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Kotaku’s Best Of E3 2010 Award Winners
What were our favourite games of E3 this year? Let’s take a look!
The Game Critics’ Best Of E3 Nominees Are…
The Game Critics have spoken, these are the best of E3 nominees for this year…
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Game Critics Awards are one of the most sought after badges of honour in the gaming industry, but does wining Best of E3 predict a retail success or impact the sales of a video game?
Hair Dragons, CatBats, Light Graffiti: The Best Of E3 ’09
This year’s annual E3 Expo gathering of video game developers, publishers and players brought with it an unprecedented look at the games we’ll be playing over this year and next as well as the technology that will shape the games to come.
Best of Categories, Which Ones Should We Keep, Lose?
Every year I vote on a number of different game of the year, best of E3, best of whatever awards and every year I run into the same problem: The categories never really work for me. Often it ends up feeling like you’re trying to squeeze a round peg into a square hole and hope for the best.
Thing is, I don’t really have a solution. Take for instance today’s news of the Game Critics’ Best of E3 finalists. Check out those categories.
Best Social/Casual/Puzzle Game Best Online Multiplayer Game Best Action Game Best Action/Adventure Game
Heck this year there were even a few that didn’t get enough votes to make the cut.
Best Simulation Game, for instance, didn’t get enough nominations to make the finalists list, but what would you include in there. Spore? Why not. HAWX, Sure, I suppose. Left 4 Dead? Maybe.
That’s the problem, a lot of these categories are very easy to redefine and justify. What if you were making a Best of list for gaming, which categories would you include? Me? I think you need to include one category for each console, because often gamers only own one or two and they want to know which game is best on “their” system. But what about those collection of genres? I find them baffling, but it certainly looks like a lot of people use them. Maybe they just need new names. So what are you waiting for? Get to it.
Game Critics’ Best of E3 Finalists Announced
Each year journalists from 36 North America media outlets come together to select what they believe are the best games of E3. The annual Game Critics Awards are meant to recognise the games that “will shape the future of interactive entertainment”.
The only rule? They have to be playable by the judges at E3.
The winning games haven’t quite been selected yet, but the judges (including myself) have selected the finalists. Best of show nominees are Fallout 3, Gears of War 2, LittleBigPlanet, Mirror’s Edge and Spore. LittleBigPlanet managed to get the most nominations across the board, with five, while both Gears of War 2 and Left 4 Dead nabbed four nominations. EA was the publisher with the most nominations, pulling in a whopping 21.
While I mostly agree with the list, there is one stand-out. Early on in the process we were told that Street Fighter IV the arcade machine was eligible for awards. Personally, as much as I love the game, I don’t think that’s fair. It’s not a video game in the true sense of the word. When it does hit consoles that’s fine, but I think mixing in arcade games with console and PC titles sets a bad precedent.
