For anyone who doesn't know, Gamespot has been running a bracket-style popularity contest to determine the greatest video game hero of all time. Gamefaqs runs something like this every year, where people fill out a bracket, then the contest begins. It's almost always Mario/Cloud/Link who wins.
This tournament has been a bit more high class, with images/videos for each character, a nice looking picture for each ones profile, and some history for the character. As well as an actual decent looking bracket/voting system.
And this time, things may be about to change. The final round is currently going on, and Gordon Freeman (of Half-Life fame) is beating Mario (yes, that Mario), 60.2% to 39.8%.
Gordon beat Link in the last round in an epically close poll, something like 50.1% to 49.9%...up until Valve actually took an interest in the competition and began posting to their Facebook status as well as having an actual ad pop up in Steam asking people to support Gordon. After that he shot up to 59.4%. Prior to that he beat Snake by a margin so slim the system actually displayed each as having 50%.
Another notable upset includes Bub and Bob, who defeated Sonic and Master Chief. They also went on to defeat Samus, but it turns out there was some cheating going on with those votes, so Samus was named the victor.
You can see how everything has played out here:
http://www.gamespot.com/greatest-vid...ero/index.html
All Time Greatest Game Hero
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