and the winner is..
 

Metroid... yeah.. metroid won game of the year.. as well as another award and retro got rookie of the year sort of award for their work on metroid..

Heres the full list

Game of the Year
Metroid Prime (Retro Studios)

Original Game Character of the Year
Sly Cooper from Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus by Sucker Punch

Rookie Studio of the Year
Retro Studios for Metroid Prime

Excellence in Audio
Jack Grillo, Rebecca Hanck, Erik Kraber and Yuan Liu for sound effects in Medal of Honor: Allied Assault

Excellence in Game Design
Romain de Waubert de Genlis, Ola Holmdahl, Johan Persson, and Niklas Persson for game design in Battlefield 1942

Excellence in Level Design
Metroid Team for level design in Metroid Prime

Excellence in Programming
Mark Brockington, Scott Greig, Jason Knipe, Don Moar and Don Yakielashek for network programming in Neverwinter Nights

Excellence in Visual Arts
Shinji Hashimoto and Tetsuya Nomura for art direction in Kingdom Hearts

Excellence in Writing
Clint Hocking and JT Petty for writing in Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell

Game Innovation Spotlights
Animal Crossing (Nintendo)
Battlefield 1942 (Digital Illusions)
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault (2015, Inc.)
The Thing (Computer Artworks)

The GDC Awards advisory board also presented three special awards to the following:

Lifetime Achievement Award
Gunpei Yokoi, creator, Game Boy

The First Penguin Award
David Crane, Larry Kaplan, Jim Levy, Alan Miller, and Bob Whitehead, founders, Activision

IGDA Award for Community Contribution
Doug Church, technical director, Eidos


Gamecubes also on there for innovation in animal crossing.. ;).. the oscars of the video game industry..

Awsome, that was very well deserved!

It got 3 awards overall.

This must be the first time that a rookie studio has won the GOTY award?

Actually, the GOTY that most people refer to is AIAS awards, which MP didnt win, and even got raped in, IMO. These are the GDC awards which are still excelent just not what many would consider the big show. Though the award is voted on in the same manner, and there is no rule to say which is more important.

So if an BF1942 fans come screaming in your face about GOTY, you can say "so is metroid". ;)

Yeah, the big GOTY awards (which could be referred to as the Oscars of the gaming world) are the AIAS awards.

Oh, and Battlefield 1942 owns you

actually at IGN said these are the Oscars of the gaming industry :unsure: go read it.. its on the front page at cube.ign.com and its not insider :unsure:

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I never agree with the "Movie of the year" or "Album of the year" at the oscars or grammies, and it looks like this little award thing is no different... :sneaky:

haha.. i love your negativity :).... what would you have picked tho?

Yea DH what would your GOTY be? There is nothing that came out in 2002 that was better than MP.

It wasn't as new and innovative as Metroid, but I've had more hours of fun with GTA:VC than with Metroid... *shrugs* and while metroid was good and worth the time (I think I beat it twice on normal and once on hard), I don't see how it should get GOTY... *shrugs* *shrugs* :unsure: *shrugs* :unsure:

Kingdom Hearts.
Suikoden III.
Animal Crossing.

And I agree with DH... MP is good, but not GOTY type good.

Hmmmm, for me, the only thing that came close to MP last year was ED. Though I have yet to play AC.

Which was also way overrated... Least I thought so...

I feel the total opposite. It didn't get the praise it deserved from the gamers.

Though they are all very different games, I definately prefered ED over REmake, SH2 and RE0.