Best Of E3 Awards Announced

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing out that several sites have now posted their Best Of E3 awards, including Gamespy's Top 25 awards, and separate best-ofs from IGN PS2, IGN Xbox, and IGN Cube. Oh, and the Gamespy editors also found a grilled cheese sandwich to be one of their biggest E3 highlights.

Comments

credit where credit is due...

[sweeney37]

let's not forget about Gabe and Tycho's best of. :)

Mike

Re:credit where credit is due...

[junkgrep]

Ha ha. First I thought it was going to be funny, and then it wasn't! What a comic genius!

Re:credit where credit is due...

[CashCarSTAR]

PA tends to be moderated +1 insightful more often than +1 funny for me.

Mind you then it's the insight that becomes funny..kinda like The Daily Show, but I digress..

Re:credit where credit is due...

[Anonymous Coward]

Coincidentally, the "+4 Funny" score followed by your post had an identical effect.

doom3?

[Anonymous Coward]

doom 3 doesn't make any appearence in their top 25 list, which i thought was pretty surprising. anybody read their coverage and knows if they actually thought it wasn't good enough, or did they just think it got enough publicity last year, and is way over hyped already?

Re:doom3?

[junkgrep]

For IGN, D3 wasn't qualified to be in the running, because it didn't have a playable demo, just a movie. I don't know if Gamespy had such restrictions or not.

Re:doom3?

[Anonymous Coward]

well, AFAIK, halflife 2 didn't have a playable demo, but that got the first price, at least on gamespy

Re:doom3?

[junkgrep]

No, Half-life DID have a playable demo. They played through the bug level and the underground tunnels levels in real time. Several of the e3 articles commented on it.

Re:doom3?

[zonker]

yeah, but doom3 is more of a technology, than a game...

think about what i said before you flame me. ;P

saddening

[r0b0t b0y]

from the article about the grilled cheese sandwhich:

Tucked away inside Kentia Hall -- more commonly referred to as SARS Central -- just a few yards away from the Korean Gaming Pavilion and that guy hocking Dragon Ball Z stickers was The Big Cheese.

emphasis added by me.

now even as a non-asian person, i find this remark to be quite offensive. in fairness to the writers of the article, the whole convention was likely dubbing the area "SARS Central" -- but that's just worse. at best it's a tasteless and inappropriate joke and at worst, it's a very racist remark. i'm really disappointed in gamespy .. i'm used to them producing higher quality articles that don't have to resort to racial slurs to keep readers reading.

Re:saddening

[rgonsalves]

It wasn't a racial slur. I will agree that it was inappropriate; but shit, there are lots of case of SARS in Canada too.

SARS and ethnicity are completely separate entities but they are only linked by the abundance of Korean people (Asian areas in general) that are plagued by SARS right now. Don't misinterperate their comments as racially motivated.

-RPG

Re:saddening

[r0b0t b0y]

SARS and ethnicity are completely separate entities but they are only linked by the abundance of Korean people (Asian areas in general) that are plagued by SARS right now. Don't misinterperate their comments as racially motivated.

first, you're right .. i dunno if that comment was racially motivated or not. but its up to writers (if they are in any way professional) to make sure that kind of thing isn't even a question.

second, according to the WHO, south korea has had only 3 probably cases reported with 0 deaths. this is as much as sweden, and less then the u.k. to make false judgements of a person based on their skin color soudns pretty racist to me.

Re:saddening

[Anonymous Coward]

And the last few lines (taken out of context) doesn't make it better >)

Maybe Activision thought he would drive booth traffic by making people run for cover. Either way, Nazi dude is a WINNER in our eyes, and the perfect wrap-up to this year's awards. See you next year!

Re:saddening

[raiderx]

Although I am not sure what prompted the writer's use of that particular euphamism, I was at E3 and Kentia Hall was the one place where I saw a couple of Asian guys (normal attendees, not exhibitors) wearing surgical masks. Creeped me out a bit, since it brought the SARS-phobia back into focus for me, which I had avoided up till then, despite the crowds of people everywhere.

Re:saddening

[startled]

in fairness to the writers of the article, the whole convention was likely dubbing the area "SARS Central"

I never heard it referred to by that name, in three days of roaming the floor, and talking to a number of people (many of them game mag writers and editors) about Kentia Hall. The author must have been a member of a select group of people who not only don't realize the remark is in poor taste, they don't even comprehend that SARS jokes stopped being funny about 2 days after they started.

And the winners are...

[Anonymous Coward]

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PS2
Best Presentation: Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
Runner-Up: Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Other Nominees: Beyond Good & Evil, Final Fantasy X-2, Gran Turismo 4

Best Design: Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Runner-Up: Ratchet: Going Commando
Other Nominees: Beyond Good & Evil, Sphinx and the Shadow of Set, SSX 3

Best Innovation: Tony Hawk's Underground
Runner-Up: Magic Pengel: The Quest for Color
Other Nominees: Beyond Good & Evil, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater

Best Graphics: Gran Turismo 4
Runner-Up: Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Other Nominees: Beyond Good & Evil, Gradius V, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater

Biggest Surprise: Sony PSP
Runner-Up: New Model PS2 with Network Adapter
Other Nominees: Gary Coleman throwing panties at journalists, IGN Editors not killing each other on day three, Jennifer Love Hewitt singing at Konami's event

Best Online/Networked Game: Final Fantasy XI
Runner-Up: SOCOM: U.S. Navy Seals 2
Other Nominees: Resident Evil Outbreak, Syphon Filter: Omega Strain, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2004

Best Action Game: Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
Runner-Up: Spider-Man 2
Other Nominees: Maximo vs. the Army of Zin, True Crime: Streets of L.A.

Best Adventure Game: Resident Evil Outbreak
Runner-Up: Beyond Good & Evil
Other Nominees: Castlevania: Lament of Innocence, Sphinx and the Shadow of Set

Best Racing Game: Gran Turismo 4
Runner-Up: Need for Speed Underground
Other Nominees: F1 Career Challenge, NASCAR Thunder 2004

Best Fighting Game: Virtua Fighter 4: Evolution
Runner-Up: Soul Calibur II
Other Nominees: Bloody Roar 4, K-1 World Grand Prix

Best Platform Game: Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Runner-Up: Ratchet: Going Commando
Other Nominees: Jak II. Tak and the Power of Juju

Best Sports Game: Madden NFL 2004
Runner-Up: Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2004
Other Nominees: NBA Ballers, NCAA Football 2004, NHL 2K4

Best Extreme Sports Game: Tony Hawk's Underground
Runner-Up: SSX 3
Other Nominees: Disney's Extreme Skate Adventure, MX Unleashed

Best Simulation Game: Gran Turismo 4
Runner-Up: Reel Fishing III
Other Nominees: G1 Jockey 3

Best Role-Playing Game: Drakengard
Runner-Up: Star Ocean: Till the End of Time
Other Nominees: Arc the Lad: Twilight of the Spirits, Final Fantasy X-2, Final Fantasy XI

Best Overall Game: Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Runner-Up: Gran Turismo 4
Other Nominees: Drakengard, Madden NFL 2004, Ratchet: Going Commando, Tony Hawk's Underground

GameCube
Best GameCube Game: Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Runners-up: Viewtiful Joe, F-Zero GX

Best GameCube Adventure Game: Sphinx and the Shadow of Set
Runners-up: Beyond Good and Evil, The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords

Best GameCube Action/Platform Game: Viewtiful Joe
Runners-up: Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Best Gam

The artical forgot a site.

[Dunarie]

One must not forget the best gaming site out there, Game Revolution, they'll be releasing their best of any time now. http://www.game-revolution.com/articles/e3/e3_2003 /e3_blurb.htm

The Full List

[n0wak]

Thanks a lot GameSpy for listing 25 titles on 18 pages. Here's the list for those that don't want to bother:

#25 - CIMA: The Enemy (GBA)
#24 - Halo (PC)
#23 - The Movies (PC)
#22 - X-Men: Legends (GCN/PS2/Xbox)
#21 - The Sims 2 (PC)
#20 - Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines (PC)
#19 - StarCraft: Ghost (GCN/PS2/Xbox)
#18 - Top Spin (Xbox)
#17 - Fire Emblem: The Sword of Fire (GBA)
#16 - Mario Kart: Double Dash!! (GCN)
#15 - Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg (GCN)
#14 - Tony Hawk Underground (PS2/Xbox/GCN)
#13 - Spider-Man 2 (PS2/Xbox/GCN/PC)
#12 - Evil Genius (PC)
#11 - Maximo vs. Army of Zin (PS2)
#10 - Star Wars Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike (GCN)
#9 - Middle-Earth Online
#8 - True Fantasy Live Online (Xbox)
#7 - Gradius V (PS2)
#6 - Need For Speed Underground (PS2/Xbox/GCN/PC)
#5 - Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth (Xbox/PC)
#4 - Rome: Total War (PC)
#3 - Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (GBA/GCN/PS2/Xbox/PC)
#2 - Halo 2 (Xbox)
#1 - Half-Life 2 (PC)

Doom 3 nowhere to found. I imagine it's a case of reality finally catching up to, and surpassing, the hype.

Re:The Full List

[krisguy]

Doom 3 was introduced at the last E3, that's why it isn't on anyone's lists