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Metroid Prime Takes Wide Game of the Year Honors
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -
It's a dark game, featuring lots of action, lots of suspense - and a
woman in one ferocious-looking spacesuit.
As 2002 winds down, editors of video game publications across the
country are compiling their "best of" lists, and two of
the top game sites on the Internet agreed last week that Nintendo
Co. Ltd.'s long-awaited "Metroid Prime," for the company's
own GameCube console, is Game of the Year.
Both GameSpot, a division of CNET Networks Inc., and GameSpy named
"Metroid," a first-person action game, as their pick for
top title.
"Metroid" was released in November and was the No. 2 title
for the month in the United States, based on units sold, according
to market research service NPDFunworld.
Buzz grew around the game, which features the female adventurer
Samus Aran, after a strong showing at E3, the industry's annual
trade show, in Los Angeles in May. It is the latest in a franchise
that stretches back to the original Metroid game on Nintendo's 1980s
NES console.
"What nobody was prepared for was a game so amazing that it
redefined what a first-person console game could be," GameSpy
said in its awards roundup.
Though a number of leading video game publishers have warned in
recent weeks of weaker-than-expected results for the holiday
quarter, owing to shifting retail and consumer patterns, 2002 is
still expected to be a record sales year for the U.S. game industry.
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The
year has not officially ended but that hasn't stopped stopped some
major gaming publications from deciding on Nintendo's Metroid Prime
as game of the year. Reuters today noted Prime's early claim to one
of the highest of gaming honors in an article titled, "Metroid
Prime Takes Wide Game of the Year Honors." Both GameSpot and
GameSpy named Metroid Prime as their pick for top title.
