I’m going to come right out and say that I find this year’s Golden Joystick Awards to be somewhat…worthless. It seems that of all the winners, only World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade, God of War II, and the Xbox 360 version of Guitar Hero II were actually released in 2007.
If this was a list of winners from 2006, then my biggest gripe would be Okami’s absence; adding Clover Studio’s artistic canine adventure to this list would make it a dead ringer for many 2006 awards lists from earlier this year.
Complaints aside, here are the winners:
The Girls’ Choice Game of the Year 2007: Guitar Hero II
The Sun Family Game of the Year 2007: Wii Sports
The Games Radar Handheld Game of the Year 2007: Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories
The 4Talent Mobile Game of the Year 2007: Final Fantasy
The T3 Innovation of the Year 2007: Nintendo Wii
The BBC 1Xtra Soundtrack of the Year 2007: Guitar Hero II
The Nuts All-Nighter award 2007: Gears of War
The GameTribe Online Game of the Year 2007: World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade
The Next-Gen.biz UK Developer of the Year 2007: Codemasters
The Total Film One to Watch 2007: Assassin’s Creed
The Vivendi Retailer of the Year 2007: Game
Publisher of the Year 2007 – sponsored by Future: Nintendo
Editor’s Choice Award 2007 – Gears of War
Official Nintendo Magazine’s Nintendo Game of the Year 2007: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Official Playstation Magazine’s PlayStation Game of the Year 2007: God of War II
The PC Gamer PC Game of the Year 2007: The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar
The Sonopress Xbox Game of the Year 2007: Gears of War
The 02 Ultimate Game of the Year 2007: Gears of War
