What were our favourite games of E3 this year? Let’s take a look!
The biggest, the best games of the year, sometimes of next year, are shown off each year in Los Angeles at the Electronic Entertainment Expo.
This year we decided to come up with a list of the games that we here at Kotaku thought were among the best at the show.
Keep in mind these are awards based on glimpses, fleeting moments with incomplete games. Things can change between now and when a game actually hits stores, that’s why we do a year end Game of the Year awards as well. The annual Goaties are awards, as Totilo so succinctly puts it, based on investigation.
To select these winners I had all of Kotaku’s attending writers pick their three favourite games from among the nominees and rank them. Their first choice was awarded three points, second was awarded two and third choice was awarded one. Then I went back and tallied the vote.
So here you go, the closest thing you’re going to get to Kotaku’s groupthink on the best games of E3.
Best New Game
Winner: Dance Central
Runner-Up: Lost in Shadow
Best Character Design
Winner: Kirby in Kirby’s Epic Yarn
Runner-up: Rage
Best Gameplay Mechanic
Winner: Shadow play in Lost in Shadow
Runner-Up: Driver San Francisco
Best Motion
Winner: Dance Central
Runner-Up: The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
Best Trailer
Winner: Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
Runner-Up: Nintendo’s 3DS Commercial
Boldest Move
Winner: Power Gig
Runner-Up: Battle Tag
Best Setting
Winner: Disney Epic Mickey
Runner-Up: Kirby’s Epic Yarn
Best PC
Winner: Portal 2
Runner-Up: Civilization V
Best DS Game
Winner: Okamiden
Runner-Up: Ghost Trick
Best PS3 Game
Winner: Portal 2
Runner-Up: LittleBigPlanet 2
Best PSP Game
Winner: God of War: Ghost of Sparta
Runner-Up: Invizimals
Best Wii Game
Winner: Kirby’s Epic Yarn
Runner-Up: The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
Best Xbox 360 Game
Winner: Dance Central
Runner-Up: Limbo
EzyLee
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 at 9:07 AMI stopped reading at best new game… come on Kotaku. Look at that footage, if I wanted to do anything remotely like that I would chuck a leotard on and head down to the local gym for some aerobics.
MasterCyl
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 at 9:44 AMSad part is they are probably right, it’s probably not a bad game, but there probably wasn’t anything NEW that was better. I assuming the list is limited to titles announced at this E3.
I can’t really think of anything NEW I was keen on, I did enjoy more info regarding games I already knew were coming.
Maybe a Best Overall Game category?
ArghZombies
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 at 9:44 AMLol @ lee
don’t you know?! Leotards are so last year! 2010 is the year of the unitard
Blackwater
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 at 10:08 AMThis is just confirmation of how terrible E3 was this year.
Robby
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 at 10:43 AMI had to check my calendar.. Is it April 1st? Or did Stephen Conroy, after getting approval from the Australian Christian Lobby, make this list?
lolwut
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 at 10:51 AMITT: fat lonely nerds crying that a dance game won best in show.
DKnight1000
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 at 11:00 AMI was either very close with my calls in the nomination thread or completely off.
confused
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 at 11:08 AMBrain, out of curiosity were you one of the fortunate reporters who received a free xbox 360 slim from microsoft? I have no other way of reasoning this list.
Matthew Murphy
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 at 11:33 AMInteresting choices, although for best motion, I would switch Dance Central with Child of Eden.
Ad
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 at 11:45 AMDefinitely agree on the ACII trailer, yes it’s not gameplay but it’s made of sheer awesome.
DerangedStoat
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 at 4:21 PMI watched and couldn’t help but wonder why all those apparently amazing marksmen (unseen) with the bows didn’t just shoot the guy. I mean you’re an assassin right? Not Michael Bay…
Joel Finch
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 at 6:01 PMFAIL on the Best Trailer. Deus Ex Human Revolution by a long shot.
Alex Walker
Thursday, July 1, 2010 at 2:45 AMI thought the best trailer would have gone to Star Wars: The Old Republic, myself.