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Game Critics Awards Announce E3 2005 Winners

by Alec Matias, Jun 08, 2005 12:35pm PDT
Related Topics – Namco, Electronic Arts, Sony, E3, Bethesda, Nintendo DS, Monolith, Vivendi

The votes have been counted and the Game Critics Awards: Best of E3 2005 winners have been announced. The biggest winner was Spore which won in every category it was nominated, most notably Best of Show. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess was the only other multi-award winner with two. Publisher-wise, Electronic Arts lead the pack with seven awards and Nintendo trailed them with three of their own. As for the platform breakdown, PC gaming took home nine awards followed by the PS2 with four. Here's the complete list of winners:

Best of Show: Spore (Maxis/Electronic Arts for PC) Best Original Game: Spore (Maxis/Electronic Arts for PC) Best Hardware/Peripheral: PlayStation 3 (Sony Computer Entertainment / Nvidia / IBM / Toshiba) Best Console Game: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Nintendo for GCN) Best PC Game: Spore (Maxis/Electronic Arts for PC) Best Handheld Game: Nintendogs (Nintendo for Nintendo DS) Best Action Game: F.E.A.R. (Monolith/Vivendi-Universal Games for PC) Best Action/Adventure Game: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Nintendo for GCN) Best Fighting Game: Soul Calibur III (Namco for PS2) Best Role Playing Game: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Bethesda Software for PC / Xbox 360) Best Racing Game: Burnout Revenge (Criterion Games/Electronic Arts for PS2, Xbox) Best Simulation Game: Spore (Maxis/Electronic Arts for PC) Best Sports Game: Madden NFL 06 (EA Tiburon/EA Sports for All Platforms) Best Strategy Game: Company of Heroes (Relic/THQ for PC) Best Puzzle/Trivia/Parlor Game: We Love Katamari (Namco for PS2) Best Online Multiplayer: Battlefield 2 (Digital Illusions/Electronic Arts for PC) Special Commendation for Graphics: Killzone (Guerilla Games/Sony Computer Entertainment Europe for PS3)


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    By: Aeolaus x
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    This is just cracking me up in so many ways. Seeing the PC own the show that was touted as the introduction of the next gen is just so amusing.

    And the PS3 being best hardware is bs, if anything the xbox 360 definatly took this category. PS3 did not have one playable game out so I am pretty confused how prerendered showings could prove anything about a piece of hardware (Yes they showed one supposedly non prerendered game, UT2k7 but thats on every system and it did not look any better than Gears of War or any other U3 engine based game on any system so thats not a reason to give a best of show).

    But after the death of pc gaming article these awards just go to show that nothing still matchs the pcs capabilites. It is the ultimate gaming system. Yeah it costs more and yes the PS3 and Xbox 360 are trying to EMULATE what the PC already does, but they are trying to do it in a proprietary way, so they can make money off of things that the pc already does for free. Pretty much what they are trying to create, and imo will fail doing, is a proprietary pc. The reason they will fail is, the PC is not as powerful of a gaming system because it does many other things besides just gaming. The reason the Xbox and PS are powerful gaming systems is because they only focus on gaming, once they start branching out into other areas and spreading the power more evenly around to do other things it will fail to be as powerful as just a gaming system would be, so they will be more like a PC.

    Well pardon me if I dont personally want a proprietary PC. I like being able to connect to what I want, when I want, how I want. I dont want to have to pay for every patch I download, (Especially things that should of been included or fixed to begin with), nor do I want to have to pay for only one gaming service. I like choice, the PC is about choice, the Xbox 360 and PS3 are not.
    Jun 09, 2005 12:01am PDT
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    By: ilem0n x
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    Quotes from various "game critic" blogs that attended E3

    "I couldn't wait for E3 to start so I could put my nose rite-up the Sony press rep's ass"

    "The Sony rep said he was running late that morning and forgot to bring the PS3 and Killzone game. He assured me he would bring it for day2. I saw the rep the next day and asked him where the PS3 was and he said he was out drinking all night and forgot the PS3 again."

    "Sony gave me a copy of the PS3 specs, they were written on a used cocktail napkin."

    "I saw pictures of the PS3 on someobodys cell phone and was really impressed. I knew right then and there it was getting my vote for best hardware of E3. "
    Jun 08, 2005 3:34pm PDT
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    By: Ecks x
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    Why do booths there have press only releases? It'd seem to me that if they had something really that great to show that showing it on the floor would be a good way of doing it. Out of that list though, Spore, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, and Killzone weren't playable at all. The Elder Scrolls' trailer Bethesda had at their booth was laughable. It didn't show anything. I don't think Spore even had a trailer that was viewable from the general E3 goers. As for Killzone... wasn't it only in the PS3 demo reel that was shown? How was it playable?
    Jun 08, 2005 1:35pm PDT