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IGN's PlayStation 3 Best of E3 2008 Awards

E3 2008 was certainly an interesting show, with Sony having perhaps the best lineup of the Big Three console makers. IGN saw the single-player debut for Resistance 2, their first good look at Infamous and they were introduced to upcoming titles like MAG and Fat Princess. IGN also had a chance to check out the latest builds of games like MotorStorm: Pacific Rift, LittleBigPlanet and Killzone 2.

But let's not forget the third-party stuff. Fallout 3, Prince of Persia, Mirror's Edge, Valkyria Chronicles, Rock Band 2 and much, much more were on display, making IGN clutch their wallets in fear of how much cash they will part with later this year and in early 2009.

But with all of these highlights, which games shined above the rest? That's what IGN is here for - to pick the best of the best. Read on to see their favorite picks from E3 2008, the games that you should put at the forefront of your "Most Wanted" list.

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MK_Red - 520 days 18 hours ago

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And Fallout 3 wins once again. Best PS3 game of the E3, Best 360 game f... and of course, Best Overall Game of the Show.

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Bombibomb - 520 days 18 hours ago

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LBP won game of the show more times than Fallout 3 did. =)

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MK_Red - 520 days 18 hours ago

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Can you show me how!? Fallout 3 has won 4 GOTSs so far. LBP has won only G4TV's award.

Though both LBP and F3 are classics and GOTY worthy.

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Dark vader - 520 days 17 hours ago

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I am surprise that ign didn't give LBP much love. From their past reviews that i read, they praised the heck out of it.

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MK_Red - 520 days 17 hours ago

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Well, nobody said LBP is anything short of perfection and a true GOTY candidate. The problem is that Fallout 3 is beyond perfection.

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AclayPS3 - 520 days 17 hours ago

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I think you are a little too obsessed with Fallout 3.

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MK_Red - 520 days 17 hours ago

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I am :)
But what's wrong being obsessed with a great game? There are MGS4 fanatics, LBP fanatics out there and I'm a Fallout 3 fanatic.

Plus, it win won in almost every possible category. The game looks phenomenal and is sequel to my all time fave game. Why shouldn't I be excited?

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Panthers - 520 days 17 hours ago

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I never played fallout before, but I dont like how you can target a certain body part. Doesnt that make it too easy?

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mepsipax - 520 days 17 hours ago

1.8 - I'll back you up

while LBP is at the top of my list of ps3 games I'm getting fallout interests me more, the problem with me and LBP is that IMO it is trying to target the nostalgia center of my brain and I find that exploitation, also I'm not to fond of the upcoming user generated content craze, thats lazy development, but I love first person games that aren't mindless twitch shooters like Halo, COD, resistance, don't get me wrong I still like them it's just that games like Deus Ex and System Shock and now hopefully Fallout 3 are amazing, First person games are the most immersive like the upcoming mirrors edge. And as for having a multiplatform title at the top, who cares? fanboys care and fanboys are ruining the industry, why the hell don't you want the guy who owns a 360 to play a game you want? do you hate him? why can't we all just enjoy the games we play and stop bragging about what games are for what, do you think you're in some exclusive club along with millions of other people just because you own a 360,PS3 or Wii? you argue about hardware i.e blue-ray-hddvd, gpu power, dlc, when all you should care about is the games we play, this is why I miss the golden age of gaming, before the internet was big. I'm really sorry for the rant.

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MK_Red - 520 days 17 hours ago

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Panthers, the body part aiming is actually based on character's skill level / percentage and only for the sake of the E3 demo, every shot hit.
In actual game, everybody part shows a hit chance and it's usually pretty small for head and other critical body parts. Also, the game will have multiple difficulty levels and you can play the game in full real time and no VATS. Finally, there is no level scaling like Oblivion here and there are high level characters that even with help of VATS a low or mid level player character has no chance against.

Thanks mepsipax. Bubbles for you my friend.
I mostly agree with you, specially on the FPS and fanboys part. What's wrong with a multiplatform title winning awards? This way more gamers can enjoy a great game.
As for LBP, I think you're being a bit harsh. The game may focus on user created content but it will ship with many many unique and pre-designed levels and bosses. As for nostalgia thing and exploition, I think as long as there are (exploitive) games like Mega Man 9, Street Fighter 4 and few others that SOLELY focus on nostalgia, we can give LBP a free pass.

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mepsipax - 520 days 16 hours ago

1.11 - @incog

maybe you're just not into that type of game, I know it's you're preference, don't think you have to like it if it doesn't interest you, like I myself, not a big fan of JRPGs, don't care for FF, and didn't care when square said it was going multi, but I did think that FF deserves the non playable presentation award, anyway you're entitled to you're opinion just like IGN is entitled to theirs you don't ahve to agree with it.

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Tmac - 520 days 15 hours ago

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Fallout 3 looks promising, there's no way it's winning GOTY though, have you seen the selection for 2008? Jesus.

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AclayPS3 - 520 days 15 hours ago

1.13 - @ MK Red

There's nothing wrong with being obsessed with Fallout 3, it looks like a really good game and I'm going to get it on day one... but I just think that there are a bunch of other PS3 games (particularly PS3 exclusives) that deserve best PS3 game of E3 2008.

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SL1M DADDY - 520 days 8 hours ago

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Yeah, Fallout 3 is beyond perfection... 'Cause we all know that in a perfect RPG, whenever you shoot a baddie in the head with a sniper rifle, all of their limbs should go flying off...

Sorry, but as much as I am looking forward to this game, I have to say that I would have selected something else for game of the show.

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happyface - 520 days 17 hours ago

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best ps3 game is a multiplat?

wow

are ps3 owners and ign just not interested in resistance2?

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darkshiz - 520 days 17 hours ago

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Mainly IGN.

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MK_Red - 520 days 17 hours ago

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Best Xbox 360 game is also a multiplat...

EDIT: lol, now everyone is against IGN. A day ago everyone was like IGN is the best. They gave 10 to MGS4 but today...

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KnaveX - 520 days 17 hours ago

2.3 - hmm

ive seen no insult towards ign here.

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Homicide - 520 days 17 hours ago

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Those were some pretty good choices, but I don't agree with Fallout 3 being the Game of the Show. Some of it seemed pretty boring, but I'm definitely checking it out. Valkyria Chronicles deserved to win that artistic design award.

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happyface - 520 days 17 hours ago

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interesting that IGN gave best graphics to GEARS 2

best multiplayer LEFT4DEAD

does IGN have anti ps3 bias?

http://games.ign.com/articl...

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darkshiz - 520 days 17 hours ago

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They must think Steroids = graphics.

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Homicide - 520 days 17 hours ago

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IGN are not anti ps3. They gave MGS4 a perfect 10. No 360 exclusive has ever gotten that. As for the awards overall:

Best downloadable game - Fat Princess (PSN)
Best racer - Motorstorm (PS3)

The majority of the winners are multi.

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ikiru3385 - 520 days 17 hours ago

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Homicide,

MGS4 is an amazing game, but the one who reviewed MGS4 was Jeff Haynes, a member of the ign ps team and a MGS fan, so it's no surprise that it got that score.

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Dark vader - 520 days 17 hours ago

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I don't agree with gears getting the best graphic awards. Its either crysis or killzone.

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MK_Red - 520 days 17 hours ago

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ikiru3385, well, the PS team also chose the best PS3 game of the Show. Each individual team at IGN chooses the games in their platform and PlayStation team chose Fallout 3.

As for best graphics, I agree that Gear 2 shouldn't have been chosen. Either MotorStorm 2 or Killzone 2 should have won the graphics award or even the Mirror's Edge.

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RandalCG - 520 days 17 hours ago

5 - Proof: IGN awards = FAILURE & SH!T

Just 4 guys sitting around making up their minds. Unlike WhatIfGaming awards that choose from over ONE thousand initial experts, then the winner.

LittleBigPlanet is the true winner from WhatIfGaming and thats the one I'll take over this crap. Not to say fallout 3 isn't bad, but game of show...hah.

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Dark General - 520 days 17 hours ago

6 - Seems like

They wanted to make sure every good game got a nod with a award since no 1 game won multiple awards for console specific e3 awards. Well, except Fallout 3 which won best overall and best RPG.

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happyface - 520 days 17 hours ago

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Gears 2 got best shooter and best graphics for overall

IGN xbox bias confirmed

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Dark General - 520 days 16 hours ago

6.2 - What?

I don't get what you're trying to say. Everyone has a opinion and just because it's different than yours doesn't mean their "biased".

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mepsipax - 520 days 16 hours ago

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while gears 2 is shaping up to be good, whats the big deal, its not some huge sequel, even the devs say that, all it is is gears 1.5, lots of tweaks to the controls and speeds of the characters, a bit purtier graphics and a nice new phusics engine, sound GOTY to you? IGN is corrupted by big money anyway, I like rating systems that don't go in depth, like how is a 8.9 diffrent from 8.8 or 9.0, I like ratings that are 0-4 or 0-5, so you know whether they recommend it or not seeing as most idiots skip right to the final score and don't read the review plus the smaller the scale the less stupid argueing we get, "ha Gears 2 got 9.1 and Resistance 2 only got 9.0, haha gears is better"

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ikiru3385 - 520 days 17 hours ago

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no isometric view = fail in fallout 3. i'm still waiting for a proper sequel.

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MK_Red - 520 days 17 hours ago

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Sadly the real sequel will never happen. Black Isle was making it once, the Van Buren project but it was cancelled and died. Now Bethesda holds full rights to the Fallout IP :(

Still, we can enjoy this "Fallout 3" as a spin-off like Fallout Tactics. Lets look at it as a Fallout FPS and enjoy it for what it is not for what it could have been. F3 is not Fallout 1 or 2 good but on it's own, its a decent enough.

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mepsipax - 520 days 17 hours ago

7.2 - well

if you want to see what fallout 3 would have looked like, go to gametrailers and they have a few tech demos for black isles 3d engine, it looks like fallout, moves like fallout there are few animation glitches here and there and the dialogue was obviously not written but we can reminisce.
RIP Black Isle

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Premonition - 520 days 16 hours ago

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The only problem i have with Gears 2 winning most graphic technology award was IGN knows and the industry knows what technology goes into Killzone 2 and the amount of things going on in the screen the smoke the explosions etc, I dont see what IGN was doing here, but I guess at the end of the day the truthful people know which game is more graphically and more technically impressive.

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Steven Colbert - 520 days 12 hours ago

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Really?Killzone 2?

Personally a Crysis is a Crysis game and those are the better looking ones always.The CRYengine 2 makes 360 and PS3 games look like Wii games.No offense to fanboys,I just see what I see.

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BaschPS3 - 520 days 16 hours ago

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Jesus, too much Fallout love. It was not that special. At least, in my opinion, before I get on anybody's toes. LittleBigPlanet seems like the safe winner, but I enjoyed watching the inFamous demonstration and glad to see it picked up an award and several noms. Truth be told, I thought inFamous should have won Best of PS3. Guess I'm the only one who thinks that. Valkyria Chronicles definitely should have won Best Artistic Direction. Mirror's Edge deserved more mentions than it got. Other than that... it's an alright list.

Oh, and Gears 2 winning best graphics. I'm in pain; I'm laughing so hard. One of the biggest delusional stunts I've ever seen in gaming journalism, which is saying a lot. My head hurts just trying to understand how they could convince themselves it had the best graphics. :D

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Dark General - 520 days 16 hours ago

9.1 - You're not alone

I felt that Infamous should have won best Ps3 game as well. I wasn't expecting it to look THAT good, it simply floored me when i seen the gameplay for it. Mirrors Edge i feel the same way about it should have been getting more nods but at least it's not completely going unnoticed. The best thing i saw on LBP was during the Sony conference when they showed off all the stats. That was pretty impressive.

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Bordello1900 - 520 days 11 hours ago

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Awesome line-up there for the PS3. Gonna have to start a little savings account for buying PS3 games, lol.

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Tacki - 520 days 15 hours ago

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There's actually some surprises on the list as well as the overrall. The biggest being Fallout 3... which I'm interested in... but it really just looks like Oblivion in a different setting. I was afraid it would be that way... but despite the fact that it seems so similiar to that game (not a fan of Oblivion at all)it still looks pretty good.

I think they shunned LittleBigPlanet because they'd already seen so much prior to E3. I certainly don't agree with them giving Gears of War 2 'best graphics' overrall. Don't get me wrong... the game looks great, but Epic's usual art style (coupled with the Unreal Engine) has just grown really stale to me. I believe Killzone 2 and Crysis are much more deserving of the title... but that's just my opinion and this is theirs.

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fermcr - 520 days 10 hours ago

2 - Now IGN sucks

Yep, now IGN sucks... some console fanbabies are hilarious when things don't go there way. GROW UP.

Continue like that and you will start thinking every game site sucks.

PS. As for some moderators of this site... stop being fanboys and behave like moderators.

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SolidSnake93 - 520 days 2 hours ago

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In the best artistic design section, IGN shows a screen of Okami for LBP.

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