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2011 Game of the Year Awards Round-Up

Posted by BinaryMessiah on 12/26/2011
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Don’t want to look through each reward category? Here’s a round-up of Binary Messiah’s 2011 Game of the Year Awards.

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Awarded
Game of the Year
Best RPG
Best Original Music

Nominated
Best Atmosphere

Gears of War 3

Awarded
Best Shooter
Best Story

Nominated
Game of the Year
Best Atmosphere
Best Sound Design

Total War: Shogun 2

Awarded
Best Strategy

Mortal Kombat

Awarded
Best Fighter

Nominated
Game of the Year

Portal 2

Awarded
Best Puzzler
Best Voice Acting
Best New Character

Nominated
Game of the Year
Best Original Music
Best Story
Best Multiplayer Game

Rayman Origins

Awarded
Best Platformer

Nominated
Game of the Year
Best Graphics, Artistic

DiRt 3

Awarded
Best Driving

Batman: Arkham City

Awarded
Best Action-Adventure Game

Nominated
Game of the Year
Best Voice Acting
Best Atmosphere

Battlefield 3

Awarded
Best Sound Design
Best Graphics, Technical
Best Multiplayer Game

Nominated
Game of the Year
Best Shooter

L.A. Noire

Awarded
Best Atmosphere

Nominated
Game of the Year
Best Voice Acting
Best New Character
Best Action-Adventure Game

Alice: Madness Returns

Awarded
Best Graphics, Artistic

The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile

Awarded
Best Downloadable Game

Rage

Awarded
Most Disappointing Game

Crysis 2

Nominated
Best Shooter
Best Graphics, Technical

Killzone 3

Nominated
Game of the Year
Best Shooter
Best Graphics, Technical
Best Multiplayer Game
Best Sound Design

Resistance 3

Nominated
Game of the Year
Best Shooter

Frozen Synapse

Nominated
Best Strategy Game
Best Downloadable Game

Anno 2070

Nominated
Best Strategy Game

Anomaly: Warzone Earth

Nominated
Best Strategy Game

From Dust

Nominated
Best Strategy Game

The King of Fighters XIII

Nominated
Best Fighter

Dead or Alive: Dimensions

Nominated
Best Fighter

Ultimate Marvel vs.Capcom 3

Nominated
Best Fighter

Super Street Fighter IV: 3D Edition

Nominated
Best Fighter

Catherine

Nominated
Game of the Year
Best RPG
Best New Character

Dark Souls

Nominated
Game of the Year
Best RPG
Best Sound Design

The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings

Nominated
Game of the Year
Best RPG
Best Graphics, Technical
Best Atmosphere

Dragon Age II

Nominated
Best RPG

Pushmo

Nominated
Best Puzzler

ilomilo

Nominated
Best Puzzler

Professor Layton and the Last Specter

Nominated
Best Puzzler

Stacking

Nominated
Best Puzzler

Super Mario 3D Land

Nominated
Best Platformer

Ms. Splosion Man

Nominated
Best Platformer
Best Downloadable Game

Outland

Nominated
Best Platformer
Best Downloadable Game

LittleBigPlanet 2

Nominated
Best Platformer

F1 2011

Nominated
Best Driving Game

MotorStorm: Apocalypse

Nominated
Best Driving Game

Forza Motorsport 4

Nominated
Best Driving Game

Driver: San Francisco

Nominated
Best Driving Game

Assassin’s Creed: Revelations

Nominated
Game of the Year
Best Action-Adventure Game
Best Voice Acting
Best Story
Best Original Music

Saints Row: The Third

Nominated
Best Action-Adventure Game

Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception

Nominated
Game of the Year
Best Action-Adventure Game
Best Voice Acting
Best Story

Call of Juarez: The Cartel

Nominated
Most Disappointing Game

Duke Nukem Forever

Nominated
Most Disappointing Game

Brink

Nominated
Most Disappointing Game

Hunted: The Demon’s Forge

Nominated
Most Disappointing Game

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

Nominated
Best Multiplayer Game

Bastion

Nominated
Best Downloadable Game
Best Graphics, Artistic
Best Original Music

Shadows of the Damned

Nominated
Best New Character
Best Sound Design

Bulletstorm

Nominated
Best New Character

Child of Eden

Nominated
Best Graphics, Artistic

El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron

Nominated
Best Graphics, Artistic

Deus Ex: Human Revolution

Nominated
Game of the Year
Best Story

2011 Game of the Year Awards — Achievements — Best Downloadable Game

Posted by BinaryMessiah on 12/22/2011
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Downloadable games get opportunities to take risks that AAA titles can’t take. Downloadable also offer one-of-a-kind experiences for a small price, and this is the place to look for that kind of experience. Downloadable games are perfect to get small doses of great gameplay, but only one can come out on top. This year showed a ton of great games that didn’t even make it onto the list. It was a tough choice, but the decision has to be made.

The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile

Vampire Smile is a stylish game that’s both gory, dark, and bursting at the seams with unique art. The story is interesting, the combat is fluid, responsive, challenging, and deep. Smile featured tons of crazy bosses, great enemies to fight, and two whole story modes to go through. Sure it was punishing sometimes, but that’s what made it rewarding. It topped them all due to all of this combined despite many amazing downloadable games this year.

Runner-Ups

Frozen Synapse

Ms. ‘Splosion Man

Outland

Bastion

The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile

Posted by BinaryMessiah on 07/06/2011
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Publisher: Microsoft Game Studios

Developer: SKA Studios

Release Date: 4/6/2011


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The Dishwasher is a strange name, but the story of Yuki is actually pretty sad and engaging. Yuki dies in the hands of the dishwasher and is hallucinating. You play flashbacks of her in an asylum, trying to find her killer, but then again, she’s hallucinating and kills the wrong person. She crash-landed on the moon, trying to find the person making her hallucinate and find out why this is all happening to her. There’s a lot of detail in the story, so explaining too much will spoil spoilers. Just know that the story is excellent and very engaging.

The game is all about combat, which is superfluid, fast, and fun thanks to smooth and responsive controls. You will find different weapons like Cloud’s sword, a hypodermic needle, kamas, as well as a mini-gun arm attachment. You can use the right stick to use the blood dash to go through enemies and dodge them, but everything is just so fast and fun that you just forget the controller is in your hands. You can hit enemies with a light and heavy attack as well as a unique attack with B, such as a grab, needle jab, or chainsaw attack, depending on your weapon. After you damage an enemy enough, they will have buttons flash under them. Hit it and see a brutal execution move that just looks awesome. The game is very punchy, heavy-hitting, and powerful, thanks to the excellent combat system.

You can equip beads that add attributes to Yuki, and you can also use magic skulls that do massive damage to enemies. I just can’t really describe how excellent the combat is until you actually play it. It’s like trying to explain how good Devil May Cry’s combat is. There’s just no way, unless you actually play it. Boss fights are also fun and unique, but some can be brutally difficult to beat. Dodging and twitch reactions are key to staying alive in the game, so this is no walk in the park. The game will just take your breath away with how fast-paced it is, but I guarantee your fingers will ache after a couple of levels.

The art style is just awesome, with a very messy, dark, and smeary style. It looks like you can’t tell what’s going on, but it was done in such a way that you can make everything out just fine. I love how dark and brutal the art is, so it just helps portray how helpless Yuki is. I didn’t really find much wrong with the game except for the brutal difficulty. The enemy variety is pretty high, and there are plenty of boss fights. After you finish Yuki’s story, you can even go back and play the dishwasher’s side, so it’s like two games in one. This is probably one of the best XBLA games I have ever played, and it should not be passed up.

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