Most Innovative Game 2009

[Daniel]

Keep your posts clean and to the point. If you would like your comments to appear in the magazine, please keep comments to under 100 words.

The Reader's Game of the Year special will appear in issue 198.

[AranchineD]

Scribblenauts

Yes, it was a huge disappointment. But the general idea of the game is still one of the most innovative things I've seen in gaming.

[TAT]

Scribblenauts

Cthulhu gets shit done

[JubeiSaotome]

Guitar Hero 5 / Band Hero

Party Play mode - Jump in and play or drop out without pausing the game and ruining it for others.

[igotnewsuper8systemWRONG!]

Demon's Souls, because of its online mode.

[dalmatian]

Valkyria Chronicles


Advance Wars with a storyline and hand drawn cel shaded graphics. Yes please:D

[igotnewsuper8systemWRONG!]

You do realise it came out in 2008?

[dalmatian]

You do realise it came out in 2008?

Yeah, who cares? It got no recognition last year so I think it deserves some this year:D

[igotnewsuper8systemWRONG!]

Can't argue with that

[adam_91vn]

Borderlands

Action/RPG innovative enough

[RunningMild]

Scribblenauts

Holy Invasion of Privacy, Badman! What Did I Do To Deserve This?

Trials HD

[Mr.Mew]

Borderlands

Turning RPG through to FPS. Why we don't have more of these games is beyond me, thankfully it's here to bridge the wait window between Invisible War and Deus Ex 3.

[Jay]

That 30 second RPG game looked pretty cool, but I didn't get a chance to play it. So I'm a say Scribblenauts.

[RunningMild]

That 30 second RPG game looked pretty cool, but I didn't get a chance to play it. So I'm a say Scribblenauts.

Half Minute Hero? Yeah, I wanna play that too. When's the Aus release?

Yeah, who cares? It got no recognition last year so I think it deserves some this year:D

We can do that now?

In that case, I vote Super Mario Bros 3! :D

[T Strife]

Scribblenauts
Turned out to be more toy than game, but you've still got to give it props for what it was.

[Hyperblau]

Can i say Batman Arkham Asylum for innovating the way licensed games are developed, ie, with care and respect.


If not Scribblenauts even though the actuall gameplay was shite.

[drzaius]

Scribblenauts

[RunningMild]

I just remembered something.

Yeah, who cares? It got no recognition last year so I think it deserves some this year:D

It was voted best strategy game of 2008, you ****ing idiot.

And the mods say we don't need a rep system... :rolleyes:

[Ad-Rock]

Scribblenauts

[Australian Ninja]

Scribblenauts - Where imagination is King

[concrete donkey]

Prototype becoz I loved the noise when you pin-dropped off buildings. that shit right there is awesome.

[punkgorilla]

Scribblenauts

A brilliant concept that seems obvious, but had never before been attempted, let alone achieved.

[Clockw0rk]

Scribblenauts
Sure, after a couple of hours it was boring as hell, but for those hours all you can do is alternate between laughing and saying "holy shit, they even put that in?"

[REQUIEM]

Scribblenauts: Jet packs to keyboard cat. Gaming originality at its best.

[Grubdog]

Rabbids Go Home

You drive around in a shopping cart collecting stuff to shove down the toilet in order to help build a pile of rubbish high enough to reach the moon.

[borgster101]

Batman Arkham Asylum

Innovative gameplay and design.

Also honurable mention to Another Code R Journey into Lost memories, didn't get an AU release, but this game had some brilliant uses of the Wiimote in the puzzle designs, more people need to play this game!

[Shaftoe]

Scribblenauts

[william h. cosby II]

Flower

Because Scribblenauts was a cop out, and it was (unfortunately) crap.

[Stevorooni]

Scribblenauts

It didn't really work out in the end but thumbs up for trying something new that could work better in the future with some fine tuning.

[Argeaux]

Scribblenauts was the most innovative idea, although the innovation was marred by its shoddy game play mechanics.

[RunningMild]

Runner up vote for Half Minute Hero. I haven't even played the game (yet) but I can tell that the idea is innovative.

[Rion1]

Wii Sports Resort

The potential that the Wii Motion Plus has is staggering. Here's hoping Nintendo don't drop the ball. Again.

[Rambo]

Half Minute Hero. If you actually get to play it, all of the 5 mini games in one are all compelling and take away the grind from traditional RPG's :D

[Natrak]

Batman Arkham Asylum

Innovative gameplay and design.

I take it you've never played a Metroid title? >_>

[someguy45]

Scribblenauts:)

[RunningMild]

I take it you've never played a Metroid title? >_>

Maybe he's saying that Metroid titles don't have stealth sections and 360 degree melee combat, so mixing all of that with the Metroid formula = innovation. :p

[xander_cade]

Ive never seen my girlfriend get excited for a game before this. That in itself is worth the innovation award.

[lastitachionearth]

Final Fantasy Dissidia

[jawsy]

Scribblenauts.

I think the innovative idea hooked everyone, and some of the fun and wonderment that could come from it allowed you to overlook the inherent gameplay problems.