Nominees Announced for Spike's 2007 Videogame Awards

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kn said:

dtewi said:
Halo 3 has breakthrough technology?

Have you played it? Yes, it actually does. The theater alone is very, very cool and takes "replay" to a level I had never really considered before. In my opinion it is one of the coolest "new" features to have hit any title this year.

Wait a second, did you just call demo recording breakthrough technology? This is as old (probably older) than Counter-Strike 1.4. In fact that's how you get ready for a team in competitve CS, you go download the other team's demos and play them on your computer (in game) from every angle possible.

Demo recording is as old as the hills.

As far as forge, it was done with Marathon.**

Mutators are from ye olden days of the first Unreal Tournament.

Pure fragging style FPS was perfected (and most say never duplicated) with Quake III (where the man cannon idea was stolen from by the way). It's pretty much Halo only much faster and requiring a much higher degree of skill.

When you get right down to it and really dig, Halo has done absolutely nothing new or revolutionary outside their marketing campaign and horrible online community (actually Counter Strike beats them in this category).

Now Gears of War, that was a revolutionary console shooter (not counting multiplayer). It played perfectly to the weakness of console controls and the pacing and map design was superb, the only thing that hurt was multiplayer variety.

 

**And Operation Flashpoint way back in August 2001 if you want to split hairs, only it did it to a degree that's never been matched except by Armed Assault.