Best of E3 2009

Following two years of nauseatingly reserved E3 expos that would make a linoleum flooring convention look like a good time, plenty of industry skeptics doubted whether ESA could bring back its circus of excess for 2009. But after three days of plowing through shoulder-to-shoulder crowds, shouting over throbbing subwoofers in flashing booths the size of houses, and enough open bars to put the unrestrained journalist into a coma, we're happy to say they've done it. And with developers now learning how to take full advantage of the most powerful generation of gaming machines ever produced, the games this year hit a new high, too. Here are 10 titles that stood above the thickly seeded forest of games we combed through.

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