Feb 08 2008
AIAS says Super Mario Galaxy isn’t the Game of 2007
The DICE Summit brings along the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences’ Game of the Year awards, and after so many other groups named Super Mario Galaxy as 2007’s best game, you’d think it was a shoe in at the AIAS awards. Not the case.
The top nod went to Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, a game not available on a Nintendo platform. Nintendo still took two awards, winning “Adventure Game of the Year” for Super Mario Galaxy and “Handheld Game of the Year” for The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass.
Nintendo hasn’t won “Overall Game of the Year” since Ocarina did in 1999. If they remember the title next February, maybe Brawl is perfect enough? Or perhaps the next Zelda can win the award in February 2010. You know, so the Zelda series can win this award as many times as the Call of Duty series…
You can download the PDF listing all the awards from the AIAS site here. Nintendo’s press release celebrating their two awards is after the break.
DID YOU KNOW? NINTENDO WINS TWO INTERACTIVE ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS
Feb. 8, 2008The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences has honored Nintendo with two Interactive Achievement Awards, including Handheld Game of the Year for The Legend of Zelda®: Phantom Hourglass for Nintendo DS™ and Adventure Game of the Year for Super Mario Galaxy™ for Wii™. Both games have also enjoyed strong momentum, with more than 2.5 million copies of Super Mario Galaxy sold since its Nov. 12, 2007, debut and more than 1.1 million copies of The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass sold since its Oct. 1, 2007, release.
Nintendo received nine nominations in eight gaming categories. The awards were presented the night of Feb. 7, 2008, at the Academy’s annual Design, Innovate, Communicate, Entertain conference in Las Vegas. The awards are among the most respected in the interactive entertainment community.
For more information about Nintendo, please visit www.Nintendo.com.
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Call of Duty 4 didn’t appear on a Nintendo platform? There is a DS version, you know.
woohoo wow one of about a dozen generic shooters that came out at the end of 2007 and tbh i thought really took away from the COD series, felt like bf2.
Call of Duty 4 was just as deserving of the award as Super Mario Galaxy though. I was hoping for either Super Mario Galaxy, CoD4, or The Orange Box (with the perfection that is Portal). CoD4 is polished to a mirror shine, and is filled to the brim with moments that leave you in shock and awe.
Call of Duty looks pretty slick, and from my limited experience playing multiplayer it feels pretty good too. The thing that bugs me is that Super Mario Galaxy did something amazing with one of the best series’ ever. Call of Duty 4 is a very good shooter, but it didn’t do anything quite as fantastic as Super Mario Galaxy.
To be fair, I haven’t played enough of Call of Duty 4 to give a strong opinion either way. I just know Super Mario Galaxy was incredible.
While I’m not sure if it’s the absolute game of the year, CoD4 is certainly worthy of the honor. It was the first time in YEARS that a game moment produced such “HOLY CRAP!” reaction from me.
*Spoilers*
So why is that? I think that most movies and games use whole nuclear threat scenario far too often, with nothing coming out of it. So for CoD4 to have a nuclear bomb go off in the first act of the story was truly shocking.
Then to have your character walk around for 30 seconds to look around at the nuclear holocaust was truly awe-inspiring.
And then for your character to die while walking: amazing.
Oh, and did I mention that the multiplayer experience is the best I’ve played to date? If anybody wants to play- my 360 gamertag is, “theTanooki”
Big surprise, huh?
I’ll be adding you as soon as I get the chance, Matt. My gamertag is (shock and awe) Dogbert99.
See you online!