Game Developers Choice Awards 2003

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The third annual Game Developers Choice Awards celebrated the best games of 2002.

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Overview

The third annual Game Developers Choice Awards were held on March 6, 2003 at the San Jose Civic Auditorium in San Jose, California.

Personal Awards

These three special honors, selected by the Game Developers Choice Awards advisory board, were also presented at the ceremony.

Lifetime Achievement Award

• Gunpei Yokoi (Person)

First Penguin Award

• David Crane (Person), Larry Kaplan (Person), James Levy, Alan Miller (Person), Robert H. Whitehead

Community Contribution

• Doug Church (Person)

Game of the Year

===Metroid Prime (Game)=== Developer: Retro Studios (Company) Publisher: Nintendo (Company) Runners-Up Battlefield 1942 (Game) - DICE (Company) / Electronic Arts (Company) Grand Theft Auto: Vice City - Rockstar North (Company) / Rockstar Games (Company) Neverwinter Nights - BioWare (Company) / Atari Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell - Ubisoft Montreal / Ubisoft||

Original Game Character of the Year

===Sly Cooper (Character) from Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus (Game)=== Developer: Sucker Punch (Company) Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment America Runners-Up Blinx (Character) from Blinx the Time Sweeper (Game) - Artoon / Microsoft Studios Ratchet (Character) from Ratchet andamp;amp;amp;amp; Clank - Insomniac Games (Company) / SCEA Rau (Character) from The Mark of Kri (Game) - SCE Studios San Diego / SCEA Sam Fisher (Character) from Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell - Ubisoft Montreal / Ubisoft||

Rookie Studio of the Year

===Retro Studios (Company) for Metroid Prime (Game)=== Runners-Up Arkane Studios (Company) for Arx Fatalis (Game) Day 1 Studios for MechAssault (Game) Gas Powered Games (Company) for Dungeon Siege (Game) Pipeworks Software for Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee||

Excellence in Audio

===Medal of Honor: Allied Assault=== Recipients: Jack Grillo (Person), Rebecca L. Hanck, Spencer Erik Kraber (Person), Yuan Liu (Person) Developer: 2015 Publisher: Electronic Arts (Company) Runners-Up Grand Theft Auto: Vice City - Rockstar North (Company) / Rockstar Games (Company) JSRF: Jet Set Radio Future - Smilebit (Company) / Sega (Company) The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - EA Redwood Shores / Electronic Arts Metroid Prime (Game) - Retro Studios (Company) / Nintendo (Company)||

Excellence in Game Design

===Battlefield 1942 (Game)=== Recipient: Romain de Waubert de Genlis (Person) Developer: DICE (Company) Publisher: Electronic Arts (Company) Runners-Up Grand Theft Auto: Vice City - Rockstar North (Company) / Rockstar Games (Company) Metroid Prime (Game) - Retro Studios (Company) / Nintendo (Company) Super Mario Sunshine (Game) - Nintendo EAD (Company) / Nintendo Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell - Ubisoft Montreal / Ubisoft||

Excellence in Level Design

===Metroid Prime (Game)=== Developer: Retro Studios (Company) Publisher: Nintendo (Company) Runners-Up The Getaway (Game) - SCEE Studio Soho (Company) / SCEA Ratchet andamp;amp;amp;amp; Clank - Insomniac Games (Company) / SCEA Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell - Ubisoft Montreal / Ubisoft Unreal Tournament 2003 (Game) - Epic Games (Company) & Digital Extremes (Company) / Atari||

Excellence in Programming

===Neverwinter Nights=== Recipients: Mark Brockington (Person), Scott Greig (Person), Jason Knipe (Person), Don Moar (Person), Don Yakielashek (Person) Developer: BioWare (Company) Publisher: Atari Runners-Up Dungeon Siege (Game) - Gas Powered Games (Company) / Microsoft Studios Metroid Prime (Game) - Retro Studios (Company) / Nintendo (Company) Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell - Ubisoft Montreal / Ubisoft Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos - Blizzard Entertainment (Company)||

Excellence in Visual Arts

===Kingdom Hearts (Game)=== Recipients: Tetsuya Nomura (Person) Developer: Squaresoft (Company) Publisher: Square EA (Company) Runners-Up Freedom Force (Game) - Irrational Games (Company) / Crave Entertainment (Company) The Mark of Kri (Game) - SCE Studios San Diego / SCEA Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus (Game) - Sucker Punch (Company) / SCEA Syberia (Game) - Microïds / The Adventure Company (Company)||

Excellence in Writing

===Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell=== Recipients: Clint Hocking (Person), John Thomas Petty (Person) Developer: Ubisoft Montreal Publisher: Ubisoft Runners-Up Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem - Silicon Knights / Nintendo (Company) Grand Theft Auto: Vice City - Rockstar North (Company) / Rockstar Games (Company) Mafia (Game) - Illusion Software (Company) / Gathering of Developers (Company) No One Lives Forever 2: A Spy in H.A.R.M.'s Way - Monolith Productions / Sierra Entertainment||

Game Innovation Spotlights

===Animal Crossing (Game)=== Developer: Nintendo EAD (Company) Publisher: Nintendo (Company) Battlefield 1942 (Game) Developer: DICE (Company) Publisher: Electronic Arts (Company) Medal of Honor: Allied Assault Developer: 2015 Publisher: Electronic Arts The Thing (Game) Developer: Black Label Games (Company) Publisher: Vivendi Universal Games||

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• Animal Crossing (Game)
• Battlefield 1942 (Game)
• Kingdom Hearts (Game)
• Medal of Honor: Allied Assault (Game)
• Metroid Prime (Game)
• Neverwinter Nights (Game)
• Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus (Game)
• The Thing (Game)
• Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell (Game)

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Game Developers Choice Awards 2003

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GDC Awards 2003,GDCA 2003

Games

• Animal Crossing (Game)
• Battlefield 1942 (Game)
• Kingdom Hearts (Game)
• Medal of Honor: Allied Assault (Game)
• Metroid Prime (Game)
• Neverwinter Nights (Game)
• Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus (Game)
• The Thing (Game)
• Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell (Game)
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