Crysis loses out at awards

wolvers · 10 Dec 2007 at 12:40

COD4 and Bioshock beats Crysis to awards for best game, best shooter and best military game.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7135965.stm

Chronictank · 10 Dec 2007 at 12:49

it won best gfx

which is all it really excelled at over its competitors to be frank, so its a pretty fair result

.Lethal · 10 Dec 2007 at 12:56

COD4 is amazing. End.

phatboy · 10 Dec 2007 at 12:58

i agree with the above, admittidly Crysis a great looking and fun game. But COD4 is just incredible.

wolvers · 10 Dec 2007 at 12:59

Yeah, i thought so too.

Although it isn't better than those games, in those categories, I've enjoyed it more than COD4.

I'm surprised that Bioshock beat Mario Galaxy to best game though. Only because I know how much the critics have raved about Mario galaxy.

skullman · 10 Dec 2007 at 13:00

DiRT :/

Rezident · 10 Dec 2007 at 13:01

wolvers69 said:
Yeah, i thought so too.

Although it isn't better than those games, in those categories, I've enjoyed it more than COD4.

I'm surprised that Bioshock beat Mario Galaxy to best game though. Only because I know how much the critics have raved about Mario galaxy.

Haven't heard of Mario Galaxy before but Bioshock is certainly amazing.

eekfek · 10 Dec 2007 at 13:01

Bioshock deserves the best game,oh and DiRT is brilliant fun

Emlyn_Dewar · 10 Dec 2007 at 13:03

DiRT getting driving game of the year... What? Who votes for these awards?
I mean, I don't hate the game and it's alright for a quick blast every now and then, but Driving GoTY is going a bit far. What about Forza2/PGR4? :eek:

skullman · 10 Dec 2007 at 13:04

PGR4 should've won the driving award.

blakka · 10 Dec 2007 at 13:04

Forza 2 should have won.

skullman · 10 Dec 2007 at 13:06

blakka said:
Forza 2 should have won.

Anything but DiRT

Phate · 10 Dec 2007 at 13:15

blakka said:
Forza 2 should have won.

Why?

You can pretty much buy your way through the game!

PGR4 does actually require you to be good at driving/the game and have found it very tense at times and extremely realistic, Forza 2 was just boring.

uber soldat · 10 Dec 2007 at 13:15

Crysis looks good but repetetive gameplay and crap multiplayer let it down

Smurfy · 10 Dec 2007 at 13:19

Orange Box won best pc game, deservidly so imo.
I thought Portal was superb.

COD4 didnt do it for me one bit, too linear and too many respawning enemys. Only level worth playing was the sniper level.

Crysis was great, i imagine when we see next gen video cards the game will really open up and its brilliance will be seen by everyone.

Its strange, for the first time in a while i am actually fairly happy with the games the game industry is providing for us, all in all a good year in terms of games.

Spitfir3 · 10 Dec 2007 at 13:22

You gotta remember that most game awards = mainstream console stuff win.

wolvers · 10 Dec 2007 at 13:37

Spitfir3 said:
You gotta remember that most game awards = mainstream console stuff win.

That's a bit of a sweeping statement. After all Crysis won best graphics and Portal was chosen as the breakthrough technology winner.

Are there really any games that are much better than Bioshock and COD4 that are pc only anyway?

Caustic · 10 Dec 2007 at 14:30

To me Bioshock was the only game I thought deserved GOTY. The key qualifications for GOTY is that it must have excelled in all areas: graphics, plot, characters, art, longevity etc. And Bioshock was the only one to do that.

Chronictank · 10 Dec 2007 at 14:33

Spitfir3 said:
You gotta remember that most game awards = mainstream console stuff win.

winners list kind of contradicts that

EternalMovement · 10 Dec 2007 at 14:44

A lot of those rewards are well deserved in my opinion.

Nice to see Cod4, Bioshock & the Oranage Box do well.