So, the 2009 Spike VGAs are in the books and after some big announcements, world premiere trailers, and a crap ton of lasers, we’ve decided to bullet point the biggest headlines from the event to keep you “in the know”.
Here’s what’s what and the MUST KNOW headlines from the event in no particular order:
- Batman: Arkham Asylum 2 was teased, you can see the trailer here
- Zachary Quinto (Heroes/Star Trek) will be providing voice talent to the upcoming Star Trek Online.
- Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2 was announced. Trailer viewable here.
- Tron Evolution was announced, shown for the first time. Trailer here.
- A downloadable game based on Deadliest Warrior was announced. First footage revealed.
- Activision and United Front will be delivering a new True Crime game in 2010.
- Green Day Rock Band was announced.
- A cinematic trailer for Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands was revealed.
- UFC Undisputed 2010 was announced and the first trailer was shown
- Spec Ops: The Line was announced/shown.
- EA’s revamped Medal of Honor was shown for the first time and it looks pretty much exactly like Modern Warfare 2…which isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
- Halo: Reach was revealed via an “in-engine” trailer.
- Crackdown 2 was shown for the first time.
Oh yeah! There were awards handed out too and Naughty Dog’s Uncharted 2: Among Thieves took home top honors as Game of the Year as well as earning hardware for Best PlayStation 3 Game and Best Graphics. There were a lot of winners in a wide range of categories so hit the jump for the full listing.
* Game of the Year: Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
* Studio of the Year: Rocksteady Studios
* Best Independent Game Fueld by Dew: Flower
* Best Xbox 360 Game: Left 4 Dead 2
* Best PS3 Game: Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
* Best Wii Game: New Super Mario Bros. Wii
* Best PC Game: Dragon Age: Origins
* Best Handheld Game: Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars
* Best Shooter: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
* Best Fighting Game: Street Fighter IV
* Best Action Adventure Game: Assassin’s Creed II
* Best RPG: Dragon Age: Origins
* Best Multiplayer Game: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
* Best Individual Sports Game: UFC 2009 Undisputed
* Best Team Sports Game: NHL 10
* Best Driving Game: Forza Motorsport 3
* Best Music Game: The Beatles: Rock Band
* Best Soundtrack: DJ Hero
* Best Original Score: Halo 3: ODST
* Best Graphics: Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
* Best Game Based On A Movie/TV Show: South Park Let’s Go Tower Defense Play!
* Best Performance By A Human Female: Megan Fox as Mikaela Banes in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
* Best Performance By A Human Male: Hugh Jackman as Wolverine in X-Men Origins: Wolverine
* Best Cast: X-Men Origins: Wolverine
* Best Voice: Jack Black for the voice of Eddie Riggs in Brütal Legend
* Best Downloadable Game: Shadow Complex
* Best DLC: Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony
* Most Anticipated Game of 2010: God of War III
So, what do you think? Feel free to sound off on the awards in the comments below. We’ll of course be offering up our opinion on the event and the big announcements throughout the week on EpicBattleAxe.com. Now, where’s the after party???
Love the fact Uncharted won GOTY but if thats so how did it not win best action adventure game? that just doesnt make sense, if it is the best game of the year then it should have won every genre category it was entered for.
How does Jack Black win a voice actor award….thats not acting when you are basically playing yourself!?!
Also naughty dog should have won best studio, love those guys!
These awards are so inconsistent it almost makes it seem non credible.
Laugh of the night: Megan Fox best female voice over…. really?….really???? I laughed pretty damn hard when i heard that.
The VGA in a whole was pretty shitty. Awards such as best PC and others were sort of hidden and instead more time was devoted to retarded-ness.
VGA 2009 Grade: C-
Thank god MW 2 didnt win game of the year. Im very happy Rocksteady won studio of the year and the announcement of B:AA 2. They really have themselves a good start for the second game and i loved that new trailer and Mark Ha… uh i mean Joker coughing like an old dude.
And yeah its kinda weird to see Megan Fox win the voice over. But i havent checked the video footage, cause here in the Netherlands its kinda late to stay up till 2 AM in the morning for a program that doesnt even air here.
@Bottomglass: Just because you don’t agree with the results doesn’t mean it makes no sense. Uncharted 2 can win Game Of The Year and not other catagories because winning GOTY only means it is the best all-round game, not that all the parts which make it up are the best. Uncharted 2 can be trumped by Assassin’s Creed 2 genre wise because the campain was shorter and offorded less options throughout. But Assassin’s Creed 2 never even attmpted multi-player, had less rubust extras, lower quality graphics (by no means bad graphics) and so on making is a less well rounded game and thus not GOTY. It would be pointless to have a number of catagories if winning one means the game auto wins another.
A couple of things do surprise me though:
1. Flower…I actually really like flower, I just didn’t think it would have the kind of mass appeal needed to show up.
2. The fact that a Transformers movie tie-in game is on the list even if it is indirectly.
L4D2 as the best xbox 360 game? WHAAT!? Sure it’s a great game but I don’t think it’s even near the best game that has been released this year for the 360, just shows how different our taste can be.
Playstation fanboys will be creaming there panites…lol. Just FYI I have to go change mine right now….lol. The list is almost how i voted cept I put MW2 for goty. Oh well I loved uncharted also. Cheers!
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