GameSpy's GOTY awards per platform

[BenSkywalker]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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!]

THPS4 game of the year for PS2?!

And what is FFX doing there? That was a last year's game.

 

[London Geezer]

i think they messed some things up..............

 

[Magnum PI]

[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]

Qualifying games had to be released from Dec 15th 2001 to Dec 15th 2002, FF X came out ~ Dec 20th 2001

 

[London Geezer]

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[zurich]

Starting two world wars?

j/k!

 

[London Geezer]

Starting two world wars?

j/k!

we didn't pulverize 2 cities faster than the time it takes u to say *jap* though.................

 

[zurich]

I meant Europe in general

Seriously though, it makes much more sense just to have 1 global TV/HDTV standard, especially in a global marketplace...

 

[London Geezer]

... ....


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]

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]

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]

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!]

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]

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]

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...