So yeah, BCR won their judges choice award .  Awesome!  Even more than the award itself, however, what I love is this writeup, which I think totally hits the nail on the head. 

You can keep your “visionary,” cause Capcom is all about the FUN–you know, the kind of games you actually WANT to play, instead of the ones you “should” play.  Thanks guys!

The broadest measure of a video game’s excellence is also the simplest: “What was the most fun?” This year, Bionic Commando: Rearmed was the pound-for-pound champion of fun. Not, “thought-provoking,” not “awe-inspiring,” not “most visually stunning,” — just “I want to play this” fun. BCR flawlessly bridged the best of two generations, rendering the addictive, endlessly replayable world of the classic 8-bit platformer in the audiovisual tableau of a next-gen console — at a price cheaper than the original by half.