GTA IV as the No. 2 game? I'd say it conforms to not only sales charts, but fanboy wet dreams. Personal preference aside, MGS4 relegated to No. 14 really shows the editors weren't paying enough attention to the entire story of Solid Snake's final chapter-- every new game brought with it real-world issues, what with the Cold War in MGS3, control of the digital age in MGS2, genetics and cloning in MGS1, and the ever-growing presence of private military corporations for the latest installment.

GTA IV brought nothing new that I haven't already seen in the past two sequels. Free roaming, killing, hookers, blah blah blah. All it really did was bring it online.

GOW 2 at No. 4 also does nothing but fuel the idea of $$$ driving this list. I'm not even going to touch it because we all know the amount it raked in and the level of drooling gamers that snapped it up blindly.

I'd only agree that the Grid, Burnout Paradise and LBP deserve their places on the list where they are. MGS4 that far back however over rehashed tripe shows that the thought process on this best-of wasn't very deep.