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The latter is a role-playing game that serves as a successor to the classic Baldur's Gate series, and it features robust downloadable content additions (which should keep coming for the next few years). Street Fighter IV, the latest installment in the venerable fighting franchise, was the best-reviewed PC game of the year, although the hit Dragon Age: Origins was nearly as heralded. Games must have at least 5 reviews to qualify for the above list. New Play Control! Donkey Kong Jungle Beat Tales of Monkey Island Chapter 2: The Siege of Spinner Cay Tales of Monkey Island Chapter 1: Launch of the Screaming Narwhal Who said it's just a gaming machine? "More" is the first of three fitness titles in the Top 40
The best-reviewed sports game for Wii in 2009. Critics also found "cutesy" strategy-adventure game Little King's Story rewarding, and downloadable WiiWare title LostWinds: Winter of the Melodias, a sequel to last year's LostWinds, also scored generally strong marks. In the platform exclusives category, the Steven Spielberg-created puzzle/party game Boom Blox Bash Party went down easy with critics, much like its acclaimed predecessor. Metroid was the only title to score 90 or above this year, and three of the top 10 (and four of the top 11) Wii games were in the music genre - not a good sign in a year in which music games generally were considered to be retreads of the previous year's entries. However, Wii once again struggled to match the other platforms in terms of critical acclaim, and the platform was missing creative breakout hits like 2008's Okami and World of Goo.
Wii also scored with the critics in its new incarnation. Make that two hits platformer New Super Mario Bros.
Nintendo dug into its own past (as it so often does) and came up with a hit in 2009, bringing back the GameCube sci-fi action-adventure series Metroid in the form of a new Wii compellation, Metroid Prime Trilogy.
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