You might be surprised with who made Joystiq’s #1 Best Game of 2007. You can find out right here.

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FoxNew’s Best of 2007 (nothing special, just a good read)
Noteable Winners
Most Enjoyable #1 – BioShock
Most Enjoyable #4 – Mass Effect
Best game that almost seems like an afterthought – Portal

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GameZone’s Reader’s Choice Best of 2007 – Coming January 8th, 2008
1UP’s 2007 Awards – Coming Soon
and more may come tomorrow…who knows.

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GameDaily’s NOD Awards 2007
Noteable Winners
Game of the Year – Call of Duty 4
Best Racing Game You’ve Never Heard Of – Dirt
Best Game with its own Softdrink – Halo 3

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X-Play’s Best of 2007
Noteable Winners
Game of the Year – Bioshock
Most Original Game – Portal
Best Action/Adventure Game – Super Mario Galaxy

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Coming Soon
Gamespot’s Best of 2007
GameZone’s Reader’s Choice Best of 2007
1UP’s 2007 Awards
Foxnews’s Best of 2007

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Gamespy’s 2007 Game of the Year Awards
Noteable Winners
Handheld Gaming Overall Top 10 Winner – The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
Overall Console Top 10 Winner – Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
2007 Game of the Year – Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

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TeamXbox’s Game of the Years Awards 2007
Noteable Winners
Best Multiplayer Game of the Year – Halo 3
Best Story of the Year – Mass Effect
Game of the Year – Mass Effect

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IGN’s Best of 2007 Awards
Noteable Winners (Overall Winners will be announced on January 8th, 2008)
Best PS3 Game of the Year – Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune
Best Xbox 360 Game of the Year – Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Best Wii Game of the Year – Super Mario Galaxy

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Gamesradar’s seemingly annual Platinum Chalice Awards 2007
Noteable Winners
Holy Crap, New Ideas! – Bioshock
Special award: Best Alien Sex – Mass Effect
Actual Game of the Year – The Orange Box

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Yahoo! Game’s Game of the Year 2007 
Noteable Winners
Best Action Adventure Game – Super Mario Galaxy
Best Original Game – Bioshock
Best Overall Game of the Year – Super Mario Galaxy

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Best of 2007’s Coming Soon
The Edge Awards 2007 – Coming Today
GameDaily’s NOD Awards 2007 – Coming Today
X-Play’s Best of 2007 – Coming Today
Gamespot’s Best of 2007 – Starting December 24th, ending December 28th
GameZone’s Reader’s Choice Best of 2007 – Coming January 8th, 2008 – Vote Now
1UP’s 2007 Awards – Coming Soon - Vote Now
and maybe even several more coming soon.

BEST GAME: “BioShock.” Available for the Xbox 360 and PC. $59.99. Rated M.

A first-person shooter turned morality play, a thinking person’s action game, a piece of electronic fiction with a soul.

There are many positive ways to describe this gripping game and they’re all true. There’s just nothing else like this eerie vision of an undersea social experiment gone horribly wrong.

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BEST DEAL: “The Orange Box.” Available for the Xbox 360, Playstation 3, and PC for $59.99. Rated T through M.

For $59.99, the innovators at Valve Corp. have provided one of the best bargains in 2007. You get five games, and all of them are excellent.

“Portal,” in particular, seems destined for legendary status, having spawned a cottage industry for plush companion cubes. (If you don’t know what that means, you’re really missing out).

Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Windows PC, $59.99, Rated T through M.

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BEST GAME THAT INVOLVES GETTING OFF THE SOFA: “Rock Band.”

Close the windows, lock the doors and warn the neighbors before you blare the volume.

“Rock Band” elevates music rhythm games to arena-filling levels in a game that gets better the more people there are.

For a true rocking experience you’ll at least need two guitars — lead and bass — plus a drummer and a singer to belt out the dozens of tunes. Groupies are optional.

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MOST TIRING CONTROVERSY: “Manhunt 2.”

OK people, it seems pretty obvious that “Manhunt 2″ is not a game for the kiddies. So why all the uproar?

Ratings issues aside, if a game that lets you perform execution moves is a turnoff, change the channel.

Parents have a tough job keeping content like this away from their children, but it’s ultimately part of the responsibility. And this game is no more graphic than any number of R-rated movies I’ve seen — except they aren’t being altered to appeal to industry ratings groups.

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MOST OVERRATED GAME: “Halo 3.”

Yes, I went there. And I’m not saying “Halo 3″ is bad. It’s a decent game, with some good fighting and excellent online modes, no doubt.

But don’t believe Microsoft Corp.’s marketing and PR hype machine. “Halo 3″ changes nothing about video games.

“Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare” has a more interesting multiplayer component. And “Halo 3’s” single-player story is baffling and leaves this supposedly epic saga feeling somewhat incomplete.

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Read more in the full article.