Awards for GOW

[chsirish73]

It shows on IGN that Gears won best console game of E3 and best action game of E3 from the game critics.

[Koric101]

I'm pretty sure there's allready a thread on this, but yea, it won a ton of awards.

[Mark Rein]

We're obviously very thrilled to win these awards. Here's what they said about Gears...

Best Console Game
Gears of War
(Epic Games / Microsoft Games Studio for Xbox 360)
The hype machine's been in motion for a full year on this title, but it took an E3 hands-on multiplayer demo to prove that Gears of War packs as much substance as style. The demo had players take up arms as either the Coalition of Ordered Government (COG) forces or the nasty, subterranean race known as the Locusts. A few of the many features that set GOW ahead of the action pack include a context sensitive cover system for ducking and crouching with the tap of the A button, and an atmospheric, jittery 3rd person camera. In short, a great-looking, unique and fun as hell game sure to be blowing up the Live servers come Q4. Oh, and that chainsaw bayonet? A thing of beauty.

-- Alex Porter, Senior Editor/Producer, MTV Digital

Best Action Game
Gears of War
(Epic Games / Microsoft Games Studio for Xbox 360)
Who knows what it is about certain games. Is it how they look? Maybe. Is it how they play? That’s a lot of it. Is it the talent behind the project? Possibly. But there’s no doubt about it, some games just manage to magically capture the gamers’ imagination like no others. It’s what we like to call the “it” factor. Halo has “it.” Metal Gear Solid has “it,” and no one can deny Gears of War its rightful place as the “it” game of E3 2006. From the game’s mysterious dilapidated sci-fi aesthetic to its arrestingly intense spin on futuristic shooter gameplay, Gears gives us that twinge in our bellies – that twinge we got when we first stumbled on the Flood in Halo, discovered a secret cave in Zelda or carjacked our first sedan in Grand Theft Auto. It's a rare game that accomplishes this feat in such early form, and for this reason, Gears of War deserves every bit of the attention it's receiving.

-- Francesca Reyes, Editor in Chief, Official Xbox Magazine

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