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[TheBioLover]

Since people ask every year:

The following games were not made playable to Game Critics judges at E3 and therefore disqualified from main award consideration: Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Wildlands, and XCOM 2.

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Best of Show
- Fallout 4 (Bethesda Game Studios/Bethesda)
- Horizon Zero Dawn (Guerrilla Games/SCE)
- Oculus Touch (Oculus VR)
- Star Wars Battlefront (DICE/EA)
- Uncharted 4: A Thief's End (Naughty Dog/SCE)

Best Original Game
- Abzu (Giant Squid/505 Games)
- Cuphead (Studio MDHR)
- Horizon Zero Dawn (Guerrilla Games/SCE)
- The Last Guardian (GenDesign/SCE Japan/SCE)
- Unravel (Coldwood Interactive/EA)

Best Console Game
- Fallout 4 (Bethesda Game Studios/Bethesda)
- Horizon Zero Dawn (Guerrilla Games/SCE)
- Star Wars Battlefront (DICE/EA)
- Super Mario Maker (Nintendo)
- Uncharted 4: A Thief's End (Naughty Dog/SCE)

Best Handheld Game
- Fallout Shelter (Bethesda Game Studios/Bethesda)
- Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam (AlphaDream/Nintendo)
- Persona 4 Dancing All Night (Atlus)
- The Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes (Nintendo)

Best PC Game
- DOOM (id Software/Bethesda)
- Fallout 4 (Bethesda Game Studios/Bethesda)
- Just Cause 3 (Avalanche Studios/Square-Enix)
- Star Wars Battlefront (DICE/EA)
- Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft)

Best Hardware
- Microsoft HoloLens (Microsoft)
- Oculus Rift (Oculus VR)
- Oculus Touch (Oculus VR)
- Project Morpheus (Sony Computer Entertainment)
- Xbox Elite Wireless Controller (Microsoft)

Best Action Game
- DOOM (id Software/Bethesda)
- Halo 5: Guardians (343/Microsoft Studios)
- Just Cause 3 (Avalanche Studios/Square-Enix)
- Star Wars Battlefront (DICE/EA)
- Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft)

Best Action/Adventure Game
- Horizon Zero Dawn (Guerrilla Games/SCE)
- Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (Kojima Productions/Konami)
- Rise of the Tomb Raider (Crystal Dynamics/Microsoft Studios)
- The Last Guardian (GenDesign/SCE Japan/SCE)
- Uncharted 4: A Thief's End (Naughty Dog/SCE)

Best RPG
- Dark Souls 3 (From Software/Bandai-Namco Games)
- Fallout 4 (Bethesda Game Studios/Bethesda)
- Fire Emblem Fates (Intelligent Systems/Nintendo)
- Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam (AlphaDream/Nintendo)
- Sword Coast Legends (n-Space/Digital Extremes/Wizards of the Coast)

Best Racing Game
- Forza Motorsport 6 (Turn 10/Microsoft Studios)
- Need for Speed (Ghost Games/EA)
- Trackmania Turbo (Nadeo/Ubisoft)

Best Sports Game
- FIFA 16 (EA Canada/EA)
- NHL 16 (EA Canada/EA)
- Madden NFL 16 (Tiburon/EA)
- Pro Evolution Soccer 2016 (Konami)
- Rory McIlroy PGA Tour (EA Tiburon/EA)

Best Family/Social Game
- Disney Infinity 3.0 (Avalanche Software/Disney Interactive)
- Guitar Hero Live (FreeStyleGames/Activision)
- LEGO Dimensions (TT Games/WBIE)
- Rock Band 4 (Harmonix)
- Super Mario Maker (Nintendo)

Best Online Multiplayer
- Call of Duty: Black Ops III (TreyArch/Activision)
- Halo 5: Guardians (343/Microsoft Studios)
- Star Wars Battlefront (DICE/EA)
- Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft)
- Tom Clancy's The Division (Massive/Ubisoft)

Best Indie
- Abzu (Giant Squid/505)
- Below (Capy Games)
- Cuphead (Studio MDHR)
- No Man's Sky (Hello Games/SCE)
- Wattam (Funomena)

All of the awards: http://gamecriticsawards.com/nominees.html

Five Nominations:
Star Wars Battlefront

Four Nominations:
Fallout 4
Horizon Zero Dawn

Three Nominations:
Rainbow Six Patriots
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End

Two Nominations:
Abzu
Cuphead
DOOM
Halo 5: Guardians
Just Cause 3
Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam
Oculus Touch
The Last Guardian

Publisher Breakdown
EA - 11 Nominations
Sony Computer Entertainment - 11 Nominations
Bethesda - 7 Nominations
Microsoft Studios - 6 Nominations
Nintendo - 6 Nominations
Ubisoft - 5 Nominations
Oculus - 3 Nominations
Activision - 2 Nominations
Konami - 2 Nominations
Giant Squid/505 Games - 2 Nominations
Square-Enix - 2 Nominations
Studio MDHR - 2 Nominations

Nominee Breakdown by Platform
(Multiplatform games are counted in all appropriate platform tallies. Information based on announced platforms for each game/product as of 6/29/15.)

PlayStation 4: 47 Nominations
Xbox One: 46 Nominations
PC: 34 Nominations
Wii-U: 4 Nominations

More stats on the awards: http://gamecriticsawards.com/nom-stats-2015.html

 

[Geek]

Probably worth including this

The following games were not made playable to Game Critics judges at E3 and therefore disqualified from main award consideration: Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Wildlands, and XCOM 2.

 

[V_Ben]

Probably worth including this

XCOM 2 is a surprise, isn't that game out in November? Odd.

 

[dugdug]

Guerilla must be feeling real good right now. People always spoke about them with such apathy since Killzone 2. Now their new IP is one of the highest nominated games of E3. Big congrats to that studio.

 

[Triggerhappytel]

What did EA show to get 11 nominations?!

 

[Crossing Eden]

What did EA show to get 11 nominations?!

Off the top of my head:Battlefront, Mirror's Edge 2, Unravel.

 

[Geek]

What did EA show to get 11 nominations?!

Battlefront and sports

[Edit: Incorrect info removed.]

 

[dugdug]

What did EA show to get 11 nominations?!

Little game called Star Wars.

 

[MetroidPrimeRib]

EA's conference was pretty bad so no idea how they got that many nominations

 

[Heroman]

E3 awards are fucking werid.

 

[Lunar15]

Wait a minute, was Horizon: Zero Dawn playable to critics?

 

[Interfectum]

Sony knocked it out the park with Horizon and Uncharted 4 imo

 

[illmatic22]

B b but Sony was all hype!

Congrats to the nominees. I hope Horizon, Star Wars, or Uncharted 4 win Best of Show.

 

[Brian_FETO]

Battlefront and sports

(Nothing for Mirror's Edge Catalyst. It wasn't playable.)

Mirror's Edge was playable on the floor. They specifically announced that during their presentation

 

[SSReborn]

What did EA show to get 11 nominations?!

Battlefront, Mirrors Edge, unravel likely got nominated somewhere, sports nominations, pvz garden warfare 2

 

[dugdug]

Should also be noted, psyched as I am for Guerilla, last year's Game of Show winner was Evolve, so...yeah.

 

[Chobel]

4 Nominees of EA came from Sport games

Best Sports Game
- FIFA 16 (EA Canada/EA)
- NHL 16 (EA Canada/EA)
- Madden NFL 16 (Tiburon/EA)
- Pro Evolution Soccer 2016 (Konami)
- Rory McIlroy PGA Tour (EA Tiburon/EA)

 

[grandjedi6]

XCOM 2 is a surprise, isn't that game out in November? Odd.

Take 2 doesn't participate much in E3 with their main studio (Rockstar) avoiding it entirely.

 

[Nirolak]

4 Nominees of EA came from Sport games

Yes, EA usually does really well in the sports category since almost no one competes with them.

 

[Mory Dunz]

Who gets "Best Pele" award?

I'm guessing nintendo.

 

[Bsigg12]

Wait a minute, was Horizon: Zero Dawn playable to critics?

The bare minimum is can they touch the joystick after they are presented a demo and the character/camera move. Jeff from Giantbomb went over the requirements on an episode of the bombcast.

 

[TomShoe]

Uncharted & Horizon were my Games of Show, but let's be real here. Fallout is going to clean up.

 

[AAK]

I guess fighting games are so dead they don't even deserve a nomination category.

 

[MetroidPrimeRib]

Ok when it comes to actually playable games I can see how EA had a leg up on others

I guess fighting games are so dead they don't even deserve a nomination category.

Wasn't SF V the only one there anyway

 

[Nirolak]

I guess fighting games are so dead they don't even deserve a nomination category.

To be fair, it would actually plausibly be a one game category this year.

Strategy games also couldn't get a category.

 

[PeregrinSe7en]

sony had the best e3 by far so no surprise with all their noms

i mean the other guys did good but sony took it to another level

 

[jschreier]

Wait a minute, was Horizon: Zero Dawn playable to critics?

For roughly 30 seconds each, yep.

 

[Man]

Fallout 4 will be this years Evolve and Titanfall.

They had candidates like Witcher 3, Arkham and Bloodborne but they went with the above. /Idonteven

 

[Bsigg12]

I guess fighting games are so dead they don't even deserve a nomination category.

Wasn't there only 1 fighting game there this year in Street Fighter V?

 

[Nerdkiller]

Who gets "Best Pele" award?

I'm guessing nintendo.

AJ Styles.

Spoiler

Never bothered with EA's conference, so this is the best I can do.

 

[Lunar15]

Should also be noted, psyched as I am for Guerrilla, last year's Game of Show winner was Evolve, so...yeah.

Time will tell if the game's got the chops, but Guerrilla hiring the writer of Fallout: New Vegas and a quest designer from the Witcher 3 fills me with a toooooon of hope. Add that with a new and unusual theme paired with some cool and interesting looking mechanics, and I think you have the recipe for something that deserves watching, which is what I think the purpose of the E3 awards are.

It was, by far, one of the more refreshing things I saw at the show.

 

[grandjedi6]

Mirror's Edge was playable on the floor. They specifically announced that during their presentation

But it probably wasn't playable at Judge's Week which is where these nominations come from.

 

[Geek]

Mirror's Edge was playable on the floor. They specifically announced that during their presentation

You're right. My bad.

 

[Nightengale]

Should also be noted, psyched as I am for Guerilla, last year's Game of Show winner was Evolve, so...yeah.

The perspective of past winners underdelivering implicating future winners is kinda misguided, imo.

If Fallout 4 is Game of Show, does that mean there's reason to be concerned about Fallout 4 because last year's winner is Evolve?

GotS isn't a curse. It is important however, the context of the showcase of the game the awards were given to. Horizon's showcase was extremely limited, there was no towns, no other NPCs, only that slice. Other games might have more/less depending on their own showcases.

 

[jschreier]

But it probably wasn't playable at Judge's Week which is where these nominations come from.

Nah. Very few of the nominated games were playable at Judge's Week.

 

[Broank]

Fallout 4 will be this years Evolve and Titanfall.

They had candidates like Witcher 3, Arkham and Bloodborne but they went with the above. /Idonteven

Nah

Battlefront gives me those vibes though. Fun multiplayer shooter that demos well compared to RPGs and what not wins a truck load of E3 awards but in the end is just a fun multiplayer shooter.

 

[TomShoe]

Fallout 4 will be this years Evolve and Titanfall.

They had candidates like Witcher 3, Arkham and Bloodborne but they went with the above. /Idonteven

Doubt it. Evolve was an unknown quantity at the time. We know what we're getting with the next Fallout game.

 

[PeregrinSe7en]

Should also be noted, psyched as I am for Guerilla, last year's Game of Show winner was Evolve, so...yeah.

terrible comparison

evolve: online only title with little content + overpriced dlc

horizon: sp ip which will be filled to the brim with content + knowing GG history of handling dlc, the content will be worth the price

 

[jschreier]

Fallout 4 will be this years Evolve and Titanfall.

They had candidates like Witcher 3, Arkham and Bloodborne but they went with the above. /Idonteven

Why would Witcher 3, Arkham, or Bloodborne win E3 awards??

 

[ashecitism]

I can see Touch taking GotS. The impressions were very very good.

Fallout 4 will be this years Evolve and Titanfall.

They had candidates like Witcher 3, Arkham and Bloodborne but they went with the above. /Idonteven

It has been explained multiple times MP games demo well at events like this.

Why would Witcher 3, Arkham, or Bloodborne win E3 awards??

He means previous years.

edit: oh I see Witcher 3 wasn't eligible, but AK was nominated for GotS, while Boodborne was for RPG

 

[Chobel]

Best Action/Adventure Game
- Horizon Zero Dawn (Guerrilla Games/SCE)
[...]

I thought Horizon is an RPG, no?

 

[TomShoe]

Why would Witcher 3, Arkham, or Bloodborne win E3 awards??

They weren't nominees last year, were they?

 

[Nirolak]

I thought Horizon is an RPG, no?

Tomb Raider also has experience, crafting, and several skill trees.

The lines are pretty blurry these days.

 

[Nirolak]

They weren't nominees last year, were they?

...E3 awards are for game showings at E3.

 

[Triggerhappytel]

Should also be noted, psyched as I am for Guerilla, last year's Game of Show winner was Evolve, so...yeah.

Yeah... So these 'awards' are basically useless anyway.

 

[ashecitism]

They weren't nominees last year, were they?

Witcher 3 wasn't eligible, AK was nominated for it, while Bloodborne was only for RPG

 

[JumPeRJumPzZ]

Well deserved for Battlefront

 

[Nightengale]

Well deserved for Battlefront

Dat edit.

 

[Robert at Zeboyd Games]

For roughly 30 seconds each, yep.

I was wondering why they even bothered demoing Horizon when the playable demo was so unsubstantial. I guess this is why.

 

[GifGafIsTheBestGaf]

Guerilla must be feeling real good right now. People always spoke about them with such apathy since Killzone 2. Now their new IP is one of the highest nominated games of E3. Big congrats to that studio.

Should also be noted, psyched as I am for Guerilla, last year's Game of Show winner was Evolve, so...yeah.

im confused!