Spike Video Game Awards 2006

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The Spike Video Game Awards recognized the best games of 2006.

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 Overview

The fourth annual Video Game Awards were hosted in the University of Southern California’s Galen Center in Los Angeles on December 13th, 2006. They were hosted by Samuel L. Jackson. The show included musical performances by Tenacious D and AFI. Guest appearances included 50 Cent, Eva Mendes, Sarah Silverman, Seth Green, Masi Oka, Hayden Panettiere, Brandon Routh, Rachael Leigh Cook, Tony Hawk, Michael Irvin, Method Man, Maria Menounos, Tyrese, Xzibit, James Gandolfini, Kurt Angle, Jenna Jameson and others. Spikes fourth attempt clearly was aimed at packing as many celebrities as possible, whether they are important to the gaming world or not. Mostly the latter.   

 Nominees

Game of the Year

 The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion – Bethesda Softworks (Company) / 2K Games (Company)

Ōkami (Game) – Clover Studio (Company) / Capcom (Company)

Gears of War (Game) – Epic Games (Company) / Microsoft Game Studios Guitar Hero 2 – Harmonix Music Systems, Inc./ Activision (Company)

Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter – GRIN (Company) / Ubisoft Entertainment (Company)

       

Critic’s Choice

(games released after 11/15/2006 & before 12/31/2006)

 The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess – Nintendo EAD (Company) / Nintendo (Company)

Resistance: Fall of Man – Insomniac Games (Company) / Sony Computer Entertainment America

Medieval II: Total War – The Creative Assembly (Company) / Sega (Company) Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Vegas – Ubisoft Montreal Studios (Company) / Ubisoft Entertainment (Company)

Wii Sports (Game) – Nintendo (Company) / Nintendo (Company)

         

Best Driving Game Award

 Burnout Revenge

Burnout Revenge (Game) – Criterion Games (Company) / Electronic Arts (Company)

Need For Speed Carbon – EA Black Box (Company) / Electronic Arts (Company)

TOCA Race Driver 3 (Game) – Codemasters (Company) / Buka Entertainment (Company)

GTR 2: FIA GT Racing Game – Blimey! Games Ltd. / 10tacle studios AG (Company)     

  

         

 

Best Individual Sports Game

 Tony Hawk's Project 8

Tony Hawk’s Project 8 – Neversoft Entertainment (Company) / Activision 

Rockstar Games Presents Table Tennis – Rockstar San Diego (Company) / Rockstar Games (Company)

Fight Night Round 3 (Game) – EA Chicago (Company) / Electronic Arts (Company) Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 (Game) – Visceral Games (Company) / Electronic Arts (Company)

Top Spin 2 (Game) – Indie Built, Inc. / 2K Sports (Company)

       

Best Action Game

 Dead Rising

Dead Rising (Game)– Capcom (Company) / Capcom (Company)

New Super Mario Bros. (Game) – Nintendo (Company) / Nintendo (Company)

Ōkami (Game) – Clover Studio (Company) / Capcom (Company)  Saints Row (Game) – Volition Incorporated / THQ (Company)

Bully (Game) – Rockstar Vancouver (Company) / Rockstar Games (Company)

     

Best Team Sports Game

 NBA 2K7

NBA 2K7 (Game) –Visual Concepts (Company) / 2K Sports (Company)

Madden NFL 07 (Game) – EA Canada (Company) / EA Sports (Company)

NCAA Football 07 (Game) – EA Tiburon (Company) / EA Sports (Company) FIFA Soccer 07 (Game) –EA Canada (Company) / Electronic Arts (Company)

NHL 07 (Game) – EA Canada (Company) / EA Sports (Company)

      

Cyber Vixen of the Year

Alyx Vance     

Alyx Vance (Character) in Half-Life 2: Episode One 

Lara Croft (Character) in Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Legend

Princess Peach (Character) in New Super Mario Bros. (Game)  Enrica in Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Double Agent

Jen in Prey (Game)

     

Best Song

 Yellowcard

 “Lights and Sounds” by Yellowcard in Burnout Revenge (Game)

“LocoRoco No Uta” by Nobuyuki Shimizu and Kemmei Adachi in LocoRoco (Game)

“Heavenly Star” by Genki Rockets in Lumines II (Game)  “Helicopter” by Bloc Party in Marc Ecko’s Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure

“Summer Shudder” by AFI in Madden NFL 07 (Game)

     

Best Soundtrack

Guitar Hero II     

Guitar Hero II (Game) – Harmonix Music Systems, Inc. / Activision (Company) 

Madden NFL 07 (Game) – EA Canada (Company)/ EA Sports 

Scarface: The World is Yours – Radical Entertainment Inc. / Sierra Entertainment, Inc.

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories – Rockstar North (Company) / Rockstar Games (Company)

         

Studio of the Year

Cliff Bleszinski / Epic Games

Cliff Bleszinski (Person)  / Epic Games (Company) for Gears of War (Game)

Clover Studio (Company) for Ōkami (Game)

Relic for Company of Heroes (Game) Todd Howard (Person) / Bethesda Softworks (Company) for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

Harmonix for Guitar Hero II

 

       

Best Wireless Game

SWAT Force – KAOLink / Vivendi 

Diner Dash (Game)– Glu Mobile

Tower Bloxx – Digital Chocolate, Inc. / Digital Chocolate, Inc.

Super K.O. Boxing – Glu Mobile

Best Original Score

 The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion – Bethesda Softworks (Company) / 2K Games (Company) 

Bully (Game) – Rockstar Vancouver (Company) / Rockstar Games (Company)

Electroplankton (Game) – indies zero (Company) / Nintendo (Company) Ōkami (Game) – Clover Studio (Company) / Capcom (Company) 

Final Fantasy XII (Game) – Square Enix (Company) / Square Enix (Company)

         

Best Fighting Game

 Mortal Kombat Armageddon

Mortal Kombat: Armageddon (Game) – Midway Games (Company) / Midway Games (Company)

Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection – Namco Bandai Games Inc. / Sony Computer Entertainment Europe

Dead or Alive 4 (Game) – Team Ninja (Company) / Tecmo Koei Co., Ltd. Street Fighter Alpha Anthology (Game) – Capcom (Company) / Capcom (Company)

God Hand (Game) – Clover Studio (Company) / Capcom 

       

Best Shooter

 Gears of War

Gears of War (Game) – Epic Games (Company) / Microsoft Game Studios 

Black (Game) – Criterion Games (Company) / Electronic Arts (Company)

Prey (Game) – Human Head Studios, Inc. / 2K Games (Company)  Half-Life 2: Episode One – Valve Corporation (Company) / Valve Corporation (Company) 

Call of Duty 3 (Game) – Treyarch (Company) / Activision (Company)

     

Best Military Game

Company of Heroes    

Company of Heroes (Game) – Relic Entertainment (Company) / THQ (Company)

Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter – GRIN (Company) / Ubisoft Entertainment (Company) 

Call of Duty 3 (Game) – Treyarch (Company) / Activision (Company) The Outfit (Game) – Relic Entertainment (Company) / THQ (Company)

Battlefield 2142 (Game) – DICE (Company) / Electronic Arts (Company)

     

Best Graphics

 Gears of War

Gears of War (Game) – Epic Games (Company) / Microsoft Game Studios 

Ōkami (Game) – Clover Studio (Company) / Capcom (Company) 

Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter – GRIN (Company) / Ubisoft Entertainment (Company)   The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion – Bethesda Softworks (Company) / 2K Games (Company) 

Company of Heroes (Game) – Relic Entertainment (Company) / THQ (Company)     

 

     

Best Handheld Game

New Super Mario Bros.    

New Super Mario Bros. (Game) – Nintendo (Company) / Nintendo (Company)

Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day! – Nintendo (Company) / Nintendo (Company)

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories – Rockstar North (Company) / Rockstar Games  Tetris DS (Game) – Nintendo (Company) / Nintendo (Company)

LocoRoco (Game) – Sony Computer Entertainment / Sony Computer Entertainment Europe

     

Best Multi-Player Game

 Gears of War

Gears of War (Game) – Epic Games (Company) / Microsoft Game Studios 

Company of Heroes (Game) – Relic Entertainment (Company) / THQ (Company) 

Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence – Kojima Productions (Company) / Konami Corporation Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter – GRIN (Company) / Ubisoft Entertainment (Company) 

Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Double Agent – Ubisoft Annecy Studios (Company) / Ubisoft Entertainment (Company)

     

Breakthrough Technology

Wii     

Wii (Platform)

PS3

DS Lite

Electroplankton (Game)

       

Best PC Game

Company of Heroes

Company of Heroes (Game) – Relic Entertainment (Company) / THQ (Company) 

Half-Life 2: Episode One – Valve Corporation (Company) / Valve Corporation (Company) 

Battlefield 2142 (Game) – DICE (Company) / Electronic Arts (Company) 

Star Wars: Empire at War –LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC (Company) / LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC (Company)

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion – Bethesda Softworks (Company) / 2K Games (Company)     

 

   

Best RPG

 The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion – Bethesda Softworks (Company) / 2K Games (Company) 

Final Fantasy XII (Game) – Square Enix (Company) / Square Enix (Company)

Kingdom Hearts II (Game) – Square Enix (Company) / Square Enix (Company)

Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria – tri-Ace Inc. / Square Enix (Company)

         

Best Game Based on a Movie or TV

 LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy

LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy – Traveller’s Tales Ltd. / LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC (Company)

The Godfather: The Game – Visceral Games (Company) / Electronic Arts (Company)

Scarface: The World is Yours – Radical Entertainment Inc. / Sierra Entertainment, Inc. The Sopranos: Road to Respect – 7 Studios (Company) / THQ (Company)

Family Guy Video Game! – High Voltage Software, Inc. / 2K Games (Company)

       

Best Performance by a Human – Male

 Sir Patrick Stewart

Sir Patrick Stewart in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion 

Seth MacFarlane (Person) in Family Guy Video Game!

Gerry Rosenthal in Bully (Game)  Johnny Depp (Person) in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Legend of Jack Sparrow

Kiefer Sutherland (Person) in 24: The Game

 

     

Best Supporting Male Performance

 James Gandolfini

James Gandolfini in The Sopranos: Road to Respect

Seth Green (Person) inFamily Guy Video Game!

James Woods (Person) in Scarface: The World is Yours James Caan (Person) in The Godfather: The Game

Philip Michael Thomas in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories 

     

Best Performance by a Human – Female

 Vida Guerra

Vida Guerra (Person) in Scarface: The World is Yours

Tia Carrere (Person) in Saints Row (Game)

Emmanuelle Vaugier in Need For Speed Carbon Keeley Hawes (Person) in Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Legend

Rosario Dawson (Person) in Marc Ecko’s Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure

     

Best Supporting Female Performance

 Rachel Leigh Cook

Rachel Leigh Cook in Kingdom Hearts II (Game)

Elisha Cuthbert (Person) in 24: The Game

Brittany Murphy (Person) inMarc Ecko’s Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure  Mila Kunis (Person) in Family Guy Video Game!

Lynda Carter (Person) in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

     

Best Cast

 Family Guy Video Game!

Family Guy Video Game! – High Voltage Software, Inc. / 2K Games (Company) 

The Godfather: The Game – Visceral Games (Company) / Electronic Arts (Company) 

Scarface: The World is Yours – Radical Entertainment Inc. / Sierra Entertainment, Inc.  Saints Row (Game) – Volition Incorporated / THQ (Company) 

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion – Bethesda Softworks (Company) / 2K Games (Company)   

 

     

Most Addictive

 The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion – Bethesda Softworks (Company) / 2K Games (Company) 

Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day! – Nintendo (Company) / Nintendo (Company) 

Gears of War (Game) – Epic Games (Company) / Microsoft Game Studios  Guitar Hero 2 – Harmonix Music Systems, Inc. / Activision (Company) 

Company of Heroes (Game) – Relic Entertainment (Company) / THQ (Company)

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• Burnout Revenge (Game)
• Company of Heroes (Game)
• Dead Rising (Game)
• Family Guy Video Game! (Game)
• Guitar Hero II (Game)
• LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy (Game)
• Mortal Kombat: Armageddon (Game)
• NBA 2K7 (Game)
• New Super Mario Bros. (Game)
• The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Game)
• The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Game)
• Tony Hawk's Project 8 (Game)

Concept details

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Spike Video Game Awards 2006

Aliases

Video Game Awards 2006,Spike VGA 2006,VGA 2006,Spike 2006

Games

• Burnout Revenge (Game)
• Company of Heroes (Game)
• Dead Rising (Game)
• Family Guy Video Game! (Game)
• Guitar Hero II (Game)
• LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy (Game)
• Mortal Kombat: Armageddon (Game)
• NBA 2K7 (Game)
• New Super Mario Bros. (Game)
• The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Game)
• The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Game)
• Tony Hawk's Project 8 (Game)
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Franchises

• Has franchises: Mortal Kombat (Franchise), NBA (Franchise), The Legend of Zelda (Franchise), LEGO Star Wars (Franchise), Star Wars (Franchise), Tony Hawk (Franchise), Mario (Franchise), New Super Mario Bros. (Franchise), Super Mario (Franchise), Activision Hero (Franchise), Guitar Hero (Franchise), NBA 2K (Franchise), Dead Rising (Franchise), Gears of War (Franchise), The Elder Scrolls (Franchise), Burnout (Franchise), LEGO (Franchise), Family Guy (Franchise), Company of Heroes (Franchise)

Characters

• Has characters: Alyx Vance (Character)

Locations

• Has locations: Los Angeles (Location)

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People

Related Concepts

• Has related concepts: Spike Video Game Awards 2010 (Concept), Spike Video Game Awards (Concept), Spike Video Game Awards 2004 (Concept), Spike Video Game Awards 2005 (Concept), Spike Video Game Awards 2007 (Concept), Spike Video Game Awards 2008 (Concept), Spike Video Game Awards 2009 (Concept), Spike Video Game Awards 2003 (Concept)