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Title: Game Developers Choice Awards
Post by: pstwo on February 12, 2002, 09:36:55 PM
Yay Halo made it!! :p

LINK:  http://www.igda.org/awards/nominations.htm

The Nominations period is now over. Nominees were announced on Tuesday, February 12th, and they are:

Game of the Year

BLACK & WHITE (Lionhead Studios)
GRAND THEFT AUTO III (DMA Design/Rockstar Games)
HALO: COMBAT EVOLVED (Bungie Studios)
ICO (Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc.)
MAX PAYNE (Remedy Entertainment)

Rookie Studio of the Year

Adrenium Games for AZURIK: RISE OF PERATHIA
Bohemia Interactive Studio for OPERATION FLASHPOINT
Croteam for SERIOUS SAM
Pseudo Interactive for CEL DAMAGE
TimeGate Studios for KOHAN: IMMORTAL SOVEREIGNS

Original Game Character of the Year

Dante from DEVIL MAY CRY
Daxter from JAK & DAXTER: THE PRECURSOR LEGACY
Ico from ICO
Max Payne from MAX PAYNE
Munch from ODDWORLD: MUNCH\'S ODDYSEE

Excellence in Audio

Erik Kraber & Jack Grillo for sound design in CLIVE BARKER\'S UNDYING
Harry Gregson-Williams for composition in METAL GEAR SOLID 2: SONS OF LIBERTY
Josh Randall for sound design in FREQUENCY
Marty O\'Donnell & team for sound effects in HALO: COMBAT EVOLVED
Thomas Engel, Rudolf Stember & Chris Huelsbeck for sound engineering in STAR WARS ROGUE SQUADRON II: ROGUE LEADER

Excellence in Game Design

Fumito Ueda & team for game design in ICO
GTA3 team for game play in GRAND THEFT AUTO III
Lorne Lanning & Chris Ulm for story/writing of ODDWORLD: MUNCH\'S ODDYSEE
Peter Molyneux & team for game design in BLACK & WHITE
Shigeru Miyamto & team for game design in PIKMIN

Excellence in Level Design

Craig Filshie, William Mills, Chris Rothwell & James Worrall for level design in GRAND THEFT AUTO III
Fumito Ueda & team for level design in ICO
Ghost Recon team for level design in TOM CLANCY\'S GHOST RECON
Scott Campbell, Dave Jaffe, Kellan Hatch & team for level design in TWISTED METAL: BLACK
Toshihiro Nagoshi & team for level design in SUPER MONKEY BALL

Excellence in Programming

Kazunori Yamauchi & team for physics in GRAN TURISMO 3 A-SPEC
Andy Gavin for programming in JAK & DAXTER: THE PRECURSOR LEGACY
Jason Jones & team for programming in HALO: COMBAT EVOLVED
Richard Evans for artificial intelligence in BLACK & WHITE
Sherman Archibald, John Carmack & Ryan Feltrin for graphics in RETURN TO CASTLE WOLFENSTEIN

Excellence in Visual Arts

Dan Arey & Evan Wells for animation in JAK & DAXTER: THE PRECURSOR LEGACY
Fumito Ueda & team for art direction in ICO
Kazunori Yamauchi & team for modeling in GRAN TURISMO 3 A-SPEC
Lorne Lanning & Farzad Varahramyan for art direction in ODDWORLD: MUNCH\'S ODDYSEE
Tetsuya Mizuguchi & team for art direction in REZ

Game Innovation Spotlights

BLACK & WHITE (Lionhead Studios)
CEL DAMAGE (Pseudo Interactive)
FREQUENCY (Harmonix Music Systems)
GRAND THEFT AUTO III (DMA Design)
ICO (Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc.)
KOHAN: IMMORTAL SOVEREIGNS (TimeGate Studios)
MAJESTIC (Electronic Arts)
MAX PAYNE (Remedy Entertainment)
REZ (United Game Artists)
SUPER MONKEY BALL (Amusement Vision)
Title: Game Developers Choice Awards
Post by: Hawke on February 13, 2002, 02:04:19 AM
Max Payne nominated for best original character?!?!? OH COME ON!
Title: Game Developers Choice Awards
Post by: Bobs_Hardware on February 13, 2002, 02:20:28 AM
max payne didnt deserve any of those... but its still a top game

i still think GTA3 is overrated...
Title: Game Developers Choice Awards
Post by: SonyFan on February 13, 2002, 03:43:47 AM
Wow.. Halo and ICO made almost every list... and MGS2 only made one! Talk about a surpise verdict seein as how MGS2 was getting "Game of the Show" at E3 when it wasn\'t even playable!!
Title: Game Developers Choice Awards
Post by: mm on February 13, 2002, 03:48:33 AM
glad to see one of my fave PC games get an award

Erik Kraber & Jack Grillo for sound design in CLIVE BARKER\'S UNDYING


that game rocked
Title: Game Developers Choice Awards
Post by: Watchdog on February 13, 2002, 04:31:01 AM
Bob, we agree on something!  GTA3 is a terribly overrated game.
Title: Game Developers Choice Awards
Post by: Bobs_Hardware on February 13, 2002, 06:12:28 AM
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Originally posted by Watchdog
Bob, we agree on something!  GTA3 is a terribly overrated game.


dont get me wrong, its still fun.. and has plenty of great things about it...but c\'mon...its no Metal Gear Solid...its no Final Fantasy...pfft is alli can say  :D
Title: Game Developers Choice Awards
Post by: JP on February 13, 2002, 08:47:31 AM
GTA3 is not overrated at all. It\'s a great game, it\'s actually one of the few games that\'s worth buying

the Final Fantasy series is overrated IMO. What a f\'in chore to play.
Title: Game Developers Choice Awards
Post by: 182Ways on February 13, 2002, 10:58:27 AM
It\'s nice to see that a game like ICO and the team behind it are getting the praise they deserve.
Title: Game Developers Choice Awards
Post by: Lord Nicon on February 13, 2002, 11:21:51 AM
yeah ico was an awesome game. Its truely awestriking. Im glad that the developers got their props. :)
Title: Game Developers Choice Awards
Post by: Sublimesjg on February 13, 2002, 03:00:01 PM
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Originally posted by SonyFan
Wow.. Halo and ICO made almost every list... and MGS2 only made one! Talk about a surpise verdict seein as how MGS2 was getting "Game of the Show" at E3 when it wasn\'t even playable!!



actually ICo is dominating the list by far

Halo = 3 nominations

ICO = 6 nominations

still impressive though
Title: Game Developers Choice Awards
Post by: Blade on February 13, 2002, 03:41:39 PM
GTA3 should be replaced by Pikmin in the innovation department, IMO.

GTA3 (no matter how awesome it is) is just a 3D sequel to GTA 1 and 2. Pikmin is new.
Title: Game Developers Choice Awards
Post by: Living-In-Clip on February 16, 2002, 12:26:42 PM
Eh? How in the HELL did Cel Damage get any nominations?   Same with Max Payne, I mean sure it was a fun game but it wasn\'t exactly anything new, \'cept the gimmick "bullet-time".
Title: Game Developers Choice Awards
Post by: EmperorRob on February 16, 2002, 12:57:06 PM
My vote goes for GT3 and HALO the best on the PS2 and the best on the B-izox.
Title: Game Developers Choice Awards
Post by: cloud345 on February 18, 2002, 11:18:15 AM
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Final Fantasy series is overrated IMO. What a f\'in chore to play



Well I havent played all of em......but I think ff7 and ff10 are the oly too not overated games of the series. IMO ff7 is underated it appeared number 76 out of the top 100 games! It practically was the father of all RPG\'s! And GTA3 is not overated its a great game! I was suprised not to see any GC games on the Game Of the Year list. SSBM is awsome probally the best party game made. And Star Wars........it was almost as good as MGS2 and this suprised us all......MGS2 was not one of the games of the year!
Title: Game Developers Choice Awards
Post by: Watchdog on February 18, 2002, 12:39:43 PM
SSBM is a fun game.

Star Wars is a pretty average game though.
Title: Game Developers Choice Awards
Post by: ajoh432 on February 18, 2002, 02:17:41 PM
Ico is a great game... Some friends never played it, but they say it sucks... They are so weird.. I love that game, and it brings back memories everytime I play it. I\'m gonna have to let Bladez borrow it..
Title: Game Developers Choice Awards
Post by: Metal_Gear_Ray on February 19, 2002, 07:16:56 AM
why wasn\'t DMC included in the game arts list

the game is a artistic masterpiece IMO
Title: Game Developers Choice Awards
Post by: Lord Nicon on February 19, 2002, 11:11:27 AM
Yeah ico... what a great game. I dont think that the ff series is overrated. FF10 is soo much fun its insane. Its funny how soo many people say that its just soo repetitive. I dont happen to think so. There are plenty of defferent elements that revamps the new game. FF7-10 + Tactics etc. are fun as hell and offer a lot of defferences IMO. Devil May Cry was dope i just regret that it was so short. Eventhough I still think its worthy of a buy, depending on what you like. SSMB:M is really fun but once you get most of the characters and some of the challenges its pretty much multiplayer from there. Not everyone can enjoy every extra. Its great dont get me wrong but i think its overrated. GTA 3 isnt that overrated. Again its all in the eye of the beholder. I could play that game all day. :)
Title: Game Developers Choice Awards
Post by: cloud345 on February 19, 2002, 08:26:56 PM
I played ICO demo........that game was wack! But then again it was the demo.