Nintendo honored for innovation.

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Nintendo has been honored by The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences with five Interactive Achievement Awards, including Outstanding Innovation in Gaming for Wii Sports. The very popular title won three awards, while Twilight Princess took home honors.

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[quote]The awards were presented the night of Feb. 8 at the academy

[eyeoftruth 2]

Thats awsome! But have many awards did xbox and playstation get?

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The winners in each category are as follows:

I. Game of the Year:
a. Overall
* Gears of War

b. Computer
* Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

c. Console
* Gears of War

d. Handheld Game of the Year
* Nintendo Brain Age

II. Outstanding Innovation in Gaming
* Wii Sports

III. Outstanding Achievement:
a. Animation
* Gears of War

b. Art Direction
* Gears of War


c. Soundtrack
* Guitar Hero 2

d. Original Music Composition
* LocoRoco

e. Sound Design
* Call of Duty 3 (

f. Story and Character Development
* The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

g. Game Play Engineering
* Wii Sports

h. Online Game Play
* Gears of War

i. Visual Engineering
* Gears of War

j. Game Design
* Wii Sports

IV. Outstanding Character Performance:
a. Male
* Gears of War

b. Female
* Viva Pinata

V. Genre Awards:
a. Sports Game of the Year
* Tony Hawk Project 8

b. First-Person Action Game of the Year
* Rainbow Six: Vegas

c. Role-Playing Game of the Year
* Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

d. Fighting Game of the Year
* Fight Night Round 3

e. Action/ Adventure Game of the Year
* Gears of War

f. Racing Game of the Year
* Burnout Revenge

g. Children's Game of the Year
* LocoRoco

h. Downloadable Game of the Year
* Bookworm Adventures

i. Family Game of the Year
* Guitar Hero 2

j. Simulation Game of the Year
* Microsoft Flight Simulator X

k. Strategy Game of the Year
* Company of Heroes

l. Massively Multiplayer/Persistent World Game of the Year
* Guild Wars Nightfall

m. Mobile Game of the Year
* Orcs and Elves

[_Ande_ 0]

Wow, 19 nominations and five awards, that's not bad, its great that LoZ: Twilight Princess won at least one prize

[FLIP 0]

Hah, thats soo cool.

Good thing that Oblivion got an award too, I love that game, and brain training =P

I haven't been on brain training in ages, like since christmas.

[ZuZu 10]

I thought Gears Of War might've taken home a few awards too, guess I was right.

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Gears of War did take home a lot of awards.

[hyrulean soldier 0]

gears of wars is a great game, but i prefer a wii than a 360

[Ganny 285]

Lol, forget Gears of War!! Twilight Princess is [i]obviously[/i] much better. Oh, well....can't change the public's opinion, I suppose.......

[Twili 0]

[quote name='Ganondorf333' post='29482' date='Feb 16 2007, 11:32 AM']Lol, forget Gears of War!! Twilight Princess is [i]obviously[/i] much better. Oh, well....can't change the public's opinion, I suppose.......[/quote]
I agree, Twilight Princess may not be the best game graphic wise, but other than that it is the best game out across all the systems.

[ea2891 0]

First of all its awesome that twilight princess won the award it did
second of all....is my soap box
-why is gears of war getting so many awards? its a great shooter, but i beat it in 6 hours at the most, im almost at 60 in twilight princess (just beat zant! woo i love this game) and i admit its got a great soundtrack to it and everything, but honestly i dont see it (gears of war) being under the "action/adventure" catagory, twilight princess i believe hasn't gotten the credit it deserves, and marcus fenix in gears of war...they tried WAY TOO HARD to make him and the rest of the characters bad@$$es, i think the whole purpose of gears of war was to try...(and fail) at beating halo, notice how fenix's character and master chiefs kinda are alike....LAME, gears of war isnt half of what the media makes it

but oh well, i mean not everything in the world is gonna go the way ppl want it...still im rlly happy nintendo got 5 awards, this shows how we're coming back in the gaming world
its only a matter of time till nintendo gets as big as they were in the late 80's if things keep looking this good!

[Crowned Twili Princess 0]

Gears of War won a lot of awards! I can't believe Twilight Princess only won one award! Oh, well. Better to win one award than no awards at all.

[Gingerlink 2]

last year, the psp won the golden joystick for INOVATION, i mean what the hell? it was against the DS and it won on INNOVATION?

something is obviously wrong with the majoritory of the voters...

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I can't see the [i]innovation[/i] in making a portable PS2.

Save for the fact that it's a handheld, there's not much innovation in it.

The DS should have won.

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[quote name='gingerlink' post='39745' date='Apr 22 2007, 08:03 AM']last year, the psp won the golden joystick for INOVATION, i mean what the hell? it was against the DS and it won on INNOVATION?

something is obviously wrong with the majoritory of the voters...[/quote]

I wasn't aware of that! What were the voters thinking?!