GameSpot Announces 20 Most Anticipated 2008 Holiday Season Games

With the holiday season fast approaching you can guarantee if you have kids old enough that there are tons of video games on their holiday wish lists. This holiday season some seriously interesting titles are being announced and many of them are follow-ups to some of the most popular game franchises to hit the PC or console systems. GameSpot has put out its list of the top 20 most anticipated games for the 2008 holiday season. All of the games on the list will launch between August and December of this year. "The hundreds of new games releasing this fall might be overwhelming for people new to games," said Ricardo Torres, editor in chief, GameSpot. "Given that every penny counts in today's economy, we want to point people in the right direction with this list of games from a broad range of genres that are generating the most interest from the GameSpot editors as well as the GameSpot community." Check out the full list after the jump.
Call Of Duty World at War (PC--release date: Nov. 11, 2008)
Dead Space (PC--release date: Oct. 20, 2008)
Fable II (X360--release date: Oct. 21, 2008)
Fallout 3 (PC--release date: Oct. 28, 2008)
Far Cry 2 (PC--release date: Oct. 21, 2008)
Gears of War 2 (X360--release date: Nov. 7th, 2008)
Guitar Hero World Tour (X360--release date: Oct. 26, 2008)
Left 4 Dead (X360--release date: Nov. 17, 2008)
LittleBigPlanet (PS3--release date: Oct. 21, 2008)
Mirror's Edge (X360/PC--release date: Nov. 11, 2008)
NHL 2K9 (Wii--already released)
Prince of Persia (PC--release date: Dec. 2, 2008)
Resistance 2 (PS3-release date: Nov. 4, 2008)
Rock Band 2 (X360/Wii/PS3--already released)
Soulcalibur IV (X360/PS3--already released)
Spore (PC/Wii/DS--already released)
Tales of Vesperia (X360--already released)
World of Warcraft: Wrath of Lich King (PC--release date: Nov. 13, 2008)