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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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    I like muppets.
  2. 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).

  3. Better link. (What's with the Newsweek link?) by xxxJonBoyxxx · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here's a better link:
    http://www.gamecriticsawards.com/winners.html

    (What moron posted a "Newsweek" link for God's sake?)

    Yeah - I need the karma. ;)