Games Radar's Most Anticipated Games of 2008

Games Radar has a surprisingly candid if somewhat silly editorial featuring their most anticipated games. The candidness is in the title: Why wait a whole year to give out a pile of, let's face it, mostly meaningless awards? Fallout 3 wins 2nd runner-up in Will incite the most anger if effed up. The RPG winner is Fable 2, followed by Lost Odyssey and Final Fantasy XIII.
Molyneux is hyping a lot of interesting concepts with Fable 2, the most prominent being a desire to evoke emotion from players, largely in the form of a companion dog. You know, like Tamagotchis. He's also introducing a deceptively complex one-button combat system, and, to avoid players having to constantly replay parts of the game, he's doing away with death and replacing it with brutal beat-downs and everlasting scars.

It's these innovations that prompted us to preemptively honor Fable 2 as the best RPG of 2008.