WhatIfGaming’s Overall Best Of E3 Awards 2008
Another year and another awards season. E3 was packed with exciting memories you have all seen (some still to be posted), and rooms filled with the hottest and most anticipated titles to date. It was certainly a great time, and now that time is over. It’s time to look forward, ahead to newer and better releases, and to ennoble titles in this year’s WhatIfGaming’s Best Of E3 Awards 2008.
Criteria: The Best of E3 Awards, a subcategory for the WhatIfGaming Prizes, are given solely to those video games that demonstrate a pure excellence in the field for which they are not only nominated but also chosen. These awards only apply to playable games at E3 given a few exceptional categories.
Nomination & Selection Process: Compared with other site awards, the WhatIfGaming Prize nomination and selection process is long and extremely rigorous. This is the sole reason why WhatIfGaming Prizes have grown in importance over the years to become the most important prizes in their field. Forms, which amount to a personal and exclusive invitation, are sent to about over 1,000 selected individuals to invite them to submit nominations months in advance from the latest builds per video game. Self-nominations are disqualified. For WhatIfGaming Prizes, inquiries are sent to such people as developers, industry experts, analysts, freelance journalists among others. After our deadline passes, the nominations are chosen by permanent committee of 5 selected individuals and only the final stage of nominees remain per category. From all of these, a winner is chosen.
The names of the nominees are not publicly announced, and neither are they told that they have been considered for the WhatIfGaming Prize. Some are announced publicly by practice. Nomination records are revealed approximately 2 years after each respective award year.
Best Action Game:
Left 4 Dead
Developer: Valve Software
Publisher: Valve Software
Release Date: Winter 2008
Action titles were far to everywhere this E3, but one happened to bite our interests. Literally. Left 4 Dead was full of life when we played it and managed to achieve an unparalleled amount of realism with an unique art direction and moreover gameplay that people of all ages and of all online gaming communities have been craving for.
Runner(s)-Up: Resident Evil 5 (Capcom), Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (LucasArts)
Other Nominees: Fallout 3 (Bethesda Softworks), SOCOM: Confrontation (SCE), Resistance 2 (SCE), Ratchet & Clank: Quest for Booty (SCE), Fracture (LucasArts)
Woah maquerel. These are amazing. Since i visited the site in only about 2006ish, I didn’t get to see too many awards
Wow awesome awards. Never knew they were so rigorous
Loved them. Amazing new logo. I remember the square ones from 2004. Those were the days!
A lot of amazing categories. Heavy rain was playable? wtf awesome
Definitely awesome awards. I always put full faith in these, but definitelyd ecide on my own
I agree with most as well
Loved all of these. Still reading, it’s amazing. 1,000 Nominees. I definitely know that not all of them can be from E3, but most of the analysts are thats for sure
Rigorous is the right word. Crazily rigorous
I doubt the names will be revealed for the committee. Lol BRIBERY!
God thats awesome
I agree with all of them as well. Would have liked more PC runner ups though.
Without a doubt, huge news that these are up now
L4D got a lot of wins, definite buy here now
Love to see console best, but I’m damn sure that won’t be easy. These are quite possibly one of the BIGGEST and largest awards ever conducted through years. I remember it started with about 100 back in 2003ish before the new site structure.
Sucks the database for those were wiped, but ever since 2006 and on, these are the sole awards anyone should be looking at for sure
So impressive
Kudos and extreme Bravo’s to the winners and select nominees.
Definitely important news here. Going to start reading now
Killzone 2 is a given. I played it at Sony public day event. It was spectacular.
Overall most of these had to have been difficult to choose from. Some don’t even have runner-up’s.
LittleBigPlanet, so want to play that video game argh!
Congrats to runners-up. Not easy
Def hard to get
L4Dead of course
I want to see the entire list for nominees. I wonder which ones didn’t make it
Some probably came pretty close.
Oh wow. Didn’t know C&C 3 RA was going to be that good. Awesome
A lot of this would make Media Molecule happy hahah
But they definitely deserve it that’s for sure
Love WhatIfGaming, and love the nomination proccess.
Thanks guys
Amazing reviews/previews/and awards
Wonderful selections. 1,000 invitational forms isn’t too difficult considering traffic these guys get
Just totally amazing
Revolutionary in fact
Love the process. It’s basically the same it was about 2 years ago
but the designs are different and I’m loving it
Best awards ever in HISTORY. Thanks
They’ve only been around 5-6 years. Saying history is a long stretch !
Definitely agree to all the runner-ups and winners. No doubt here
then again 1,000 people overall chose these. I can’t really say shit lol!
Love these awards for life. Have loved them, will love them. Thanks again WhatIfGaming.
You guys aren’t messing around
Well dude, even though 1,000 chose these games, they aren’t all from E3 unnecessarily. Some were played MONTHS in advance. Keep that in mind!
1,000 is great for months in advance. But in 3 days? Dobutful. Read it. they wrote its been in advance. So : )
Looks amazing for sure. true say
No doubt about these
Unbelievable
WOAH! DIDN’T Even seee that category winner coming. NICE
Definitely impressive once again. Didn’t know this was going on for months in advance
This pretty much confirms awesomeness
Amazing selections
2010 for full list people!
I’ll be there
1,000 People Initial, then a committee
That was insane! loved it
Amazing stuff
I was WOW-ed
Speechless actually. Wasn’t here until a couple of good months ago. Thanks
Totally agree to all of them
Best awards ever. No doubt. So it’s not just 4 or 5 dudes in a small office picking all of them? It’s 1 THOUSAND before E3 AND finally at E3…NICEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!
This was just so magnificent and munificent.
Fallout 3 Action rocks. I love it when you go into the school, and you have to run with a timer.
All the selections make sense. Not too sure about The Conduit (Wii) as runner-up!
Amazing once again. This really deserves accolades
Well more so than they already have I mean
Agreed: Won’t spoil it here…but GAME OF SHOW = ABSOLUTELY true. Was Gears 2 playable ?
Gears 2 would have won best 3rd person shooter no doubt had it been playable
Can’t wait for GOTY Awards!!!
This was just super cool
RadianceGraphics replied on July 21, 2008 5:11 PM:
Without any doubt in my mind. These are always the best awards I see every year
I agree with MOST of these. Some I want to disagree with. Like LEFT 4 dead over fallout 3, but seeing both…it’s definitely hard. And I can see why 1,000 people partake in these WhatIfGaming Prizes every year
Killzone 2 by far has the right tech. No doubt.
Pretty good choices I think. Lots of great games coming out in the next year.
1,000 for preliminaries. No doubt a great choice.
Really loved these awards. Awesome stuff guys