VN Awards 2009 : Best of the Rest

So I've posted up all of my consoles of the year awards so now it's time for some random awards just to get you ready for the game of the year on the 29th.

So have a look at the winners below and don't forget to tell me what you think.

Biggest Disappointment of the Year
This award goes to the game or game related item that had an interesting concept but turned out to be a piece of crap.

The Nominees are
Tony Hawks Ride - An interesting idea that turns out to be broken from every aspect.
PSPGo - Even though a downloadable console sounds a good idea it only works if it had games and was cheap enough.
Hero Franchise - It seemed that Activision wanted to milk it's music game cow until it was completley dry.
Nintendo - For not releasing anything of note on the Wii or DS all year

And the winner is - Tony Hawks Ride for being a complete and utter fail.

Best Looking Game
Graphics seem to be the main thing for games over the last few years so this award goes to the game that had the best visuals.

The Nominees are
Uncharted 2 Drakes Fortune - Never has a game made my jaw drop on the floor and this managed to succeed that
Batman Arkham Asylum - Taking a dark comic and putting it on screen is hard however RockSteady managed that fully.
MadWorld - I know it might be a shock to see this but it's black and white style was so different it needed a mention.
Assassins Creed 2 - I know i haven't played this yet but it doesn't stop me from thinking that it s a great looking game.

And the winner is - Uncharted 2 Drakes Fortune, i know that it seemed obvious but if you've played it you will see why.

Best Original IP
In a world where games are just a carbon copy of each other it's hard to find a great original IP so this award goes to the game that wasn't just another carbon copy sequel.

The Nominees are
Madworld - For being a ultra violent game for the Wii that tries something different
Prototype - Even though there are a lot of games like this at least this tried something different by being completely insane with it's violence.
Scribblenauts - The DS seems to be the console of choice for unique games and this stood out from the rest by being utterly charming as well
Boarderlands - Taking elements from the fantastic Fallout 3 and adding a cel shaded comic book look can't be a bad thing can it

And the winner is - Scribblenauts, by becoming utterly charming as well as try something different this could only be the winner.

Best Atmosphere
For me to get yourself fully engrossed in a game it needs a great atmosphere so these are the games that shone above the rest.

The Nominees are
Batman Arkham Asylum - Listening to the joker making wise cracks at you in tense sittuations only added to the brilliant atmosphere of Arkham Asylum
Left 4 Dead 2 - The original L4D had a brilliant atmosphere so it was really difficult for the sequel to live up to it and in my eyes this exceeded it.
Uncharted 2 - By mixing and fantastic music score with some tense situations Uncharted 2 had it all.
Dead Space Extraction - The 360 version of this game had the best atmosphere of last year so it was always going to be difficult for the Wii version to live up to it and boy did EA try it's hardest.

And the winner is - Baman Arkham Asylum - Even though this went up against Uncharted 2 this till managed to have on of the best atmospheres in any game this year.

Why was this game released award
Sometime it's really hard to see why developers or publishers release a game that is of low quality that it makes you cry to be a game so the 4 games below are the cream of the crop of crap.

The Nominees are
Tony Hawks Ride - Activision decided to take a year out to make a brand new experience for the Tony Hawks games and they came back with this piece of crap.
Wanted - Just to cash in on a film that was released in the cinema at least a year before this lost everything that was great about the film and took the bad aspects and made them worse.
Sonic and the Dark Knight - Sonic games over the last few years have been a pile of crap however this took the biscuit by being the worst since Sonic the Hedgehog on the 360.
Need for Speed Shift - Even though i've never played it (only the demo) i have word from a few friends that this game is awful and EA should take a little time off from the Need for Speed games for a few years and come back with something much better.

And the Winner is - Tony Hawks Ride - Even though Activision took a year off for the Tony Hawks series they only came back with one major broken game.

The Best use of the F-Bomb Award
Now we know that mature games like a bit of swearing in it however this year it turns out that few games love to use as many swear words as possible, so i though fuck it lets have an award for the best uses of the F-bomb.

The Nominees are
House of the Dead Overkill - Now Wii game Arn't supposed to feature swearing they should all be kiddy friendly and feature cuddle things well the guys at SEGA thought fuck this lets have the most swear words in any game and this was the outcome.
Grand Theft Auto Episodes from Liberty City - Not only are the GTA game known for there storyline they feature some of the most colourful language in any game and with this disc containing the 2 episodes from GTA 4 it was obvious that it would have a lot of swearing in it.
Madworld - The second of the none child friendly games on the Wii not only had obscene amounts of violence but it also was littered with a selection of interesting swear words.
GTA Chinatown Wars - The second GTA on this list is also a DS/PSP game so it had to have a mention for Rockstar having the balls to release a game with copious amounts of swear words in it on a handheld console.
And the Winner is - House of the Dead Overkill - For freaturing the most swear words in any game and laso for SEGA to have the balls and releasing it on the Wii.

Worst Character
Some characters can get on your nerves and some just make it completley unberable for you to play as them so this award goes to the character that makes you want to scream

The Nominess are
The cast of Left 4 Dead 2 - Why oh why did valve think it was a great idea to make us control 4 characters that we knew we were going to hate seeing as the cast of the original game were such brilliant characters.
Sonic - Every time a new Sonic game comes out i want to hate him even more and the release of Sonic and the Dark Knight didn't help him one bit.
The Rookie from Halo ODST - Now i know that the characters in Halo games are a bit of a pain in the arse however it doesn't help you if you don't speak a single word and end off becoming part of a game were the single player sucks.
The Cast from Killzone 2 - I couldn't think of one bad character from Killzone 2 so i just though i would nominated them all, even though the game is great the characters are so dumb you just want to hit them over the head with a hammer just to see if they get any of there brains back.

And the Winner is - The cast of Left 4 Dead 2 - The original had great characters the sequel had terrible ones enough said.

So thats it for the random awards the main award the overall game of the year will be announced on the 29th so check back then for that.

I hope you enjoy the random pic i put in this post.