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"Game Critics Awards"

Game Critics presented their nominees for the best in "Electronic Entertainment Expo 2004" and Game Critics' awards are considered as the most important for they are voted by 25 international sites and TV stations in The United States Of America, and these are the nominees for this year ( The awards are going to be announced in June 8th 2004).
Best Of Show:
Half Life 2 (Valve/Vivendi Universal for PC)
Halo 2 (Bungie/Microsoft for Xbox)
Nintendo DS (Handheld console/Nintendo Co.Ltd)
Sony PSP (Handheld Console/Sony Computer Entertainment)
Splinter Cell 3 (UbiSoft Montreal/Ubisoft for PC)

Best Original Game:
Destroy All Humans (Pandemic/THQ for Playstation 2,Xbox)
Donkey Kong Jungle Beat (Nintendo for GameCube)
God Of War (SCEA Santa Monica/SCEA for Playstation 2)
Jade Empire (Bioware/Microsoft for Xbox)
Yoot Saito's Odama (Vivarium/Nintendo for GameCube)

Best PC Game:
Half Life 2 (Valve/Vivendi Universal Games for PC)
The Lord Of The Rings: The Battle for Middle Earth (EALA/ Electronic ARTS for PC)
Rome (Creative Assembly/Activision for PC)
The Sims 2 (Maxis/Electronic Arts for PC)
Splinter Cell 3 (UbiSoft Montreal/UbiSoft for PC)

Best Console Game:
God of War (SCEA Santa Monica/SCEA for PlayStation 2)
Halo 2 (Bungie/Microsoft for Xbox)
Jade Empire (Bioware/Microsoft for Xbox)
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (Retro Studios/Nintendo for GameCube)
Resident Evil 4 (Capcom for Gamecube)

Best Peripheral/Hardware:
Alienware Video Array Technology (Alienware for PC)
Donkey Konga Bongo Drums (Nintendo for GameCube)
Nintendo DS (Mobile Gaming System - Nintendo Co. Ltd)
Phantom Gaming Service (Infinium Labs, Inc.)
Sony PSP (Mobile Gaming System - Sony Computer Entertainment)

Best Action Game:
Doom 3 (Vicarious Visions/id/Activision for Xbox)
F.E.A.R (Monolith Productions/Vivendi Universal Games for PC)
Half Life 2 (Valve/Vivendi Universal Games for PC)
Halo 2 (Bungie/Microsoft for Xbox)
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (Retro Studios/Nintendo for Gamecube)

Best Action Adventure Game:
God Of War (SCEA Santa Monica/SCEA for Playstation 2)
Prince Of Persia 2 (UbiSoft Montreal/Ubisoft Multiformat)
Resident Evil 4 (Capcom for Gamecube)
Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal (Insomniac Games/SCEA for Playstation 2)
Splinter Cell 3 (UbiSoft Montreal/UbiSoft for PC)

Best Fighting Game:
Def Jam: Fight New York (EA Canada/EA Multiformat)
Guilty Gear Isuka (Arc System Works/Sammy Studios for PlayStation 2)
Mortal Kombat: Deception (Midway Games for PlayStation 2,Xbox)
Rumble Roses (KCET/Konami for PlayStation 2)
Street Fighter Anniversary Collection (Capcom for PlayStation 2,Xbox)

Best Role Playing Game:
Fable (Big Blue Box/Microsoft for Xbox)
Final Fantasy XII (Square-Enix for PlayStation 2)
Jade Empire (Bioware/Microsoft for Xbox)
Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords (Obsidian/LucasArts for PC/Xbox)
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines (Troika Games/Activision for PC)

Best Racing Game:
Burnout 3 (Criterion Games/Electronic Arts for PlayStation 2,Xbox)
Enthusia Professional Racing (Konami for PlayStation 2)
Forza Motorsport (Microsoft for Xbox)
Gran Turismo 4 (Polyphony Digital/Sony Computer Entertainment for PlayStation 2)
Street Racing Syndicate (Eutechnyx/Namco Multiformat)

Best Simulation Game:
Full Spectrum Warrior (Pandemic/THQ for PC,Xbox)
Pacific Fighters (1C/UbiSoft for PC)
Sims 2 (Maxis/Electronic Arts for PC)
The Movies (Lionhead Studios Multiformat)
The Urbz: Sims in the City (Maxis/Electronic Arts Multiformat)

Best Sports Game:
ESPN NFL 2005 (Visual Concepts/ESPN Videogames for PlayStation 2,Xbox)
FIFA Soccer 2005 ( EA Sports/Electronic Multiformat)
Madden NFL 2005 (EA Sports/Electronic Multiformat)
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005 (EA Sports/Electronic Multiformat)
Tony Hawk’s Underground 2 (Neversoft/Activision Multiformat)

Best Strategy Game:
Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle Earth (EALA/Electronic Arts for PC)
Pikmin 2 (Nintendo for GameCube)
Rome: Total War (Assembly/Activision for PC)
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War (Relic/THQ for PC)

Best Puzzle/Trivia/Parlor Game:
Donkey Konga (Nintendo for GameCube)
Donkey Kong Jungle Beat (Nintendo for GameCube)
EyeToy: AntiGrav (Harmonix Music Systems/SCEA for PlayStation 2)
Karaoke Revolution Volume 2 (Harmonix Music Systems/Konami for PlayStation 2)
WarioWare, Inc. DS (Nintendo for Nintendo DS)

Best Online Multiplayer Game:
Battlefield 2 (Digital Illusions/EA Games for PC)
EverQuest II (Sony Online Entertainment for PC)
Halo 2 (Bungie/Miceosoft for Xbox)
Star Wars Battlefront (Pandemic Studios/LucasArts for PC,PlayStation 2,Xbox)
World of Warcraft (Blizzard/Vivendi Universal Games for PC)

I'm actually looking forward to the next Def Jam game. The first one was pretty good but the story was the same for each character, which let it down a lot.

*picks up a M4 Carbine with twin integrated sights*

Come here a minute, Bagz..

Bagz put the The Sims 2 above HL2.

Best Action Adventure Game:
Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal (Insomniac Games/SCEA for Playstation 2)

What the hell...?

*weeps*

Mav wrote:
> You really can be an idiot at times...
>
> Sometimes I wonder if you do things like this on purpose.
But I didn't come up with the list.

You really can be an idiot at times...

Sometimes I wonder if you do things like this on purpose.

Mav wrote:
> Putting Halo 2 above Half-Life 2 is laughable.
Putting Halo 2 above HL2 in the list doesn't mean that they are indicating that it's better, they aren't arranging them from best to worst, they put them there randomly.

Wakka wrote:
> Some awful choices there.

If you're talking about Bagz, then I'd wholeheartedly agree.

Putting Halo 2 above Half-Life 2 is laughable.

Don't know if they were at the show but if they were i can't believe Star Ocean 3 or Dragon Warrior didn't get a mention in the best RPG category.