Gamespot Best of 2006 Awards

[Frogacuda]

Why is Trauma Center: Second Opinion in the puzzle category?

Puzzle has always been used as the genre for games that otherwise defy genre definitions. Music games were called Puzzle Games before they got big enough to make up their own genre.

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It isn't suprising. It has better graphics than the xbox version, has all the features that were gimped in both the 360 and PS3 version, and the wii controls work really well.

Also NBA 2K7 is vastly overrarted.

[Saint of Killers]

Dead Rising is an acquired taste that I don't particularly like.

I'd say it's the exact opposite. It's alot of fun for a couple hours then it gets increasingly dull and repetitive.

[icarusfall]

I'd say it's the exact opposite. It's alot of fun for a couple hours then it gets increasingly dull and repetitive.

[Detour]

So they gave Gears GOTY. I have no problem with that.

[GameHED]

How did the PSP Alpha beat out SF Alpha Collection? Alpha Collection not only brought arcade-perfect ports of the Alphas to consoles BUT even gave a whole new level of gameplay with different ISMs pulled from other games.

Didn't the arcade version of SFA3 have less characters though? No guile, thawk, fei-long, deejay, balrog, (these appeared in dc version) maki, yun, eagle, (recycled sprites from cvs2, included with gba version) and the new one from the xbox game etc

The psp version is still the definitive version for fans who want it all since it includes all the new characters that appeared in the home versions. (since home versions have extra stuff that the arcade one missed out on. Just doesn't seem right to me for example to only have the 3 of the four boss characters. I like Balrog alot now. It's not easy to go back to bare bones arcade SFA3) If you subscribe to the "more characters = better" school of thought you are getting a better version of Alpha 3 due to the number of characters available.

Order of goodness from oldest to latest:
Arcade alpha 3 (bare bones) <
DC (all bosses and some old faves like guile, fei-long, T hawk and deejay)
< GBA (used some Snk vs Capcom 2 sprites not seen in the DC version - very smooth animations!)
< PSP. (added one extra character. Most "complete" version.)

I don't own the alpha collection so I don't know which characters are missing in it. I'm assuming that because this is based on just the arcade original, none of the characters from the home versions are included SFA3 game included in the collection?

[Tain]

I'm pretty sure the Alpha Collection has an unlockable mode with all the new characters.

[WTFer]

It isn't suprising. It has better graphics than the xbox version, has all the features that were gimped in both the 360 and PS3 version, and the wii controls work really well.

Also NBA 2K7 is vastly overrarted.

Actually Gamespot said in their review that the graphics on Madden Wii is inferior to the Gamecube version.

[Razor Ramon]

Every single character from the Alphas are in it as well as different modes (Marvel, Darkstalker, 3S and World Warrior). Trust me, if any fighting game deserved to win it was Alpha Collection.

[GameHED]

Damn. Gamespot, you suck. Just to go a bit OT.
Capcom: make me a Third strike port for PSP thanks. My DC is dead, my xbox 1 has been sold off (xbox360 is only semi-backward compatible) and I feel like owning a portable version of this.