Best of 2007

Everyone has awards this time of year, so I thought I'd jump on the bandwagon and have my own. These are my own private awards for 2007.

Software Tools

1) Inno Setup
2) Perforce
3) VMware Workstation
4) Visual Studio 2005
5) Adobe Photoshop

Inno setup wins without a doubt. It's so easy to create an installer with it. 32bit and 64bit versions in one setup? No problem. A check to disable UAC in Windows Vista? Easy.

Games

1) Call of Duty 4
2) Bioshock
3) Command and Conquer 3
4) Fear: Perseus Mandate
5) Crysis

A lot of shooters in my top 5, and it's not even my favorite genre. It's hard to choose between Call of Duty 4 and Bioshock for the number 1 spot. Both are brilliant games with a great storyline and superb graphics. In the end I had to make a choice and selected Call of Duty 4 as the best of those 2 cause it has a great multiplayer experience and it didn't crash (Bioshock crashed once). Crysis might seem low on the list. Yes, the graphics are great, although I think the graphics off Call of Duty and Bioshock are better. There's only so much variety you can have on an Island (don't get me started about inside the cave). The gameplay was worse than the other games on the list. E.g. I didn't like how to switch suite modes. Why can't you use function keys (like selecting a different plasmid in Bioshock)? Also, I'm not sure why most people are raving about open environment and that they can choose what to do. It is not as open and non linear as they think. If you don't do task x, none of the games storyline will continue.

Albums

1) Amon Tobin - Foley room
2) Jerboa - Rockit fuel
3) Soulwax - Most of the remixes
4) Daft Punk - Alive
5) Editors - An end has a start

I simply love Amon Tobin. Jerboa is great (and probably unknown to most of you) so I recommend you check it out.

Movies

This wasn't very hard, simply because I don't watch a lot of movies. I think I've seen one with the family in the theatre this year, and it was a kid's movie. So I can only have a top 1:

1) Plop en de pinguin