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a popularity contest? no kidding... what else makes it THE BEST???????????? you can surely make the argument that a game that is pure fluff and crap could win this, but not with the audience we have here. OS is full of fans that love and have a passion for sports games. we like quality games and we're hardcore about them. all that being said, when you have 2 games battling each other, yes, the game you like better is going to be the game you vote for. the game with more replay value, that keeps you playing over and over is the game that SHOULD get the vote because it has done exactly what the programmers wanted -- kept you playing it.

what are we supposed to do, average every little category and see exactly which games takes the cake by some mathematical formula? games aren't considered "the best" by any other measure than play time, especially not for this crowd. and NFL2K5.... come on now.... that was a special sports game. how many SPORTS GAMES, if you look around in the past 20 years of gaming, can you really say have a following where you can go to a forum site anywhere, and they STILL have a following? MVP 2005 might still have a small following and rival NFL2K5. other than that, sports games have a very small life, so if it's a game that years later is still discussed, is still in systems, even when there's several new next-gen systems out, that truly is a game that is great.