{"id":10558,"date":"2009-11-23T14:29:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T12:29:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-11-23T14:29:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-23T12:29:00","slug":"best-games-of-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/10558-best-games-of-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Best games of 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2009 has been a good year for gaming with the likes of Uncharted 2, Street Fighter IV and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 hitting the shelves. This year also saw the announcement of a number of new developments and products in the gaming market such as DirectX 11 and the PS3 Slim as well as price reductions within the console market.<\/p>\n<p>These changes within the gaming environment were also backed up by a number of impressive titles which raised the bar within their respective genres.<\/p>\n<p>With this in mind we list 2009&rsquo;s best releases, based on collected review scores from online aggregator <a href=\"http:\/\/apps.metacritic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Metacritic<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>1)&nbsp;Uncharted 2 (96%)<\/strong><br \/><em>Platform: PS3<br \/>Developer: Naughty Dog<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>2)&nbsp;Street Fighter IV (94%)<\/strong><br \/><em>Platform: PC, Xbox 360, PS3<br \/>Developer: Capcom<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>3)&nbsp;Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (94%)<\/strong><br \/><em>Platform: PC, Xbox 360, PS3<br \/>Developer: Infinity Ward<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>4)&nbsp;Batman: Arkham Asylum (92%)<\/strong><br \/><em>Platform: PC, Xbox 360, PS3<br \/>Developer: Rocksteady Studios<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>5)&nbsp;Forza Motorsport 3 (92%)<\/strong><br \/><em>Platform: Xbox 360<br \/>Developer: Turn 10 Studios<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>6)&nbsp;Braid (92%)<\/strong><br \/><em>Platform: PC, Xbox 360, PS3, <br \/>Developer: Hothead Games<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>7)&nbsp;Killzone 2 (91%)<\/strong><br \/><em>Platform: PS3<br \/>Developer: Guerilla Games<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>8)&nbsp;Dragon Age: Origins (91%)<\/strong><br \/><em>Platform: PC, Xbox 360, PS3<br \/>Developer: BioWare<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>9)&nbsp;Assassin&rsquo;s Creed 2 (91%)<\/strong><br \/><em>Platform: PC, Xbox 360, PS3<br \/>Developer: Ubisoft<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>10)&nbsp;FIFA 10<\/strong><br \/><em>Platform: PC, Xbox 360, PS3<br \/>Developer: Electronic Arts<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=204280\"><strong>Best games of 2009<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; give your pick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We list this year\u2019s best gaming releases according to review website Metacritic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10558"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}