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Eurogamer Expo 2011 Attendees' Top 10

Guild Wars 2 won Editors' GOTS, but what did you choose?

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Feature by Tom Bramwell Former Editor-in-Chief
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5. Star Wars: The Old Republic

  • Electronic Arts / BioWare
  • PC preview
  • Out: 22nd December 2011

We were as surprised as you were when BioWare announced the game's Christmas release date (well, OK, we heard about it that morning). Meanwhile, on the show floor The Old Republic welcomed a constant stream of wannabe scum and villainy to its wretched hives. How well can BioWare adapt its famous development philosophy to the tricky MMO genre? We'll see, but you obviously feel it's on the right track judging by the strong response in our poll.

4. Batman: Arkham City

It was one of the best games of two years ago, but we still wondered how Rocksteady would be able to build on Arkham Asylum when the setting itself was such a substantial part of the attraction. The answer seems to be: by building another prison. With the Asylum and Blackgate still in ruins, the action shifts to a section of the Arkham slums bought up by mayor Quincy Sharp to house the displaced former inmates, contained in relative freedom and uneasy truce with their custodians. Of course, things don't stay that way, and the results are... dark, to say the least. Enter Batman. And a lot of you guys, by the looks of it.

3. Guild Wars 2

Battle lines will be drawn and redrawn by your collective actions, content manipulated to fit circumstance, and at no point will you be asked to queue up to punch seven rats in the face. When we handed down our Editors' Game of the Show, we remarked that while the quality bar was insanely high across the Expo floor, innovation was harder to find. Guild Wars 2 is a notable exception - an MMO built to rule rather than imitate.

2. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Few games released this year will offer as much content out of the box, and few games at the Expo were played in so many different ways by so many different people over the four days, which routinely began with the doors opening and a dedicated gaggle of Elder Scrolls fans running to play it. Skyrim's so popular among attendees and our readers that when we posted a picture of our custom character in August it did more traffic than most of our reviews.

1. Battlefield 3

So it was again. After scooping our Gamescom Game of the Show and only narrowly missing out on our Editors' Expo equivalent, Battlefield 3 is your Eurogamer Expo Attendees' Game of the Show for 2011. EA brought it along on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 in campaign and multiplayer guises, while DICE GM Karl-Magnus Troedsson hosted one of the most popular developer sessions of the show. You obviously took notice. Congratulations to EA and DICE!

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