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Portal.

Without actually figuring out my top 10 of all time, I'm betting it's probably in there, too.

Few games I've played over the years have had me saying, "This is awesome" through the entire game, like Portal did.
 
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl

And if you add good modifications it gets even better.

It has an unequaled depressive atmosphere, the out-of-the-box textures work is already awesome, the music is chilling and very well fitting, the A.I is quite good despite a few bugs and limitations (though as of version 1.0005 vanilla the A.I is better that's without a doubt), there's not too much action to fit the context, but not a lack of it to get boring, it has that perfect balance of lonely "exploration" and scripted events. The A-Life system, especially when well modified turns the somewhat static Zone of the vanilla version into a living breathing unpredictable and very dangerous place.

I just love that game, and its prequel, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky looks even better, which surprisingly enough is scheduled for a Q1 2008 release. And despite the 3+ years delay of Shadow of Chernobyl I do believe they'll be able to meet the deadline this time around, because they're just upgrading their engine, they're not making a completely new one, which would have been a whole other story. And look at how they upgraded the graphical branch of their engine (amongst many other things, including a DirectX 10 renderer):

http://www.stalker-game.com/en..._frame.php?id=10&res=0 (modeling example)
http://www.oblivion-lost.de/in...p?zone=design2&lang=en (modeling example + screen-shots)
 
Stalker is the only one I've played, but I agree it deserves to be a contender. A great game and pleasant surprise for me who never payed any attention to the years of talk about it.
 
I really enjoyed Crysis overall. I'd probably go for that. Best expansion would be Mask of the Betrayer for NWN2.

I'm playing The Witcher now and am at Chapter 3. It's quite good, but the annoying crashes, annoying engine, and some lame quests bog it down.
 
I'll put my vote in for Unreal Tournament III. Game play is good if you can get past the awful user interface and server browser.

Then again, I think that the original Unreal Tournament (1999) was so good, it still deserves to be this year's game of the year even though it was released 8 years ago. (Many people still play UT99 greedily; you'd be surprised.)
 
This would have been easier if you used a poll.

Anyway, I'd have to say CoD4.
Crysis a close second.

Crysis will be Game of the Year 2008-9 (when the hardware catches up...lol).
 
hmm...stalker, cod4, portal, bioshock.

the only thing with CoD4 is that i'm kind of bored with it now. If they added more maps and maybe weapons, I'd probably still be playing, but I'm burned out with the current maps.

 
STALKER. The level of immersion for me is right up there with Oblivion... only it doesn't take 500 hours to beat. Added bonus is the fact that I'm Russian and can actually understand what everyone says in the game.
 
TF2.

Also, stop saying WoW, which was released in 03 or 04. This isn't the "Best game you've been playing for 4 years and still play now" award. 😛

 
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