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E3 Critics Award Winners

Posted by Zonk on from the last-e3-story-till-next-year dept.

If you were watching SpikeTV at all last night, you probably saw the 5 minutes the network spent on the E3 Critics Choice awards. Gamasutra has a complete list of the winners available. Some winners for this year: "Best of Show - Spore, Best Hardware/Peripheral - PlayStation 3, Best Console Game - The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Best Handheld Game - Nintendogs, Best Fighting Game - Soul Calibur III"

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  1. Best Award for Doing Nothing Useful: by oGMo · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...goes to E3 Critics.

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    1. Re:Best Award for Doing Nothing Useful: by computerdude33 · · Score: 3, Funny

      They told us what we already knew: *Most people are PS fans *Dogs are very popular *Zelda games are very loved

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  2. PS3 as best hardware? by unclethursday · · Score: 3, Insightful
    You now, far be it from me to call myself a MS fanboi... but the PS3 winning Critics Choice Award for best hardware? Come on! There were no PS3's there. There were no playable games on it. etc.

    At least MS had demos (playable in some cases, others were played by MS people as demos) running on Apple G5 towers (development kits) to show what the games were supposed to be like.

    The PS3 was all hype and fluff. The Revolution (which I am looking forward to), was a no show, basically. At least MS had Xbox 360 (worst console name EVAR) specs down, demos running, etc. As far as the next gen of consoles is concerned, MS was the only player ready to step up to the plate.

    Now, if this gamble of launching early will pay off for them, well, only time will tell.

    1. Re:PS3 as best hardware? by alvinrod · · Score: 4, Insightful
      I really have to agree with you on this one. If they were giving the award based on expectations you might be able to give the nod to the PS3 instead of the Xbox 360, but otherwise the only clear winner could have been the Xbox 360. While I'd personally give the nod the the Revolution, I feel it should be disqualified largely on the grounds that it wasn't there and we still don't know much about it.

      The Xbox 360 may not have been running, but it was the closest thing to running. Apparently, the graphics card for the PS3 isn't even done yet, so anything other than the prerendered stuff they showed us is an impossibility. In an sense, they were as absent from the event as Nintendo, but chose to try and fool everyone by making it appear as if they actually had something. I also recall Sony saying that the footage they showed was not prerendered (a lie) and there was some controversy over it.

      Because the other two consoles weren't even there, I don't see how you couldn't give it to the Xbox 360 even if you felt it was undeserving.

  3. Just goes to show... by atezun · · Score: 3, Informative

    Only at E3 can a peice of hardware that isn't even running win Best Hardware/Peripheral. I guess the bevelling on the mock-up was just that good. Sheesh!