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I Got to Get It...

© Dan Caines

I know, I know. There are too may awards ceremonies, from the six-hour Oscars to the quite frankly ridiculous (and absolutely true, despite scepticism about this..) British Awards Ceremony Awards Ceremony.... Thus, I am not going to pick the best games and companies of the last year and present them to you like a re-heated dead woodchuck. Too easy, too boring. Instead, using only a slightly scratched crystal ball and a lot of eenie-meenie finger pointing I am going to conjure up the name of five games that will rock your world in the coming year (May to May. Yeah, screwed dates, but I guess the whole computing year does revolve around the mid-May E3 conference!). These are the games which I believe will get the best reaction, and I will back this up by printing a table of their average reviews score across ten major publications... Dim lights, cue cheesy drum roll and here we go (and the Tom Brokaw Awards ceremony announcers award for best Awards ceremony announcer goes to...):

· Daikatana. Oh no, sorry. Don't know how that got in here....

· Black and White. A bit of a no-brainer, this one. Any game, which has looked so stunningly perfect all the way along the development chain, simply cannot fail. This Peter-Molyneux produced A.I. opus, despite a couple of high-profile personnel defections, is sure to propel Lionhead Studios straight to the top of the pile. Will also sell in spades due to multi-platform availability (supposedly PC, Mac, BeOs (jesus), Linux, Dreamcast and maybe even X-Box and PS2).

· Deus Ex. Yes, it is made by Ion Storm, but thank God John Romero is in no way associated with this game. Made by a completely different team than those working on Daikatana or Anachronox, you can expect to see slippage here, as I hope than Ion Storm can see that this game should not be released until perfect (for the sake of their reputation..). Will be the game to displace System Shock 2 from the top of the modern RPG pile.

· Motocross Madness 2. Bit of a dark horse, this one. Release is imminent, but ominously access to the game and team has been limited of late. Hopefully this just signifies last-second tuning rather than screw-up hell, and if the early screenshots are anything to go by, this will look and play great. An evolution, not a revolution, but one which will score big (hopefully more Grand Prix 2 than Monster Truck Madness 2)...

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