GDC: Gears leads winners in 7th Game Developers Choice Awards

[wraggster]

via CVG (http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=159581)

Epic's Gears of War was won three categories including Best Game in the seventh annual Game Developers Choice Awards, closely followed by Wii Sports and Okami, which have won two awards each.

Winners of the Choice Awards, the awards program where honours are bestowed on developers by developers, have just been announced at GDC in San Francisco.

As well as scooping Best Game, Gears of War won in the Technology and Visual Arts categories. Wii Sports won in Game Design and Innovation, while Okami also won in Innovation in addition to the Character Design category.

The full list of categories and winners in each is below. The list of nominees in each category can be found on the Game Developers Choice Awards website.

Best Game

Gears of War (Epic Games / Microsoft Game Studios)
- Cliff Bleszinski, Michael Capps, Rod Fergusson

Audio

Guitar Hero II (Harmonix Music Systems / RedOctane)
- Jeff Allen, Eric Brosius, Izzy Maxwell

Character Design

Ōkami (Clover Studio / Capcom Entertainment)
- Mari Shimazaki, Sawaki Takeyasu, Kenichirou Yoshimura

Game Design

Wii Sports (Nintendo)
- Keizo Ohta, Takayuki Shimamura, Yoshiaki Yamashita

Technology

Gears of War (Epic Games / Microsoft Game Studios)
- Michael Capps, Ray Davis, Tim Sweeney, Daniel Vogel

Visual Arts

Gears of War (Epic Games / Microsoft Game Studios)
- Jerry O'Flaherty, Chris Perna

Writing

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Nintendo EAD / Nintendo)
- Kyogoku Aya, Nate Bihldorff, Mitsuhiro Takano

New Studio

Iron Lore Entertainment (Titan Quest)
- Paul Chieffo, Jeff Goodsill, Brian Sullivan

Innovation

Line Rider
- Botjan Cade

Ōkami (Clover Studio / Capcom Entertainment)
- Atsushi Inaba, Hideki Kamiya

Wii Sports (Nintendo)
- Keizo Ohta, Takayuki Shimamura, Yoshiaki Yamashita

Recipients for the evening's special awards were:

Lifetime Achievement
Shigeru Miyamoto

First Penguin
Alexey Pajitnov

Maverick
Greg Costikyan

Community Contribution
George "The Fat Man" Sanger

[DarthPaul]

The Music award is ok. But the game of the year and else..Gosh Gears Of War it's not that good.

[Joe88]

indeed

maybe zelda should have got it

or GoW2 if it was out ...

[The King]

i thout that i would receve that
its no surprise but come on atleast they should give other games credit

like the new zelda that game is nice they have made alot of progres from the previous one

i wonder if it will be like this wen Halo3 comes out??

[Marusame]

Ive Beaten Gear of War in every difficulty(mostly with buddies) and yes, it deserves game of the year, and it will continue to win it prob till Halo 3 comes out. Ive beaten Zelda TP(i loooove zelda) and i still say gears wins it.

Give it a try, youll like it. Or if you have a ps3 with resistance, DONT play gears, cause if you do youll realize that you wasted 600$ to play resistance.

Though the playstation home seems like a really cool(although somewhat stolen idea, but what isnt nowandays) Still it looks good, and looks like they improved on the Virtual space idea. So i like it.

Even with the bad press, and so on, i hope sony can get it together, cause right now, i wouldnt want to be an early adopter of the ps3. But maybe it might change.

[Mysteryman]

I didnt care for Zelda or Gears actually. Well definitely not enough to give it game of the year award. And actually Marusame, Resistance is a great game, sadly its about the only one on the system but I love it. Its online is easily far better than Gears. Id probaly give Resistance the award, it atleast desereved something. Anyone with some sense would see how over hyped Zelda is. And gears I didnt dive too deep into it but it had spectacular visuals. Please note Im not a fanboy and own all 3 systems.