He went on and on about its merits and that it felt like he was watching/playing a movie the entire time through. After watching him play a little, I just wish that I had a ps3 or that it'd be ported to the pc. It did look very very fun.

As far as best game ever/game of the year, I'd go Bioshock Infinite, having only seen this game being played, and not even playing it myself. So that's biased of course. After finishing Bioshock, I simply could not see how another game could possibly top it. I should do a review of that, I suppose