Friday, January 07, 2005

StarDrummer's STAR Awards 2004

Its that time of year...when everyone seems to be making little lists that try to sum up the year in a few awards. It really dson't, but its still fun nonetheless. Here's my 2004 STAR Awards.

Console of the Year
Xbox
Runner-up: GameCube

New Device
Nintendo DS
Runner-up: iPod Photo

Best Online Game*
SC:PT
Runner-up: R63:BA

Best Offline Game*
KOTOR II
Runner-up: Fable

Best Graphics
Halo 2
Runner-up: Ninja Gaiden

Best Gameplay
Halo 2
Runner-up: Burnout 3

Best Controls
Halo 2

Best Star Wars game:
KOTOR II
Runner-up: Battlefront

Best PC Game
Half Life 2
Runner-up: WOW

Best PS2 Game
GTA: San Andres
Runner-up Dog's Life, MGS3

Best Gamecube Game
Metriod Prime 2
Runner-up: None (?)

Best Console Add-on
Donkey Konga (GC)
Runner-up: Xbox Media Extender, PS2 HDD

Best Xbox Game
Halo2
Runner-up: Burnout 3, SC:PT

Game of the Year
Halo 2
Runner-up: Half Life 2

Best Developer
Bungie (for Halo 2)
Runner-up: Valve (For Half-life 2)

Best Publisher
Microsoft (For Halo 2)
Runner-up: LucasArts (For KOTOR II)

Best DLC
PGR2 Maps
Runner-up: R63 Maps

And now, the bad awards
Worst Developer
Tie: UBIsoft/Atari (For SC:PT and Driv3r)

Biggest Flop
Driv3r

Worst Add-on
Xbox Live Arcade

Worst DLC
SC:PT

(Note: Halo2 was not included in best online game or best offline game because it was winner of the GOTY award. It recived higher marks then those that did win that catagory, but, I didn't want Halo 2 to win everything, so the GOTY award now superceeds all other awards...so it comes in like 0 place in all applicable ctagories...lol)

Tomorrow: The STAR awards for all non-videogame stuff, including:
Best TV Show
Best Movie
Best new Blog
Biggest News story of the year
Best Book

...and more!


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