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Monday, January 01 2007

Game of the Year 2006  by Craig D at 14:02

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The results of our game of the year poll are now in, you all had the whole of December to vote of course and many thanks to those who did.

By format the results are;

PC: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
Wii: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Xbox 360: Gears of War

It should be noted that the Playstation 3 is not officially available in Europe so none of it's games were even considered and we don't actually cover the Playstation 2 or any hand-held consoles at all (yet).

The overall winner by just 3 votes over Zelda and gameSlave readers' Game of the Year is Gears of War.

I've made it my new years' resolution to actually pick up a copy and play it.
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Stan
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01 January 2007 16:31
I am in shock that Gears of War won the game of the year, other than the graphics it really aint that impressive.
Midnight
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01 January 2007 16:34
Gears of War is class Ryan.. multiplayer rocks. It's so good with 3 friends on the same team.
Obi
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01 January 2007 16:41
gow is a very good game but i dont think it shouldve won the award, both oblivion and zelda are better games
Midnight
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01 January 2007 16:47
I guess it comes down to the advertising too. They ran a big campaign in cinemas and on TV for GoW and there's only really been stuff on TV for Zelda like a couple of weeks before launch (at least in the UK anyway - dunno about the US)
SENT
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01 January 2007 19:21
GOW is the best game IMO
malis
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01 January 2007 19:28
GOW is good, but Zelda better in my eyes.
However i got my money's worth from GOW so can't complain
Obi
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01 January 2007 19:29
its not the best game, its way too short, the end boss is an anticlimax and the gameplay can get a bit samey, still a very good game but it isnt even the best 360 game of the year let alone overall winner
Midnight
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01 January 2007 19:39
Zelda is better long term yes, although replaywise I'm not sure because GoW has a good multiplayer to keep it going but singleplayer Zelda wins hand down. I think Zelda would have won if it had been released at the same time worldwide as more people would have played it. I voted GoW having not played Zelda (and not thinking I would be able to until way after the poll finished) so maybe it also had something to do with the fact that GoW was available everywhere and more people had 360's .. or.. something ?
ralinn
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01 January 2007 20:03
Agreed, it was kind of an unfair poll... but can't really be helped as we always get things last :'(
Stan
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01 January 2007 20:34
Graw, rainbow six las vegas, splinter cell double agent, saints row, dead rising, fight night round 3. I happen to enjoy all those games far more than I did Gears of War.
JamSam
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01 January 2007 22:30
minesweeper > all.

Zelda had me most hooked out of the listed games though.
An00therNob
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01 January 2007 23:24
i hope to see GoW adapted on pc !!!
malis
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01 January 2007 23:44
It might well come to PC, who knows
SENT
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02 January 2007 00:21
i thought redsteel was much better game on the Wii, i really find zelda is aimed at little kids
anyways what nobosy has said so far is how did Oblivion get best PC game ?? your having a laugh i could name a hundred games on the PC better than that!!
Stan
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02 January 2007 00:22
Go on then they have to have been out this year !
Midnight
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02 January 2007 00:24
what I want to know is how you can say Zelda is aimed at kids when it blatantly isn't. It's pretty obvious from all your posts that if it doesn't have guns and isn't an FPS game then you're not interested so... But claiming Zelda is a kids game is like saying that BF2142 is the number one mech game ever on the pc.. now who said that I wonder...
Obi
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02 January 2007 14:26
zelda aimed at kids? ur having a laugh actually ****ing play it before you comment on it dumbass, and as for a better game than oblivion on the pc, i dont think ull find there are any altho youll probably say the sims or some gay shit like that
malis
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02 January 2007 14:50
calm down you lot
Abstract
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02 January 2007 14:57
ROFL ^^
Re0sLess
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02 January 2007 14:57
Its not there fault... there just a bunch of big kids
ralinn
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02 January 2007 21:59
BECAUSE THEY PLAY NINTENDO GAMES

But seriously... Oblivion really wasn't that good imo. Quantity over quality to be honest.


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