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Star Wars: KOTOR |
Lucas Arts |
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Conflict: Desert Storm II |
SCi |
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Colin McRae 04 |
Codemasters |
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The Italian Job: LA Heist |
Eidos |
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Halo: Combat Evolved |
Microsoft |
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The Great Escape |
SCi |
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LOTR: The Two Towers |
EA |
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Madden NFL 2004 |
EA |
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Pirates of the Caribbean |
Ubi Soft |
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Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell
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Ubi Soft
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 ECTS: Xbox wins console of the year
Monday, September 1st, 2003
The winners of the most prestigious awards in the European interactive entertainment industry were announced in London today at ECTS, Europe's premier trade show for the interactive entertainment industry.
The ECTS 2003 Awards, hosted by Kate Russell, are the ninth in a long line of successful ceremonies and were attended by over 1000 leading industry figures in the trade hall of ECTS itself. Kate is a journalist, presenter and self-confessed technophile and has appeared on Gamer.tv, Sky TV, LWT and the BBC as a technology reporter, as well as having contributed to a number of leading computing and technology magazines.
The ECTS 2003 Awards categories are divided between 'Best of Year' and 'Best of Show' and the winners have been confirmed as follows:
'BEST OF YEAR' AWARDS
Voted for by readers or the editorial teams:
Game of the Year UK, in conjunction with Gamer.tv – Pro Evolution Soccer 2, Konami
Game of the Year France, in conjunction with JDLI – Battlefield 1942, Electronic Arts
Game of the Year Germany, in conjunction with Gamigo.de – Splinter Cell, Ubi Soft Entertainment
Game of the Year Italy, in conjunction with Multiplayer.it – Mafia, Gathering
Game of the Year Spain, in conjunction with Game Live – GTA: Vice City, Rockstar Games
Game of the Year Scandinavia, in conjunction with Manual – Battlefield 1942, Electronic Arts
Voted for by the editorial teams:
The PC Gamer Best PC Games Developer Award – Creative Assembly
The PC Format Best New Games Kit Award – Shuttle's Small Form Factor PCs
The Edge Award – Viewtiful Joe, Capcom
The Loaded Award – GTA: Vice City, Rockstar Games
The Times Award – Sony EyeToy
Voted for on www.ects.com:
Best Console of the Year – Microsoft Xbox
Best Publisher of the Year - Nintendo
Best PC Hardware of the Year – ATI 9800 Pro
Voted for by a press panel on day one of ECTS:
Best PC Game of the Show – Far Cry, Ubi Soft Entertainment
Best Console Game of the Show – XIII, Ubi Soft Entertainment
Best Handheld Game of the Show – Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising – Nintendo
Best Online Game of the Show – Everquest II, Ubi Soft Entertainment
Overall Best Game of the Show – XIII, Ubi Soft Entertainment
The London Games Week Award – Half Life 2, Vivendi Universal Games
Each winner in the ECTS 2003 Awards received not only one of the coveted ECTS 'stars' but also a digital awards pack containing ECTS 2003 Awards logos and images that can be used for on-pack and retail marketing.
Photos from the ECTS Awards will be available at www.ects.com in due course and an edited video on demand will be available for download on www.gamer.tv on Friday 29th August 2003.
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