This highly scientific grading scale was developed by some random Joystiq comment from here that was since deleted. I don’t really know what ‘creepy hot’ means either.
Creepy Hot:
- Warioware: DIY – No demo and little to no buzz. If they called it Mario Paint DS, there would’ve been a fanstorm.
- Tatsunoko vs Capcom – Casshern vs Jun the Swan… that’s some childhood fantasy stuff right there. Reinvigorated my interest for Capcom fighters.
- Sin and Punishment 2 – Holy hell yes, a sequel to a great and underappreciated game.
- Fat Princess – As one friend put it “this is a reason to own a PS3″. Very fun, addictive gameplay
- Oboromuramasa – Gorgeous.
- New Super Mario Bros Wii – 4 Player Coop
- Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Epic
- Mod Nation Racers – One of the most impressive demos all show. This is gaming 2.0
- Star Wars: The Old Republic – Ok, now I’m starting to drink the kool-aid too
- Scribblenauts – Could be one of the most ambitiously creative games ever
- The Last Guardian – Games are art
- All Points Bulletin – Last.FM streaming, mass customizing mayhem
- Front Mission Evolved – F@#! yeah
- Torchlight – Many agree this is one of the great surprises near the back. Quite possibly more enjoyable for longer periods of time than Diablo 3
Hot:
- Little Big Planet on PSP
- PSP Go – Most comfortable feeling handheld device ever. Though getting people to switch is going to be super hard. Seems like they’re targeting new owners.
- Quantum – Wasn’t expecting much but it looks really great. Good multiplayer ideas too.
- Metal Gear Solid Rising
- Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth – I cosplayed as him so you can bet I’m excited
- A Boy and his Blob
- Assassin’s Creed 2
- Golden Sun DS
- Alpha Protocol
- Mario and Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story
- Battlefield 1943
- Bayonetta – Looks WAY more fun than I predicted
- Beyond Good and Evil 2
- Bioshock 2 – Wasn’t a huge fan of the first one (blasphemy I know), but the multiplayer looks fun – you can BE a big daddy
- Brutal Legend
- Brink
- Borderlands – the new art direction took some getting used to but I think it makes the game stand out on its own far better
- deTuned – .theprodukkt
- Food Network Cook or Be Cooked – looks like it might actually teach generation Y/Z gamers how to cook, increasing the chances of civilization as we know it surviving
- Fate Unlimited Codes – wished this was available to play
- Lost Planet 2 – though I did like the cold setting of the previous, the multiplayer fights look quite fun for this
- Katamari Forever – how can you not love more Katamari goodness?
- Heroes of Telara – the trailer for this is unimpressive, but the concept art and monster design is really quite awesome
- Gravity Crash -
- Fragile – XSEED always makes good games, and this one looks to be no exception
- Metroid Other M
- Mini Ninjas
- Saboteur
- MAG
- Order of War – Looked amazing, and I’m normally not a huge WWII kind of strat-gamer.
- Persona
- Sing Star Queen – finally a music game that contains only songs I know
- Zombie Apocalypse – Looks like a really well polished Smash TV style shooter
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time Re-Shelled – a true multiplayer classic
- Trauma Team
- Trine
- Trials HD: Looks pretty fun in that the bloopers will undoubtedly be awesome
- Tales of Monkey Island
- Singularity
- Shadow Complex
- Split Second – Such a great idea, universal studios tour plus racing. Also the HUD / dials under the car is one of the best UI designs in all of racing.
- Splinter Cell Conviction – Some very impressive cinematic feel to this one
- Wet – a lot of cool flair and possibility here, but the trailer seemed kinda bad
- Legend of Zelda Spirit Tracks
Meh:
- White Knight Chronicles – I love Level 5 but something about the demo just didn’t ‘feel’ right
- DJ Hero – If a real life DJ got that wicky with it for that long, I’d punch them in the face
- Natal – Seems to promise more than is capable. I love that it will advance culture, but I feel that it will take at least 5 years after its release for it to catch up/on
- Pixeljunk Monsters on PSP – not because it isn’t awesome, but why can’t it also come out on PS3?
- Final Fantasy XIV – Final Fantasy 12+2. Everyone I know’s heart sank when they heard it was going to be an MMO. Square hasn’t proven it has learned the genre lessons.
- New Samurai Showdown game – Why oh why make this 3D. I gains nothing from it.
- Batman: Arkham Asylum – Seemed like a lot of style and little substance
- Dragon Age Origins – Don’t see anything new or inventive here.
- Dissidia Final Fantasy – Gameplay felt really shallow
- Pop’n Music – I love this game to death… why give it the Wiimote treatment? Hard as I try, I can’t imagine that being fun
- Left 4 Dead 2 – Feels weird that this isn’t just DLC and the daylight setting somehow takes something away from it
- Saw – seriously why publish a movie game so late after the movie?
- Spore * – Milk milk milk