IGN 2005 awards round-up

I find it hard to understand why Call of Duty 2 is 360 winner when clearly both Project Gotham 3 and Perfect Dark Zero are games which are much more fun to play.

I can't believe Civ4 won PC. I'll have to see this thing for myself.

Civ is good, just too many bugs. It surprised me that it won best of PC. I'm just glad that God of War won for PS2 and beat out RE4. GoW was the best game for the PS2 overall

Man I knew it was a bad holiday season for games, but this proves it again...most of the winners were released at the START of the year. Jade Empire was what? April or May? Similar for God of War? I know RE 4 was in January...

The year isn't even over!

Civ4 are you kidding me? Yeah, its a great design but its also the buggiest most unplayable piece of crap ever! And thats with the patch!



Shame on all those media outlets who continue to praise the game so as not to offend the God of Gaming, Sid Meier. Thanks Joystiq, for at least mentioning the problems so many of us are having with that game.

I can imagine there have being high competition for that PSP award.

I don't think Jade Empire should win best Xbox game. Even though it was good, it just shouldn't of won. Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory should of. Also some contenders should of been SW: Republic Commando and Battlefront II, and Forza

i think ninja gaiden black was easily the best xbox game...

What's crazy is that Gamespot nominated Jade Empire in their "Most Dissapointing" category. Guess it was slim pickins for the Xbox this year. Glad I never bought one.

Shame on all those media outlets who continue to praise the game so as not to offend the God of Gaming, Sid Meier.



What else was better this year for the PC..? Civ 4 is good, stop ragging on it. >:(

RE4 is the game of the year. Better than everything on that list, but with God of War coming in close second.

They should have a category for multi-platform games.

seeing as how the 360 came out the original xbox had a pretty good lineup...but most the good games were pc ports like half life 2 , doom3, far cry etc...and ninja gaiden is still easily rhe best action adventure game for the xbox...only game better than that all year was RE4 imo...

God of War & Resident Evil all the way!

Jesus, God of War wins EVERYTHING.

i agree with GOW on ps2 and RE4 on GC but i think F.E.A.R. should have won the best pc game and even though jade empire was a good game, i think

splinte cell:ct or far cry: instincts should have won.

Am I the only person who played Jade Empire for 30 minutes, scrolled through endless text, and returned it for $30 less than you paid for it?



As for 360, Call of Duty 2 ROCKS!!!



Its single-player game is the only shooter that can actually move you emotionally!



(well, Perfect Dark's lack of savepoints makes me cry, but that doesn't really count)

18, you're just the only person who doesn't rent a game first.

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What else was better this year for the PC..? Civ 4 is good, stop ragging on it. >:("



Andrew, I admit that Civ4 is good, if you can overlook the massive ammount of showstopping bugs, even in the patched version. No I won't stop ragging on it though, since I paid $50 for a great game design, that was implemented in the most piss poor way possible.

Psychonauts was easily the best game I played all year. Too bad I'm one of only about six people who bought it.



Others I dug a lot were Jade Empire (kinda short, though), MVP Baseball 2005 and Condemned: Criminal Origins. Additionally, Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth looks promising, but I bought it the same week as my 360 and haven't played it yet. And the Halo 2 map pack was fantastic, but I wouldn't really call it a game. And Ninja Gaiden Black is probably totally sweet, but I already had Ninja Gaiden and didn't want to drop $30 for some extras.



I don't have a PS2 or GameCube, but I'll probably buy the next-gen hardware from both companies. I have to say that this was the first year as an Xbox owner that I thought the offerings on Xbox looked stronger than the ones on PS2. (I'd call 2004 about even.) The only titles from other platforms I coveted were God of War (PS2) and Resident Evil 4 (GameCube, if only for the better graphics.) Civ IV for the PC looks nice, but I'll have to wait until they decide to release it for the Mac.

I think the Gamespot GOTY awards were better.

One quick question:

I'm deciding which game to buy...which is the best?



Age of Empires III

Civilization IV

Empire Earth II



(i'm a fan of strategy games)

Yeah, Call of Duty 2 ROCKS!! ON A PC! for the 360 there are really no games and they probably spent a whole second to decide whats the best game for 360. If you enjoy washing your hair with your left foot, you will like playing FPS with a controller.