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Nominations For AIAS Gaming Awards Announced
yakobusan writes "The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS) just announced the finalists for the 7th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards, to be given out on March 4th in Las Vegas - there's a full list of nominees over on the AIAS site." It's noted that "Electronic Arts led the finalist count with 29, followed closely by Ubisoft and Sony Computer Entertainment of America (SCEA) with 23 and 21 finalists respectively" - highlights include Metal Arms: Glitch in the System's nomination for "Best Console Action / Adventure", and Snoop Dogg's appearance in the "Best Character Performance - Male" finalists for True Crime: Streets of LA.
Let's see. There are precisely 2 noms for Console FPS. Deus Ex 2 and Rainbow Six 3 (18?).
Precisely one for one category, Family.
Oh, what are they *thinking* with these original score awards?! Call of Duty I can stomach, if just for the title screen theme. Beyond Good and Evil? Forgettable music entirely. GRABBED BY THE GHOULIES? I don't think so. Where in Christ's name is Xenosaga, eh!? *sigh* they just don't GET it.
There's an online downloadable category- Pogo has two (Poppit, Word Whomp), PopCap takes one (Zuma!) and Real's Hamsterball. Please let Popcap win.
Rikku from FFX-2 got a nod for Best Female Performance? I thought she'd be a shoo-in for best ta-^H^H^Hanimation, given the audience voting on these things...
Please, someone tell me these are BS awards.
The Innovation section is *really* depressing. Makes you realise how little innovation there is.
KotOR was a brilliant game (GotY IMO) but there was no innovation in it. It was just a retread of BG with a good/evil system (which has been around for ages. I remember it in Fallout 2). It was all about production values and plot and gameplay, and did those things well.
With the possible exception of PoP, only Zelda was at all innovative (BTW despite PoP, Ubisoft look to be going bust).
To top it all, the page doesn't work in Opera, which is despicable.
This is what happens when they model their awards after the worst elements of the Oscars.
The nominees are just the games with the largest marketing budgets, irrespective of quality.
This is just a cynical PR exercise used to milk some cash from publishers willing to stump up to have their games nominated.
(Site doesn't seem to work properly either.)
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