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Spike TV Announces Winners of 'Video Game Awards 2004'
Rockstar Games' Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Wins Four Awards:
'Game of the Year;' 'Best Action Game;' 'Best Soundtrack;' And 'Best
Performance by a Human-Male'
More Than 4.6 Million Viewers Voted For Their Favorite Video Games of 2004
Annual Awards Show, Hosted By Snoop Dogg Will Re-Air on Spike TV Saturday,
Dec. 18 (2:00-4:00 PM, ET/PT & 1:00-3:00 AM, ET/PT) and Monday, Dec. 20 (11:00
PM-1:00 AM, ET/PT)
Show Included LIVE Performances by Snoop Dogg & Pharrell; Motley Crue,
Ludacris; Sum 41 and Busta Rhymes, Method Man & Red Man In First-Ever 'Def
Jam: Fight For New York' Performance
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Dec. 14 --
- Winners in 24 categories
were announced tonight during the LIVE telecast (9:00-11:00 PM ET) of Spike TV
"Video Game Awards 2004." Rockstar Games' "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" was
the big winner of the second annual awards, taking home four "Vector Monkey"
trophies. The Spike TV "Video Game Awards" were hosted by Snoop Dogg and
encore telecasts of the show can be seen on Saturday, Dec. 18 (2:00-4:00 PM,
ET/PT & 1:00-3:00 AM, ET/PT) and Monday, Dec. 20 (11:00 PM-1:00 AM, ET/PT).
Categories and winners for the Spike TV Video Game Awards 2004 are:
GAME OF THE YEAR
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Rockstar Games)
BEST GAME BASED ON A MOVIE
The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay (Vivendi Universal
Games)
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A HUMAN - - FEMALE
Brooke Burke - - Need for Speed Underground 2 (Electronic
Arts)
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A HUMAN - - MALE
Samuel L. Jackson - - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
(Rockstar Games)
CYBER VIXEN OF THE YEAR
BloodRayne - - BloodRayne 2 (Majesco Games)
BEST DRIVING GAME
Burnout 3: Takedown (Electronic Arts)
BEST SPORTS GAME
Madden NFL 2005 (Electronic Arts)
BEST FIGHTING GAME
Mortal Kombat: Deception (Midway)
BEST ACTION GAME
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Rockstar Games)
BEST FIRST PERSON ACTION
Halo 2 (Microsoft Game Studios)
BEST SONG IN A VIDEO GAME
Green Day "American Idiot" - - Madden NFL 2005
(Electronic Arts)
BEST SOUNDTRACK
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Rockstar Games)
DESIGNER OF THE YEAR
Jason Jones and Bungie Studios, for Halo 2 (Microsoft Game Studios /
Bungie Studios)
MOST ADDICTIVE GAME - - VIEWERS CHOICE
Burnout 3: Takedown (Electronic Arts)
BEST GAMING PUBLICATION - - FAN FAVORITE
Game Informer
BEST GAMING WEB SITE - - FAN FAVORITE
http://www.gamespot.com
BEST MILITARY GAME
Call of Duty: Finest Hour (Activision)
BEST PC GAME
Half-Life 2 (Vivendi Universal Games)
BEST WIRELESS GAME
Might and Magic (Gameloft)
BEST GRAPHICS
Half-Life 2 (Vivendi Universal Games)
BEST NEW TECHNOLOGY
Nintendo DS (Nintendo)
BEST HANDHELD
Metroid: Zero Mission (Nintendo)
BEST MASS MULTI-PLAYER GAME
City of Heroes (NCsoft)
BEST RPG
Fable (Microsoft Game Studios)
Winners for the Spike TV Video Game Awards were determined by votes from
Spike TV's Advisory Board, made up of a group of gaming industry experts, and
consumer voting. Viewers exclusively determined the winner in three award
categories -- - the Fan Favorite awards of "Best Gaming Publication"
and "Best
Gaming Website" and the Viewers Choice award for "Most Addictive Game." More
than 4.6 million gamers and Spike TV viewers logged on to cast their votes for
their favorite games.
In addition to presenting awards for the best games of 2004, the show
featured a sneak peek to some of the most anticipated and talked about games
for 2005. The Spike TV Video Game Awards 2004 featured the exclusive World
Premiere game play & footage of two video games of 2005 -- Midway Games' "Fear
& Respect" from John Singelton and Electronic Arts' "The Godfather." Also
showcased the upcoming "Need for Speed Underground Rivals" for the Sony PSP,
available in 2005.
The show included LIVE musical performance by Snoop Dogg & Pharrell;
Motley Crue, Ludacris, Sum 41 and Busta Rhymes, Method Man & Red Man in first-
ever "Def Jam: Fight For New York" performance. Celebrity appearances
included Brooke Burke, Samuel L. Jackson, Vin Diesel, Green Day, Giovanni
Ribisi, Gabrielle Union, Tara Reid, Papa Roach, Tony Hawk, John Singleton,
Danny Masterson, Frankie Muniz, Bai Ling, Ron Perlman, Bam Margera, Freddy
Adu, Fabolous, Bobby Crosby & Barry Zito and Michelle Rodriguez among others.
Sponsors of the Spike TV "Video Game Awards 2004" are America Online,
Campbell's(R) Chunky Soup, Dentyne Tango(TM), Pontiac, Mountain Dew,
RadioShack, Taco Bell(TM) and Virgin Mobile.
Spike TV President Albie Hecht served as Spike TV "Video Game Awards 2004"
Executive Producer. Casey Patterson was Co-Executive Producer with Scott
Fishman and Magda Liolis as Producers. Jim Burns is the Executive In Charge
of Production for Spike TV.
Spike TV, the first network for men, is available in 87 million homes and
is a division of MTV Networks. MTV Networks, a division of Viacom
International Inc. (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B), owns and operates the following
television programming services -- MTV: MUSIC TELEVISION, MTV2, mtvU, VHI,
NICKELODEON, NICK at NITE, COMEDY CENTRAL, TV LAND, SPIKE TV, CMT, NOGGIN, MTV
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licensing agreements, joint ventures, and syndication deals whereby all of its
programming services can be seen worldwide.
SOURCE Spike TV
Web Site: http://www.spiketv.com
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