The Golden Joysticks Awards – The Likely Winners and the Dark Horses

Top Gaming Moment

There are plenty to choose from, and there were certainly plenty that made us gasp €“ the Top Gun esque mission in Battlefield 3, the weightless gunfighting in Modern Warfare 3, sniping Hitler in Sniper Elite v2€ but in the end the aforementioned Tuchanka choice in Mass Effect 3 takes it for me. Not only is it a brutal moral decision that shakes the player€™s foundations to the very core, it makes us truly emote €“ something games fail to do these days. It can genuinely bring a tear to your eye, make you need to put the controller down and take a few breaths. It makes you feel €“ and that is why it€™s the best gaming moment of 2012.
 
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