Wii Game of the Month: November 2007

With all the videogames that are released each and every month, it can be quite a difficult task to decide which title to spend your hard-earned money on. Granted you could go by our review scores alone and weed through the long list of names to find something that scored high or low, but what if you had somewhere else to turn?

Rather than wait until the end of the year like for our big award blowout, your incredibly masculine friends at IGN.com have decided to employ a monthly tribute to the weeks that were. We're resolved to illustrate to our readers what we thought was the very best game for each system over the past month, and tell you the reason why.

While some of us often chime in with our comments at the end of reviews, for the most part, the reviews on IGN are primarily written by one editor; in this feature we get all of the editors on a particular channel to vote for our Game of the Month. What better way to represent your channel than to speak your mind all at once?

How does it work? Simple. Any game released in the past month is eligible for the award and is taken through a battery of tests by every editor on that particular channel. After we've finished evaluating each game that comes down the pipeline, we put our heads together and decide on a single "best of" winner that's worthy of the title "IGN Game of the Month". Pretty straightforward, don't you think?

Now that we have the guidelines out of the way, let's move on and congratulate this month's winner...

Runner-up: Trauma Center: New Blood

Developed by Atlus

Published by Atlus

Readers' Game of the Month: Super Mario Galaxy

Developed by Nintendo EAD Tokyo

Published by Nintendo

Reader Review Quote: "Rarely does a game come along that is so that is so good that makes me not want to play it. I try to postpone playing for as long as possible because I don't want it to end. That's exactly what's happened with Super Mario Galaxy. The gameplay is incredibly inventive and parts mesh perfectly with Super Mario Bros. 3. I believe this game will be talked about for years to come and will be remembered as one of the greatest games of it's time ranking with the likes of Halo 3, Oblivion, Zelda: Twilight Princess, and Mass Effect. (Read the full review) submitted by Andrew848.

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