Game Critics Awards Announce E3 2005 Winners

June 8, 2005 12:35 PM

The votes have been counted and the Game Critics Awards: Best of E3 2005 winners have been announced. The biggest winner was Spore which won in every category it was nominated, most notably Best of Show. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess was the only other multi-award winner with two. Publisher-wise, Electronic Arts lead the pack with seven awards and Nintendo trailed them with three of their own. As for the platform breakdown, PC gaming took home nine awards followed by the PS2 with four. Here's the complete list of winners:

Best of Show: Spore (Maxis/Electronic Arts for PC) Best Original Game: Spore (Maxis/Electronic Arts for PC) Best Hardware/Peripheral: PlayStation 3 (Sony Computer Entertainment / Nvidia / IBM / Toshiba) Best Console Game: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Nintendo for GCN) Best PC Game: Spore (Maxis/Electronic Arts for PC) Best Handheld Game: Nintendogs (Nintendo for Nintendo DS) Best Action Game: F.E.A.R. (Monolith/Vivendi-Universal Games for PC) Best Action/Adventure Game: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Nintendo for GCN) Best Fighting Game: Soul Calibur III (Namco for PS2)

Best Role Playing Game: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Bethesda Software for PC / Xbox 360) Best Racing Game: Burnout Revenge (Criterion Games/Electronic Arts for PS2, Xbox) Best Simulation Game: Spore (Maxis/Electronic Arts for PC) Best Sports Game: Madden NFL 06 (EA Tiburon/EA Sports for All Platforms) Best Strategy Game: Company of Heroes (Relic/THQ for PC) Best Puzzle/Trivia/Parlor Game: We Love Katamari (Namco for PS2) Best Online Multiplayer: Battlefield 2 (Digital Illusions/Electronic Arts for PC) Special Commendation for Graphics: Killzone (Guerilla Games/Sony Computer Entertainment Europe for PS3)

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BaBOon

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June 8, 2005 12:37 PM

Best hardware PS3...

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- ilem0n
  
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  June 8, 2005 12:42 PM
  
  ps3 wins hardware award? the first "paper" hardware award i have ever seen. by these standards shouldn't the pclike console at last year's e3 won best hardware? next year im going to bring an empty desktop scanner and call it the lemon station. the award is as good as mahn!
  - BaBOon
    
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    June 8, 2005 12:43 PM
    
    E3 is just a big dev circlejerk smoke blowing clusterfuck anyway. The soon we realize this and move on the better for the industry, IMO.
    - Fayk
      
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      June 8, 2005 1:39 PM
      
      We need to make sure to enjoy GDC while it serves a semblance of a purpose then, I guess!
- Wombat Woo
  
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  June 8, 2005 1:51 PM
  
  PS3 didn't deserve it, but IMO nobody did. The award should have just been skipped. 360 wasn't that much better off, and Nintendo had/said nothing, which IMO is better than throwing out "paper facts".
  - xenoeye
    
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    June 8, 2005 2:19 PM
    
    Agreed, should've gave it to Gameboy Mini or a peripheral
  - valiance
    
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    June 8, 2005 2:23 PM
    
    They should have given it to Sega Dreamcast and be done with it!