Game critics best of E3 awards

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From Gamerfeed:



Best of Show
Half-Life 2
(Valve LLC/Vivendi Universal Games for PC)

Best Original Game
Full Spectrum Warrior
(Pandemic Studios/THQ for Xbox/PC)

Best PC Game
Half-Life 2
(Valve LLC/Vivendi Universal Games for PC)

Best Console Game
Halo 2
(Bungie Studios/Microsoft for Xbox)

Best Peripheral/Hardware
EyeToy
(Sony Computer Entertainment for PlayStation 2)

Best Action Game
Half-Life 2
(Valve LLC/Vivendi Universal Games for PC)

Best Action/Adventure Game
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
(Ubi Soft Montreal/UbiSoft for All Game Systems)

Best Fighting Game
Soul Calibur 2
(Namco for All Console Systems)

Best Role Playing Game
Fable
(Big Blue Box/Microsoft for Xbox)

Best Racing Game
Gran Turismo 4
(Polyphony Digital/Sony Computer Entertainment for PlayStation 2)

Best Simulation Game
Full Spectrum Warrior
(Pandemic Studios/THQ for Xbox/PC)

Best Sports Game
Tony Hawk's Underground
(Neversoft/Activision for All Console Platforms)

Best Strategy Game
Rome: Total War
(Creative Assembly/Activision for PC)

Best Puzzle/Trivia/Parlor Game
The EyeToy Games
(Sony Computer Entertainment Europe for PlayStation 2)

Best Online Multiplayer
City of Heroes
(Cryptic Studios/NCSoft for PC)

Special Commendation for Graphics
Half-Life 2
(Valve LLC/Vivendi Universal Games for PC)

[Jeremy]

Seeing Fable get the RPG nod is nice. Good to see the Xbox seemingly have some RPG plans in the future.

[Tain]

I'd be baffled if anything but HL2 won the game of show.

[Schlep]

I'm still baffled that a video tape can win game of the show.

[Drewbacca]

A videotape telling of great things in the near future for us, Schlep. How could that NOT win game of the show?

I mean, with these other games we're already disappointed at the quality, right? But for Halflife 2 we won't have these problems for a while now, giving us time to relish (and ketchup! HAHAHAHA!) in the glory.


I can't believe I thought of that ketchup thing. Pure gold.

[Hero]

Originally posted by Tain
I'd be baffled if anything but HL2 won the game of show.

I'd be baffled that a videotape could win as 'game of show'

wait...I was beaten to the punch =|

Originally posted by Andrew
I mean, with these other games we're already disappointed at the quality, right? But for Halflife 2 we won't have these problems for a while now, giving us time to relish (and ketchup! HAHAHAHA!) in the glory.

Oh, I get it; so when Half Life 2 is on demo, THEN people can talk crap about it. It's overrated, over-hyped, just another FPS, blah blah blah?

[Saint of Killers]

If a video is much more impressive than anything playable, why shouldn't it win?

[Schlep]

Were any of you who are saying how impressive the video was compared to anything else, actually there to play the games at the show?

I watched the videos of HL2 and Halo 2, and thought, "Yeah, that was awesome...wish I could play it," and moved on to what I could play. I certainly had more fun playing Viewtiful Joe, Crystal Chronicles and I-Ninja than I did watching either trailer.

[Diff-chan]

Any site that doesn't give Half-Life 2 game of show is run by idiots. That's pretty much all there is to it. No game at E3 looked half as good.

[Saint of Killers]

Originally posted by Schlep
Were any of you who are saying how impressive the video was compared to anything else, actually there to play the games at the show?

I suppose this is directed at me, but I can't see where I said that the Half Life video was better than any of the playable games. I'm merely pointing out that if someone or something (in this case, Game Critics, although pretty much every gaming website in existence seems to agree with them) feels that a video is the most impressive thing at the show, there is no reason they shouldn't give it their best of show award.

I watched the videos of HL2 and Halo 2, and thought, "Yeah, that was awesome...wish I could play it," and moved on to what I could play. I certainly had more fun playing Viewtiful Joe, Crystal Chronicles and I-Ninja than I did watching either trailer.

You having more fun with other games doesn't invalidate Game Critics' opinion. Feel free to make a Schlep's Best of E3 Awards.