You may recall that 12 months ago, I posted lists of our most wanted review assignments for 2009. Now celebrating its second anniversary, the "You Wanna Review What?!" e-mail thread is something that I send around to all of our in-house reviewers asking for a list of the 10 games that they'd most like to work on in the upcoming year. I'm not sure how the process plays out in our UK or AU offices, but here in the US, it invariably sparks some interesting conversations as editors compare lists in an attempt to avoid too much crossover and "wasted" entries. Personally, I keep my list a secret while I'm working on it and pay little attention to what anyone else is up to, but I did make a point of telling everyone what my number one choice is in the hope that nobody would be willing to fight me for it.

　　As in previous years, including games on these lists doesn't guarantee an editor the assignment, and you shouldn't confuse these lists with lists of our most anticipated games. Sure, these are games that we're looking forward to, but we don't necessarily want to review every game that we're looking forward to playing in 2010. Also, don't think that just because a game doesn't appear on any of these lists none of us are eager to get our hands on it. We already have a good idea of who will be working on some of the big upcoming releases--either because we're already working on them or because certain editors are obvious choices having reviewed previous games in the series. Anyhow, without further ado, here are the lists--minus the names of the reviewers they belong to and in no particular order:

　　METRO 2033

　　MAG

　　Deus Ex 3

　　Alan Wake

　　Dark Void

　　Battlefield: Bad Company 2

　　Super Mario Galaxy 2

　　Halo: Reach

　　The Last Guardian

　　Half-Life 2: Episode Three

　　Super Mario Galaxy 2

　　3D Dot Game Heroes

　　Dead Rising 2

　　Crackdown 2

　　Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands

　　Epic Mickey

　　Alan Wake

　　Thief 4

　　Enslaved

　　Fable III

　　Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction

　　Final Fantasy XIII

　　Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty

　　Mass Effect 2

　　Split/Second

　　Star Trek Online

　　The Secret World

　　Max Payne 3

　　Deus Ex 3

　　Venetica

　　Heavy Rain

　　Dead Space 2

　　Dante's Inferno

　　Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth

　　Castlevania: Lords of Shadow

　　Alan Wake

　　The Last Guardian

　　Metroid: Other M

　　METRO 2033

　　No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle

　　Red Dead Redemption

　　ModNation Racers

　　Dead Rising 2

　　Diablo III

　　Highlander

　　World of Warcraft: Cataclysm

　　APB

　　UFC Undisputed 2010

　　EA Sports MMA

　　Gran Turismo 5

　　Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth

　　Heavy Rain

　　Ghost Trick

　　Halo: Reach

　　The Last Guardian

　　Okamiden: Chisaki Taiyou

　　Professor Layton and the Last Time Travel

　　Alan Wake

　　LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4

　　Ninokuni: The Another World

　　Super Mario Galaxy 2

　　Mass Effect 2

　　Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars

　　Star Trek Online

　　The Last Guardian

　　Scratch: The Ultimate DJ

　　(Anything with Natal)

　　(Anything with Sony's motion controller)

　　Professor Layton and the Last Time Travel

　　Okamiden: Chisaki Taiyou

　　Puzzle Quest 2

　　Super Street Fighter IV

　　Homefront

　　Singularity

　　Brink

　　The Agency

　　L.A. Noire

　　Six Days in Fallujah

　　Split/Second

　　METRO 2033

　　Gran Turismo 5

　　Metroid: Other M

　　BioShock 2

　　Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction

　　Alan Wake

　　God of War III

　　Dead Rising 2

　　Monster Hunter Tri

　　(Next Call of Duty)

　　Skate 3