First E3 Awards Winners Revealed | Game Rant
Before E3 held its first fully digital showcase, it was tradition for the booths at the Los Angeles Convention Center to be covered in stickers placed by media and industry experts for the games that have won "Best in Show", "Most Anticipated", and other titles, and while the stickers on booths are absent this year, the ESA found a new way to be able to celebrate the titles shown at the event. To close out E3 2021, with the help of the show's hosts, an award show was held to reveal which games were the best among E3 this year.
The ESA announced that E3 would feature its own award show on June 1st. According to the ESA, the judges were "industry media experts" who analyzed the games featured in the broadcasts for the titles. The awards offered at E3 2021 weren't too expansive like one would expect from an awards show like The Game Awards, but developers and publishers got to leave the show with their games carrying titles such as "Most Anticipated" and "Best Presentation."
Best Presentation went to Microsoft and Bethesda, with reveals such as Starfield and other major titles like Outer Worlds 2. Every presentation had its own category of Most Anticipated, and among the winners were Capcom's The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles, and the PC Gaming Show's Song of Conquest. The full list is as follows:
Capcom: The Great Ace Attorney ChroniclesGearbox Entertainment: Tiny Tina's WonderlandsIndie Games: Falling FrontierIntellivision: AsteroidsNintendo: Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 2PC Gaming Show: Songs of ConquestFreedom Games: Airborne KingdomFuture Games Show: ImmortalitySQUARE ENIX: Marvel's Guardians of the GalaxyUbisoft: Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of HopeXbox/Bethesda: Halo: InfiniteYooreka Studio: LoopmancerOverall Most Anticipated: Forza Horizon 5, Microsoft Game StudiosBest presentation: Microsoft: Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase
The ESA said with its announcement of the awards show that "celebrating innovative creators and developers is the ideal way to close out E3," and the games showed get to stand out amongst the rest as a game to keep an eye on with the title of Most Anticipated to help it gain recognition.
While the ESA used a panel of industry judges, like with most awards categories, some fans may disagree with these choices. The sixteen-year revival story of Metroid Dread was a big surprise, yet Breath of the Wild 2 sits as Most Anticipated for Nintendo despite how Breath of the Wild 2 has been in known development for some time, and Metroid Dread comes home to fans of Samus Aran as soon as October this year.
Despite what players think of the choices, E3 has come to a close with the 2022 event already set for next year. With some developers and teams taking home an award for their efforts, which was the goal the ESA sought out to close the event with, the awards show was still able to get people talking about what their favorite games of the event were. Even if a fan's favorite title didn't win an award for this year's E3, there's still time at The Game Awards this December to have some more specific recognition.
Source: E3
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