Vote for Best Shooter at 2011 Golden Joysticks

It’s been a big year for FPS shooting games, and that’s reflected in the 2011 Gamesmaster Golden Joystick Award shortlist, with several of the nominees in the Best Shooter category also having a good chance of potentially claiming the Ultimate Game of the Year in the world’s longest-running videgame awards.

The shortlist for your votes in the Best Shooter category are:

• Brink
• Bulletstorm
• Call of Duty: Black Ops
• Crysis 2
• Dead Space
• F.3.A.R.
• Goldeneye 007
• Halo Reach
• Homefront
• Killzone 3
• Medal of Honor
• Red Faction Armageddon
• Singularity
• Vanquish

If we had to try and predict the winner, seeing as it’s entirely based on user votes, we’d probably go for Black Ops due to the record-breaking number of sales, and continued success of the series, but there are a few titles that could cause an upset (Crysis 2, Halo Reach, Killzone 3 for example, although platform exclusives are at a big disadvantage).

The Ultimate Game of the Year also includes several shooters:

• Bulletstorm
• Call of Duty Black Ops
• Fallout New Vegas (Also in the RPG category)
• Killzone 3
• Portal 2 (Which is also in the Best Action/Adventure category)

In the Mobile Gaming category, N.O.V.A 2 – Near Orbit Vanguard Alliance is a possible FPS winner.

And finally, there’s the One to Watch category with:

• Aliens: Colonial Marines
• Battlefield 3
• Bioshock Infinite
• Farcry 3
• Halo 4
• Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3

That’s a lot of voting to get done, so you better start now! About the only big release not getting a mention is Duke Nukem Forever, which despite reasonable sales has had a very mixed reception.