Japanese Game Awards Honor Taiko, Auto

Posted by simoniker on Thursday October 30, 2003 @11:12AM from the bang-drum-hijack-car dept.

Thanks to IGN for their announcement of the Japanese CESA videogame award winners for 2002-2003. The videogame trade body "awarded its grand prize to both Final Fantasy XI (Square-Enix, PS2/PC) and Taiko no Tatsujin (Namco, PS2). The latter title, while still not available in America, has proven to be a sensation in Japan, with non-stop arcade play and two PS2 versions combining for sales of over a million units." Of Western titles, Bungie's Halo was given an "award for excellence" alongside several Japanese-authored games, and Grand Theft Auto III, which has already sold over 200,000 in Japan, got the 'Global Award' for overseas-developed games.

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Steel Battalion by jxa00++ · 2003-10-30 11:52 · Score: 2, Interesting

Good to see Steel Battalion (Capcom, Xbox) for finally getting some recognition. Props to the developer for having the balls to release a game + controller at almost the price of the console. The Mech "immersion factor" with that badass controller was triple A+.