OXCGN this year has announced their Game Of The Year based on a point system where each staff member rates their top 5 games by points. They have also decided on the top Exclusive On Anther Platform and the Golden Crap Award for their worst game of the year.

Finally they have a poll so readers can decide their own GOTY 2010.

I won’t lie: this gaming year has been a difficult one for OXCGN’s staff. (Cue violins). It seems most of us have had a hard time balancing a lack of time, a lack of money, and a lack of interest in the current crop of gamer’s games.

The general lack of innovation and proliferation of sequels in hard-core games in a difficult economic climate has seen many of us often turn to alternative (and often cheaper) gaming experiences like on smartphones or XBLA and PSN. (okay, kill violins).

That’s not to say there haven’t been some real gems out this year. It mainly has meant that each of us has been more discerning in our console game purchase choices.

Our decision on this year’s Game Of The Year reflects this, with each of us having different top 5 choices. This year we decided to use the Top 5 system where each staff member chose a Top 5 and assigned 5 points to their personal favourite title, followed by 4 points for the next and so on. Then all these totals were tallied up to find out what our Game Of The Year for 2010 was.

As many of us own several platforms we also tallied our favourite exclusive game on another platform.

Finally, though we avoided buying iffy games like the plague, and there seemed to be less obviously bad ones around this year, we offer our choice for the “Golden Crap Award”.

We know many won’t agree, so give us your pick below in our poll and check back to see who’s winning.

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