Agreed engine is not everything but innovation should be for GOTY. And this year was pretty short of innovative products.
So it really makes me sick when i see a product like RA2 getting awards they don't deserve just because the testers always like the products they already know somehow, can be mastered in less than an hour and of which the publisher puts the biggest ads in their magazines.

Just my 0.02

threat

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Bob says: Science cannot remove the terror of the gods

I find this disturbing too.. I mean I LOVED C&C when it came out... Dont think I played any game more than that..

but, now that they've released the same game 4 times... its just stupid. The fact that it can recieve the game of the year award is just plain frightening.

Are they on crack?

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Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.

Looks like awards can be bought.

As for the British PCG being more credible? Ha! They lost all credibility when they gave the Braveheart game a 'Editors Choice' award because the publisher was a big sponsor of the magazine.

A final tip: Dont buy gaming magazines. They are overpriced and out-of-date. NONE of them are any good. Stick to the net.

If you want some good game comparisions try:
http://www.gamerankings.com

It bases ratings on an average of as many reviews as possible. Not only does it give a more accurate impression of a game but it also shows which magazines/websites are staffed by idiots. PC Zone seems to be one of the top contenders.

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I could not possibly agree MORE with that last statement! Gaming mags are quite crap. Don't even get me started on PC Zone UK. Sacrifice: around 68 - 70 percent I think! I used to like PC Zone because many of the staff had a funny but sick and or sarcastic sense of humor that appealed to me, making reviews funny to read. Now the mag has gone WAY downhill, as have all the other ones.

That last advice is right. Stick to the net. Read on-line site reviews, and more importantly...USER REVIEWS!

The problem with gaming websites is that you can't fold up a gaming website, put it in your lunchbox, and read it during you breaks .. .... so no matter how bad the print mags get, I'll probably continue to subscribe to at least one of them

;^")*

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I expected Red Alert 2 and Diablo 2 to garner a lot more awards than they have so far based alone on crazy sales. That they haven't gives me a little more faith in the gaming community, but that PCgamer gave RA2 RTS GOTY... You guys are officially on a raunchy kinda crackrock.

I think that they were afraid to classify it as an RTS... but the confusion didnt stop Deus Ex from getting the top spot(which was deserved, somewhat...but I like RPGs...)


What cracks me up is that RA2 got best multiplayer support...

I do like PCGAMER because they are rather funny and they do alert me to new games coming out...

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I am not responsible for the above message,
Apparantly my cat has learned to type...

Let's get this out of the way: PCG is crap, and for more reasons than their game of the year. {I also find it really hard to believe that they gave BraveHeart an Editor's Choice when their sister mag PCXL gave it a suicide award} Also remember, for every lie their is a grain of truth; and PCG's EIC is Rob "Get Off My Crackpipe" Smith. Now, I'm not saying that Rob's actually on crack, but there must be a grain of truth in their somewhere.

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"There is a fool born every minute" - P.T. Barnum
"And they rule the world" - Me

Damn, PCG is really annoying. Especially Rob Smith. I agree with his score for HL, just not about the Xen part (ugh, jumping puzzles *shudder*), but Q3:A 10/10??!! Give me a break. Also, I seriously doubt he's on a crackpipe. Only a hallucinogen like LSD could make RA2 seem better than Sac. Well, with all the crazy colors, it might look a bit like Sac, but thats not the point. http://www.veforums.com/wink.gif Anyways, I probably won't renew my subscription to the stupid magazine. Its been getting worse and worse over time and the net really is better. Ahh, I wish PCXL was still around. At least that was funny.

TheMad