The really late E3 awards 2009!
Because everyone does something like this be it in their heads on their blogs or in their fancy pants “magazines”. E3 was a wonderful return to form and seeing as it went so swimmingly the hype has been bigger than ever surrounding the host of sequels and innovations crawling their out of the industry’s bloated ass.
Game of Show
Let’s start with the obvious award for the best game of the show. This is a hard one to judge because different games show varying amounts at the show so it’s best if I judge games based solely on their performance on the big stage of E3. So in that case the award goes to Uncharted 2: Among Thieves which had the double whammy of an amazing live demo at the Sony Conference and an amazing trailer. All in all, amazing!
Most Embarrassing Moment
There’s going to be plenty of these given the nature of the event but something in particular takes the biscuit this year. It’s not the rushed motion controller demo for the Playstation 3 or Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr’s appearance at the Microsoft conference. The winner is The Legion of Jedi/Nerds who entered the stage at EA’s conference for the Old Republic game. They walked their way up to the stage with cloaks and lightsabres and then just stood there as the Bioware folk talked about the game and showed the trailer. Then, once that was all said and done, they just wandered off again. Pointless nerdiness.
Best Trailer
Tough one this because technically my favourite trailer was for The Last Guardian but we basically saw that the week before E3. Not many other trailers spring to mind, Uncharted 2 was very well done and the Super Mario Galaxy 2 trailer took people by surprise. My winner though is Metroid: Other M which had the same surprise factor of SMG2 but it was a totally new game on top. A very exciting trailer with lots to talk about. Another two I should mention are the Assassin’s Creed and Old Republic CG trailers which were both very cool.
Biggest Douche of Show
Kudo Tsunoda first sprang to mind, wearing sunglasses indoors set alarm bells off but showing us the bottom of an avatar’s shoe was important to the entire event so he doesn’t win. Also from the Microsoft conference was Don Mattrick whose incessant clapping of everything, even his own announcements quickly became an annoyance. But no he doesn’t win. I was so so so close to awarding it to myself for the persistent pimping of this blog around the internet and self-promoting attitude but then I remembered Paul McCartney was there so he wins by default.
Best Original Game
Almost sad that this can even be an award but given the amount of sequels and continuing franchises it’s warranted. I’m aware the gaming industry works very differently to the film industry when it comes to sequels but there should always be room for originality, not that’s completely lost yet. My first thought here was Brutal Legend which had a marvellous showing but the award goes to the marvellous Scribblenauts which didn’t even garner much attention until the tail end of the event. It looks tremendous fun and is the first DS game since Pokémon Diamond to get my excited. God on a skateboard with a shotgun fighting Cthulhu? What’s not to love!?!?
The Peter Molyneux Award for Biggest Bullshit Claim
Rather apt that he gets the award named after him. It could have been a lot of things but Peter Molyneux telling us the woman in the Milo video wasn’t acting when she reached out to grab him and pick up the thingy takes the biscuit. No one in that room believed him and rightfully so.
Best Conference
As I said at the end of my Sony conference review we got three good conferences this year but there was one truly brilliant one. Microsofts was the best conference since Nintendos in 2005, it was a great show all round and provided the biggest talking point of the show with Project Natal. I reviewed it in quite some detail a couple of posts down so I’ll leave it there I think.
The Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiidge Racer award for best new meme
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