Spike TV Video Game Awards Winners
I watched it so you don’t have to. Spike TV’s annual videogame awards, held this evening, Sunday, December 14, is increasingly becoming a marquee event for gamers. While these awards shows are so full of BS flash and marketing hooey, they have, at the very least, the collective opinion of actual high profile games journalists in order to make their decisions. Still, some of the winners are likely to make a few of us cringe. A few announcements came rapid-fire and got missed, but the big ones follow.
BEST SHOOTER AWARD
- Far Cry 2
- Resistance 2
- Left 4 Dead
- Gears of War 2
WINNER: Gears of War 2
BEST INDEPENDENT GAME
- Braid
- Audiosurf
- PixelJunk Eden
- World of Goo
WINNER: World of Goo (Editor’s Note: What the hell is World of Goo?)
GAMER GOD (lifetime achievement award)
WINNER: Will Wright, creator of Sim City, The Sims, and Spore
BEST RPG AWARD
- Fable 2
- Fallout 3
- Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning
- The World Ends with You
WINNER: Fallout 3
BEST MUSIC GAME AWARD
- Guitar Hero: World Tour
- Wii Music
- Rock Band 2
- Singstar
WINNER: Rock Band 2
STUDIO OF THE YEAR
- Media Molecule
- Rockstar North
- Harmonix
- Bethesda Game Studios
WINNER: Media Molecule (makers of Little Big Planet)
BEST DRIVING GAME
WINNER: Burnout Paradise
BEST GAME BASED ON A MOVIE
WINNER: Lego Indian Jones
BEST MULTIPLAYER GAME
WINNER: Left 4 Dead
GAME OF THE YEAR
- Grand Theft Auto IV
- Little Big Planet
- Fallout 3
- Metal Gear Solid 4
- Gears of War 2
WINNER: Grand Theft Auto IV
peachey @ December 14, 2008