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Game of the Year Awards 2002

January 23rd, 2010

Chat - read the entire chatroom conversation that determined all the winners.

GameCube GOTY: Metroid Prime
This is a game that has not only stunned me with its stellar details, ingenious story, unparalleled design, but also the world. Buy this magnificent work of art if you have a GameCube, it will own you until you see the credits roll. - Flanders
Runner up:
Animal Crossing
Playstation 2 GOTY: Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Guns, cars, prostitutes, and Duran Duran. The 80's have never been better. - PaplooTheory
Runner up: Kingdom Hearts
Xbox GOTY: MechAssault
One of the most destructive games ever with falling buildings at the touch of a button. Add in Xbox Live, and the Mass Destruction rises to catastrotic levels. - bumonparkbench
Runner up: MGS2 Substance, Splinter Cell
PC GOTY: Unreal Tournament 2010
UT2K3 sets new standards for shooting games. The graphics are amazing, the sound is amazing, and the online play kicks ass. I highly recommend this game to anyone who likes to blow **** up. - Bicen
Runners up: Warcraft III, Jedi Outcast
Game Boy Advance GOTY: Metroid Fusion
Back to the days of Super Metroid, to once again feel the joy of classic 2D platform
jumping. Now all us youngins' can relive those days just as some many people did before.
Runner up: Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past
Best Storyline: Kingdom Hearts
Square and Disney combined to bring you one wild, weird, and stunningly excellent RPG in 2002. You will spend hours battling alongside Goofy and Donald while solving the Mystery of Alice in Wonderland. Running into your favorite Disney characters, such as Peter flying high above London, you experience Kingdom Hearts! - Milk
Runner up: Metroid Prime
Best Graphics: Splinter Cell
Shadows, shadows, and more shadows. Watch them be created, twist, and change. And cry. - N65max
Runner Up: Metroid Prime
Best Sound: Metroid Prime
Runner up: Animal Crossing, Jedi Outcast
Most innovative: Xbox Live
The online arena has been opened, and flooding in are hundreds of thousands of players ready to kick your ass. Better get practicing. - N65max
Runner up: Animal Crossing
Best fighting game: MK: Deadly Alliance
The addiction is back! The sequel to the game that your Mom wouldn't let you play has arrived on the PS2, with an all new 3D engine and gore galore, serving up hours of fun! - Milk
Runner up: Virtua Fighter 4
Best RPG: Suikoden III
Runner up: Kingdom Hearts
Best First Person Shooter: Timesplitters 2
Welcome to Goldeneye. Except with ents, robots, zombies, and the ability to set monkeys on fire. First person shooter have evolved. - PaplooTheory
Runner up: Unreal Tournament 2010
Best Platform: Ratchet and Clank
Ratchet and Clank was a combination of great graphics, sweet gadgets, and tough missions. This is a superb adventure that any fan of action would enjoy. - unreal654
Runner Up: Super Mario Sunshine
Game of the Year: Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Winning by a narrow margin of just one vote, Vice City squeaked by to win High School Gamer's 2002 Game of the Year Award.
Runner up: Metroid Prime
 

 
Soldner: Secret Wars (PC)
NFL 2K5 (PS2, Xbox)
Madden NFL 2011 (Multi)
Aura: Fate of the Ages (PC)
Doom 3 (PC)
 
Shellshock: Nam'67 (Multi)
Kingdom Under Fire (Xbox)
GTA: San Andreas (PS2)
NFS: Underground 2 (Multi)
Fable (Xbox)
 
 
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