Best Strategy Game 2009

[Daniel]

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

[TAT]

Dawn of War II

It takes the premise of the previous game, adds an RPG element and alters the gameplay just enough to end up with a game that feels like a breath of fresh air in a sometimes tired genre.

[SOX]

League of Legends

[drzaius]

magic: the gathering XBLA

[texta]

Anno 1404

Best strategy game since Civ 4

[Clockw0rk]

Civilization Revolution
I don't care when it came out. My flatmate wouldn't stop ****ing playing it, so that counts for something.

[REQUIEM]

Empire: Total War. Ever since Populus I love ordering little people around.

[RunningMild]

Pixeljunk Monsters Deluxe (PSP)

The only other strategy game I played this year was LEGO Battles, so this was a no-brainer. :p

[Homemaster]

DoW 2, for sure. Big step for the series, but I really well realised interpretation of 40k law and a hell of a tactical game to boot. And Last Stand is one heck of a free update, along with the other support the game has received.

[william h. cosby II]

Football Manager 2010

Quite simply the best yet: and I think it counts because it's a sports strategy game.

[Tom Campbell]

It was addictive.

[lastitachionearth]

final fantasy dissidia

[Slippery]

League of Legends

[Watchers]

League of Legends

[Surgeon.]

League of Legends

Super competitive, completely addictive and absolutely free. League of Legends is team-based multiplayer at its best.