The winners of the 5th annual Spike TV Video Game Awards have been announced from. The ceremony, which was held in the Mandalay Bay Events Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, featured host Samuel L. Jackson handing out awards to some of the most notable and well publicized games released this year. The event will be televised tomorrow starting at 9 o’clock EST/PST and running from 11 o’clock EST/PST. In summation Bioshock received the most accolades this year as it received the Game of The Year awards along with the award for Best Xbox 360 Game and Best Original Score. In addition attendees to the Video Game Awards were treated to preview footage of to be released titles such as Borderlands, Gran Turismo 5, Prologue, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas 2, and TNA Impact!
Also present at the Video Game Awards this year were a number of musical and comedic routines such as Foo Fighters and Kid Rock in addition to the presence of comedians Patton Oswald, Ralphie May, and Brian Posehn performing their routines on stage. These performances followed with the appearance of the television debut of the video game concert series Video Games Live and awards presentations by various notables such as wrestlers Kurt and Karen Angle, the actress Tia Carrere, Joshua Gomez and Zachary Levi of the TV show Chuck, Tony Hawk, and many others.
Below is a complete list of this year’s winners.
GAME OF THE YEAR
BioShock
STUDIO OF THE YEAR
Harmonix
BEST SHOOTER
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Activision/ Infinity Ward)
BEST RPG
Mass Effect (Microsoft Game Studios/ BioWare)
BEST MILITARY GAME
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Activision/ Infinity Ward)
BEST INDIVIDUAL SPORTS GAME
skate (Electronic Arts/ EA Black Box)
BEST HANDHELD GAME
The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (Nintendo/ Nintendo)
BEST GRAPHICS
Crysis (Electronic Arts/ Crytek)
BEST GAME BASED ON A MOVIE OR TV SHOW
The Simpsons Game (Electronic Arts/ EA Redwood Shores)
BEST RHYTHM GAME
Rock Band (MTV Games/ Harmonix)
BEST DRIVING GAME
DiRT (Codemasters/ Codemasters)
BEST ACTION GAME
Super Mario Galaxy (Nintendo/ Nintendo)
BEST TEAM SPORTS GAME
Madden NFL 08 (Electronic Arts/ EA Tiburon)
BEST SOUNDTRACK
Rock Band (MTV Games/ Harmonix)
BREAKTHROUGH TECHNOLOGY
The Orange Box/ Portal (Valve/ Valve)
BEST XBOX 360 GAME
BioShock
BEST WII GAME
Super Mario Galaxy (Nintendo/ Nintendo)
BEST PS3 GAME
Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction (Sony Computer Entertainment/
Insomniac Games)
BEST PC GAME
The Orange Box (Valve/ Valve)
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
BioShock
BEST MULTI-PLAYER GAME
Halo 3 (Microsoft Game Studios/ Bungie Studios)
MOST ADDICTIVE VIDEO GAME FUELED BY DEW
Halo 3 (Microsoft Game Studios/ Bungie Studios)
(original article source: http://www.thegamereviews.com/story-269-Results-of-VGA-announced.html )
