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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Re:XIII, the results surprise me:

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Halo 2 -- XBox only.
Half Life 2 -- XBox and PC only.
Far Cry -- PC only.

XIII -- PC, XBox, PS2, and GameCube.

XIII

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I've been an avid fan of this comic book for over a decade or so (at the rate of one release a year, there are currently 14/15 comic books, it depends if you count the overview).

For the ppl that want (some) more background: the comic book is written (scenarie) by Jean Van Hamme, who has also worked on Thorgal and Largo Winch (btw, the series does not do the comic book justice), just to name the most well know ones (I am personally a fan of the chninkel. Van Hamme (a professor in Brussels IIRC) is one of the best scenario writers (with the ever dark Dufaux).

The drawings of XIII are done by Vance, who also worked on Bruce J Hawker (and some other high profiled titles, the names escape me at this moment).

Currently, the story arc of the comic book has stopped (a bit), mainly because the identify of number I (yes XIII stands for a number) has been shown. However, the new comic book seems to identify that all is not what it seems and new conspiracies await (showing high ranking CIA/FBI and military personal having succeeded in the coup d'etat in the US).

The first cycle (if I can call it that) was mainly driven by the search for the identity of the main character, finding himself in situations where his life is changed in a blink of an eye and where nothing is what it is and can be trusted.

Furthermore, the issue of the identity of XIII is still not entirely clear, nor is the role of some of the seemingly allies.