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HALO STORMS BAFTAS
Grand Theft Auto doesn't get a look in at the prestigious British awards as Bungie's Xbox shooter takes top honours
12:44 The BAFTA Interactive Entertainment Awards for 2002 were announced in London last night, with Halo scooping the most sought after gongs for Best Console Game and Best Multiplayer Game.
Take-Two monster hit Grand Theft Auto III was nominated for six awards and came away with nothing. Talk suggests the game simply wasn't "worthy" enough to be honoured in the mainstream awards.
Other winners include Grand Prix 4 for Best Sports Game, which raised plenty of eyebrows from Pro Evolution Soccer fans, and Neverwinter Nights for Best PC Game.
Nintendo's quirky strategy title Pikmin won the Interactivity award, and Ian Livingstone, long-standing Eidos stalwart, took away The Gift of The Academy. No one could argue the last one wasn't well deserved.
Rumour is now circulating that next year's event is to only involve games. The ceremony currently incorporates websites and other categories as well as games.
My friends, brothers etc have no Idea i spend some spare time discussing on these forums. If they found out my sign in name was Mantis i'd get the slaggin of a lifetime.
I'll change it to somethin more common. That is IF I get broadband.
In nearly every online PC game my name has been gamezfreak so i am keeping it that way!
One plus though is that we won't have much problem tracking eachother down. ;-)
I will be definately going online, i am getting my parents to order it on November 30th and i will be most likely getting it on Christmas day with a few games.
I'll simply be Savatt - original huh ? ;-))
(my second ADSL connection - I now have two broadband accounts, one on blueyonder one on BT)
My name will hopefully be er-no, if they allow the '-' If they don't I have a few 'online names' which manymany people know my by:
TheBlood, JobyOne, BattlingMC, hobe1, Genises or Chaotica.
:)
By the time I have X-Box Live, I should have..
Whacked!
Moto GP (both of these coming with the package)
Unreal Championship
Mech Assault
Ghost Recon
NFL Fever 2003
We'll have to do a thread once people start getting on so we can tell eachother our names on the service. ;-)
Oh, and I get you know via that microphone thing all the latest news :-D
Sadly though, I have hella amount of college work.
Tommorrow (well today) I plan on working for five hours on media when I wake up :)
My Dad will probably be bitter because I'll have a better setup in my bedroom then there is in the living room. ;-))
But once X-Box Live comes along, between that and watching DVD's, I probably won't need to leave my room much. Hmmmmmmmmm, maybe I should invest in a little fridge too. ;-))