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Video Game Home Entertainment Awards: Gears of War as Game of the Year

Posted May 24, 2007 at 06:05PM by Nicolo S. Listed in: News Tags: Star Wars, PS2, EMA, WWE, WWE Smackdown

Big titles like Gears of War which sold a lot for its mother console are bound to get awards from all places. A good example is Entertainment Merchants Association's (EMA) Video Game Home Entertainment Awards 2007, in which Gears of War racked up four awards.

GoW bagged "Xbox 360 Game of the Year", "Shooter/Military Game of the Year", "Best Game Graphics of the Year", and the ultimate "Game of the Year" awards. All games released between April 1, 2006 and March 31, 2007 were eligible, but GoW took the cake.

For handhelds, Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories grabbed "DS Game of the Year" and "PSP Game of the Year" awards respectively. Lego Star Wars II' PS2 edition also took the win in its own category.

Resistance: Fall of Man dominated the PS3, while launch title Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess was branded the best game on Wii. WoW: The Burning Crusade took both "PC Game of the Year" and "RPG/Strategy Game of the Year" awards.

Here's the rest of the list:

Most Innovative Game of the Year - Guitar Hero II
Casual Game of the Year: Guitar Hero II
Fighting Game of the Year - WWE Smackdown! vs RAW 2007
Racing Game of the Year - Need for Speed
Sports Game of the Year - Madden NFL 07

Retailers and distributors from EMA's roster nominated and selected the winners. Their criteria on choosing, we would love to know. When Lego Star Wars II and WWE Smackdown! vs RAW 2007 are up there as creams of the crop, you know something special is going on.

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by tuda (Unregistered) - 2007-05-24

» ummmm

dontuts please my i please have some donuts

Re: Quixand - 2007-05-24

» WTF!!!

Where the hell is Super Rub A Dub???!!!!!!

Re: who cares (Unregistered) - 2007-05-24

» guitAR GWEO

HOW WAS GuitaR HERO TWO INNOVATIVE, THERE WAS ALREADY A GUITAR HERO ONE???DUHHH

by BlackShark (Unregistered) - 2007-05-24

» game of the year?

Nice, game of teh year, i say rightly earned

by Dan (Unregistered) - 2007-05-24

» WWE

SvR07 is a great fighting game i don't see why you feel there is a problem with it being up there.

Now Need for Speed i find weird.

by Dodo - 2007-05-25

» Eh

Crappy award, crappy categories and crappy nominations.

GoW = the true God of War > GeoW

Re: shini (Unregistered) - 2007-05-25

» --

in your dreams...multiplayer adds 10x more replay factor...god of war is boring after one run through

by The_Clunge (Unregistered) - 2007-05-25

» slightly suspect...

I'd say Gears deserves the first 3 awards, but there were quite a few better games last year, so GotY seems a bit much. Then again, if they awarded the horribly buggy and broken DS version of Lego Star Wars the DS game of the year it makes me rather suspicious of the whole thing, does anyone on the jury actually play games?

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Re: GreenDog (Unregistered) - 2007-05-25

» ......

guess not..... ^^

by try (Unregistered) - 2007-05-26

» NO PS3

Ahhh no PS3 games again then..

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