Eurogamer Expo: Top 10

Your favourite games.

By Eurogamer staff Published Monday, 9 November 2009

The Eurogamer Expo is long over, and once again we must say thanks to everyone who attended and especially to anyone who took the time to fill out the exit survey online, which helps us to figure out what we can improve on next time.

The other thing the exit survey does, of course, is allow us to work out which were the most popular games of the Expo. Last year the winner was Mirror's Edge - a sign of your cultured palate. Read on to find out which game won out for 2009.

10. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

The fact that Uncharted 2 came out over a week before the Eurogamer Expo opened in Leeds, and two weeks before we hit London, just goes to show the immense pulling power of Naughty Dog's action-adventure masterpiece. It's the only game on this list that had been released at the time of the show, and it's still the only PS3 exclusive to score 10/10 on Eurogamer - a very worthy 10 at that.

9. Mass Effect 2

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The demo itself may only have lasted a few minutes, but evidently you saw enough in Shepard's office assault and the resulting conversation with a fish-faced assassin to pique your interest, because Mass Effect 2 - just three months out from release at the time of the Expo - was another popular fixture throughout the show. Mass Effect with all the original's problems solved? Yes please.

8. Battlefield: Bad Company 2

It's not out for a while, so apart from the upcoming PS3 beta this was the only chance for many of you to check the game out for several months. DICE has worked hard to get more destruction out of the already enormously destructible Frostbite engine, and it shows.

7. New Super Mario Bros. Wii

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Out next Friday, Nintendo's classy-looking attempt to bring classic Super Mario Bros. platforming and packed-couch multiplayer together made for the highest-placed Wii game on the Expo list. The 10-level Eurogamer Expo demo was popular throughout the show, and came with its own nervous German code-watcher. Sehr gut. Look out for our review as soon as poss.

6. Aliens vs. Predator

We've known for a while that Rebellion's 21st century stab at bringing squishy humans together with devious preds and snappy aliens was looking like a return to form, but even we were surprised by the scale of the response at the Eurogamer Expo, with quite a few people naming it their game of the show.

5. Split/Second

The boys from Brighton won't have hurt their chances of catching your attention by putting on an entertaining developer session as well as a showfloor demo, but we suspect the beautiful, measured violence of Split/Second's route-shifting arcade racer would have caught your attention regardless. There's nothing quite like powersliding into a corner and dropping an oil tanker on the guy in your rearview...

4. Assassin's Creed II

The first game may have flattered to deceive, but the second one may well achieve more despite greater hardships: the cat's already out of the bag on the whole Animus thing after all, and yet in the treasure-hunting and villa-upgrading bonus activities, and less rigid game structure, Ubisoft is on course to wring greater depth and satisfaction out of Renaissance Italy's answer to Altair.

3. Left 4 Dead 2

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Always likely to be there or thereabouts, Left 4 Dead 2 was on show at the Expo with its new bite-sized competitive Scavenge mode, where one team gathers petrol cans while the other tries to prevent them doing so as special infected. What's more, the lovely Chet Faliszek was on hand to answer people's questions, and put on a developer session to boot. It may not have been game of the show for you, but it may well be game of the year for some of us.

2. Heavy Rain

Not only did you get to play Heavy Rain at the Expo - in the Hassan's Shop and Junkyard levels - but developer David Cage put on a show as well, demonstrating the range of possibilities in the game and answering many of your questions. Then he did a bunch of interviews as well. What a guy. And what a game - there was nothing else like it within the walls of the Expo, and there isn't much like it anywhere else for that matter.

1. God of War III

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Drumroll please? Or was it ever in doubt? From the moment the doors opened in Leeds to the evening they closed in London, God of War III was always swamped, as people took Kratos through a series of clashes each more violent and excessively detailed than the next. When the votes were counted it not only won overall, but did so by a distance. God of War III is your game of the Eurogamer Expo 2009, and perhaps just as significantly for its home platform, PlayStation 3 exclusives locked out the top two. Never mind Christmas, it's looking like a good Q1 in prospect for a resurgent Sony Computer Entertainment.

Thanks again to everyone who came to the Expo. We can't say it enough. If you have any more suggestions for the next one, let us know, and hopefully we'll see you next year!

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