Overall, Super Mario Galaxy gets its hat tossed into two categories, although many* might consider them to be the best two categories: Best Game Design and Game of the Year. It's up against some tough competition, however, as undersea romp Bioshock and Portal, which has seemed to help pie's ugly cousin cake propel itself into the stratosphere of popularity, will undoubtedly give Mario a run for his coin (or stars).
Head past the break for all of the nominees.
Best Game Design
- BioShock
- Call of Duty 4
- Mass Effect
- Portal
- Super Mario Galaxy
- Assassin's Creed
- Team Fortress 2
- Crysis
- BioShock
- Uncharted: Drake's Fortune
- Halo 3
- Crysis
- Call of Duty 4
- Portal
- Assassin's Creed
- Portal
- God of War II
- Mass Effect
- Half-Life 2: Episode 2
- BioShock
- Call of Duty 4
- Everyday Shooter
- BioShock
- God of War II
- Mass Effect
- Crackdown (Realtime Worlds)
- flOw (ThatGameCompany)
- The Witcher (CD Projekt)
- Everyday Shooter (Queasy Games)
- Aquaria (Bit Blot)
- Rock Band
- Portal
- flOw
- Peggle
- Mass Effect
- Puzzle Quest: Challenge of The Warlords
- The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
- Phase
- Contra 4
- Peggle (for iPod)
- Pac-Man Championship Edition
- Everyday Shooter
- Peggle
- Puzzle Quest: Challenge of The Warlords (XBLA version)
- Flow
- BioShock
- Call of Duty 4
- Portal
- Rock Band
- Super Mario Galaxy
[Via Joystiq]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
1-22-2008 @ 8:15PM
glass soldiers said...
GO GALAXY!!!!!
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1-22-2008 @ 8:17PM
akatsuki said...
My own meaningless picks:
Best Game Design: Super Mario Galaxy- This had amazing level design all the way through. Portal is a lot of fun, but even they have to admit that they could have come up with more variations.
Best Visual Art: Assassin's Creed- absolutely beautiful, even if the gameplay was boring and the control system so-so. I didn't play Crysis or Uncharted. Bioshock was pretty but a bit boring visually by the end.
Best Technology- Halo 3 multiplayer is the best in-game technology as it works pretty well and you can play in lots of different combos.
Best Writing- People will pick Bioshock, but I liked Mass Effect better. Portal deserves all the kudos too for a perfect, simple concept. GoW2? Not a chance.
Best Audio: Mass Effect for their great voice-acting. Bioshock for atmosphere. CoD4 was great, but not as good.
Innovation- Portal. Didn't play flOw though.
Game of the Year- Tougher. All are good although I still think SMG is the best.
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1-23-2008 @ 1:27PM
NeverSage said...
You're pretty dead on, but what about Portal getting best writing?
1-22-2008 @ 9:12PM
igorponweed said...
Portal will probably win design, but Mario all the way for GotY
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1-22-2008 @ 9:23PM
Timerider said...
Isn't Halo 3 up for Game of the Year? And I thought Bioshock already won GotY, or was that from some other group?
Portal, SMG, Bioshock, and Halo 3 are my nominations for Game of the Year.
You can tell how much I love Portal by looking at my avatar.
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1-22-2008 @ 9:38PM
Timerider said...
Other nominations:
Best Visual Art: BioShock, the atmosphere was amazing.
Best Game Design: Portal, it was awesome and original; BioShock, just all-around beautiful design; SMG, great implementation of gravity and space.
Best Technology: Portal, not sure what they mean by technology, but Portal gets my vote.
Best Writing: BioShock, great story and plot; Portal, has a unique charm to it that no other game has.
Best Audio: BioShock, hands down, it had the best music that really created a great atmosphere.
Innovation: Portal, duh.
1-22-2008 @ 9:30PM
tiamat1990 said...
I don't know about Game Design, I think that belongs to Portal or Bioshock. But yeah Galaxy, definitely Game of the Year.
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1-22-2008 @ 9:43PM
Timerider said...
Oh yeah, will a Super Mario Galaxy soundtrack ever reach the U.S.? Because that also had great music.
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1-22-2008 @ 9:44PM
Ryan P. said...
ummmm.....can we mention when the winners will be announced when giving us this info?
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1-22-2008 @ 9:45PM
Ranus Studios said...
I wouldn't vote for Galaxy. It got to be pretty unbearable and I'm preeeetty sure it gave me ulcers, or maybe the start of an aneurysm. But to be fair, I played through it twice over the course of a week and a half and everything wrong with it kind of punched me in the face.
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1-22-2008 @ 11:28PM
BDR said...
It's a shame to not see SMG nominated for Innovation, i thought the game was tremendously innovative. Much more so than Rock Band and Mass Effect, anyway.
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1-23-2008 @ 7:11AM
Tesche said...
I'm not sure it is healthy, the amount of love I have for Portal...I love SMG, don't get me wrong....but Portal....I mean, between the game design, the cake, the song, the computer's lovely encouragement....level 19, I mean, I need to check and see if there is a portalfanboy.com...
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1-23-2008 @ 11:02AM
Timerider said...
Same here.