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The Games of 2008
Gangles | 1:14 PM on 11.29.2008 21 comments




This year will be coming to an end soon, and I'm sure many of you will be making "Best Games of 2008" lists this month. However, a year is a long time and many of us can barely remember games that were released this Spring.

Therefore, I present to you a master list of noteworthy titles that were released in 2008. The information was scraped from the Giant Bomb release calendar, so any inaccuracies there have carried over. Have I omitted any important titles? Please let me know in the comments.

Enjoy!

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Advance Wars: Days of Ruin
Age of Booty
Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures
Alone in the Dark
American McGee's Grimm
Animal Crossing: City Folk
Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney
Armored Core: for Answer
Army of Two
Assassin's Creed: Altair's Chronicles
Audiosurf
Bangai-O Spirits
Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts
Baroque
Battlefield: Bad Company
Bionic Commando Rearmed
Bioshock (PS3)
Blast Works
BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger
Blitz: The League II
Boom Blox
Braid
Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway
Bully: Scholarship Edition
Burnout Paradise
Call of Duty: World at War
Castle Crashers
Castlevania: Judgement
Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia
Chrono Trigger DS
Civilization IV: Colonization
Civilization Revolution
Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3
Condemned 2: Bloodshot
Conflict: Denied Ops
Cooking Mama: World Kitchen
Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII
Crysis Warhead
Culdcept Saga
Dark Sector
de Blob
Dead Space
Devil May Cry 4
Disgaea DS
Don King's Prizefighter
Dragon Ball Z: Burst Limit
Dragon Quest IV: Chapters of the Chosen (DS)
Dynasty Warriors 6
Echodrome
Endless Ocean
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
Eternal Sonata (PS3)
Eternity's Child
Etrian Odyssey II: Hero of Lagaard
Exit DS
Fable II
Facebreaker
Fallout 3
Far Cry 2
FIFA Soccer 09
Final Fantasy Chronicles: My Life as a King
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates
Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo's Dungeon
Final Fantasy IV DS
Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift
fl0w (PSP)
Football Manager 2009
Fracture
Frontlines: Fuel of War
Galactic Civilizations II: Twilight of the Arnor
Galaga Legions
Gears of War 2
Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2
God of War: Chains of Olympus
Golden Axe: Beast Rider
Grand Theft Auto 4
Grand Turismo 5 Prologue
GRID
Guitar Hero: On Tour Decades
Guitar Hero World Tour
Guitar Hero: Aerosmith
Harvest Moon: Island of Happiness
Harvest Moon: Tree of Tranquility
Haze
Hinterland
Hot Shots Golf: Out of Bounds
Ikaruga (XBLA)
Infinite Undiscovery
Iron Chef America: Supreme Cuisine
Izuna 2: The Unemployed Ninja Returns
King's Bounty: The Legend
Kirby: Super Star Ultra
Left 4 Dead
Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon
Legendary
Lego Batman: The Video Game
Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures
Line Rider 2: Unbound
Lips
LittleBigPlanet
Lock's Quest
Lost in Blue 3
Lost in Blue: Shipwrecked
Lost Odyssey
Lost Planet: Extreme Condition - Colonies Edition
Lost: Via Domus
LostWinds
Madden NFL 09
Major League Baseball 2K8
Mario Kart Wii
Mario Super Sluggers
Mega Man 9
Mercenaries 2: World in Flames
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
Metal Slug 7 DS
Midnight Club: Los Angeles
Mirror's Edge
MLB 08: The Show
Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe
Mother 3 (Fan Translation Patch)
MotorStorm: Pacific Rift
My Sims Kingdom
Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer
N+
Nascar 09
NBA 09: The Inside
NBA Live 09
NCAA Football 09
Need for Speed: Undercover
NFL Head Coach 09
NHL 09
NHL 2K9
Ninja Gaiden II
Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword
Ninjatown
No More Heroes
Okami (Wii)
Opoona
Peggle Nights
Penny Arcade: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness
PixelJunk Eden
Pixeljunk Monsters
Populous DS
Portal: Still Alive
Princess Debut
Pro Evolution Soccer 2008
Professor Layton & The Curious Village
Pure
Quantum of Solace
Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty
Resistance 2
Rez HD
Rock Band 2
Rock Revolution
R-Type Command
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky
Sacred 2: Fallen Angel
Saints Row 2
Sam & Max: Season One (Wii)
Samba de Amigo (Wii)
Secret Agent Clank
Sega Superstars Tennis
Shaun White Snowboarding
Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 FES
Silent Hill: Homecoming
SimCity Creator
SingStar (PS3)
SingStar '90s
SingStar Country
SingStar Legends
Singstar Pop Vol. 2
Sins of a Solar Empire
Skate It
Smash Court Tennis 3
SOCOM: U.S. Navy Seals: Confrontation
Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood
Sonic Unleased
Soul Bubbles
Soul Calibur IV
Space Invaders Extreme
Spectrobes: Beyond The Portals
Spider Man: Web of Shadows
Spore
Spore Creatures
Star Ocean: First Departure
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix
Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World
Tales of Vesperia
Tetris Party
The Bourne Conspiracy
The Club
The Last Guy
The Last Remnant
The World Ends With You
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09
Time Hollow
Tom Clancy's EndWar
Tom Clancy's Rainbox Six: Vegas 2
Tom Raider: Underworld
Too Human
Top Spin 3
Tornado
Trauma Center: Under the Knife 2
Trials 2
Turok
UEFA Euro 2008
Universe at War: Earth Assault
Valhalla Knights 2
Valkyria Chronicles
Viking: Battle for Asgard
Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise
Warhammer: Age of Reckoning
Wario Land: Shake It!
Warriors Orochi 2
Wii Fit
Wii Music
Wipeout HD
World of Goo
World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King
WWE SmackDown! vs. RAW 2009
Yakuza 2
Yggdra Union

TO BE RELEASED IN DECEMBER:
Destroy All Humans! Path of the Furon
Mushroom Men
Prince of Persia
Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4

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RonBurgandy2010's Destructoid Blog
Um, cool?
TewDee's Destructoid Blog
Nice listing.
dronkmunk's Destructoid Blog
Front page!
TheCleaningGuy's Destructoid Blog
Don King's Prizefighter
Dragon Ball Z: Burst Limit
Facebreaker.
Noteworthy?
Just kidding, fine list.
RedbrickBike's Destructoid Blog
Audiosurf?
braulio09's Destructoid Blog
Banjo Kazooie Nuts & Bolts is already out, meng.
Gangles's Destructoid Blog
@Redbrickbike: Added, thank you.

@Braul: Thanks, hadn't noticed that. Fixed.
the Golden Avatar's Destructoid Blog
There's no way I'm going to get to all the AAA titles before the end of the year.
Transbot's Destructoid Blog
Needs console tags for sorting purposes.
Affable Robot's Destructoid Blog
Lost Winds, Lost:Via Domus, Lost in Blue, Lost Planet, what about Lost Odyssey I think that is worth noting.
RonBurgandy2010's Destructoid Blog
@Affable Robot
I think Lost Planet would count as a 2007 release. It was re-released for PS3 this year.
Affable Robot's Destructoid Blog
Yeah I know I just didn't feel like putting the whole name in. My main point was that Lost Odyssey was on this list. My point was I was just putting other games with the Lost in their name that he did have on his list.
Gangles's Destructoid Blog
@Affable Robot: Added Lost Odyssey, thanks!
garison's Destructoid Blog
NXE: Game of the Year.
Velt's Destructoid Blog
some of the games I played for the PC:

Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway
Liked it, I really did.

Fallout 3
I dont have the time to play it, maybe in a month I will try but for what I have seen it seems to long for my taste.

Far Cry 2
ok, go to my cblog, read my impressions on this game. i still have to complete it, even with the new nvidia drivers that give me more framerate.

Frontlines: Fuel of War
another one, go to my cblog, this one I can say that mini explosive and shooting toys were fun.

GRID
Liked it, but I cant drive shit anyway.

Left 4 Dead
RELOADING!!!
s0lesurviv0r's Destructoid Blog
BlazBlue just came out in arcades. Cool list.
Gangles's Destructoid Blog
@S0leSurvivor: I've never heard of this game, but I added it. Thanks.
Alexradl's Destructoid Blog
Fallout 3

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Brilliam's Destructoid Blog
football manager 2009! aka worldwide soccer manager 2009! not that i rate it highly this year :(
Gangles's Destructoid Blog
@Brilliam: Excel spreadsheet: the game? Added :P
Brilliam's Destructoid Blog
i really have to make my "why football manager is the best game ever" blog at some point, i guess!


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