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Best videogames of the year … drum roll please

By alarsen | Thursday, August 2, 2007, 06:55 PM

The Game Critics Awards has posted its Best of E3 awards based on what was rolled out at the 2007 E3 Media and Business Summit in LA and the winners have been announced.

Best of Show was awarded to “Rock Band’ which takes the pure genius, addicting fun premise of “Guitar Hero” and expands on it letting you create an entire band. Due out for Xbox 360 and PS3 in time for the December holidays, you will be able to play with friends online.

Currently there are several local bars and restaurants in town including Chammps and BW-3 that offers a “Guitar Hero” night for customers to play against other customers. I wonder if they’ll upgrade when “Rock Band” comes out? And speaking of — have you seen some of the Youtube video out there of folks smoking through lightening rounds of “Guitar Hero?” It’s impressive stuff.

Here are the other games recognized by the Game Critics in case you’re interested:

Best of Show Rock Band (Harmonix/MTV Games/EAP for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360)

Best Original Game LittleBigPlanet (Media Molecule/Sony Computer Entertainment Europe for PS3)

Best Console Game Mass Effect (Bioware/Microsoft Games Studio for Xbox 360)

Best PC Game Crysis (Crytek/EAP)

Best Handheld Game The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (Nintendo for Nintendo DS)

Best Hardware/Peripheral Rock Band Instruments (Harmonix/MTV Games/EAP for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360)

Best Action Game Call of Duty 4 (Infinity Ward/Activision for PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360)

Best Action/Adventure Game Bioshock (Irrational Games/2K Games for PC, Xbox 360)

Best Role Playing Game Mass Effect (Bioware / Microsoft Games Studio for Xbox 360)

Best Racing Game Burnout Paradise (Criterion Games/Electronic Arts for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360)

Best Sports Game Madden NFL 08 (Electronic Arts for All Platforms)

Best Fighting Game Virtua Fighter 5 (Sega for Xbox 360)

Best Strategy Game World in Conflict (Massive Entertainment/Sierra for PC)

Best Social/Casual/Puzzle Rock Band (Harmonix/MTV Games/EAP for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360)

Best Online Multiplayer Halo 3 (Bungie/Microsoft Games Studio for Xbox 360)

Special Commendation for Graphics Killzone 2 (Guerilla Games/Sony Computer Entertainment Europe for PS3)

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