Best of 2010 Awards: Shooter

Shooter: Halo: Reach Bungie's final Halo game is arguably its best, representing all of t

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Shooter: Halo: Reach

Bungie's final Halo game is arguably its best, representing all of the lessons learned from 10 years with the franchise. The campaign tells a great story within Halo's fiction and introduces us to some of the series' best characters. Firefight returns with countless improvements over ODST's incarnation making it a full-fledged mode. Multiplayer, of course, remains the game's strongest pillar with an amazing experience out of the box for both casual and serious players along with a super-charged Forge mode and Forge World, which will ensure that user-created content continues to flow for years to come. Few shooters can capture the pure-fun created by the weapons, vehicles, abilities, and physics of Halo's sandbox.

Runner-up: Battlefield: Bad Company 2

Bad Company 2 triumphantly brought the series back to the PC with an class-based, visceral multiplayer mode and an enjoyable single-player campaign thrown in for good measure. Bad Company 2's objective-based multiplayer rewards teamplay and creates intense frontline-based virtual warfare that mixes infantry and vehicle combat as only the folks at DICE can do for military shooters.

Nominees: S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat, Metro 2033, BioShock 2, Singularity, Call of Duty: Black Ops.

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    December 28, 2010 10:07 AM

    Halo reach over BC2 makes me very, very sad :(

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      December 28, 2010 10:13 AM

      me too, wtf

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      December 28, 2010 10:15 AM

      ^^^^ this

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      December 28, 2010 10:26 AM

      BC2 should best fps of 2010. Even black ops is better then halo.

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      December 28, 2010 10:27 AM

      Especially when you throw in VIETNAM.

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      December 28, 2010 10:38 AM

      lol

      Way to lose all credibility shacknews, if you had any to begin with :P

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      December 28, 2010 10:39 AM

      Well, I enjoy them both equally...BC2 more so @ LANs. Halo for when I don't feel like sitting in a chair.

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      December 28, 2010 12:11 PM

      Bc2 is my overall goty based entirely on the mp.

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        December 28, 2010 12:14 PM

        yes, for me too - and I am a huge halo fan.

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      December 28, 2010 12:51 PM

      I can't contest to MP as I never spent more than an hour into either but for single player I lost interest in BC2 about four hours in. I just got Reach for christmas and I haven't been able to put it down. I plan to go back and finish BC2 and maybe my opinion will change after I am done both but so far I am enjoying Reach single player more.

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