type of FPS, I certainly wouldn't call it the best of its entire genre.

Gotta say Starcraft II is the better of the two.
Then again, I like RTSs more than FPSs.

I'm better at FPS than RTS, but I would still say StarCraft II was much better. It's proof that awesome multiplayer and awesome singleplayer are not mutually exclusive.

Reach brings a lot of new stuff to the table... I would certainly not call it generic

I would wait to actually play it before passing judgment on it, Rot

I think Reach deserved it, considering its competition was a pile of shit.(not SC:II, other FPS games)

StarCraft II all the way, even despite retcons and some pretty silly characters in campaign.

KrAzY wrote:Reach brings a lot of new stuff to the table... I would certainly not call it generic

I would wait to actually play it before passing judgment on it, Rot

A lot of new stuff to the table for console gamers, perhaps. I'm not passing judgment, but I'm not about to call it the best game in the FPS genre.

Wait, I thought SC II came out in August.

Didn't it?

PiEdude wrote:Wait, I thought SC II came out in August.

Didn't it?

July 27th......

Gold Spartan wrote:

PiEdude wrote:Wait, I thought SC II came out in August.

Didn't it?

July 27th......

...

What won Game of the Month July?

Deadliest Warrior Arcade game?

Or was it the Clash of the Titans movie tie in?

Rotaretilbo wrote:

KrAzY wrote:Reach brings a lot of new stuff to the table... I would certainly not call it generic

I would wait to actually play it before passing judgment on it, Rot

A lot of new stuff to the table for console gamers, perhaps. I'm not passing judgment, but I'm not about to call it the best game in the FPS genre.

for the month of september, what other fps has come out that is better than Reach?

Fair enough. I misread this as Game of the Year. Reach can have Best FPS of the Month. I don't think there were even any major FPS releases to compete with it.

Quantum Theory and MorphX come out tomorrow, as well as some Borderlands DLC.