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Eurogamer Expo: Top 10

Your favourite games.

Feature by Eurogamer staff Contributor
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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

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

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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