AIAS Finalists Announced

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday January 17, 2006 @05:43AM from the finally-a-real-awards-show dept.

The 2005 finalists for the Annual Interactive Achievement Awards have been announced, Gamespot reports. The event, sponsored by the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences, will announce winners on the evening of January 9th. From the article: "Leading the nominees this year was GameSpot's 2005 PlayStation 2 Game of the Year, God of War. Developed and published by Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA), the game got a whopping 11 nominations, including Overall Game of the Year, Action/Adventure Game of the Year, and Outstanding Innovation in Gaming. The game's number of nominations ties last year's AIAS Game of the Year winner, Half-Life 2."

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God of War = Innovative? by Anonymous Coward · 2006-01-17 06:11 · Score: 2, Interesting

Don't get me wrong, I am loving this game, but it is not exactly innovative. Extremely well done and polished, pushing the PS2 to extremes, definitely. But no particular element in it stands out as remarkably new or original to me.

RE4 was much more innovative in my opinion. It completely eschewed existing game grammar (clear room, collect treasure, advance) in favor of "run like hell or you die in a really scary way". The high level of interaction and beautiful levels really set it apart from anything that came before (ESPECIALLY other resident evil titles).

My 0.02 anyways!