BEST OF E3 Award Nominations are in!

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2003 Nominees
The judges for the Game Critics Awards: Best of E3 are proud to announce the nominees for 2003.

Winners will be announced on Tuesday, June 10, 2003.

Fast Facts on the Nominees: Click here to read the number of nominations by publisher, platform and game.

Best of Show
- Full Spectrum Warrior (Pandemic/THQ for Xbox)
- Gran Turismo 4 (Polyphony Digital/Sony Computer Entertainment for
PlayStation 2)
- Half-Life 2 (Valve/Vivendi Universal Games for PC)
- Halo 2 (Bungie/Microsoft for Xbox)
- Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (UbiSoft for All Platforms)

Best Original Game
- Boktai (Konami for Game Boy Advance)
- Evil Genius (Elixir Studios/Vivendi Universal Games for PC)
- Fable (Big Blue Box/Microsoft for Xbox)
- Full Spectrum Warrior (Pandemic/THQ for Xbox)
- The Movies (Lionhead Studios/Activision for PC)

Best PC Game
- Call of Duty (Infinity Ward/Activision for PC)
- Deus Ex: Invisible War (Ion Storm/Eidos for PC/Xbox)
- Half-Life 2 (Valve/Vivendi Universal Games for PC)
- Halo PC (Gearbox/Bungie/Microsoft for PC)
- Sims 2 (Maxis/Electronic Arts for PC)

Best Console Game
- Fable (Big Blue Box/Microsoft for Xbox)
- Full Spectrum Warrior (Pandemic/THQ for Xbox)
- Gran Turismo 4 (Polyphony Digital/Sony Computer Entertainment for
PlayStation 2)
- Halo 2 (Bungie/Microsoft for Xbox)
- Prince of Persia: Sands of Time (UbiSoft for All Platforms)

Best Peripheral / Hardware
- Driving Force Pro (Logitech for PlayStation 2)
- EyeToy (Sony Computer Entertainment for PlayStation 2)
- GeForce FX 5900 (Nvidia for PC)
- Helix Gaming Device (Tapwave)
- Radeon 9800 (ATI for PC)

Best Action Game
- Call of Duty (Infinity Ward/Activision for PC)
- Half-Life 2 (Valve/Vivendi Universal Games for PC)
- Halo 2 (Bungie/Microsoft for Xbox)
- Medal of Honor: Rising Sun (Electronic Arts for All Console Systems)
- Unreal Tournament 2004 (Epic Games/Infogrames for PC)

Best Action/Adventure Game
- Jak II (Naughty Dog/Sony Computer Entertainment for PlayStation 2)
- Ninja Gaiden (Tecmo for Xbox)
- Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (UbiSoft for All Platforms)
- Starcraft: Ghost (Blizzard/Vivendi Universal Games for All Console
Systems)
- Viewtiful Joe (Capcom for GameCube)

Best Fighting Game
- Dead or Alive: Online (Tecmo for Xbox)
- Onimusha Blade Warriors (Capcom for PlayStation 2)
- Soul Calibur II (Namco for All Console Systems)
- Virtua Fighter 4: Evolution (Sega for PlayStation 2)

Best Role Playing Game
- Deus Ex: Invisible War (Ion Storm/Eidos for PC/Xbox)
- Fable (Big Blue Box/Microsoft for Xbox)
- Final Fantasy X-2 (Square-Enix for PlayStation 2)
- Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic (BioWare/LucasArts for
PC/Xbox)
- Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines (Troika Games/Activision for
PC)

Best Racing Game
- F-Zero GX (Amusement Vision/Nintendo for GameCube)
- Gran Turismo 4 (Polyphony Digital/Sony Computer Entertainment for
PlayStation 2)
- Need for Speed Underground (Electronic Arts for All Platforms)
- Mario Kart: Double Dash!! (Nintendo for GameCube)
- Project Gotham Racing 2 (Bizarre Creations/Microsoft for Xbox)

Best Simulation Game
- Flight Simulator 2004: A Century of Flight (Microsoft for PC)
- Full Spectrum Warrior (Pandemic/THQ for Xbox)
- Secret Weapons over Normandy (Totally Games/LucasArts for
PC/PS2/Xbox)
- Sims 2 (Maxis/Electronic Arts for PC)
- The Movies (Lionhead Studios/Activision for PC)

Best Sports Game
- Amped 2 (Microsoft for Xbox)
- Madden NFL 2004 (Electronic Arts for All Platforms)
- NFL 2K4 (Visual Concepts/Sega for PS2/Xbox)
- SSX 3 (Electronic Arts for All Console Platforms)
- Tony Hawkís Underground (Neversoft/Activision for All Console
Platforms)

Best Strategy Game
- Evil Genius (Elixir Studios/Vivendi Universal Games for PC)
- Homeworld 2 (Relic/Vivendi Universal Games for PC)
- Pikmin 2 (Nintendo for GameCube)
- Rise of Nations (Big Huge Games/Microsoft for PC)
- Rome: Total War (Creative Assembly/Activision for PC)

Best Puzzle/Trivia/Parlor Game
- The EyeToy Games (Sony Computer Entertainment Europe for
PlayStation 2)
- Karaoke Revolution (Harmonix/Konami for PlayStation 2)
- Mario Party 5 (Nintendo for GameCube)
- Nintendo Puzzle Collection (Nintendo for GameCube)
- Xbox Music Mixer (Microsoft for Xbox)

Best Online Multiplayer Game
- City of Heroes (Cryptic Studios/NCSoft for PC)
- EverQuest II (Sony Online for PC)
- Final Fantasy XI (Square Enix for PC/PlayStation 2)
- Mythica (Microsoft for PC)
- Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided (Sony Online/LucasArts for PC)
- World of Warcraft (Blizzard/Vivendi Universal Games for PC)

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Fast Facts on the Nominees
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Games With Multiple Nominations
Four Nominations:
Full Spectrum Warrior

Three Nominations:
Fable
Gran Turismo 4
Half-Life 2
Halo 2
Prince of Persia

Two Nominations:
Call of Duty
Deus Ex: Invisible War
Evil Genius
EyeToy
Sims 2
The Movies


Nominee Breakdown by Platform
(Notes: Multiplatform games are counted in all appropriate platform
tallies. Information based on announced platforms for each game.)

PC -- 26
PS2 -- 21
Xbox -- 20
GameCube -- 14
GameBoy -- 5
Helix -- 1

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