Posted: 18-12-09 In: Half-Life 2 By: Evo | (21) comments | Add your comments

Readers of British paper The Guardian have voted Half-Life 2 as being the Game of the Decade. There is a lovely little piece on the site about the game. The closing words in that article are my favourite:

Half-Life 2 is the game of the decade, not just because it's good, but because it encapsulates so much of what mainstream gaming has been trying to do for the last ten years; the aspiration to create believable, physically accurate worlds, then to make us a part of them. The narrative and technical achievements of this game and its episodic follow-ups have been equaled, perhaps, but not significantly bettered. We may see Half-Life's usurper in the coming decade – we may witness the next quantum shift in the medium. It will be fun getting there. This is why we play videogames, after all.

Half-Life 2 - Game of the Decade. It just sounds so right.