Game Developer Choice Awards Nominees Revealed

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You know you love it. When nothing else is happening, there’s always a huge list of award nominees or winners for you to discuss in SPOnG’s wonderful forums.

This time it’s the nominees for the Game Developer Choice Awards, with the winners scheduled to be announced on March 9, 2005 at a ceremony during the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.

The full list reads:

Best Game

  • Burnout 3: Takedown (Criterion Games / Electronic Arts) - Paul Glancey, Chris Roberts, Paul Ross, Fiona Sperry, Alex Ward
  • Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Rockstar North / Rockstar Games) - Leslie Benzies, Adam Fowler, Aaron Garbut, Sam Houser, Alexander Roger, Obbe Vermeij
  • Half-Life 2 (Valve Software / Vivendi Universal Games) - Ken Birdwell, Gabe Newell, Jay Stelly
  • Katamari Damacy (Namco) - Keita Takahashi
  • World of Warcraft (Blizzard Entertainment) - Mark Kern, Mike Morhaime, Rob Pardo


New Studio

  • Cryptic Studios (City of Heroes) - Michael Lewis
  • Crytek (Far Cry) - Avni Yerli, Cevat Yerli, Faruk Yerli
  • inXile entertainment (The Bard's Tale) - Brian Fargo, Matthew Findley
  • Obsidian Entertainment (Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords) - Chris Avellone, Chris Jones, Darren Monahan, Chris Parker, Feargus Urquhart
  • The Behemoth (Alien Hominid) - Tom Fulp, Brandon LaCava, Dan Paladin Audio
  • Call of Duty: Finest Hour (Spark Unlimited / Activision) - Jack Grillo, Caleb Sweazy
  • Doom 3 (id Software / Activision) - Christian Antkow, John Carmack, Tim Willits
  • Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Rockstar North / Rockstar Games) - Craig Conner, Allan Walker
  • Halo 2 (Bungie Software / Microsoft Game Studios) - C Paul Johnson, Marty O'Donnell, Jay Weinland
  • Katamari Damacy (Namco) - Yu Miyake


Character Design

  • Half-Life 2 (Valve Software / Vivendi Universal Games) - Ted Backman, Dhabih Eng, Bill Fletcher, Bill Van Buren
  • Katamari Damacy (Namco) - Keita Takahashi
  • Prince Of Persia: Warrior Within (Ubisoft Montreal / Ubisoft Entertainment) - Nicolas Bouvier, Mickael Labat
  • Sly 2: Band Of Thieves (Sucker Punch Productions / Sony Computer Entertainment America) - Travis Kotzebue, Dev Madan
  • World of Warcraft (Blizzard Entertainment) - Brandon Idol, Chris Metzen


Game Design

  • Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Rockstar North / Rockstar Games) - Leslie Benzies, Adam Fowler, Aaron Garbut, Sam Houser, Alexander Roger, Obbe Vermeij
  • Half-Life 2 (Valve Software / Vivendi Universal Games) - Gabe Newell, Jay Stelly
  • Katamari Damacy (Namco) - Keita Takahashi
  • Pikmin 2 (Nintendo) - Masamichi Abe, Hino Shigefumi
  • World of Warcraft (Blizzard Entertainment) - Chris Metzen, Rob Pardo


Technology

  • Burnout 3: Takedown (Criterion Games / Electronic Arts) - Alex Fry, Ciaran Rooney, Paul Ross, Hamish Young
  • Doom 3 (id Software / Activision) - John Carmack, Robert Duffy, Jan Paul van Waveren
  • EyeToy: AntiGrav (Harmonix Music Systems / Sony Computer Entertainment America) - Eran Egozy, Eric Malafeew
  • Far Cry (Crytek / Ubisoft Entertainment) - Timur Davidenko, Vladimir Kajalin, Andrey Khonich, Anton Knyazyev, Cevat Yerli
  • Half-Life 2 (Valve Software / Vivendi Universal Games) - Yahn Bernier, Brian Jacobson


Visual Arts

  • Doom 3 (id Software / Activision) - Andy Chang, Seneca Menard, Kenneth Scott
  • Half-Life 2 (Valve Software / Vivendi Universal Games) - Viktor Antonov, Randy Lundeen
  • Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Intelligent Systems / Nintendo) - Hiroyuki Hayashi, Chie Kawabe
  • Prince Of Persia: Warrior Within (Ubisoft Montreal / Ubisoft Entertainment) - Mickael Labat, Patrick Limoges
  • World of Warcraft (Blizzard Entertainment) - Sam Didier, William Petras, Justin Thavirat


Writing

  • Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Rockstar North / Rockstar Games) - Dan Houser, James Worrall
  • Half-Life 2 (Valve Software / Vivendi Universal Games) - Marc Laidlaw
  • Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude (High Voltage Software / Vivendi Universal Games) - Matt Entin, Ed Kuehnel, Eric Nofsinger
  • Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Intelligent Systems / Nintendo) - Nate Bihldorff, Ryota Kawade
  • Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords (Obsidian Entertainment / LucasArts Entertainment) - Chris Avellone


So please, debate away.

Comments

LUPOS 15 Feb 2005 13:02
1/4
wow... there is so much wrong there... were to start...

WARNING:rampant Fanboyism to follow!

Best Game:
no halo2... i can deal with that... i thought it could get a nomination... but i can let that slide

New Studio:
i dont even understand the category... NAMCO? are they a new studio... ID?
whatever

also:
Cryptic Studios (City of Heroes) - Michael Lewis
Doom 3 (id Software / Activision) - Christian Antkow, John Carmack, Tim Willits

are we having a format issue here or something? are we nominating games or studios?

Character Design:
Sly cooper... a sequel... with the same charcters as the first one... seems odd to me... Also i am suprised at no HALO2... atleast the characters in halo2 look significantly different than the halo1 characters did... i wouldnt mind so much if it wherent for the inclusion fo the god awfull angstified PoP2...christ!

Game Design:
no complaints

Technology:
no complaints

Visual Arts:
what is with muther F@cking Prince of Persia! it looks so bad!

writing:
is san andreas' story really that good? i havent played it, but my previosu GTA experiences don't lead me to believe it would be award worthy... also i havent played a leisure suit larry game since 96, but again... it just doesnt seem like the kind of game with especially good writing. didnt soem finaly fanatasy somethin or other come out last year... or one of them cooky xenothingies? dont they usualy have crazy complex epic stories? I know that doesnt necesarily equal good writing but.. reallly... leisure suit larry?

anyway... aside from the over inclusion of PoP and the under inclusion of halo2 it could have been worse... spike tv video game awards anyone?
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claudioalex 15 Feb 2005 19:12
2/4
Where is Metroid Prime Echoes here?
I can see some bias in these awards
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LUPOS 15 Feb 2005 19:14
3/4
claudioalex wrote:
Where is Metroid Prime Echoes here?
I can see some bias in these awards


another valid point... im not a metroid fan but i know its a good game and alot fo people really liked it. the whole thing seems a little skewed... no gaiden or riddick in there either... or fable... which probably doenst really desrve any awards but almost every other award giving group int he world atleast nominated it somewhere.
fluffstardx 15 Feb 2005 21:55
4/4
Something within screams:

"ZOMG HL2 WINZ EVERYTHING!!!!111!!!"

Yeah. Bias and stuff.
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