17 awards so far. Nominees are listed under the video's link Page of the awards: Gametrailers.com - GameTrailers Game of the Year Awards 2008: Reviews, Trailers, and Interviews (NEW) Gametrailers.com - Gametrailers GOTY Awards 08 - Game of the Year Fallout 3 Gears of War 2 Grand Theft Auto IV LittleBigPlanet Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (NEW) Gametrailers.com - Gametrailers GOTY Awards 08 - Best Xbox 360 Game Fallout 3 Gears of War 2 Grand Theft Auto IV NHL 09 Rock Band 2 (NEW) Gametrailers.com - Gametrailers GOTY Awards 08 - Best PC Game Fallout 3 Far Cry 2 Grand Theft Auto IV Sins of a Solar Empire World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King (NEW) Gametrailers.com - Gametrailers GOTY Awards 08 - Best PS3 Game Bioshock Fallout 3 Grand Theft Auto IV LittleBigPlanet Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots Gametrailers.com - Gametrailers GOTY Awards 08 - Biggest Surprise Final Fantasy XIII on Xbox 360 Halo 3: ODST Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe Suda 51 and Shinji Mikami team up with EA Wii Sales Domination Gametrailers.com - Gametrailers GOTY Awards 08 - Best Wii Game Boom Blox Mario Kart Wii No More Heroes Okami Super Smash Bros Brawl Gametrailers.com - Gametrailers GOTY Awards 08 - Best Software Line-Up Nintendo DS PC Playstation 3 Nintendo Wii Xbox 360 Gametrailers.com - Gametrailers GOTY Awards 08 - Best Multiplayer Game Gears of War 2 Left 4 Dead LittleBigPlanet Reistance 2 Rock Band 2 Gametrailers.com - Gametrailers GOTY Awards 08 - Trailer of the Year Gears of War 2 Launch Trailer Grand Theft Auto IV Everyone's a Rat Trailer I Am Alive E3 Trailer Metal Gear SOlid 4: Guns of the Patriots Courage is Solid Trailer Resident Evil 5 Tokyo Game Show Trailer Gametrailers.com - Gametrailers GOTY Awards 08 - Biggest News Story The Activision/Blizzard Merger Final Fantasy XIII on Xbox 360 Itagaki and Tecmo Part Ways Jack Thompson Disbarred The Return of the Real E3 Gametrailers.com - Gametrailers GOTY Awards 08 - Best Music & Rhythm Game AudioSurf Guitar Hero: On Tour Guitar Hero World Tour Rez HD Rock Band 2 Gametrailers.com - Gametrailers GOTY Awards 08 - Best Graphics Far Cry 2 Gears of War 2 LittleBigPlanet Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots Prince of Persia Gametrailers.com - Gametrailers GOTY Awards 08 - Best Story Fallout 3 Grand Theft Auto IV Lost Odyssey Persona 4 Valkyria Chronicles Gametrailers.com - Gametrailers GOTY Awards 08 - Best First-Person Shooter Call of Duty: World at War Far Cry 2 Left 4 Dead Resistance 2 Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2 Gametrailers.com - Gametrailers GOTY Awards 08 - Best Downloadable Title Braid Castle Crashers Mega Man 9 PixelJunk Eden World of Goo Gametrailers.com - Gametrailers GOTY Awards 08 - Most Disappointing Game Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts Need for Speed Undercover Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Too Human Gametrailers.com - Gametrailers GOTY Awards 08 - Best Third-Person Shooter The Club Dark Sector Dead Space Fracture Gears of War 2 Gametrailers.com - GameTrailers Game of the Year Awards 2008 - Best Role-Playing Game Fable 2 Fallout 3 Persona 4 Valkyria Chronicles World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Gametrailers.com - GameTrailers Game of the Year Awards 2008 - Most Innovative Game Left 4 Dead LittleBigPlanet Mirror's Edge Spore The World Ends With You Gametrailers.com - GameTrailers Game of the Year Awards 2008 - Best Sports Game FIFA Soccer 09 Madden NFL 09 NBA 2K9 NHL 09 MLB 08 The Show Gametrailers.com - GameTrailers Game of the Year Awards 2008 - Best DS Game Castlevania: Order of Ecclasia Professor Layton and the Curious Village Ninja Gaiden Dragon Sword Ninjatown The World Ends With You Gametrailers.com - GameTrailers Game of the Year Awards 2008 - Best Action Adventure Game God of War: Chains of Olympus Grand Theft Auto IV LittleBigPlanet Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots Prince of Persia Gametrailers.com - GameTrailers Game of the Year Awards 2008 - Best PSP Game Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII God of War: Chains of Olympus Patapon Space Invaders Extreme Wipeout Pulse Gametrailers.com - GameTrailers Game of the Year Awards 2008 - Best Racing Game Burnout Paradise GRID Midnight Club: Los Angeles MotorStorm: Pacific Rift Pure Gametrailers.com - GameTrailers GOTY Awards 08 - Best New Franchise Dead Space GRID LittleBigPlanet Professor Layton and the Curious Village Valkyria Chronicles Gametrailers.com - GameTrailers GOTY Awards 08 - Best PS2 Game Guitar Hero World Tour MLB 08: The Show Persona 4 Rock Band 2 Yakuza 2 Gametrailers.com - GameTrailers GOTY Awards 08 - Best Strategy Game Advance Wars: Days of Ruin Command and Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath Civilisation Revolution Tom Clancy's Endwar Sins of a Solar Empire Gametrailers.com - GameTrailers GOTY Awards 08 - Best Puzzle/Parlor Game Boom Blox Braid Echochrome Professor Layton and the Curious Village World of Goo
I agree with most of then.. although I did expect to see Crysis Warhead under best graphics and Red Alert 3 under best strategy game.
Yeah, it looks better than Far Cry 2 imo And if not at least it looks equally good, hell it even uses the same engine.
While I disagreed on some of the nominations, the overall GOTY, I totally agree with. I knew it the moment I played it on launch day. I knew it again when I got a second copy on the PS3 and I will expect to relive it once again once I get it on the PC (just to complete things I guess ). That is, after a GPU upgrade. The attention to detail is simply amazing in that game. The world of Niko Bellic is a dirty dirty world in some parts (it shows with the crappy roads, debris, construction, gangs, etc) yet posh in others (downtown) and I am glad that a van drives like a van, an old 70s/80s car can't take corners, and a sports car loves getting its tail loose (only gripe I have about the driving is a little less rev limiter LOL). It set bars as well as records (sales, revenues, heck it cuts into movie territory). Fallout3 as GoTY for the PC is (waiting on the 3 DLCs coming). But for the PS3, I think that MGS4 really should have been it. It was really hard. GTAIV blew my mind away (even more so when I got it for the PS3 - aah draw distance). MGS4 blew my mind on the PS3 a few months after (for hours and hours - definitely sets the bar for console graphics - as well as cutscenes). GoW2 was awesome but it wasn't a MGS4/GTAIV. But GTAIV is my all time favorite game (currently). I love the GTA franchise (have played ALL of them - well maybe until the DS one comes out... ). But GTAIV had so much going for it (hype and previews). It was the first game I have ever pre-ordered as well as the only game I bought for multiple platforms. (shame on that 'someone' that didn't finish it yet... )
I thought Little Big Planet should get more nomination. I think it's a very interesting game. Based of a normal platform game, but it has brought many new things. It's also one of the very few games I can play with others! GTA4, MGS4 are all excellent games, but being a sequel and not really new in most aspects, GOTY award is merely about them polishing them to a new height. But that's just me.
never played GTA4 but I really like to played MGS4 but no PS3 loh. whats fun about with little big planet? i only like the costums from MSG. ^^