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BenSkywalker
20-Dec-2002, 02:14
PS2-
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4

Runners Up-
Sly Cooper & Thievius Racoon
Final Fantasy X
Rygar: The Legendary Adventure
Virtua Fighter 4
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Madden 2003

Best Graphics-
Ratchet & Clank

Best Use of License-
Kingdom Hearts

Best Use of Water Fowl
Suikoden III

Return To Form Award-
Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance

Best non Tony Hawk Sports-
Agressive Inline

Perriphreal-
Net adaptor

Best Music-
GTA: VC

XBox-
Splinter Cell

Runners Up-
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4
NBA 2K3
Mech Assault
Jet Set Radio Future
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Rallisport Challenge

Dirtiest Game-
Rallisport Challenge

Most Insane-
Steel Battallion

Best Music-
JSRF

Best Sports-
THPS4

Best Use of License-
Buffy

Almost Righted a Wrong-
ShenmueII

Rectification Award-
Controller S

GameCube
Metroid Prime

Runners Up-
Animal Crossing
THPS4
Time Splitters2
Phantasy Star Online I&II
Super Mario Sunshine
Aggressive In Line

Best Sports
THPS4

Best Graphics
Resident Evil 0

Day of the Tentacle (Cthulhu) Award
Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem

Should Have Been Online
Animal Crossing

Best Music-
Metroid Prime

Best Perriphreal
Wavebird

Overall the lists look pretty good to me(a few changes I'd have here and there).

http://www.gamespy.com/goty2002/
zurich
20-Dec-2002, 03:18
Word up for not giving GTA:VC GoTY for PS2!

Odd that they'd give it to a rehash of a rehash though (THPS4).
CaptainHowdy
20-Dec-2002, 05:06
Splinter Cell is great and all, but i wanted to see it go to Mech Assault, I think its an awesome achievment, I hate mech games, and I actually like it.
zurich
20-Dec-2002, 05:48
In terms of content, MechAssault lacks immensely. That game needed another 3-4 months to justify its price tag. Short single player, online play with 4 maps and like basically 1 game mode (variants of DM)? ZZzzz

The gameplay is great, but the game REALLY needs more of everything to deserve its praise.
V3
20-Dec-2002, 06:16
Actually, I would take Steel Battallion over Splinter Cell for Xbox GotY, a bit slow for my taste, but it is definitely a better game than Splinter Cell or any other Xbox recent releases.

They give it "most insane" ? There is nothing insane about Steel Battallion though.
marconelly!
20-Dec-2002, 08:22
THPS4 game of the year for PS2?! :o

And what is FFX doing there? That was a last year's game.
london-boy
20-Dec-2002, 09:46
:o i think they messed some things up..............
Magnum PI
20-Dec-2002, 09:48
[mode nintendork on]

i see the THPS4 is GOTY for the PS2.
on the GC, THPS4 is only the best sports title. MP is the GOTY.
should i interpret this as a sign of the gamecube game library superiority over the PS2 one ?

[mode nintendork off]
zurich
20-Dec-2002, 16:16
Qualifying games had to be released from Dec 15th 2001 to Dec 15th 2002, FF X came out ~ Dec 20th 2001 ;)
london-boy
20-Dec-2002, 16:28
Qualifying games had to be released from Dec 15th 2001 to Dec 15th 2002, FF X came out ~ Dec 20th 2001 ;)


(...rubbing it in a bit more)


released in july 2001 (IIRC) in europe.............................. one year after japan release and 6 months after american release.... and not even a 60Hz mode, but of course with big black borders, slowdown and all the usual crap...... now u tell me WHY WHY WHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

what have we done to deserve this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :lol:
zurich
20-Dec-2002, 16:51
Starting two world wars? :oops:

j/k!
london-boy
20-Dec-2002, 16:58
Starting two world wars? :oops:

j/k!



we didn't pulverize 2 cities faster than the time it takes u to say *jap* though................. :roll: :lol:
zurich
20-Dec-2002, 17:05
I meant Europe in general :D

Seriously though, it makes much more sense just to have 1 global TV/HDTV standard, especially in a global marketplace...
london-boy
20-Dec-2002, 17:23
... :lol: ....


i was just teasing u...


well it would make perfect sense wouldnt it... guess it's too much of a hassle for some people *up there* though.....


i mean, even this whole PAL-NTSC thing... i mean, what the hell, was it too hard keeping the same standard all over the world when TVs were first introduced??!!!

now u add Pro-scan on top of that and we're sorted..........
PiNkY
21-Dec-2002, 11:45
The main reason for the different norms (PAL/NTSC) were the different electricity network standards in Europe and America (running at 60Hz and 50Hz respectivly).
Tagrineth
22-Dec-2002, 02:12
Actually, I would take Steel Battallion over Splinter Cell for Xbox GotY, a bit slow for my taste, but it is definitely a better game than Splinter Cell or any other Xbox recent releases.

They give it "most insane" ? There is nothing insane about Steel Battallion though.

Nothing insane? How about the controller and price tag?
CaptainHowdy
22-Dec-2002, 02:33
Back on Topic, they now have the final Game of the years up..
Metroid Prime took GOTY overall, I forgot the runner ups(but you can bet your arse they are Splinter Cell and Vice City...
marconelly!
22-Dec-2002, 04:47
I forgot the runner ups(but you can bet your arse they are Splinter Cell and Vice City...
Actually, Splinter Cell wasn't even considered as a game of the year by them. Instead, they included Mech Assault :\
zurich
22-Dec-2002, 05:43
Back on Topic, they now have the final Game of the years up..
Metroid Prime took GOTY overall, I forgot the runner ups(but you can bet your arse they are Splinter Cell and Vice City...

Where do you see that? I just see GOTY per-platform, not overall.

http://www.gamespy.com/goty2002/
archie4oz
22-Dec-2002, 18:24
The main reason for the different norms (PAL/NTSC) were the different electricity network standards in Europe and America (running at 60Hz and 50Hz respectivly).

That may have been a factor, but I'm not sure it's the whole reason... Japan is an NTSC country and half of the country is 100v@50Hz and the other half at 100v@60Hz...


Nothing insane? How about the controller and price tag?

True, it's a rather stupid category anyway, as Taito's Energy Air Force with Sony's HMD is quite a bit more expensive...
CaptainHowdy
22-Dec-2002, 18:31
sorry, my bad

Here it is (http://gamespot.com/gamespot/features/all/bestof2002/)

Game of the Year PC- Warcraft 3
Game of the Year Xbox- Mechassault
Game of the Year PS2- Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Game of the Year GC- Metroid Prime
Game of the Year GBA- Tactics Ogre- The Knight of Lodis

And the Winner for Game of the Year overall......
Metroid Prime.
jvd
22-Dec-2002, 18:42
I'm happy sega has at least one game on every system up for game of the year. Ony whats up with righting wrongs shenmue 2 ??
zurich
22-Dec-2002, 19:56
Gamespot's awards are pretty good, but I cannot believe they didn't include Rez for best music on PS2, even as a nominee. That's like got to me a mistake or something.