World of Warcraft Gamespot GOTY 2004

Gamespot's annual awards have drawn to a close, with the Reader's choice awards finishing up tomorrow. Announced on Wednesday, Gamespot's Game of the Year for 2004 is World of Warcraft. Relatedly, there is an interview with the WoW composer at World of Warcraft Guru, and a piece on Wired.com about Virtual Trade and Blizzard's efforts to combat the trend. Finally, Blizzard's annual holiday festivities have resulted in a hilarious holiday mp3 being made available on the official World of Warcraft site.

Comments

"from the for-gnomeregon! dept."

[Phosphor3k]

It's spelled "Gnomeregan".

Re:I agree on the drop out part

[Gandalfar]

That's modern evolution for you :)

Re:I agree on the drop out part

[cowscows]

Amen to that. I thank Counter Strike for a lot of my time management skills. Fitting in 3 hours a day of CS while at the same time trying to earn an architecture degree really taught me how to get things done efficiently.

Re:Not bad, not good, just over-hyped

[LurkerXXX]

The graphics did live up to the hype. Your flashlight just wasn't powerful enough to see them.

Re:Half Life 2

[Lord_Dweomer]

"I could design an new, innovative racing game that you control with your computer's microphone by yelling TURN LEFT when you want to go left, or BRAKES! BRAKES BRAKES! when you want to stop. I doubt anyone's done that before. Of course, no one's done it before because it's a stupid idea."

They could call it "Back Seat Driver". My Jewish mother would LOVE it!

Re:Doom 3 isn't in the FPS section...

[damiam]

Doom 3 was a tech demo, not a game. The only revolutionary thing about it was the lack of duct tape.