Epic Games: "We beat the Wii!" |
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Fresh from the 2007 D.I.C.E. Summit in sin city Las Vegas, Epic Games and Microsoft Game Studios sported big grins on their faces after Gears of War won eight awards, including the Game of the Year award from the Interactive Achievement Awards hosted by the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences. "This is incredible," said Epic's CEO Michael Capps. "Getting sales is great, making the game we wanted and having people buy it and enjoy it is fantastic. But having our peers say it's the best game of the year? That's insane. We beat the Wii." Nintendo's Wii Sports came second, taking only three awards home.
Lead designer Cliff Blezinsky also added:
The thing is, being on the outside of this industry looking in as a kid, and wanting to be part of it, and then being able to be here and get an award from all of these talented people ... is absolutely unbelievable. We could not be honoured more.
The game was designed for implementation, based on the EA Montreal's Alain Tascan's idea of "zero innovation strategy." It was never meant to have any features, except be fun.
"I think there's a lot of iteration and a lot of polish that went into the game," Blezinsky added. "I've actually heard a compliment from people saying it has a learning curve. Which, as a designer, that actually means the game has some cool new features in it."
Epic Games and Microsoft? What a combo! Now we really can't wait for UT3.
Via GamesIndustry
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The fact that they gave Wii Sports three awards makes me not care what they think. Gears of War is great, but not as good as some people make it sound.
yea, actually it kinda is.
The cover system is just too damned awesome. Not to mention a plethora of other amazing design choices (aesthetically and game mechanic wise). Halo 3 is really going to have to do something special to dethrone GoW...I'm not sure if i'll be able to play a game without a cover system. The only reason i'd like to play halo 3 is for some fast paced action with vehicles, but I think UT3 may fill that places....oh well, off topic ;P
i like the wii and all but i think the industry gotta reflect on wtf's going on when a wiimote demo like wiisport nabs 2nd, the thing is a compilation of 5 simple sports... its a friggin demo and its 2nd, wtf came in third??
Yeah the cover system is amazing and takes the game to a new level above everything before it. Online co-op is just insane too, we are going to see it a lot more in future games (i.e. Crackdown).
"Not as good as some people make it sound" So like.. your opinion outweighs the other three million? What an ego.
Where did the PS3 come ! ? oh
GEARS OF WAR should of come second and Third as well as First. And Wii Sports was the biggest selling game in Japan from December - # Wii Sports: 176,167 # Wii Play: 174,297 # The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess: 139,011 # Odoru Made in Wario: 63,954 # Swing Golf Pangya: 12,908 # Ennichi no Tatsujin: 10,763 # Red Steel: 9,392 # SD Gundam SCAD Hammers: 9,226 # Tamagotchi Pika Pika Daitouryou: 8,042 # Elebits: 5,791
I think this game is pretty damn good, kinda short but multi-player steps up for its storyline short comings
Wasn't Sports bundled with Wii? So meaning it sold that much because it came with the system?
wii is alright. i mean manhunt,scarface,godfather and maby gta and many more.. its cool i thought that wii was for little kids i ll be playing G.O.W on 360 next to the my wii..:) the ps3 system is creepy and crapy and it sux..:(
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