After careful consideration of the best offerings from 2004 and input from IGNIQ members, IGNIQ's first "Game of the Year" award goes to Valve's Half Life 2.
This is not based on their content delivery or anything to do with Steam and all of the problems and heartache it seems to pour out.
IGNIQ's "Game of the Year" award is decided on the constant requirement for all great games - pure entertainment value.
All genres are included in our consideration, but it boils down in the end to what game was (in our opinion) the single most fun game you could buy for your hard-earned money over the year.
Half Life 2 has surpassed all games in contention: Far Cry, Doom 3, Warhammer 40,000, Prince of Persia 2 - Warrior Within; and has came out as the single most entertaining and enjoyable game that's been released in 2004.
Watch out for our collective review of Half-Life 2 in the near future.
Half Life 2's Official website
Download the demo from ATI (769.2 Mb)
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