Halo 3 Tops Time 2007

Famously famous North American colour magazine, Time has released its buyers guide for rich people who don't know a great deal about video games at all but want to impress their kids or the receptionist... 2007.

Topping the chart is Microsoft/Bungie's most-hyped of the year, Halo 3 outing, of which Time has to say the following:



'Like a pebble that has been...' do what?

Let's see what else Time deems to be saleable to it readers - here's the list:

2) Valve's The Orange Box.
3) MTV/EA's Rock Band.
4) Nintendo's Super Mario Galaxy.
5) 2K's Bioshock.
6) Activision's Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.
7) Nintendo's Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass.
8) Microsoft's Mass Effect.
9) Namco Bandai's Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation.
10) Sony's God of War II.

Okay, so let's review this just for a moment - Bioshock sits at number 5? Cleverly the Time team says this of the game, "Absolutely the best action-role playing game set in a ruined art-deco underwater city that you'll play this year".

And then we're told, "Role-playing games aren't the hip thing in gaming these days, but xxx brings back some of that old-school, story-driven, single-player magic..." in this case however, the game in question is Mass Effect.

We did quite like the description of God of War II though:



To be honest, the PS2 is still not dying a death and will sell loads via grannies the world over this Xmas... but we see Time's point.

We're also quite intrigued as to why more 'casual' games didn't make the Top 10 for 2007? Sure, the Wii has two games in there, but they're both games for grown-ups who can actually play properly. Does this mean that middle-class America is snubbing casualness?

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