Every year I try to, but often forget, to list my favourite things about the previous year from my areas of interest, sadly I lack any form of conistency, but after originally posting this on Jan 1st then removing it to add more detail, I don’t have the time, nor inclination to write up my reasons, although that may change in the future. Sorry about the awful layout too 
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Below are a selection of personal opinions on the best of 2008 in the area’s I’m interested in with honourable mentions. Hope you enjoy.
Games
| Game: |
Fallout 3 | |
| Honourable Mention: | Gears of War 2 | |
| Multiplayer: | Left 4 Dead | |
| Honourable Mention: | Battlefield: Bad Company | |
| Protagonist: | Marcus Fenix | |
| Honourable Mention: | Sackboy | |
| Developer: | Ubisoft Montreal | |
| Honourable Mention: | DICE | |
| Publisher: | Electronic Arts | |
| Boxwork: | Little Big Planet | |
| Honourable Mention: | Fable 2 Limited Edition | |
| Best Score: | Metal Gear Solid 4 | |
| Honourable Mention: | Gears of War 2 | |
| Console: | Xbox 360 | |
| Peripheral: | Sony Blu-Ray Remote | |
| Disappointment: | Burnout Paradise | |
| Honourable Mention: | TNA Impact | |
| Surprise: | Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe | |
| Anticipated of 2009: | Alan Wake | |
| Honourable Mention: | Resident Evil 5 |
TV and Movies
| TV Show: | Dirty Sexy Money | |
| Honourable Mention: | Chuck | |
| TV Actor: | Donald Sutherland – Dirty Sexy Money | |
| Honourable Mention: | Jeremy Piven – Entourage | |
| TV Actress: | Natalie Zea – Dirty Sexy Money | |
| Honourable Mention: | Zoe McLellan – Dirty Sexy Money | |
| Movie: | The Dark Knight | |
| Honourable Mention: | The Bucket List | |
| Actor: | Morgan Freeman | |
| Actress: | None have stood out | |
| Who Should Retire? | Dane Cook |
Football
| Team: | Manchester United | |
| Best Player: | Cristiano Ronaldo – Manchester United | |
| Honourable Mention: | Lionel Messi – Barcelona | |
| Favourite Player: | Anderson – Manchester United | |
| Honourable Mention: | Sergio Aguero – Athletico Madrid | |
| Favourite Goal: | David Bentley (40 yarder vs Arsenal) | |
| Honourable Mention: | Cristiano Ronaldo (Header vs Roma) | |
| Player to Watch ’09: | Rafael/Fabio – Manchester United | |
| Honourable Mention: | Carlos Vela – Arsenal |
Poor list in my opinion karlo. Fallout 3 offered nothing new and had nothing previously seen in Oblivion etc. Fable 2 was infinitely better, having more original ideas and more longevity. Dead Space left you wanting more and was graphically awesome, not to mention the arse nip moments!
As for multiplayer, you can’t beat Fifa 09 (and although it goes against my previous criteria of having nothing original) it improved on an already amazing multiplayer game. You also failed to mention COD: World at war which is pretty much smack on to COD4 (apart from the quality of the maps) which we both buchered last year!
Thought you would have mentioned Mirror’s Edge for best score.
Best TV show i would have given to Dexter or Entourage but the best actor has GOT TO go to Jeremy Piven. You said yourself that he’s one of the best TV show characters of all time!
Agree with the Da Silva twins and certainly Vela.
“Disappointment: Burnout Paradise”
No way! That was one of the last 360 I played and its was in a word, epic imo. Even though getting 100% completion stole ~ 80 hours of my life, it was all worth it for the platinum car
Wow, that text is BIG! Some great picks here. And THANK YOU for saying that Dane Cook should go away and never come back. The wife and I agree!
I laugh at how you present yourself as a fair and reasonable person and then you go and do ridiculously biased things (such as give 4 out of 5 of your awards to the club you support (that you don’t even live close to)).
Grow up you pathetic little child. That’s not bias, it did help that the team in question won the European Cup and Premier League and the player in question won World Player of the Year.
This will be the last comment you ever get approved until you change your ridiculous attitude. You’ve tried to make it personal between me and you over a banning which was your fault on a public forum… seriously, it’s only a forum.
Not a bad list there, but is there any chance you can reduce the HUGE fonts as it’s quite difficult to work out who won what award :p
Did you give the award to Ubi for Far Cry 2?
Cristiano Ronaldo….
# Barclays Player of the Month: January 2008, March 2008
# Barclays Golden Boot: 2007–08
# Barclays Merit Award: 2007–08
# European Golden Shoe: 2007–08
# UEFA Club Forward of the Year: 2007–08
# UEFA Club Footballer of the Year: 2007–08
# FIFPro World Player of the Year: 2007–08
# Ballon d’Or: 2008
# FIFA World Player of the Year: 2008
# FIFA Team of the Year: 2008
Man Utd…
# Back to back premierleague
# Champions league
# Charity Shield
# Fifa club world cup
# Current Premierleague leaders (with a game in hand 22/01/09)
Proper bias!