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Game Critics Awards: Best of E3 2007 Winners

The votes have been tallied and the Best of E3 2007 Winners have been announced.

Rock Band with 3 seperate votes took first...just barely ahead of Mass Effect who placed second with 2 votes. However, the surprise comes with the games that took the rest of the places:

Bioshock
Burnout Paradise
Call of Duty 4
Crysis
Halo 3
Killzone 2
LittleBigPlanet
Madden NFL 08
The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
Virtua Fighter 5
World in Conflict

Gamecriticsawards.com even broke down the tally further and the console with the most wins was...Xbox 360 (acquiring 11 wins), followed in second by the Playstation 3 (aquiring 8 votes). Third place was the PC (with 4 votes), and tied for fourth was both the Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS. Oddly enough, the PSP was last...not even getting one game on the list this year!
Updates:
Here are the individual categories and their winners:

Best of Show: Rock Band
(Harmonix/MTV Games/EAP for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360)

Best Original Game: LittleBigPlanet
(Media Molecule/Sony Computer Entertainment Europe for PS3)

Best Console Game: Mass Effect
(Bioware/Microsoft Games Studio for Xbox 360)

Best PC Game: Crysis
(Crytek/EAP)

Best Handheld Game: The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
(Nintendo for Nintendo DS)

Best Hardware/Peripheral: Rock Band Instruments
(Harmonix/MTV Games/EAP for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360)

Best Action Game: Call of Duty 4
(Infinity Ward/Activision for PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360)

Best Action/Adventure Game: Bioshock
(Irrational Games/2K Games for PC, Xbox 360)

Best Role Playing Game: Mass Effect
(Bioware / Microsoft Games Studio for Xbox 360)

Best Racing Game: Burnout Paradise
(Criterion Games/Electronic Arts for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360)

Best Sports Game: Madden NFL 08
(Electronic Arts for All Platforms)

Best Fighting Game: Virtua Fighter 5
(Sega for Xbox 360)

Best Strategy Game: World in Conflict
(Massive Entertainment/Sierra for PC)

Best Social/Casual/Puzzle: Rock Band
(Harmonix/MTV Games/EAP for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360)

Best Online Multiplayer: Halo 3
(Bungie/Microsoft Games Studio for Xbox 360)

Special Commendation for Graphics: Killzone 2
(Guerilla Games/Sony Computer Entertainment Europe for PS3)
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