Fallout 3 Nets GDC Game of the Year Award

by Chris Faylor, Mar 26, 2009 3:10pm PDT

Following a tally of thousands of votes from various game developers and professionals, Bethesda's post-apocalyptic action-RPG Fallout 3 (PC, PS3, 360) was named Game of the Year at last night's Game Developers Choice Awards.

Bethesda's effort also came away with Best Writing award. Media Molecule's cutesy PlayStation 3 platformer was also heavily praised, coming away with four different awards for its Game Design, Technology, Innovation, and a Best Debut nod.

Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima was given a Lifetime Achievement Award, Harmonix co-founders Alex Rigopulos and Eran Egozy netted a Pioneer Award for their work on advancing music games via Guitar Hero and Rock Band, and Tommy Tallarico received an Amabassador Award "for helping to advance the game audio community."

In all, 13 awards were given away. The complete list of winners follows below:

Game of the Year:
Fallout 3 (Bethesda Softworks)
Best Game Design:
LittleBigPlanet (Media Molecule)
Best Writing:
Fallout 3 (Bethesda Softworks)
Best Technology:
LittleBigPlanet (Media Molecule)
Best Visual Arts:
Prince of Persia (Ubisoft Montreal)
Best Debut Game:
LittleBigPlanet (Media Molecule)
Best Handheld Game:
God Of War: Chains Of Olympus (Ready at Dawn)
Innovation Award:
LittleBigPlanet (Media Molecule)
Best Audio:
Dead Space (EA Redwood Shores)
Best Downloadable Game:
World Of Goo (2D Boy)
Lifetime Achievement Award
Hideo Kojima
Pioneer Award
Alex Rigopulos and Eran Egozy
Ambassador Award
Tommy Tallarico

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Far Cry 2 should have gotten the Best Writing award over Fallout 3, but they're both pretty well-written games.

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  You're kidding, right? I really enjoyed Far Cry 2's gameplay, but the dialogues were long incoherent stre... : yobock
  - There's a separation between writing and voice actor delivery. My comment extended only to the writing. : mittense
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  I have to disagree completely. I can't say the writing wasn't great all throughout the game, since I didn... : darksied
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    What was convoluted about it? The problem with the game's dialogue, I thought, was that the voice actors seemed to speed through their lines way too fast. The written script, I thought, was actually quite refreshing for a video game.
    
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    What was convoluted about it? The problem with the game's dialogue, I thought, was that the voice actors ... : mittense
    - I should have said "I thought" a few more times. : mittense
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