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Doom III Takes E3 Awards

Posted by michael on from the marines-taste-good-with-ketchup dept.

Talinom writes "This has just simply gone too far. CNN has a story that tells how the video game Doom III by id Software has won the "Best Of Show" award at the E3 convention about one year before its release. Does this mean that Duke Nukem Forever is overdue for its "Game Of The Year" award?" The awards site is E3Awards.com. I don't see how they can give an award called "Best Action Game" to something that doesn't exist as a playable game, but then again looking at the past awards I see Neverwinter Nights won in 2000... in 2001... and in 2002.

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  1. Review of Doom3 was just posted ... by pgrote · · Score: 1, Redundant

    to all the major game sites.

    This is idiotic. I am a huge Doom fan and cannot wait. I salivated over the 90 meg movie. I have promised myself a top of the line PC when it comes out.

    Well, now I am safe ... it'll be over by the time it's released.

    This is nuts.

    "Watching programming legend John Carmack manipulate the lone marine through the claustrophobic corridors, it was easy to get caught up in the revolutionary steps embodied by the technology on display." I thought the whole idea behind games was so that PEOPLE could play them.

  2. Huh? by N8Magic · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I see no one around here realizes that E3 is a TRADE SHOW. There might be a few games still in development being shown at a trade show.

    Definition:

    Trade Show : "An event at which goods and services in a specific industry are exhibited and demonstrated."

    In this case, the industry is the gaming/entertainment industry and note that it mentions nothing about excluding products in development. Just because a game isn't finished doesn't mean it isn't better than most of the half-assed titles out there now.