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A Year In Review_ The Top Reviews Of 2008

By Dr. Evelyn Reed | October 12, 2025 | 7 min read

2008 was the year that we decided to get off our butts, start reviewing games and finally สล็อต tell the game blog reading populace exactly what we thought of Haze. It was a very good year.

While we’d “reviewed” games in the past, we didn’t have a format that we were happy with. We settled that in 2008, arriving on a format that was u31 geared toward how we personally wanted games to be reviewed: keep it brief, keep it numerically score-free and ensure h25 that we’d beaten the game (or come as close to it) before we weighed in. So far, it seems to be working out pretty well.

As we head in 2009, we decided to take a look back at the biggest, most popular reviews on Kotaku. The list of games that received the most attention was sometimes surprising. Sometimes not. Let’s revisit them, shall we? We’ll be back next year with more reviews, refined previews and plenty of flaming opportunities.

Top Reviews

Grand Theft Auto IV Review: Life, Liberty City And The Pursuit Of Happiness

The Force Unleashed Review: As If Millions of Star Wars Fans Suddenly Cried Out

Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe Review: Finish Him

Mirror’s Edge Review: Leaps of Faith End in Splat

Call of Duty: World at War Review: The Modern Warfare Effect

Left 4 Dead Review: 2 Good 2 B 4gotten

Fallout 3 Review: Wasting Away Again In Radiationville

Too Human Review: Dyack’s Human Too

Haze Review: It Sure Beats Pumping Gas

Prince Of Persia Review: Like Sands Through The Hourglass

http://kotaku.com/384421/grand-theft-auto-iv-review-life-liberty-city-and-the-pursuit-of-happiness

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