So basically a console game is considered innovative if it manages to accomplish what PC games have done for over a decade, over games that add little bits of things that have never been done in any game before? Does anyone else think Edge has a bit too much bias to be giving awards? The explanation they gave for Halo 3 getting the Innovation Award sounds like it came from a completely different award.
Actually Call of Duty 4 hands-down destroys Halo3's unbalanced matchmaking system :D
Game awards are like the Grammys and don't mean shit! All it is is a popularity contest and always will be. There are so many games that get released every year that fly way under the radar. They just don't have the milllion dollar publishers for the advertisement or 70-80 person dev teams. I've played more innovative games on my Amiga made by 2 or 3 people at the most. Reflections has made Driver and some other big title games, but back in the Amiga days they made Shadow of the Beast. It was done by two guys. Everything! That game was so ahead of it's time. That game had innovation. Halo 3...no. I have no idea how an already mediocre FPS game that is a sequel can win an innovation award. :confused: The only thing I'll give the game is decent online play and story. It's all been done before. That however doesn't make a game innovative.
Hell you might as well have given the award to the Madden Football franchise. Nothing like a roster update spells innovation...oh wait.
In terms of gameplay elements, especially single player, it couldn't be much less innovative.
The multiplayer may work great in terms of matchmaking etc, but I don't see how "new" or "creative" of an idea to that related to past acccomplishments of other games multiplayer; it can certainly be the best, and can be improved, but that doesn't mean it's creative.
Shit, I'm really beginning to get worried about video gaming.
Because it has these parallels with the Film industry, I suspect the future is going to be filled with "Big Summer Blockbuster sequels" from the big studios rather than games with the emphasis on FUN.
There is a little glimmer of hope in the form of Nintendo, but the way I see it, the future is going to be filled with copies and revamps rather than innovation.
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