News: Golden Joysticks
Posted 25 Oct 2002 at 15:39 by Joshua Phillips
Quite poorly, but it cleaned up in GameCube Game of the Year, woo.
Xbox Game of the Year
Winner: Halo (Microsoft Game Studios)
Runners-up: Dead or Alive 3(Tecmo), Max Payne(Take Two)
GameCube Game of the Year
Winner: Resident Evil (Capcom)
Runners-up: Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader(LucasArts), Super Smash Bros. Melee (Nintendo)
Handheld Game of the Year
Winner: Golden Sun (Nintendo)
Runners-up: Mario Kart: Super Circuit (Nintendo), Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2 (Nintendo)
PS2 Game of the Year
Winner: Grand Theft Auto III Rockstar Games
Runners-up: Final Fantasy X (SCEE), Metal Gear Solid 2: Son of Liberty (Konami)
Online Game of the Year
Winner: Counter-Strike (Vivendi Universal Games)
Runners-up: Medal of Honor: Allied Assault (EA Games), Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos (Vivendi Universal Games)
PC Game of the Year
Winner: Medal of Honor: Allied Assault (EA Games)
Runners-up: Grand Theft Auto III (Rockstar Games), Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos (Vivendi Universal Games)
Best Use of a Film Licence
Winner: The Thing (Vivendi Universal Games)
Runners-up: Spider-Man (Activision), The Sum of All Fears (Ubi Soft Entertainment)
Sports Game of the Year (voted for by listener's to Radio 1's breakfast show)
Winner: Pro Evolution Soccer (Konami)
Runners-up: Championship Manager (Eidos), FIFA 2002 (EA Sports)
Game Innovation of the Year
Winner: 'Open-ended play' in Grand Theft Auto III (Rockstar Games)
Runners-up: 'Bullet time' in Max Payne (Rockstar Games), The D-Day landing in Medal of Honor: Allied Assault (EA Games)
Hardware of the Year (sponsored by Vivendi)
Winner: Microsoft Xbox
Runners-up: AMD Athlon XP Processor, Nintendo GameCube
British Developer of the Year
Winner: Rockstar North
Runners-up: Electronic Arts, Rare
Publisher of the Year (sponsored by Macrovision)
Winner: Electronic Arts
Runners-up Activision/LucasArts, Microsoft Game Studios
Retailer of the Year (Sponsored by Electronic Arts)
Winner: Gameplay.com
Runners-up: GAME, Amazon.co.uk
Most Wanted Game for Christmas (voted for by readers of The Sun and The Sun Online)
Winner: Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (Rockstar Games)
Runners-up: Splinter Cell (Ubi Soft), Super Mario Sunshine (Nintendo)
Editors Award (voted for by the editorial staff at Dennis Publishing)
Winner: Pro Evolution Soccer (Konami)
Runners-up: Grand Theft Auto III (Rockstar Games), Halo (Microsoft Game Studios)
Game of the Year (sponsored by Jungle.com)
Winner: Grand Theft Auto III (Rockstar Games)
Runners-up: Halo (Microsoft Game Studios), Medal of Honor: Allied Assault (EA Games)
Source: CVG