The winners of the E3 Game Critics Awards have been announced after the event was broadcast on Spike TV.Will Wright's Spore was the biggest winner, scooping awards in four categories, including the "Best of Show" award. Here's what the critics had to say about giving the game the top award:
Spore
(Maxis/Electronic Arts for PC)
If God were one of us, he'd look a lot like Will Wright. At this year's E3, the hype for the new consoles was so deafening that the games themselves became an afterthought. But once the sound and fury faded into background noise, one game stood undeniably above the rest. The concept behind Spore is deceptively simple--you guide the evolution of a single-celled organism from a drop of water to the furthest reaches of the universe--but a better word might be accessible. Wright and his team plumb our collective unconscious, extracting barely remembered biology, astronomy and history lessons; they weld its high concept to now-classic gameplay from titles like Pac-Man and Civilization; and they tie it all together with tools that are as intuitive as Lego blocks and as playful as Silly Putty. Wright calls Spore a tool for epic creativity. We call it Best of Show.
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