Hm, games that I played this year. Halo 3 ODST, Assassin's Creed II, Tekken 6, UFC: Undisputed 2009, Rock Band: Beatles, Scribblenauts, Big Bang Mini, Chrono Trigger, Attack of the Saiyans.
The bold text are the ones that I thought were great games regardless of hype. The others had certain aspects that were great, like Tekken had amazing graphics, ODST had a beautiful score and voice acting, and UFC had a very deep and realistic fighting system, but they were marred by some other problem that kept them from being really great (crappy 1p beatemup story mode, feeling like-I-already-did-this-before, or seeing two men looking like their humping eachother instead of beating eachother up and executing smooth jiu-jitsu techniques, respectively.
The bold text are the ones that I thought were great games regardless of hype. The others had certain aspects that were great, like Tekken had amazing graphics, ODST had a beautiful score and voice acting, and UFC had a very deep and realistic fighting system, but they were marred by some other problem that kept them from being really great (crappy 1p beatemup story mode, feeling like-I-already-did-this-before, or seeing two men looking like their humping eachother instead of beating eachother up and executing smooth jiu-jitsu techniques, respectively.