Welcome back to our Best Year in Gaming March Madness bracket competition! Yesterday we polished off the second round in our Northeast conference, where both of our scrappy underdogs lost to superior years coming in at higher seeds – though the competition between 1987 and 2009 was pretty close, with the latter winning by only a few votes.
Results: 1991 and 2009 win
Today we’re moving back to the Southwest conference, where we look at another of the four strongest years in our competition.
VS.
VS.
Our other pair of matchups today sees another close bout, as 1997 takes on 2008. We’ve already talked about 1997 as a strong year for the Playstation and PC games, but today it’s up against one of the stronger years of the sixth console generation, squaring off against the likes of Grand Theft Auto 4, Dead Space, Left 4 Dead, and Mirror’s Edge. But where 2008 really shines is on the tabletop – Dungeons & Dragons’ fourth edition, Warhammer 40k’s fifth edition, Dixit, and Dominion. That’s not one but two big Spiel des Jahres winners, with the latter spawning an entirely new genre of board games!
This article is part of a larger series on the best year in gaming. For more years, click this link. Have any questions or feedback? Drop us a note in the comments below or email us at contact@goonhammer.com.
