Lucky XIII Wins ECTS Game Awards

Thanks to Gamesindustry.biz for their report on the results of the annual ECTS Awards in London, documenting the ceremonies based around the E3-like English trade show. According to the piece, "Ubi Soft's cel-shaded FPS title XIII... [walked] away from the ceremony with the Best Console Game and Game of Show awards tucked under its arm. The company's multiplayer FPS title Far Cry also won the Best PC Game award, while Everquest 2 - published in Europe by Ubi - picked up the Best Online game award." Interestingly, the Edge Award, chosen by editors of the boutique UK games magazine, went to Capcom's Viewtiful Joe, while Half-Life 2 only came away with one prize, the London Games Week award.

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XIII, the results surprise me:

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Have the ECTS people actually played the XIII demo? I did and while I liked the in game storyboards, and the general feel of the game, it didn't come anywhere near to the 'coolness' that I've seen in gameplay movies of Halo2, Half Life 2 and Far Cry. It just felt like I was playing NOLF2 again, and frankly I want something new. If they managed to make the level geometry look more cartoony then maybe this would be something to get excited about, but at the moment it has this juxtaposition between nicely rendered cartoon enemies and pretty standard 3d levels. =( Who knows maybe they've had a major build channge between the demo I played and the ECTS demo.