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Gamespot: E3 2008 Editors Choice Awards

The event known as E3 has gone through more than a few changes in recent years. Up until 2006, it was inarguably the single biggest, most important trade show and event in the entire game industry. This year, E3 returned to the hallowed halls of the Los Angeles Convention Center, but in a different way. The event itself no longer occupied the entire venue (restricting itself primarily to the central Concourse Hall), and it changed its name to the E3 08 Business and Media Summit. Still, there were plenty of very impressive games on hand, and GameSpot made sure to bring you live coverage every day of the show, both from our editorial writing team and from our live stage show, which broadcast demonstrations of the most exciting games at E3 2008--and exclusive demonstrations of a few other games that weren't at the show and couldn't be seen anywhere else.
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Omega4 - 501 days 22 hours ago
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Wow Fable 2 dominated for once, im even more hyped now
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callahan09 - 501 days 12 hours ago
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Hmmmmmmmmmmm. I am very surprised to see Fable 2 win game of the show. It doesn't look all that intriguing to me, but maybe that's just because when I saw the bird poop on the kids face I couldn't help but think it was one of the stupidest things I'd ever seen. Not funny, just lame. Other than that, I really cannot judge the game. But it still seems an odd choice to me.

Also, what is it with 3 out of 5 of the best 360 games being multiplats that are also available on PS3?

And even more confusing, 1 of the 5 best PS3 games is a multiplat that is also available on the 360... and yet, it's NOT one of the 3 multiplats that was nominated for the 360. How do they figure that?

Star Wars Force Unleashed is one of the 5 best PS3 games, but not one of the 5 best 360 games? Furthermore, Resident Evil 5, Mirror's Edge, and Fallout 3 are among the 5 best 360 games, but not the 5 best PS3 games? It really just doesn't make any sense. Therefore, I deem GameSpot's list: NONSENSE!
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callahan09 - 500 days 21 hours ago
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If you're disagreeing with my assessment that the bird pooping on the kid's face in Fable 2 was lame... then so be it.

Otherwise, don't disagree with my assessment that their list is nonsense, because it is. It literally doesn't make any sense. Think about it...

You've got Fallout 3, Mirror's Edge, and Resident Evil 5 as 3 of the best games on the 360, but those same games are not listed as some of the best games on the PS3? That implies to me that there are 5 PS3 exclusives that are all beter than those 3 games. However, they skewer that idea by putting Star Wars The Force Unleashed on the best PS3 games list. This implies that Star Wars The Force Unleashed is better than Fallout 3, Mirror's Edge, and Resident Evil 5... yet it doesn't show up on the 360 list. So in TURN, what they're implying is that Star Wars The Force Unleashed is better on the PS3 than it is on the 360, and that Fallout 3, Mirror's Edge, and Resident Evil 5 are better on the 360 than they are on the PS3.

None of that makes any sense to me, because I'm sure that they're all largely equals across each of those two platforms. And finally, to top it all off, they listed Mirror's Edge in the 360 section, but not in the PS3 section, implying (as I pointed out above) that it's an inferior game on the PS3. I don't see how this could be possible, considering that the PS3 is the lead platform for Mirror's Edge, and all demonstrations of the game were done on the PS3 not on the 360. Now, Fallout 3 for instance was demoed on the 360, so I can SORT OF see how they count it as a 360 game. But lumping Mirror's Edge into the 360 category, too, even though what we've seen is mostly PS3 footage, and the developer's admitted the game has been in lead development on the PS3?

None of it makes any sense, that's my point.

These idiots at GameSpot would've done better to just leave out multiplatform games from their best of lists, or at least have gone about their nominations somehow differently, because the implications being made by the current lists of 5 Best PS3 and 5 Best 360 games are pretty nonsensical. Period.
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GiantEnemyCrab - 501 days 19 hours ago
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Nice to see Fable 2 beat out all the competition with Game of the Show.

This fall should be an excellent time to be a 360 gamer.

I question the best graphics catagory. I thought KZ2 would sweap this on every site but maybe it's not as impressive in person? I just don't know why it's not getting the "OMG!" response on graphics from these sites judging from what I've seen in video.
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psman012 - 501 days 18 hours ago
2.1 - Hmm...
I thought that LittleBigPlanet was going to win, but I guess not.
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Kleptic - 501 days 17 hours ago
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the media never wants to admit how good KZ2 looks...because then it falls back to how they all claimed a PS3 would never create anything close to that...it is very close...not quite there...but close...the reality is that Killzone 2 will most likely only recieve very average reviews because reviewers have already determined that is what they want it to be...just look at what they criticize in that game, and then compare to what they praise in other shooters...you'll see what I mean...

in either case...yeah that is impressive that Fable 2 took best of show...I really expected Fallout 3 or LBP to do it based on other sites opinions...apperantly its shaping up pretty nicely...

the shooter genre was crap though...neither resistance 2 or Killzone 2 were even finalists, yet a few low key games were (although I am nearly equally excited for Project Origin as Resistance 2)...left 4 dead does look pretty decent, and should rearrange some co-op stuff nicely...but other than that it just looks like another Source game...oh well...this is gamespot, no one really expects a lot of credibility from them anymore...
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BiggDaddy311 - 501 days 16 hours ago
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These 'awards' Seem to be some of the biggest surprises I have read. Flower best Graphics? Fable 2 over Fallout 3, The first site not kissing Bethesda's bottom very interesting.

<I think Fallout will be great, just tired of seeing everyone give it best of show/rpg action game.>
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Dacapn - 501 days 8 hours ago
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I kinda found their whole list strange. Gears 2, Resistance 2, and Killzone 2 weren't mentioned at all. I believe IGN had Killzone 2 for best graphics, and as for the shooter award...Left 4 Dead looks fun, I didn't think it looked good enough to trump the other shooters out there.

Fable II for best of show? I was actually underwhelmed by it's showing. I assume the game'll be good considering people swear by the first one like it's the Qu'ran, but definitely NOT best of show. And they were really hung up on that Flower game haha.

Strange list indeed.
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whitto - 501 days 18 hours ago
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ye Killzone 2 graphics are sort of expected by everyone now, but i think when i am playing through it ill just be like :O the whole time lol
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cmrbe - 501 days 17 hours ago
4.1 - PS3
is held at a higher standard by the media in general. If its too short like Gears (HS) is too short. If it has too much variety its a bad thing. If it has long cut scenes to rap up the most complicated game story accumulated over 20 years its bad.If a game dosent reach its amazing target render 100% then its bad. I guess the media just expected more from the PS3.
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Cartesian3D - 501 days 17 hours ago
4.2 - nice comment (@Kleptic too)
I dont know why , but if I were a gaming journalist, I would be grateful for their effort..

sorry for comparing just graphics.. but in HALO 3 the character is walking but it has 20Km per hour speed ,utterly unrealistic .. the character jumps from 100 meters high but there is no animation for gravity impact when it hits the ground .. its just a few exampels (i said nothin about death animations or particle effects.. or blah blah)

the attention to details in KILLZONE is absolutely amazing , may be thats just because of that famous CG trailer(such a big burden for them to achieve the target) .. no matter what but its valuable , and any gaming site must appreciate them for this gorgeous game that brings Hollywood visuals to the realtime gameplay..

BTW the soundeffects for guns are amazing too , it feels so much real when you shoot things..
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green - 501 days 14 hours ago
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Jeez, calm down.Should you not be at least happy that they gave the best graphics's award to FLOWER(a ps3 exclusive)?

From what i saw FLOWER looked very good and it was largely ignored by a lot of journalists.So at least be happy for the game because awards like these will get the game a little extra publicity.
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johnnywit - 501 days 13 hours ago
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I think graphics have a lot to do with artistic style as well as looking photo realistic. KZ2 looks amazing but just because it looks so real doesn't necessarily mean that more people will like the art style. Doom and Far cry for the XBOX amazed me but I still like games liked shadow of the colossus and wind waker in terms of art style more. I thought flower looked amazing.
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IDemonstalkerXI - 501 days 13 hours ago
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I do agree that art direction is important. Take the Diablo 3 issues for example. It was like WoW assets bled into Diablo 3 something ugly. There was a big WTF rightfully branded on that ish. Flower is a very innovative fresh graphics direction but its literaly panzy's. I would of went with KZ2. Simply because I would not encourage devs to think panzy's are so entertaining. Thats got to be a casual game.
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MK_Red - 501 days 16 hours ago
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Wow, GameSpot once again proves that its full of idiots. It is even more hilarious seeing that official E3 winners were announced not long ago and we all know who is the real winner of E3. Hint: Fall... + 3.
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Charlie2688 - 501 days 13 hours ago
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Turning Point FALL of Liberty + 3?

:P
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MK_Red - 501 days 5 hours ago
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That's definitly GameSpot's choice :)
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Alpha_Gamer - 501 days 14 hours ago
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Fable 2.
Nuff said.
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fufotrufo - 501 days 14 hours ago
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nice awards..different yet good
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Codeman420 - 501 days 14 hours ago
8 - HOw the...
HOw does Flower get Best graphics??????? And KZ2 and/or Gears 2 and/or Fable 2 not even make the list. R2 and KZ2 dont even make the list for Best PS3 game, OK right. Best 360 Game should have been Gears 2, Fallout 3 shouldnt be on that list because its multiplatform. In fact all but two are multiplatform. Come on. Gamespot has really gone down the hole since practically everyone left to go to GiantBomb.com. So ill take this with a grain of salt.
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psman012 - 501 days 1 hour ago
8.1 - I agree!
I think that LittleBigPlanet should've gotten best graphics.
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Fatmanp - 501 days 13 hours ago
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Funny how people call Gamespot a 360 fanboy site yet when MGS4 was given a 10 people were licking their balls.
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Codeman420 - 501 days 13 hours ago
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eh i could care less wat they say, their site has pretty much died so who knows what will happen to them next
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kevnb - 501 days 12 hours ago
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no, otherwise flower wouldnt have won best graphics. Gamespot is just a stupid website, nothing else to it. They really didn't think Little Big Planet was the best game, this is the same website that has most reviews written by Kevin Vanord lol.
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kevnb - 501 days 12 hours ago
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I think gamespot just sucks, ever since Greg left there website isn't even worth visiting. Review scores aside, they write some of the stupidest previews and reviews Ive ever seen on a "professional" website.
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fufotrufo - 501 days 8 hours ago
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and says who? the guy with the anti MS logo hahaha
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kevnb - 501 days 12 hours ago
12 - not to be down on fable 2
but gamespot really sucks
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Jenzo - 501 days 9 hours ago
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lol @ Best Graphics category. Are they on crack or something?
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Skadoosh - 501 days 5 hours ago
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SONY DEFENSE FORCE....ACTIVATE!

Relaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaax.
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wangdiddy82 - 500 days 8 hours ago
15 - Its gamespot
we all know whos c0ck is in there mouths..
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