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And the giant bomb game of the year 2009 feature continues day two. Oh man. We're back. Hey got

everyone back out of bed, brought him into the office, cleaned him up. He didn't shave. He's still

wearing his bunny slippers. But he's here at least as is Jeff and Brad. And we're here to talk

about some of our awards for for game of the year 2009. You ready? I'm scared. Another set of

categories. No set. Day two. December the 28th 2009. Our first category is best debut.

There's a for games new new game properties that hit in 2009. Yeah. We were smitten with the

nominees are Borderlands shadow complex and infamous all very strong. Yeah. We kind of argued

about this one. Yeah. We did. Yeah. I think when I thought of the category like the first game

that jumped in mind was immediately Borderlands. But then thinking about it more, it's like there were

a lot of great original games to come out this year. And some that delivered in ways the Borderlands

did not. Absolutely. Yeah. Like I think I think infants was kind of the total package of a great

gameplay, but also like a larger fiction that can be extended on to yeah for you know new properties

inevitable sequels, et cetera, et cetera. Absolutely. Borderlands is like a great game with like a

paper thin wisp of a storyline. Sure. Sure. But you know at the same time for like as much as

everyone constantly gripes about like oh it's all sequels. All video games are sequels. It's nice

to be able to kind of sit here and go look no actually there were like there's some great original

stuff this year. No doubt and infamous is giant bombs choice for best debut of 2009. Yeah. For

the exact reasons that Brad just mentioned. Infamous. Infamous. Best co-op. Which you know I yeah

that's how if I'm going to play a game multiplayer these days, it's kind of how I want to play it.

I agree with you. So the increasing ubiquity of co-op modes in video games is awesome.

Remember how co-op took a few years off? Like yeah. There was a period there where nothing had

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