Handheld consoles have traditionally been dominated by Nintendo. In recent years the iPhone and lately Android devices have tried to stake a claim to this market but those are not quite up to the same level of depth or game design just yet.
So the big players in this field are the Nintendo DS (and DSi) with its accessible, smartly pitched games and the Sony PSP with its fuller experiences and wealth of download options via Minis and the PlayStation Store.
As we’ve already seen the download-only category, this award is only open to retail-available titles. This was an incredibly closely fought category at the top with the winner only two percent higher in the polls than second place. To be honest, any one of the top titles in this category would have been deserving of the award but on the whole we think the right game came away with the victory. Just about.
We present our Handheld Game of the Year 2010, God of War: Ghost of Sparta.
ARUMIR
Played it its okay but nothing compared to the hours of Japanese madness
Hamzz
What about MGS Peace walker that was brilliant!
nofi
Ghost of Sparta was utterly wonderful. Way better than GOW III.
icuyesido
I need to buy a new handhold console, I might wait for the PSP2, if not then I’ll probably get a 3DS, decisions decisions…
baconsarnie
Not played a single one of these, best dust off my PSP for GoW!
ElGuason
i’ve heard good things about god of war ghost of sparta but i have a lot of games already that i still haven’t played..