User blog comment:Lancer1289/Gamespot Releases Reader's Choices/@comment-217683-20110112024115

I have to totally disagree with all the digs against RDR. It's a phenomenal game. I won't say it's necessarily better than ME2, but it's at least as good.

Let's put it this way. There was one point in ME2 where, on my first playthrough, I sat back and thought to myself "Really? This just happened? Lame! WTF was BioWare thinking?!?" I have since reconciled myself to it, and made peace with it, and after some thought, have backed off my original thought that BioWare had jumped the shark, but the fact remains that my initial playthrough of ME2 did cause me to think this at one point. There was no such moment with RDR. If anything, the ending of RDR was better than that of ME2. Just my opinion. Now, while I can't speak for the Undead Nightmare DLC (I've downloaded it, but am doing a regular playthrough before trying it), it does look really good. So I can't see the reason for statements like "Just about anything was better than RDR." But that's just me.

Having siad that, I can't fault the editors or the readers for their picks. If I had to select the top 3 XBox 360 games of the year, RDR and ME2 would be tied for first.