999cop Posted May 23, 2003 Game Informer Names Top 10 Games for E3 Thursday May 22, 9:02 am ET Half Life 2 is Game of the Show MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 22, 2003--After much debate and discussion within the offices of Game Informer, the nation's leading computer and video game magazine, the magazine staff has selected its Top 10 games for E3. "All of these games are fantastic, but Half Life 2 was the standout 'Game of the Show.' We were blown away by this game, which represents a breakthrough in gaming. It involves an extremely intricate physics model that takes gaming in a whole new dimension," said GI Editor-in-Chief Andy McNamara. For a complete wrap-up of show coverage with top games by platform, see the July issue of Game Informer, due out June 24. Game Informer Top 10 Games of E3 2003 1) Half-Life 2 - Game of the Show Publisher: Vivendi Universal Developer: Valve Platform: PC/Xbox 2) Halo 2 Publisher: Microsoft Games Developer: Bungie Platform: Xbox 3) Doom 3 Publisher: Activision Developer: id Softwave Platform: PC/Xbox 4) Gran Turismo 4 Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment Developer: Polyphony Digital Platform: PlayStation 2 5) Fable Publisher: Microsoft Game Studios Developer: Big Blue Box Platform: Xbox 6) Tony Hawk's Underground Publisher: Activision Developer: Neversoft Platform: PC/Xbox 7) Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater Publisher: Konami Developer: KCEJ Platform: PlayStation 2 8) The Sims 2 Publisher: Electronic Arts Developer: Maxis Platform: PC 9) SSX 3 Publisher: EA Big Developer: EA Canada Platform: Xbox/GameCube/PlayStation 2 10) Mario Kart: Double Dash Publisher: Nintendo Developer: Nintendo Platform: GameCube 0 Share this post Link to post
Disorder Posted May 23, 2003 Half-life 2 at first place, that was to be expected. 0 Share this post Link to post
sargebaldy Posted May 23, 2003 Disorder said:Half-life 2 at first place, that was to be expected. agreed, it certainly won my vote. but halo 2? O_o i about fell asleep during the trailer for that. then again, doom III made no real impression on me either. 0 Share this post Link to post
999cop Posted May 23, 2003 sargebaldy said:agreed, it certainly won my vote. but halo 2? O_o i about fell asleep during the trailer for that. then again, doom III made no real impression on me either. Half Life 2 will get old some time later :p 0 Share this post Link to post
BlueSonnet Posted May 23, 2003 What is Sims doing on that list?!?! *bursts into flames* 0 Share this post Link to post
IMJack Posted May 23, 2003 After much debate and discussion within the offices of Game Informer, the nation's leading computer and video game magazine, the magazine staff has selected its Top 10 games for E3. Bull. The only place they sell is the EB stores, and the only way they sell is when EB signs its customers up for demo subscriptions. 0 Share this post Link to post
Goat Posted May 23, 2003 i think it was utterly stupid on ids part to only release 2 freaking videos for doom 3. everyone was expecting a lot to be released, and they go and release 2 videos and no information whatsoever about their game. half life deserved the best in show. 0 Share this post Link to post
sargebaldy Posted May 23, 2003 yeah, i think id seriously underestimated the competition from half life 2 :P they did the same thing they did at last year's E3. they should have been bombarding us with cool stuff this time around. somehow i think that even if they had hl2 would have still have looked more promising. and is it just me or has doom3 not come very far at all in the last year? i was expecting a complete makeover by now, but i saw in one of the vids that they were still using parts from at least one of the maps from the alpha (which were all pretty meh). they still only showed us dark indoor grey-blue techish areas... hardly the picture in my mind of doom. 0 Share this post Link to post
AndrewB Posted May 23, 2003 I don't know much about HL2. Sounds like it may have Doom 3's number tugged under a sailor's sweaty pillow. I think I'll go read up a little on the game. 0 Share this post Link to post
Scuba Steve Posted May 23, 2003 AndrewB said:I don't know much about HL2. Sounds like it may have Doom 3's number tugged under a sailor's sweaty pillow. I think I'll go read up a little on the game. ... 0 Share this post Link to post
MagnuM Posted May 23, 2003 Goat said:i think it was utterly stupid on ids part to only release 2 freaking videos for doom 3. everyone was expecting a lot to be released, and they go and release 2 videos and no information whatsoever about their game. half life deserved the best in show. They want you to wait for the game dude. Baa!! 0 Share this post Link to post
Alientank Posted May 23, 2003 It's nice to see companies besides id making game engines and making great games. I'm all for the competition. 0 Share this post Link to post
Coopersville Posted May 24, 2003 i think it was utterly stupid on ids part to only release 2 freaking videos for doom 3.There's two E3 videos now? 0 Share this post Link to post
Goat Posted May 25, 2003 well theres one, the 2 mins 50 second one ( i think thats the time ) and then theres another that is xbox footage. 0 Share this post Link to post
mmnpsrsoskl Posted May 25, 2003 Not a XBox fan, so Halo2 is not for me, don't know how TH:Underground is set, and what the hell is SSX3? Otherwise, the rest of those games i'm looking forward too. HL2 will inevitably beat Doom3, well, if not beat then at least kick it's ass in some form. They have hyped Doom 3 up for too long, and Valve were smart by releasing some stuff only a few months prior to release. 0 Share this post Link to post
fraggle Posted May 25, 2003 They seem to be hyping it up, but I think its going to backfire: theres no way Doom 3 is going to be able to live up to the hype surrounding it. 0 Share this post Link to post
pritch Posted May 25, 2003 That is such an artificial commercial list it's untrue 0 Share this post Link to post
Goat Posted May 25, 2003 fraggle said:They seem to be hyping it up, but I think its going to backfire: theres no way Doom 3 is going to be able to live up to the hype surrounding it. as much as i dont want to believe that, i am starting to now :( 0 Share this post Link to post
Zoorado Posted May 25, 2003 fraggle said:They seem to be hyping it up, but I think its going to backfire: theres no way Doom 3 is going to be able to live up to the hype surrounding it. And you think HL2 can? 0 Share this post Link to post
mmnpsrsoskl Posted May 26, 2003 Zoorado said:And you think HL2 can? Yes! How many newbie FPS people have started with HL and CS? Heaps. How many people will pickup the new Doom cause they loved the original? Not as many. HL2 will be big because of all the newb CSers. 0 Share this post Link to post
Captain Red Posted May 26, 2003 mmnpsrsoskl said: Yes! How many newbie FPS people have started with HL and CS? Heaps. How many people will pickup the new Doom cause they loved the original? Not as many. HL2 will be big because of all the newb CSers. I think you underestimate just how many people loved doom. Also, if there is a new CS type mod, doom 3 would probably get it… Unless half life 2 has some kind of deal with the CS lot, and is being developed along side it. I donno. We’ll see. 0 Share this post Link to post
sargebaldy Posted May 26, 2003 mmnpsrsoskl said:How many people will pickup the new Doom cause they loved the original? true that. a lot of old doomers have retired and then there's probably a couple like me whon won't buy doom III because they love doom :) 0 Share this post Link to post
mmnpsrsoskl Posted May 26, 2003 I guess you are right. I asked 10 people today and they thought HL2 was a better game so far than Doom3. I guess they are all those CS guys then :P HL2 looks great. So does Doom3. I just don't like the fact that it's portrayed now to be more of a survival horror game. 0 Share this post Link to post
999cop Posted May 26, 2003 sargebaldy said:true that. a lot of old doomers have retired and then there's probably a couple like me whon won't buy doom III because they love doom :) and you would buy hl2? god that sounds really odd to me 0 Share this post Link to post
Shaviro Posted May 26, 2003 I've seen the big quicktime movei for hl2. The graphics are good outside, pretty bad inside. The physics are ok, but suffer from numerous bugs. The AI looks to be ok, but a lot of what we see is pre-scripted ;) Everything is fine except it looks so incredibly mindbogglingly boring. 0 Share this post Link to post
Lengis Posted May 27, 2003 Shaviro said:I've seen the big quicktime movei for hl2. The graphics are good outside, pretty bad inside. The physics are ok, but suffer from numerous bugs. The AI looks to be ok, but a lot of what we see is pre-scripted ;) Everything is fine except it looks so incredibly mindbogglingly boring. Ofcourse there are bugs..... THE GAME ISN'T DONE YET! Sometimes even the most obvious of facts, people still can't understand... 0 Share this post Link to post