The only reason for anyone choosing PES as their game of the year would be if that's the only game they've played all year. Left4Dead is probably my game of the year just because it's great fun and doesn't seem to get boring. Fifa 09 is a close second, but PES isn't even in my top 10 of the year.
Left4Dead seems epic, played it round my friends place on his PC and enjoyed it thoroughly. Now I'm at Uni though, money is tighter and I struggle getting online so it's single player games all the way for me (until now since I'm back home).
Only games I own from this year are COD5, PES2009 and GTAIV.
COD5: Very good game, but I haven't particularly had the benefit of playing it much as COD is all about online play and I've been forced to play single player since it came out. I'm enjoying online at the moment mind, although it just doesn't have the fun factor that COD4 had.
PES2009: Very solid game, I really do fail to understand people's complaints about it. I just think everyone is expecting Konami to make the massive leaps it did in the early stages of the game series, which they can't seem to comprehend won't happen anymore. It's a great game, minus the online mode it seems, PES 2008 was shite because it had no working online mode and also no innovation for single player. Whereas this year, despite online still not working properly, the single player has been greatly enhanced with Become A Legend (BAL). For example, I played on BAL the other night from about 1am till 5:30am, whilst talking to my mate on Xbox Live.
GTAIV: Disappointing to say the least. Then again, I was setting my standards too high after playing such a classic as San Andreas (which I'm contemplating buying off the Xbox Live marketplace). I'm starting to get back into GTAIV, but the game just isn't half as fun as SA was, the customisation is obviously lacking in comparison, and not being able to buy property means money is completely worthless. Rockstar have clearly chosen realism over the fun factor, something I'd hardly ever recommend when making a game. Still, GTAIV is a good game, but only in short periods.
PS: Should I be looking forward to getting FallOut 3 for Christmas ? :happy: