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Game Critics Awards Best of E3 2017 Nominees Revealed.

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BY2K

Membero Americo
Best of Show
- Assassin's Creed: Origins (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft)
- Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo)
- Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle (Ubisoft Paris/Ubisoft Milan/Ubisoft)
- Middle-earth: Shadow of War (Monolith/Warner Bros Interactive Ent.)
- Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (Machine Games/Bethesda)

Best Original Game
- Detroit: Become Human (Quantic Dream/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- Dragon Ball FighterZ (Arc System Works/Bandai Namco Entertainment)
- Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle (Ubisoft Paris/Ubisoft Milan/Ubisoft)
- Sea of Thieves (Rare/Microsoft)
- Skull & Bones (Ubisoft Singapore/Ubisoft)

Best Console Game
- Assassin's Creed: Origins (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft)
- Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo)
- Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle (Ubisoft Paris/Ubisoft Milan/Ubisoft)
- Middle-earth: Shadow of War (Monolith/Warner Bros Interactive Ent.)
- Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (Machine Games/Bethesda)

Best PC Game
- Destiny 2 (Bungie/Activision)
- Middle-earth: Shadow of War (Monolith/Warner Bros. Interactive Ent)
- Mount & Blade II: Bannerlords (TaleWorlds Entertainment)
- Total War: Warhammer II (Creative Assembly/Sega)
- Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (Machine Games/Bethesda)

Best VR Game
- Doom VFR (id Software/Bethesda)
- Fallout 4 VR (Bethesda Game Studios/Bethesda)
- Lone Echo (Ready at Dawn/Oculus Studio)
- Moss (Polyarc)
- Transference (SpectreVision/Ubisoft)

Best Mobile/Handheld
- Durango (What Studio/Nexon)
- Metroid: Samus Returns (MercurySteam/Nintendo)
- Hidden Agenda (Supermassive Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- King's Knight: Wrath of the Dark Dragon (Square Enix)
- Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey Redux (Atlus)

Best Hardware
- Astro A10 Gaming Headset (Astro)
- DisplayLink XR (DisplayLink)
- Razer Thresher Ultimate (Razer)
- Logitech PowerPlay Mat (Logitech)
- Xbox One X (Microsoft)

Best Action Game
- Call of Duty: WWII (Sledgehammer Games/Activision)
- Destiny 2 (Bungie/Activision)
- Far Cry 5 (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft)
- Star Wars Battlefront II (EA DICE/Motive/Criterion/Electronic Arts)
- Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (Machine Games/Bethesda)

Best Action/Adventure Game
- Assassin's Creed: Origins (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft)
- Detroit: Become Human (Quantic Dream/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- Days Gone (SIE Bend Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- Middle-earth: Shadow of War (Monolith/Warner Bros. Interactive Ent).
- Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo)

Best RPG
- Battle Chasers: Nightwar (Airship Syndicate/THQ Nordic)
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance (Warhorse Studios/Deep Silver)
- Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlords (TaleWorlds Entertainment)
- Ni No Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom (Level 5/Bandai Namco Entertainment)
- South Park: The Fractured But Whole (Ubisoft SF/South Park Digital Studios/Ubisoft)
- Vampyr (Dotnod Entertainment/Focus Home Interactive)

Best Fighting Game
- ARMS (Nintendo)
- Dragon Ball FighterZ (Arc System Works/Bandai Namco Entertainment)
- Marvel vs Capcom: Infinite (Capcom)
- Pokken Tournament DX (Bandai Namco Studios/The Pokemon Co.)

Best Racing Game
- Forza Motorsport 7 (Turn 10 Studios/Microsoft Studios)
- Gran Turismo Sport (Polyphony Digital/Sony Interactive Ent)
- Need for Speed Payback (Ghost Games/Electronic Arts)
- Project CARS 2 (Slighty Mad Studios/Bandai Namco Entertainment)
- The Crew 2 (Ivory Tower/Ubisoft Reflections/Ubisoft)

Best Sports Game
- FIFA 18 (EA Canada/Electronic Arts)
- Madden NFL 18 (EA Tiburon/Electronic Arts)
- Pro Evolution Soccer 2018 (PES Productions/Konami)

Best Strategy Game
- Battletech (Harebrained Schemes/Paradox Interactive)
- Frostpunk (11 bit Studios)
- Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle (Ubisoft)
- Total War: Arena (Creative Assembly/Sega/Wargaming)
- Total War: Warhammer II (Creative Assembly/Sega)

Best Family/Social Game
- DropMix (Harmonix/Hasbro)
- Just Dance 2018 (Ubisoft)
- LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2 (TT Games/Warner Bros Interactive Ent.)
- Hidden Agenda (Supermassive Games/Sony Interactive Ent.)
- That's You (Wish Studios/Sony Interactive Ent.)

Best Online Multiplayer
- Call of Duty: WWII (Sledgehammer Games/Activision)
- Destiny 2 (Bungie/Activision)
- Star Wars Battlefront II (EA DICE/Motive/Criterion/Electronic Arts)
- Sea of Thieves (Rare/Microsoft)
- Skull & Bones (Ubisoft Singapore/Ubisoft)

Best Independent Game
- Ashen (Aurora 44/Annapurna Interactive)
- Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night (Inti Creates/505 Games)
- Donut County (Ben Esposito/Annapurna Interactive)
- Laser League (Roll7/505 Games)
- The Artful Escape of Francis Vendetti (Beethoven & Dinosaur/Annapurna Interactive)

http://www.gamecriticsawards.com/nominees.html

Games had to be playable for at least 5 minutes by the voting publications for it to be eligible for awards.

Please note: To be eligible for nomination, games be available to voting publications for at least 5 minutes of hands-on time at E3. The following annnounced games were not made playable to Game Critics Awards voting publications at E3 and were therefore disqualified from award consideration: Absolver (Devolver); Age of Empires: Definitive Edition (Microsoft); Anthem (EA); A Way Out (EA); Beyond Good & Evil 2 (Ubisoft); Cuphead (Studio MDHR); God of War (PlayStation); Hunt: Showdown (Crytek); Kingdom Hearts 3 (Square Enix); Life is Strange: Before the Storm (Square Enix); Metroid Prime 4 (Nintendo); Metro Exodus (Deep Silver); Monster Hunter World (Capcom); NBA Live 18 (EA); Ori and the Will of Wisps (Microsoft); Shadow of the Colossus (PlayStation); Marvel's Spider-Man (PlayStation); State of Decay 2 (Microsoft); The Evil Within 2 (Bethesda); Uncharted: Lost Legacy (PlayStation); XCOM 2: War of the Chosen (2K Games); Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (Nintendo)
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2017 Nominee Fast Facts

Games With Multiple Nominations

Four Nominations:
Mario + Rabbids Battle Kingdom
Middle-earth: Shadow of War
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus

Three Nominations:
Assassin's Creed: Origins
Destiny 2
Super Mario Odyssey

Two Nominations:
Call of Duty: WWII
Detroit: Become Human
Dragon Ball FighterZ
Hidden Agenda
Mount & Blade II: Bannerlords
Sea of Thieves
Skull & Bones
Star Wars Battlefront II
Total War: Warhammer II

Publisher Breakdown
Ubisoft - 14 Nominations (+11 from 2016)
Sony Interactive Entertainment - 7 Nominations (-2 from 2016)
Bethesda - 6 Nominations (+2 from 2016)
WBIE - 5 Nominations (+1 from 2016)
Nintendo - 5 Nominatinos (+2 from 2016)
Activision - 5 Nominations (+3 from 2016)
EA - 5 Nominations (-5 from 2016)
Bandai Namco - 4 Nominations (+4 from 2016)
Microsoft - 4 Nominations (-3 from 2016)
Annapurna Interactive - 3 Nominations (New)
TaleWorlds Entertainment - 2 Nominations (New)
Sega - 2 Nominations (Same as 2016)
505 Games - 2 Nominations (Same as 2016)

Nominee Breakdown by Platform
(Multiplatform games are counted in all appropriate platform tallies. Information based on announced platforms for each game/product as of 6/26/17, hardware nominees excluded.)

PC: 49 Nominations (-1 from 2016)
PS4: 49 Nominations (+2 from 2016)
Xbox One: 44 Nominations (+1 from 2016)
Nintendo Switch: 17 Nominations (New)
 
F

FelipeMGM

Member
this is importante to note, only games that were playable to the jury were elegible

Please note: To be eligible for nomination, games be available to voting publications for at least 5 minutes of hands-on time at E3. The following annnounced games were not made playable to Game Critics Awards voting publications at E3 and were therefore disqualified from award consideration: Absolver (Devolver); Age of Empires: Definitive Edition (Microsoft); Anthem (EA); A Way Out (EA); Beyond Good & Evil 2 (Ubisoft); Cuphead (Studio MDHR); God of War (PlayStation); Hunt: Showdown (Crytek); Kingdom Hearts 3 (Square Enix); Life is Strange: Before the Storm (Square Enix); Metroid Prime 4 (Nintendo); Metro Exodus (Deep Silver); Monster Hunter World (Capcom); NBA Live 18 (EA); Ori and the Will of Wisps (Microsoft); Shadow of the Colossus (PlayStation); Marvel's Spider-Man (PlayStation); State of Decay 2 (Microsoft); The Evil Within 2 (Bethesda); Uncharted: Lost Legacy (PlayStation); XCOM 2: War of the Chosen (2K Games); Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (Nintendo)
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Unconfirmed Member
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J

Jarod McChicken

Member
Hidden Agenda in the mobile section, is, uh... debatable, if not a little stupid. It's still a PS4 game, no matter what you are using as a controller.
 
G

geoffmk

Geoff Keighley
Games have to be playable for at least 5 minutes to be eligible for consideration -- many titles were disqualified because the developers did not let voting publications play them at E3.
 
R

Raxus

Member
Going to be lots of personal opinions in this thread lol.

Shame Spiderman, Uncharted and Cuphead didn't meet the criteria. I think they would have shaken up the nominees.

I am pulling for Odyssey as GotS.
 
J

J-Skee

Member
EA not letting people play NBA Live 18 doesn't seem like a good sign. No wonder why I haven't seen impressions of the game.
 
W

Wollan

Member
Moss on PSVR was probably the best thing I got my hands-on. Played to the strengths of VR (miniature levelscape, 3D controller input, perspective gotchas) while still being a very cool pickup & play adventure game.

Super Mario Odyssey had one really cool demo (Sand Kingdom which was very... sandboxy, which we haven't really seen in Mario since Sunshine) and on meh demo (city level seemed copy-pasted from a lesser game), both which I got to try.

Only other two games I managed to play was Knack 2 and Everybody's Golf 2 which were ok and fine.

Surprised Destiny 2 wasn't on Best of Show list. Seemed very solid.

FF14 Stormblood probably deserved a nomination somewhere.
 
Vire

Vire

Member
Surprised by all the Assassin's Creed love. The rest is fine I guess..

Shows what a boring show it was this year.
 
M

marmoka

Banned
And all this love to Mario + Rabbids? I'm really surprised of seeing this with so many nominations. I never thought the game would turn out to be this good.
 
B

Banderdash

Member
Lot of catagories where Wolfenstein should take that...
he said despite not having played any of them.

Battletech is going to lose to a Rabbids game, what a world we live in.
 
P

PhantomKnight

Member
Surprised about some games that are coming out this year weren't playable.

Not a bad list, would personally replace AC or Shadow of War, with Dragon Ball FighterZ, for best of show.
 
The Elite

The Elite

BOSS
Raxus said:
Going to be lots of personal opinions in this thread lol.

Shame Spiderman, Uncharted and Cuphead didn't meet the criteria. I think they would have shaken up the nominees.

I am pulling for Odyssey as GotS.
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I played Cuphead two years ago and they didn't have it playable at this E3?
 
Peroroncino

Peroroncino

Member
FelipeMGM said:
this is importante to note, only games that were playable to the jury were elegible
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This is great, maybe now those weird E3 awards will carry at least some semblance legitimacy.

Not sure though what assassin's creed is doing there, gameplay-wise it looks like dog shit.
 
C

cw_sasuke

If all DLC came tied to $13 figurines, I'd consider all DLC to be free
No Splatoon 2 ?
Best of Show
- Assassin's Creed: Origins (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft)
- Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo)
- Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle (Ubisoft Paris/Ubisoft Milan/Ubisoft)
- Middle-earth: Shadow of War (Monolith/Warner Bros Interactive Ent.)
- Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (Machine Games/Bethesda)
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What a time to be alive.
 
S

Servbot24

Banned
My choices in categories I care about. Since I haven't played them of course it's really just about which one looked best to me (except in the case of Gran Turismo... that game seems to have issues but its style just fits me more than the other racing games)

Best of Show
- Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo)

Best Original Game
- Dragon Ball FighterZ (Arc System Works/Bandai Namco Entertainment)

Best Console Game
- Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo)

Best PC Game
- Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (Machine Games/Bethesda)

Best Mobile/Handheld
- Metroid: Samus Returns (MercurySteam/Nintendo)

Best Action Game
- Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (Machine Games/Bethesda)

Best Action/Adventure Game
- Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo)

Best RPG
- Ni No Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom (Level 5/Bandai Namco Entertainment)

Best Fighting Game
- Dragon Ball FighterZ (Arc System Works/Bandai Namco Entertainment)

Best Racing Game
- Gran Turismo Sport (Polyphony Digital/Sony Interactive Ent)
 
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