2006 Video Game Award Nominees Announced
November 12th, 2006 by Steve Reddish in News
The 3rd Annual Video Game Awards, or VGA’s, will be aired on Wednesday, December 13th on Spike TV, hosted by Samuel L. Jackson. Previous game of the year winners include Resident Evil 4 and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. You can help decide this year’s winner, as well as the rest of the awards here. Some of the top categories, and their respective nominees, include:
Game of the Year: Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Okami, Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter, Guitar Hero 2, Gears of War
Best Graphics: Gears of War, Okami, Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter, Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Company of Heroes
Best Action Game: Dead Rising, New Super Mario Bros., Okami, Bully, Saint’s Row
Best Team Sports Game: NBA 2k7, NCAA Football 2007, Fifa Soccer 07, NHL 07, Madden 07
Best Fighting Game: Tekken Dark Resurrection, Dead or Alive 4, Mortal Kombat Armageddon, Street Fighter Alpha Anthology, God Hand
Best Shooter: Prey, Black, Half Life 2: Episode 1, Gears of War, Call of Duty 3
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November 12th, 2006 at 10:00 pm
Hmm, no PS3 or Wii games at all? And GoW just got out, strange that it’s included but none of the closest competitors…
November 12th, 2006 at 10:43 pm
They aren’t out yet. That’s not a bad thing though, at least now that Twilight Princess isn’t a nominee it gives other games a shot at game of the year.
November 12th, 2006 at 11:34 pm
How can you nominate something that wasn’t released at the time the nominations were announced. Whose fault is that? Like Sony and Wii didn’t know when the VG awards were … c’mon man make some sense.
My Predictions (pretty easy too see this year’s winners honestly)
GOTY: Gears … surprise
Best Graphics: OH wow .. Gears again … how shocking
Best Shooter: Could it be .. yep Gears for the triple play
Best Action Game: Though this should go to Dead Rising it will probably go to that whack piece of garbage Saints Row (how I hate games like that … but that is a personal thing)
Best Team Sports: Given that measly list it can only be NBA 2K7
Best Fighting Game: Should be DOA4 tbh but this is one area that could go any way at all.
What I don’t get is how the hell did HL2:EP1 even get nominated … a 3-4 hour piece of repititive, been there done that before crap going up against fully fleshed out Shooters?! That’s utterly RIDICULOUS … Ohhh I can’t stand Valve.
November 13th, 2006 at 3:05 pm
[...] Posted by WiiBandit on November 13th, 2006 The nominees for this year’s 2006 Video Game Awards have been announced with a few surprises here and there. The awards to be aired on Wednesday 13th of December are only the 3rd annual awards for the VGA’s with the prestigious host being none other than Samuel L. Jackson, he of Snakes on a Plane fame. You, the gaming public, do have a say in the game of the year award with previous winners including Resident Evil 4. Following the link below, you’ll be able to see who’s been nominated in what categories and how you’ll be able to have a voice the in the proceedings. Vote wisely, folks… Source: [DigitalBattle] [...]
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November 25th, 2006 at 9:08 am
THIS IS BULL SHIT! IF GEARS IS UP THERE THEN WHERE THE HELL IS FINAL FANTASY 12 OR ZELDA!? This is like a 360 video game award show. Gears shouldn’t even be up there since it has launch momentum and hype. It should be up there for the next one.
November 25th, 2006 at 9:16 am
Ah now you are catching on and seeing the light. They may be trying to use some artificially imposed release deadline to ensure that Gears meets with little to no substantial competition.
November 26th, 2006 at 6:07 pm
Lol… Zelda will pwn Gears of War, look at the polls already the ratio of zelda to gears = 100-1
November 26th, 2006 at 7:37 pm
I hope you are correct but sadly I don’t even think there is snowball’s chance in hell Zelda will get GOTY over Gears when all is said and done.