Best Gameplay (EGA's VGA's 2008)

"Nuts to graphics and sound, I care not," you say, "tell me how playing the game feels." While some games rely on in-game tutorials and control manuals to explain how the game operates, this game clicks with you the moment you begin playing it. Telepathy seems the only reasonable explanation as to why your first instincts translate so well into the game-world, but you struggle to explain why performing these actions in the game is so much fun. The winner of this award must balance simplicity with nuance, blatancy with subtlety, and ensure that elements which other games turn into mundane chores, this game turns into exciting opportunities through its gameplay mechanics.

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Another one to Metal Gear Solid 4. It takes all that was great with the series before and revamped it to make it more accessible to new comers of the series.