Uncharted 2 crowned Best of E3 in Game Critics Awards

by Jem Alexander on Jun 23rd 2009 10:30AM

The winners of the annual Best of E3 Game Critics Awards have been announced, with Uncharted 2 taking home the gold as "Best of Show." Not only that, but the game was also awarded "Best Console Game" and "Best Action/Adventure Game," taking the lead with three wins. Check out the trailer above (yes, again) for a good indication of why Uncharted 2 was handed the grand prize.

Meanwhile, Scribblenauts also got the recognition it deserved, coming in second with two awards for "Best Original Game" and "Best Handheld Game." No other games received multiple awards, though Valve recaptured the "Best Online Multiplayer" award with Left 4 Dead 2 a year after its predecessor did the same in 2008. While EA's Brütal Legend is nowhere to be seen in the list of winners, EA did take home more wins than any other publisher (three, if you're curious). And while the PS3-exclusive Uncharted 2 took top honors, from a console perspective the Xbox 360 edged out the PS3 by a single win, at eight versus seven.

Check out the full list of winners after the break and, for more granular stats, check out the breakdowns at the Game Critics Awards website.

Best of Show
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
Naughty Dog/Sony Computer Entertainment America for PlayStation 3

Best Original Game
Scribblenauts
5TH Cell/Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment for Nintendo DS

Best Console Game
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
Naughty Dog/Sony Computer Entertainment America for PlayStation 3

Best PC Game
Star Wars: The Old Republic
BioWare Austin/LucasArts for PC

Best Handheld Game
Scribblenauts
5TH Cell/Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment for Nintendo DS

Best Hardware/Peripheral
"Project Natal"
Microsoft for Xbox 360

Best Action Game
Modern Warfare 2
Infinity Ward/Activision for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC

Best Action/Adventure Game
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
Naughty Dog/Sony Computer Entertainment America for PlayStation 3

Best Role Playing Game
Mass Effect 2
BioWare/Electronic Arts for Xbox 360, PC

Best Racing Game
Split/Second
Black Rock/Disney Interactive Studios for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC

Best Sports Game
Fight Night Round 4
EA Canada/EA Sports for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360

Best Fighting Game
Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars
Eighting/Capcom for Nintendo Wii

Best Strategy Game
Supreme Commander 2
Gas Powered Games/Square-Enix for Xbox 360, PC

Best Social/Casual/Puzzle
DJ Hero
Freestyle/Red Octane/Activision for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii

Best Online Multiplayer
Left 4 Dead 2
Valve/EAP for Xbox 360, PC

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Tags: DS, e3-2009, game-critics-awards, left-4-dead-2, Microsoft, naughty-dog, Nintendo, scribblenauts, Tatsunoko-vs-Capcom-ultimate-all-stars, uncharted-2, Uncharted-2-Among-Thieves, Wii, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (128)

The guys at Naughty Dog deserve it. They created the most believable, lovable, and the coolest character this generation. After seeing how much the voices behind the characters care about the franchise and the level of detail woven through every square inch of that game, Uncharted 2 is definitely going to be a pre-order and I've never done for any game before. Not even MGS4, when Metal Gear Solid is my favorite series. Viva La Naughty Dog!

yea well deserved naughty dog... though you've never preordered a game before?! whaaa?

He's basically a videogame version of Malcolm Reynolds, which is awesome btw.

I hope I'm not the only one that doesn't pre-order games. There are upcoming games that I am going to pre-order though:

* Assassin's Creed 2
* God of War 3
* Halo 3 ODST
* Mass Effect 2
* Uncharted 2
* Ratchet and Clank Future
* Team ICO's 3rd game (is it The Last Guardian?)
* Modern Warfare 2

@Vcize: Me being compared to Malcolm Reynolds? Dude, it's an honor to be compared to the captain of the Firefly! :D

lol i think he was talking about drake

@JXCgunrunna: I know. ;)

That was suppose to say "Man" not "Me" but I guess I secretly wanted to be the captain of Firefly. :)

Honestly, outside of the rare bonus for preordering, what's the point?

I haven't had problems finding a game on its day of release for at least a decade. Really popular titles will just have a suitably large initial shipment.

Most lovable? Really? I never played a game and thought of a character being lovable. That's funny. Anyway, they deserve it for sure, the first game was great and the sequel looks to be so as well. Definitely a game to look forward to.

I agree. One of my must haves this year along w/ Mass Effect

"And while the PS3-exclusive Uncharted 2 took top honors, from a console perspective the Xbox 360 edged out the PS3 by a single win, at eight versus seven."

No fair! You changed the outcome by measuring it!

you got to be kidding me. the ps3 obviously had more games than the 360 this year.

+1

Dude you are awesome! Heisenberg Uncertainty principle rules I try to use whenever I can

Best comment I have ever read. Way to sneak in a wonderful quote :)

good futurama/physics referance

It's good to see Uncharted 2 scop up the awards. It looks like it will be an amazing game. Uncharted was one of the reason to own a PS3, and if this improves on it, we'll all be lucky.

Seriously, Naughty Dog should run some kind of workshop where they teach everyone else how to be better coders.

Uncharted was a first gen game, with gorgeous graphics, that had no load times on a system where other developers were having to stick in mandatory installs just to get REASONABLY long load times.

If only they could make every game.

No loading added so much to the original. It made it feel less like a game and more like a movie. It was so smooth and seamless.

If you have any loading screens beyond the one when you first load up your save game, something has gone wrong.

Sometimes the game will have to load the next area if you play too fast through the previous one and it doesn't have the time to stream everything in. If you continuously get loadings though, something is very wrong. I got only one loading during play and I must've played this game six times through and through.

How much do you want to bet that both Edge and Eurogamer gives uncharted 2 a 7 citing some bullshit reason for the 7. Shit probably best describes both edge and eurogamer..

Congratulations! Uncharted 2 is looking very, very sharp.

Uncharted was the only game at E3 where my jaws literally dropped. Too bad I don't have a PS3 though.

Metroid: Other M was the only game to make my jaw drop.

Same for me. Most of the other games from this E3 gave me a "meh". Uncharted 2 looks amazing and I can't wait to play it.

Craigslist. You can get a backwards compatible one to boot.

"Metroid: Other M was the only game to make my jaw drop"

This revelation from Foetoid has me completely shocked....shocked I tells ya.

Then Foetoid, you must not have seen teh footage.

I know you're a Nintendo dude, but tell me this isn't impressive

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-09-uncharted-2/51623

a little more impressive than the Metroid Other M trailer, don't you think? Metroid Other M was also the only game that made me go 'whoa' (mostly out of surprise), until I saw the Uncharted 2 footage. Shit looks incredible.

I have yet to see a Wii game that makes anyone's jaw really drop. Loving the console is one thing, but lets not give it more credit than it deserves.

Nice! Uncharted was the game that first got me to buy a PS3 and the sequel is one of the few games that I'm truly looking forward to this holiday. Go Naughty Dog!

Because of the showing at E3 I've now begun an official PS3 savings pool. Up to $190 and should be well north of the needed $400 by September. I'm hoping for a price cut or kick ass bundle somewhere in here to get the best buck/bang but we'll see.

Uncharted 2 was jaw dropping. Beautiful and fluid in every way. Well deserved honor and couldn't agree more.

Yeah, I'm really looking into picking up a PS3 when this comes out. (Price cut by then, please?). I know there's lots of good games out already for the PS3, but playing this game alone might be a good enough reason to own a PS3. I'm really excited for this one. Looks amazing.

Yeah, same here, hopefully I can get enough by the end of the summer. First thing I get will be MGS4, since theres no way its coming to the 360.

It also paused my Purchase of Tails of Vesperia... not that I can find the damn thing for sale, but now I'll wait for the PS3 version.

It's about that time in the console Cycle to diversify.

You should sign up for a sony/Playstation card. You can still get $150 off of your first purchase of $300 or more. in addition sign up for sony rewards and buy thru a sony styles store and you'll get 2,000 sony points and you can cash in on a game or something at sony rewards. If you have the cash anyway then you might as well just pay off the card afterwards and be done with it. you'l get a system for $250 that way and have rewards points as well if you keep using the card you can get even more. That is what I did and I've been using the card as my gas card and paying it off at the end of each month and I have close to 15,000 points already at 40,000 I can get another PS3!!

I often wish Naughty Dog did multiplatform work. I love their more recent titles. They just seem to get better every game they make, which I can't say for many developers. Whenever I get a PS3 this game is my first planned purchase.

They just wouldn't be as good then. I'm not knocking the 360, but a large reason their games are so good is because they can focus on working on one console and spend all their energy on optimizing it for the console.

exactly you can say the same for Splinter Cell Conviction

Me loves Uncharted and me loves Elena Fisher

Yup

http://www.imdb.com/media/rm73896960/nm2448361

This game makes me happy in ways no game should...

God dammit! The more I play uncharted one, and the more i watch about uncharted 2, it just makes me want a Jak and Daxter 4 even more!!

I'm glad that the best of show award also won the best console and best action/adventure categories. It never makes sense to me when a game wins best of show, but not the best console or other category it's in.

This will be a system seller, FO SHO!

Uncharted to had an amazing showing at E3 and the Beta is Awesome!

Whoa, just noticed Split/Second beating out Forza...

Split Second, at least on paper, seems amazing whereas Forza 3...honestly I couldn't even see the difference between 2 and 3.

The Cars had a little more to them.. main difference I saw were the vastly improved look of the tracks/scenery.. and better physics, so we can roll the cars.. I'm just hoping the VW Golf R32 is still in there

I wouldnt disagree with anything there, this years E3 wa pretty good tbh.

I'm glad that the ps3 owners get good games as well but why is this news in the xbox section?

because it deals with all E3 award winners. It's just pointing out the top winner as Uncharted 2.

First time poster, long time reader.
Never got my hands on the first Uncharted...but that will soon change. Quickly followed...hopefully, bye its sequel:)

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