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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. Re:content? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Microsoft $$$

    Best Online Multiplayer

    Halo 3

    Putting aside the horrendously last gen and gaudy graphics, the only game with a worse online I can think of is Gears of War and its infamously bad online play.

    Halo 3's online:

    1) Can't handle more than 16 players per match - while most other games easily handle 32,40,64 players per match

    2) Has no dedicated servers - no dedicated servers means lag, lag, lag as people with crappy net connections ruin matches for everyone

    The Halo 3 multiplayer beta and E3 fiasco was so bad Xbox fans have started to latch onto Call of Duty 4 as their game to hype.

    The list is, of course, garbage.

  2. action/adventure? by rpillala · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Why are there separate categories for Action and Action/Adventure? This seems like a crass attempt to squeeze in more awards just for marketing reasons. Of course the whole thing is just marketing reasons so I guess I shouldn't complain.

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  3. Re:Rock Band? by xero314 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Can someone explain to me the appeal of Rock Band? Rock Band is going to appeal to children that aren't old enough to get a real rock band together yet, and to ex-rockers that never got their lucky break when they were in their teens. So there will be some good vocalists out there interested in ripping out the lyrics for their favorite songs, but need to get up for work of school the next day. And it will also be an interesting way to relax for those that are making music professionally.

    But more importantly it's 3 rhythm games and a karaoke game all at once, and both of those styles of entertainment have been shown to be very successful through history.