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Sunday Comics: Dead Island Fallout 3 and LittleBigPlanet tied for the game with the most awards handed out for this year’s Game Critics Best of E3 awards.
Fallout 3 landed the coveted Best of Show award as well as Best Role Playing Game, while LittleBigPlanet landed Best Console Game and Best Social/Casual/Puzzle Game. However LBP was passed up for Best Original Game, with Mirror’s Edge getting the nod instead.
Hit up the jump for the full list of winners and feel free to look back at our votes and the full finalist list, to see how they compare.
Last week the Game Critics Best of E3 finalists were announced with much fanfare and debate.
Today, I turned in Kotaku’s official ballot for who we think the winners should be. I have to say this was one of the harder years to judge. In particular you had games like Left 4 Dead, Fallout 3 and LittleBigPlanet all vying for the same awards and let’s not forget Spore, Rock Band 2, Guitar Hero World Tour, LEGO Batman, etc, etc.
Hit up the jump for our official ballot and then chime in to explain how we got it all wrong.
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.
The full 2007 Game Critics: Game of the Year Award winners have hit the Game Critics website, naming BioShock the game of the year.
Here’s the complete break down, via the Game Critics Geoff Keighley and Rob Smith:
Top 10 Games of 2007: 1. BioShock 2. The Orange Box 3. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare 4. Rock Band 5. Super Mario Galaxy 6. Halo 3 7. Mass Effect 8. God of War II 9. Assassin’s Creed 10. Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune
Game of the Year breakdown by platform: Xbox 360: 7 PlayStation 3: 5 PC: 3 Wii: 1 PlayStation 2: 1
Game of the Year breakdown by publisher: Microsoft Game Studios: 2 Sony Computer Entertainment: 2 EAP (Valve, MTV Games/Harmonix): 2 2K Games: 1 Activision: 1 Nintendo: 1 Ubisoft: 1
Hit up the site for each game’s write-up and the break down of how judges voted.
