SpikeTV Video Game Awards Results...

[Crevalle]

Regardless of your opinion of the SpikeTV Video Game Awards, below are some of the results (winners in bold)--it will be aired next Wednesday at 10pmET:

[B]Preface[/B]
"As the announcer listed off the nominees for Game of the Year, the greatest applause was aimed at Gears of War and Guitar Hero 2. But when Oblivion was announced as the winner, many in the crowd sounded stunned.

Oblivion also walked home with Most Addictive Game (voted on by the public), Best Performance by a Human (Male) for Patrick Stewart, Best Role-Playing Game, and Best Original Score. Gears of War took home four awards total, including Best Shooter, Best Graphics, Best Multiplayer Game, and Best Studio for its developers, Epic Games."

GAME OF THE YEAR
[B]The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Bethesda)[/B]
Okami (Capcom/Clover Studio)
Gears of War (Microsoft/Epic Games)
Guitar Hero 2 (Red Octane/Harmonix)
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter (Ubisoft)

CRITIC'S CHOICE
(game to be released after 11/15/2006 but before 12/31/2006)
[B]The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Nintendo/Nintendo EAD)[/B]
Resistance: Fall of Man (Sony Computer Entertainment America/Insomniac Games)
Medieval II: Total War (Sega/Creative Assembly)
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas (Ubisoft Montreal)
Wii Sports (Nintendo)

BEST DRIVING GAME
[B]Burnout Revenge, Xbox 360 (Electronic Arts/Criterion Games)[/B]
Need For Speed Carbon (Electronic Arts/EA Black Box)
TOCA Race Driver 3 (Codemasters)
GTR 2 (10tacle Studios/SimBin Development Team)

BEST INDIVIDUAL SPORTS GAME
Rockstar Games Presents Table Tennis (Rockstar Games/Rockstar San Diego)
EA Sports Fight Night Round 3 (Electronic Arts/ EA Chicago)
[B]Tony Hawk's Project 8 (Activision/Neversoft )[/B]
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 (Electronic Arts/EA Redwood Shores)
Top Spin 2 (2K Sports/Power and Magic)

BEST ACTION GAME
[B]Dead Rising (Capcom)[/B]
New Super Mario Bros (Nintendo/Nintendo EAD)
Okami (Capcom/Clover Studio)
Saints Row (THQ/Volition)
Bully (Rockstar Games/Rockstar Vancouver)

BEST TEAM SPORTS GAME
[B]NBA2K7 (2K Sports/Visual Concepts)[/B]
Madden NFL 07 (Electronic Arts/Tiburon)
NCAA Football 07 (Electronic Arts/Tiburon)
FIFA 07 (Electronic Arts/EA Canada)
NHL 07 (Electronic Arts/EA Canada)

STUDIO OF THE YEAR
Clover Studio (Okami)
Relic (Company of Heroes)
[B]Cliff Bleszinski /Epic Games (Gears of War) [/B]
Todd Howard / Bethesda Softworks (The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion)
Harmonix (Guitar Hero 2)

BEST FIGHTING GAME
Tekken: Dark Resurrection (Namco Bandai)
Dead or Alive 4 (Tecmo/Team Ninja)
[B]Mortal Kombat Armageddon (Midway Games)[/B]
Street Fighter Alpha Anthology (Capcom)
God Hand (Capcom/Clover Studio)

BEST SHOOTER
Black (Electronic Arts/Criterion)
Prey (2K Games/ Human Head Studios/3D Realms)
Half-Life 2: Episode 1 (Valve)
[B]Gears of War (Microsoft/Epic Games)[/B]
Call of Duty 3 (Activision/Treyarch)

BEST MILITARY GAME
[B]Company of Heroes (THQ/Relic)[/B]
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter (Ubisoft)
Call of Duty 3 (Activision/Treyarch)
The Outfit (THQ/Relic)
Battlefield 2142 (Electronic Arts/EA UK/DICE UK)

BEST GRAPHICS
[B]Gears of War (Microsoft/Epic Games)[/B]
Okami (Capcom/Clover Studio)
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter (Ubisoft)
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Bethesda Softworks)
Company of Heroes (THQ/Relic)

BEST HANDHELD GAME
[B]New Super Mario (Nintendo/Nintendo EAD)[/B]
Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day (Nintendo)
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories (Rockstar Games/Rockstar Leeds/Rockstar North)
Tetris DS (Nintendo)
LocoRoco (Sony Computer Entertainment America/SCE Studios Japan)


BEST MULTI-PLAYER GAME
[B]Gears of War (Microsoft/Epic Games)[/B]
Company of Heroes (THQ/Relic)
Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence (Konami/Kojima Productions)
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter (Ubisoft)
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent (Ubisoft Montreal)

BREAKTHROUGH TECHNOLOGY
[B]Wii (Nintendo) [/B]
PS3 (Sony Computer Entertainment America)
DS Lite (Nintendo)
Electroplankton (Nintendo)

BEST RPG
[B]The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Bethesda)[/B]
Final Fantasy XII (Square Enix)
Kingdom Hearts II (Square Enix)
Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria (Square Enix/tri-Ace)

MOST ADDICTIVE GAME
[B]The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Bethesda)[/B]
Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day (Nintendo)
Gears of War (Microsoft/Epic Games)
Guitar Hero 2 (Red Octane/Harmonix)
Company of Heroes (THQ/Relic)

Source: Gamespot

[jrallen811]

thanks, that was interesting to see- I skipped the show.

[Edward M]

It seems pretty stupid to make the cutoff mid November for Game of the Year.   They left out Twilight Princess, Vegas, and Resistance.  Perhaps that's what the critics award is for though.  It would probably be smart to have had this show early next year instead, so they could have included those games.