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Platform Filters:   All Platforms  Xbox   GameCube   PlayStation 2   PC   Game Boy Advance   Site Sections:   Updates  News   Games   Publishers   Developers   Reviews   Previews   Release Dates   Editorials   Glossary   Contact Us		Latest News:       25th October 2002: Golden Joystick Awards 2002  And the winners are... Posted by John Grothier - Xbox,GameCube,PlayStation 2,PC - UK and Europe Rockstar Games' Grand Theft Auto III swept the board and picked up no less than three awards at todays Golden Joystick Awards, which were presented by Jonathan Ross at a star-studded event at London's Dorchester Hotel. GTA III's three awards were 'PlayStation 2 Game of the Year', 'Game Innovation of the Year' and overall 'Game of the Year' and there were also awards for the developers, Edinburgh-based Rockstar North, and GTA III's eagerly-awaited sequel, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, which was voted 'Most Wanted Game for Christmas'. "After all of the hard work and effort which has gone into staging these awards, we are delighted that today's ceremony has been such an unqualified success," says Tara Leathers, Games Division Publisher for Dennis Publishing. "That said, we have no intention of resting on our laurels and we look forward to an even bigger Golden Joystick Awards for 2003." The full list of winners and runners-up is as follows... Xbox Game of the Year Winner: Halo (Microsoft Game Studios) Runners-up: Dead or Alive 3 (Tecmo), Max Payne (Take 2 Interactive) GameCube Game of the Year Winner: Resident Evil (Capcom) Runners-up: Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader (LucasArts), Super Smash Bros. Melee (Nintendo) Handheld Game of the Year Winner: Golden Sun (Nintendo) Runners-up: Mario Kart: Super Circuit (Nintendo), Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2 (Nintendo) PS2 Game of the Year Winner: Grand Theft Auto III (Rockstar Games) Runners-up: Final Fantasy X (SCEE), Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (Konami) Online Game of the Year Winner: Counter-Strike (Vivendi Universal Games) Runners-up: Medal of Honor: Allied Assault (EA Games), Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos (Vivendi Universal Games) PC Game of the Year Winner: Medal of Honor: Allied Assault (EA Games) Runners-up: Grand Theft Auto III (Rockstar Games), Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos (Vivendi Universal Games) Best Use of a Film Licence Winner: The Thing (Vivendi Universal Games) Runners-up: Spider-Man (Activision), The Sum of all Fears (Ubi Soft Entertainment) Sports Game of the Year Winner: Pro Evolution Soccer (Konami) Runners-up: Championship Manager (Eidos), FIFA 2002 (EA Sports) Game Innovation of the Year Winner: 'Open-ended play' in Grand Theft Auto III (Rockstar Games) Runners-up: 'Bullet time' in Max Payne (Take 2 Interactive), The D-Day landing in Medal of Honor: Allied Assault (EA Games) Hardware of the Year Winner: Microsoft Xbox Runners-up: AMD Athlon XP Processor, Nintendo GameCube British Developer of the Year Winner: Rockstar North Runners-up: Electronic Arts, Rare Publisher of the Year Winner: Electronic Arts Runners-up: Activision/LucasArts, Microsoft Game Studios Retailer of the Year Winner: Gameplay.com Runners-up: GAME, Amazon.co.uk Most Wanted Game for Christmas Winner: Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (Rockstar Games) Runners-up: Splinter Cell (Ubi Soft), Super Mario Sunshine (Nintendo) Editors' Award Winner: Pro Evolution Soccer (Konami) Runners-up: Grand Theft Auto III (Rockstar Games), Halo (Microsoft Game Studios) Game of the Year Winner: Grand Theft Auto III (Rockstar Games) Runners-up: Halo (Microsoft Game Studios), Medal of Honor: Allied Assault (EA Games) John Grothier             Latest Images:
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