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E3 Critics Award Winners Announced

Posted by Zonk on from the only-ones-that-matter dept.

The winners of the E3 critics awards have been announced, and a list is available on the Newsweek LevelUp blog. To the surprise of no one, Rock Band took the top spot. Media Molecule's LittleBigPlanet was awarded Best Original Game, while Mass Effect and Crysis took best console and PC game respectively. A few more awards: "Best Action Game - Call of Duty 4, Best Action/Adventure Game - Bioshock, Best Role Playing Game - Mass Effect, Best Racing Game - Burnout Paradise, Best Fighting Game - Virtua Fighter 5, Best Strategy Game - World in Conflict."

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  1. content? by Turn-X+Alphonse · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Where is the article content? All I see is a list of awards and names under them, no reason is given for each award or anything. Why is a platformer with customisable characters even remotely original let alone the most original game this time round?

    This article is horrible, it's like a ten top best games at E4 post on the Gamefaqs forum.

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  2. hrm... by B00yah · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Only 1 Nintendo title, and it wasn't for the wii (I'm not counting madden, as it's coming out for EVERYTHING). Not sure how to take that, as the new mario galaxy stuff looks really good, as does smash brothers, and wiifit looks fairly intriguing.

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  3. Rock Band? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Can someone explain to me the appeal of Rock Band? I really love guitar hero, and play it all the time. I have two guitars and duel with my friends and it's a blast.

    I might be persuaded that adding some drums into the mix would also be fun. However there is no way - evar - that I would want to hear anyone I know butchering the lyrics to great songs in my livingroom.

    Also the cost is looking to be fairly rediculous. Will people really shell out $200-250 to get all the intruments? And if it sells badly, with Harmonix keep up with their promise to continue providing new content for it? I still have a sour taste in my mouth from the promises for lots of regular xbox 360 downloadable content for GH2 that never materialized (12 songs from GH1 is a piss poor effort, boys).

    1. Re:Rock Band? by FleaPlus · · Score: 2, Insightful

      > However there is no way - evar - that I would want to hear anyone I know butchering the lyrics to great songs in my livingroom.

      The number of people who do karaoke is probably at least an order of magnitude larger than the combined number of people who play Guitar Hero, DDR, DrumMania, etc.

  4. Five Xbox 360 exclusives by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    Of the titles in the "best" list, five are exclusive to the Xbox 360. One is exclusive to the PS3. It looks like the "console wars" may already be over: the Xbox 360 has the best games, and many of them are exclusives.

    Won't be official until after the holiday shopping season, but I know which side I'd bet to win...

    1. Re:Five Xbox 360 exclusives by Zero1za · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Your math is off, and so is the list.

      There are 2 exclusive Xbox games on that list. One was given two awards (Mass Effect).

      VF5 is availalbe on the PS3, so it's not exclusive. Games availalbe for both the and 360 don't count as exclusive imo either. So, 2 exclusive games (Halo 3 and Mass Effect).

  5. Adventure games? by tsa · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No adventure game category. Shame, the genre is doing so well compared to a few years ago.

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