Making a list of the best PC games of the year is an impossible task.
First, consider that most of the truly top-tier gaming experiences to be had on personal computers this year actually fell into the Multi-Platform awards category, so Fallout 3 and the like weren"t eligible. Also consider that Wired.com writers include voracious players of browser games, MMOs, and independent games, and the nominations list was bound to be a scattershot pile of unrelated games.
Thus, that"s precisely what we"re giving you: Five games that we enjoyed playing in 2008 that are utterly impossible to directly compare.