
With all of the hoopla surrounding the Spike VGA’s, The Halo Reach Trailer, the slews of other exclusive reveals that actually give credibility to the show, another awards ceremony was held the day prior. “The First Annual Inside Gaming Awards” The Inside Gaming awards was created by the online entertainment network for gamers, Machinima.com. A private event which was held in Santa Monica saw a different outcome than what transpired on Spike. With more than 60 million monthly visitors helping to select the winners the Inside Gaming awards has a fairly credible selection process.
The winners were, in no particular order.
Game of the Year
Modern Warfare 2 (Activision, Infinity Ward)
Best Trailer
Halo 3: ODST (Microsoft, Bungie)
Best Multiplayer
Modern Warfare 2 (Activision, Infinity Ward)
Best Narrative
Brutal Legend (EA, Double Fine)
Best Art Direction
Batman Arkham Asylum (Eidos/Warner Bros., Rocksteady Studios)
Best Animation
Batman: Arkham Asylum (Eidos/Warner Bros., Rocksteady Studios)
Best Game Cinematography
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (Sony, Naughty Dog)
Best Replayability
Modern Warefare 2 (Activision, Infinity Ward)
Best Indie Game
I MAED A GAM3 W1TH ZOMBIES 1N IT!!!1 (Ska Studios)
Most Compelling Character
The Joker – Batman Arkham Asylum (Eidos/Warner Bros., Rocksteady Studios)
Best DLC (best content pack/expansion content)
Fallout 3 – Expansions (Bethesda Game Studios)
Best Downloadable Game (games only available digitally for purchase or free download)
Plants vs. Zombies (PopCap)
Most Original Game
Scribblenauts (Warner Bros, 5th Cell)
Best Control
Modern Warfare 2 (Activision, Infinity Ward)
Best Game Innovation
1 vs. 100 – Massively Multiplayer Online game show with real prizes (Microsoft)
Best Original Score
Modern Warfare 2 (Activision, Infinity Ward)
Best Weapon
AC – 130 – Modern Warfare 2 (Activision, Infinity Ward)
Best Sound Design
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (Sony, Naughty Dog)




































December 16, 2009
#1
I lined up for MW2’s midnight release and played everyday, still crusing towards Lv70, it is a great game, but to be Game of The Year, I think it lacks the sustance and depth to be THE game. I would pick Uncharted 2 to be Game of The Year because it has a better story, voice acting, gameplay, puzzle solving and an enjoyable online as well. MW2 is JUST for the online multiplayer mode, the single story mode is nothing to write home about, for that, MW2 is a little bit “thin”, but since awards have always been “what the majority likes” not really “what is the best”, you can have more cheap taste people out there, so the real good stuff will never be heard of.
December 16, 2009
#2
What??? Microsoft must have paid this website off! Everyone knows Uncharted 2 is the GOTY! It’s 5 million times as good as anything on the Xbox Please – Fix – Me! It has better storytelling, better graphics, better sound, better online and everything!!!
Anyone who didn’t say Uncharted 2 is GOTY obviously doesn’t play games!!! 96 Metacritic score, booya!
December 16, 2009
#3
I think that Uncharted 2 is GOTY, but even if it wasn’t, Modern Warfare 2 as game of the year? That is a big joke, there are MANY games way better than MW2.
December 16, 2009
#4
That Inside Gaming show sucks in my opinion. I’ve watched a couple of their episodes, and the host does nothing other than favor the Xbox 360. How can is he supposed to give a PlayStation 3 exclusive the GotY?
December 16, 2009
#5
im okay with mw2 winning goty eventhough i feel uncharted 2 deserved it, but i am puzzled by mw2 getting best original score, but all in all im not surprised by the results eventhough i feel UN 2 deserved more and i felt ac2 was a notable absence
December 16, 2009
#6
Yea none of these awards shows are perfect, you can’t please everyone. I agreed with Spike on the Uncharted 2 GOYT award. I have had, and am having a great time with MW2 despite all of the glitching and stuff. So, in my eyes I think MW2 will probably end up getting 20x the play that Uncharted 2 did, but that doesn’t make it a better game. But judging from the list of winners I think the show might have had a little bit of a bias.
December 17, 2009
#7
“That Inside Gaming show sucks in my opinion. I’ve watched a couple of their episodes, and the host does nothing other than favor the Xbox 360. How can is he (is that even English?) supposed to give a PlayStation 3 exclusive the GotY?”
I’m actually good friends with Naughty Dog – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CG5kwtsDXfE – unless the co-president of ND just randomly puts up with doods in Halo helmets on a daily basis.
Clearly I’m not biased towards one console or the other, I paid for both and I play their respected games as often as I can. The IGAs we’re selected via a vote by the Machinima staff, not made by one person. Everyone who voted was a gamer and the majority picked the game that they loved the most, that was accessible on the most platforms and that had the best replay value.
I find it interesting that everyone validates a lame award show like the VGAs when its clearly not produced by anyone who has ever touched a controller in their lifetime. Megan Fox winning an award for her half-assed VO session for the Transformers game? It’s like they make up awards just so they can entice B-list celebrities to host the following year. It’s not their fault, they just need to pay the bills but obviously their selection is far more biased then ours could ever be.
Uncharted was a great game I agree, IMO its the number one reason to buy a PS3 and get online. Its just funny how quickly people turn when their title of choice is not selected by a random group of strangers to validate their personal opinion. You can call MW2 broken all you want, the truth is most people are still playing it, putting up with glitch after glitch, every cheap ass double shotgun a-hole or even random unlimited ammo match. The fact that a large group of people are willing to put up with those issues clearly shows that the game isn’t going away anytime soon.
I’m sorry if you feel like I, the host of a sucky show you watch on a twice basis, who works for a small website and doesn’t share your opinion, has wronged you in some way. But for the love your genetic pool, try to use that gray mass in your head before calling out someone you think would never contact you through a random website.
December 17, 2009
#8
MW2 GOTY? Come on now……..seriously? There were many more games much more deserving of that award, Uncharted 2, Assassin’s Creed 2, Infamous, Demon’s Souls. MW2 was a very average game.
January 28, 2010
#9
I heard that MW2 won so many awards because the host of the show is biased towards MW2 which is unfair!