GameSpy Announces GotY Awards For '02
What game got the honour and presteige of Game of the Year for the GameCube and GameBoy Advance? You can see below. Also, you can find out who the runners up are and what games won a special award too. Enjoy!
GameCube:
Game of the Year: Metroid Prime - " After a long development cycle and plenty of fan-based speculation, Nintendo and Retro Studios proved to the world that Samus Aran’s first GameCube appearance was one awe-inspiring game. Forget all those message board threads and hyperbole because Metroid Prime is one of the best games released in recent memory."
Runner Up(s): Animal Crossing, Tony Hawks Pro Skater 4, TimeSplitters 2, Phantasy Star Online Episode I & II, Super Mario Sunshine, Agressive Inline
Special Awards:
- Best Sports: Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 4
- Best Graphics: Resident Evil Zero
- Good Hair Day: Star Fox Adventures
- Day of the Tentacle (Cthulhu): Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem
- Should Have Been Online: Animal Crossing
- Best Music: Metroid Prime
- Best Peripheral: WaveBird Wireless Controller
GameBoy Advance:
Game of the Year: The Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past - " Link’s first 16-bit adventure is also one of his most revered. The SNES action / adventure title set in the lands of Hyrule comes close to handheld perfect on the Game Boy Advance. There shouldn’t be many gamers that haven’t enjoyed this game before, but now there’s even more reason to own a copy of Nintendo’s A Link to the Past. Aside from the full single-player masterpiece, the game also ships with an all-new two- to four-player link-up adventure known as Four Swords."
Runner Up(s): Metroid Fusion, Yoshi’s Island: Super Mario Advance 3, Konami Collector’s Series: Arcade Advanced, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 4, Catlevania: Harmony of Dissonance, Super Mario World
Special Awards:
- Best Sports: Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 4
- Too F*@$ing Hard: Super Ghouls ’n’ Ghosts
- Best GBA Peripheral: Nintendo GameCube (!)
- “Should Have Shipped With It” Award: GBA Afterburner Backlight Kit
- Best Use of Supermarket Technology: Nintendo e-Reader
There you have to. The GotY awards for both of Nintendo’s next-gen consoles. If you’d like to see the very detailed reasons why exactly the GameSpy staff and readers chose the things they did for the GameCube then click away. Or, if you’d like to take a gander at the GB Advance pickings more in-depth then go here. Other console awards for the Xbox, PlayStation 2 (as well as the PC platform) are covered so if you want to gawk at them for a bit then hit the main GotY 2002 page.
Source: http://www.gamespy.com/