The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences presented Interactive Achievement Awards in 30 craft, console, and online categories, at a star-studded event at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. Electronic Arts was the big winner with a record 13 awards.
Battlefield 1942, published by Electronic Arts and developed by Digital Illusions, took home the most awards, a total of four, including Game of the Year. Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell took top honors on the console side, winning console game of the year.
SEGA’s Yu Suzuki, known as a forefather of console video gaming, won the Academy’s coveted Hall of Fame Award.
The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences Interactive Achievement Award winners include (in alphabetical order):
Computer Action Game of the Year - 2002 Grand Theft Auto III (Rockstar Games)
Computer First Person Action Game of the Year - 2002 Medal of Honor: Allied Assault (Electronic Arts & 2015 Inc.)
Computer Game of the Year - 2002 Battlefield 1942 (Electronic Arts & Digital Illusions)
Computer Role Playing Game of the Year - 2002 Neverwinter Nights (Infogrames & Bioware)
Computer Simulation Game of the Year - 2002 The Sims Unleashed (Electronic Arts)
Computer Sports Game of the Year - 2002 Madden NFL 2003 (Electronic Arts)
Computer Strategy Game of the Year - 2002 Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos (Blizzard Entertainment)
Console Action Adventure Game of the Year - 2002 Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (Rockstar Games)
Console Fighting Game of the Year - 2002 Tekken 4 (Namco)
Console First Person Action Game of the Year - 2002 Metroid Prime (Nintendo of America & Retro Studios)
Console Game of the Year - 2002 Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell (Ubi Soft)
Console Platform Action Adventure Game of the Year - 2002 Ratchet & Clank (Sony Computer Entertainment America & Insomniac Games)
Console Racing Game of the Year - 2002 Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 (Electronic Arts)
Console Role Playing Game of the Year - 2002 Animal Crossing (Nintendo Co. Ltd.)
Console Sports Game of the Year - 2002 Madden NFL 2003 (Electronic Arts)
Family Game of the Year - 2002 Mario Party 4 (Nintendo of America & Hudson Soft Co. Ltd.)
Game of the Year - 2002 Battlefield 1942 (Electronic Arts & Digital Illusions)
Hall of Fame Award Yu Suzuki, SEGA
Handheld Game of the Year - 2002 Metroid Fusion (Nintendo Co. Ltd.)
Innovation in Computer Gaming - 2002 Battlefield 1942 (Electronic Arts & Digital Illusions)
Comments
It seems that one of the awards went to a game that one of our own worked on.
Congrats Santa! Good Job and keep up the good work!
McGyver
Posted By: Chazo
Date: Sunday, 3/2/2003: 7:52 p.m.
The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences presented Interactive Achievement Awards in 30 craft, console, and online categories, at a star-studded event at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. Electronic Arts was the big winner with a record 13 awards.
Battlefield 1942, published by Electronic Arts and developed by Digital Illusions, took home the most awards, a total of four, including Game of the Year. Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell took top honors on the console side, winning console game of the year.
SEGA’s Yu Suzuki, known as a forefather of console video gaming, won the Academy’s coveted Hall of Fame Award.
The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences Interactive Achievement Award winners include (in alphabetical order):
Computer Action Game of the Year - 2002
Grand Theft Auto III (Rockstar Games)
Computer First Person Action Game of the Year - 2002
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault (Electronic Arts & 2015 Inc.)
Computer Game of the Year - 2002
Battlefield 1942 (Electronic Arts & Digital Illusions)
Computer Role Playing Game of the Year - 2002
Neverwinter Nights (Infogrames & Bioware)
Computer Simulation Game of the Year - 2002
The Sims Unleashed (Electronic Arts)
Computer Sports Game of the Year - 2002
Madden NFL 2003 (Electronic Arts)
Computer Strategy Game of the Year - 2002
Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos (Blizzard Entertainment)
Console Action Adventure Game of the Year - 2002
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (Rockstar Games)
Console Fighting Game of the Year - 2002
Tekken 4 (Namco)
Console First Person Action Game of the Year - 2002
Metroid Prime (Nintendo of America & Retro Studios)
Console Game of the Year - 2002
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell (Ubi Soft)
Console Platform Action Adventure Game of the Year - 2002
Ratchet & Clank (Sony Computer Entertainment America & Insomniac Games)
Console Racing Game of the Year - 2002
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 (Electronic Arts)
Console Role Playing Game of the Year - 2002
Animal Crossing (Nintendo Co. Ltd.)
Console Sports Game of the Year - 2002
Madden NFL 2003 (Electronic Arts)
Family Game of the Year - 2002
Mario Party 4 (Nintendo of America & Hudson Soft Co. Ltd.)
Game of the Year - 2002
Battlefield 1942 (Electronic Arts & Digital Illusions)
Hall of Fame Award
Yu Suzuki, SEGA
Handheld Game of the Year - 2002
Metroid Fusion (Nintendo Co. Ltd.)
Innovation in Computer Gaming - 2002
Battlefield 1942 (Electronic Arts & Digital Illusions)
Innovation in Console Gaming - 2002
Animal Crossing (Nintendo Co. Ltd.)
Massively Multiplayer / Persistent World Game of the Year - 2002
The Sims Online (Electronic Arts)
Online Gameplay Game of the Year - 2002
Battlefield 1942 (Electronic Arts & Digital Illusions)
Outstanding Achievement in Animation - 2002
Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus (Sony Computer Entertainment America & Sucker Punch)
Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction - 2002
Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus (Sony Computer Entertainment America & Sucker Punch)
Outstanding Achievement in Character or Story - 2002
Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem (Nintendo of America & Silicon Knights)
Outstanding Achievement in Game Design - 2002
Animal Crossing (Nintendo Co. Ltd.)
Outstanding Achievement in Gameplay Engineering - 2002
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell (Ubi Soft)
Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composition - 2002
Medal of Honor: Frontline (Electronic Arts & EALA)
Outstanding Achievement in Sound Design - 2002
Medal of Honor: Frontline (Electronic Arts & EALA)
Outstanding Achievement in Visual Engineering - 2002
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Electronic Arts & Stormfront Studios)