Nintendo sweeps awards....
 

Nintendo Sweeps Major Awards Ceremony
2/28/2003 8:58:00 AM
LAS VEGAS, Feb 28, 2003 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- In a city known for high stakes wins, Nintendo walked away with seven major
coveted awards for superior achievement in the multi-billion dollar video game entertainment business at the 2003 Interactive
Achievement Awards at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas.

The gala ceremony, held by the Academy of Interactive Arts and
Sciences (AIAS), is attended by the industry's elite and is the one annual event where creators are recognized for their works of art and voted on by their peers.

Despite the stiff competition -- many of them top-selling games -- it was clear by the votes that Nintendo's continued ability to innovate and create new ways of experiencing gaming is still held in the highest regard.

Nintendo's Animal Crossing(TM) for the Nintendo GameCube(TM), earned three awards, including: 'Innovation in Console Gaming;' 'Console RPG Game of the Year;' and 'Outstanding Achievement in Game Design.' In addition, AIAS honored Metroid(R) Prime, also for Nintendo GameCube, in the 'First Person Action Game of the Year' category. Mario Party(R) 4 a hysterical multi-player game, won 'Family Game of the Year,' and Eternal
Darkness(TM): Sanity's Requiem, the first true psychological thriller, received the 'Outstanding Achievement in Character or Story' award. In the portable category, Metroid Fusion blasted its way to 'Handheld Game of the Year.'

"As an artist, the only way I know how to make a great game is to go by my intuition and heart," explains Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto, the world's renowned video game master and senior managing director of all software for the company. "To win over and over in just one evening stunned our whole team. We're overwhelmed."

Nintendo takes extra pride in the recognition of its second-party
development partners, Retro Studios of Austin, Texas, developer of Metroid Prime; and Silicon Knights of Ontario, Canada, developer of Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem. Both titles are exclusive to Nintendo GameCube and earned critical acclaim in a variety of print and online publications during 2002.

Erm, PGC says spilnter cell won game of the year, yet I dont recall it even being listed as a Nomination.

Edit: n/m Thats console game of the year, which SC was nominated for.

also funny that AC got console RPG of the year

I played some of Splinter Cell and it seems like a good game, but I still think MP should have at least got Console GOTY. I hear even many xbox fans say that. Other times they just say "Stick that up your hole!"

so SC got console GOTY? i think i'm going to try that on my pc soon.... I'm a Metroid fan since the original, so I can't be objective... but MP is one of the best games in years IMO

I've been playing SC recently. I don't think it's as good as everyone is hyping it up 2 be.

Precisely. But that doesn't mean it isn't a good game. The hype just killed it. I'm actually starting to regret buying it for my Xbox now, with the extra levels and supposedly better look (says Cory of IGN) I have been hearing about for the GC version. I can't get any of the extra levels for the Xbox version :mad:

I reckon it's the joint second best, if not second best game on the Xbox, behind Panzer Dragoon, but on the same level as, or just a bit above Halo.

I reckon GOTY should have gone to MP though, or even ED.

I've been playing MP recently. I don't think it's as good as everyone is hyping it up 2 be.

:sneaky:

I'm curious, if you had xbox live, could you get those extra levels as downloadable content?

amen to that brother ;)

You Quiet, once you get into the Caverns, you speak until then hush.

The magmoor caverns are bleh... So are the phazon mines, and the research lab areas in that snowy place (I'm not even gonna attempt to spell it)... Least to me they are...

bleh? wow...no pleasing some people, but i guess we all have our own definition of bleh..mine is zwan ;)

And what does Zwan have to do with anything besides 'dissin' something I like because I don't like something you do? :-o

dude, i was just playin, relax...sheesh :rolleyes:

I was relaxed..... this would be not relaxed....

WHAT!? ZWAN!? BLEH!??! DEATH!!!

... :hmm:

i just thought putting the good ol' wink-smilie would show my lack of seriousness here... by the way, why does billy corgan always look like he's freezing?

metroid prime is my 4th fav game of all time after

1. final fantasy 7
2. mario kart
3. mario 64
4. metroid prime


it was almost perfection!

Yes you could, but I can't. I got my Xbox from America. I live in the UK, and I don't have BroadBand either. I'm not even sure if the XBL service for the US would even work in the UK?

I wasn't trying to say it like that, it was more like actually get somewhere in the game before you complain. You get to the Caverns very quickly.

I'll give you my impressions of Metroid Prime once I get it this coming week :D

I borrowed this game from a friend for a week. Its not that great. I stopped cause it got boring. The last boss I remember fighting was the one that was a pole, and it shot out blasts of fire.

My favorite game of all time is Super Mario Sunshine.

Er wow, that incinerator wasn't even a 'real' boss.

No wonder you got bored when you didn't even get to the first real boss :D.

And it's good to know people appreciate how good a game SMS was.