E184 Scores - inc GotY Awards

[egparadigm]

Cover

Street Fighter 4



Features

2D or not 2D (Street Figher IV)
Rezzed UP (Rez HD)
Shanghai Rising (Ubisoft Shaghai, Endwar)
Seeds of Change (Interview with Okami/VJ producer)
Edge Awards 2007

Hype

Burnout Paradise (360, PS3)
Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures (360, PC)
Ghostbusters (360, DS, PC, PS2, PS3, Wii)
Ferrari Championship (DS, PS3, PSP, Wii)
FF Tactics A2 (DS)
Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (360)
Dark Sector (360, PS3)
Geometry Wars Galaxies (DS, Wii)
Pain (PS3)
Panzer Tactics DS (DS)
Fragile: Sayonara Tsuki No Haikyo (Wii)
Minna De Asobou De! Namco Carnival (Wii)

Reviews


Unreal Tournament III: 8
Rock Band: 9
Blacksite Area 51: 4
Battalion Wars 2: 5
Final Fantasy XII:Revenant Wings: 6
Resident Evil: UC: 7
Time Crisis 4: 5
Ghost Squad: 6
Alien vs Predator Requiem: 5
Endless Ocean: 7
Contra 4: 6
Front Mission: 6
Rayman Raving Rabbids 2: 6
Mario & Sonic at The Olympic Games: 6
Orcs & Elves: 4
Socom US Navy Seals Tactical Strike: 7

Time Extend - Stubbs the Zombie: Rebel Without a Pulse
The Making Of... - OutRun 2

The Edge Awards 2007

Best Game

SMG

Runners-Up:

The Orange Box
Halo 3

Best Innovation

Halo 3

Runners-Up:

Crysis
Portal

Best Visual Design

Bioshock

Runners-Up:

Team Fortress 2
SMG

Best Audio Design

SMG

Runners-Up:

Halo 3
Colin McRae: Dirt

Best Online Experience

Halo 3

Runners-Up:

Forza 2
Wii Channels

Best Hardware

Rock Band

Runners-Up:

Nintendo DS
Nintendo Wii

Best Developer

Valve

Runners-Up:

Bungie
Nintendo

Best Publisher

Nintendo

Runners-Up:

Microsoft
EA

Originally from NeoGAF - haven't receivd my subs copy yet - so no questions, please.

[Pirotic]

Best Innovation: Halo 3

I take it they are trying to be funny or something.. Halo 3 above Portal in the innovation stakes? how do they figure that one out. Forge? because Crysis comes with a fully jump-in/out level editor.

[FreelancePolice]

Disagree, SMG's audio is sublime. I spent a good deal of time hitting different things in the world just to find out what sound they made when hit. The soundtrack is sublime (as is Bioshock's) but I wouldn't of said it's a big margin.

[Pirotic]

Sorry, I edited my comment out about Mario. Basically my reasoning is that yes, hearing the mario music in proper orchestral is lovely - but to be fair it's nintendo just about catching up with everybody else who's done it for years. It makes a real nice change from the blips and blops we're used to from Mario titles.

but Bioshock had a stunning Garry Schyman sound track and the best voice acting in a game to date. I'd of thought it was a no brainer for best audio. I should point out however im a complete Bioshock nutcase, and probably would of given it every award given the chance. not even in the top 3 for game of the year? lame.

They are just lucky they gave SMG the best game, if they'd of gone for Halo I'd of cancelled my subscription out of spite

[MonkeySteve]

Lovely glossy cover this month, feels really mmmmmmmmmm to hold!

Free SMG wall planner too! (for whoever was asking in the other thread)

[MonkeySteve]

Sorry, I edited my comment out about Mario. Basically my reasoning is that yes, hearing the mario music in proper orchestral is lovely - but to be fair it's nintendo just about catching up with everybody else who's done it for years. It makes a real nice change from the blips and blops we're used to from Mario titles.

but Bioshock had a stunning Garry Schyman sound track and the best voice acting in a game to date. I'd of thought it was a no brainer for best audio.

I should point out however im a complete Bioshock nutcase, and probably would of given it every award given the chance

Voice acting schmoice acting. No soundtrack made me smile more whilst listening to it than the SMG one. I don't care what was technically better.

[teddymeow]

Bit of a poor month for reviews imho. Must just be he post-Chrimbo slowdown.

Surprised they couldn't get review code for Burnout Paradise seeing as its out in just under a month.

[Pirotic]

Voice acting schmoice acting. No soundtrack made me smile more whilst listening to it than the SMG one. I don't care what was technically better.

oh, on smile's alone Mario Galaxy is untouchable, that game made me grin from the moment mario spoke when I put the disk in, until I collected my final star. Makes you feel sorry for any other developers to be honest, in terms of the platforming genre, I don't think you can get any better. It's an old artform perfected and the only way to really move it forward after sunshine is to innovate imo.

[MonkeySteve]

oh, on smile's alone Mario Galaxy is untouchable, that game made me grin from the moment mario spoke when I put the disk in, until I collected my final star. Makes you feel sorry for any other developers to be honest, in terms of platforming, I don't think you can get any better. It's an old artform perfected and the only way to really move it forward after sunshine is to innovate imo.

Agreed. No doubt that SMG was game of the year, by a loooong way Where the hell does Mario go from here?!

[Ajay1986]

Anyone know why Front Mission only got a 6 despite being one of the best DS games out.

[egparadigm]

Added in the features and some extra reviews which weren't in the list I copied from rllmuk.

Also, apparently there are two different covers this month. The other one is blue and has Ryu on it.

[Nisa]

Best hardware for Rock Band is taking the piss tbh.

[Malavon]

Best Online Experience

Halo 3

No, it's Burning Crusade.

Best Innovation

Halo 3

Wtf, for me personally, Edge have just lost even more credibility.

[Matt]

Online and Innovation for H3 is taking the piss. I know Edge loves it, and I know it was hyped out of this galaxy. But looking at my friend's list every night, I rarely see anyone still playing it.

Innovation? Because of Forge? Come on!

[crocky-chocky]

Best innovation: Halo 3

HA!

Surely that's Edge justifying the 10.

They're bang right about SMG having the best audio though. Outside of having joyous music it's rammed with other intricacies.