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Games of the Year
markpapadakis writes "Gamespot and Gamespy have released their top games for 2002. Gamespot features worse game of the year as well as some additional categories."
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All nomined strategy games are RTSes. Worst game is Civ3 multiplayer. I haven't played it (I like single player games), but to me Civ3 is one of best games in last year. Almost every other "strategy" game is RTS (arcade/strategy mixture) or HoMaM-like. Do you remember first Heroes of Might and Magic? It was succesfull only because graphics and simplicity. Today nobody say "HoMaM is for children". In world where RTSes are best strategy games and Civilization is "dissapoiting" (I know it's about mp-add-on, but last year everyone talk how bad Civ3 is) - HoMaM is no more childlish.
PS. Nobody noticed Moonbase Commander? It was the only strategy (except Civ3) I found fun last months.
Nuff said.
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Notice how every game requires a CD-check? It's easy to get around, but illogical and annoying. The first game to just skip the CD-check should win game of the yaer. And it should be free information!
Kind of looks like adventure games should really be called pixel hunts.
And what about strategy game WC3?
There's not that much strategy involved in WarCraft 3. It's fun and all, but it's definitely not a game of strategy.
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You know what? After all the hype, and all the anticipated games, I only now, after reading this list, realise how mediocre this years games are!?
I mean, NWN was supposed to be the be-all-end-all RPG...but SP was just Diablo, and MP is Diablo+chat(+usre made adventures, but user made content is such a butch that you can't give it points for that, really).
Then we have UT2k3...a quake-ified UT...looked good, played ok, but nowhere near a big wow-factor. Not even close.
The rest? GTAIII; if it wasn't so bug-riden and limited, it would stand a chance. Medieval: Total War; Shogun with different sprites. Warcraft III; YARTS (yet another RTS).
There was nothing really cool this year; nothing really innovative, nothing to make me sit up in front of my keyboard and really say 'wow'. The closest was Morrowind, but even that wasn't a truly great game.
Odd, but it';s been a bit of a lackluster year. Here's hoping Paradise Cracked and Homeworld 2 will make 2003 worthwhile, gamewise.
-- Waht? Tehr's a preveiw buottn?
There are lotsa cool games that were left out.. COMPLETELY. There was no mention of Jedi Outcast (Jedi Knight II), which has been a blast to play. There were no bike racing games. I guess, there are way too many games out there, and way too many genres.
Next year will be more interesting. The games to watchout for:
Doom III (2003 I hope)
Counterstrike Condition Zero
Unreal II
Enter the Matrix
Breed
Freelancer
Halo2
Duke Nukem Forever ?(now i know y its called so, tho)
Stalker
ahh... bliss
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I recall from an appendix to 1984 that one of the goals of Newspeak was to eliminate negative words. Thus, since "worse" is a negatively connotated antonym to better, it would have been removed from the language altogether. Further, since "better" is an elevated for of "good," the term to be used would be "plus ungood." (and for the superlative term "worst," it would be doubleplus ungood)