Spike Tv
“Video Game Awards 2005” Winners Announced
3RD
Annual Awards Show Hosted By Samuel L. Jackson Premieres on Spike TV
Saturday, December 10 at
9 PM, ET/PT
Resident Evil 4 Named “Game of the
Year;”
Peter Jackson’s King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie
Wins 3 Awards including
“Best Performance by
a Human – Male” for Jack Black
Show
Features Performances by 50 Cent, Def Leppard and Missy Elliott and
Appearances
by Charlize Theron, Kiefer Sutherland, Vin Diesel, The Red Hot Chili Peppers
Jack Black,
Dane Cook and The Rock
Includes
World Television Premiere Clips of “24: The Game,” “Star Wars: Empire of War,”
“Scarface” and “Spy Hunter: Nowhere to Run”
Los Angeles,
CA, November 18, 2005
– Winners were announced earlier tonight during the 3rd annual Spike
TV “Video Game Awards 2005” ceremony held at the Gibson Amphitheatre in
Los Angeles,
CA. Hosted by Samuel L. Jackson, the
two-hour “game vs. game” extravaganza will premiere on Spike TV Saturday,
December 10 (9:00-11:00 PM,
ET/PT).
Resident Evil 4
(Capcom) took away the Vector Monkey trophy for “Game of the Year” as well as
“Best Graphics.” Peter Jackson’s King Kong:
The Official Movie of the Game (Ubisoft) won three awards including,
“Best Performance by a Human – Male” for Jack Black; “Best Game Based on a
Movie” and “Best Cast.” World of Warcraft
(Blizzard Entertainment) won four awards including “Best Multiplayer Game” and
“Best PC Game.”
The Spike TV “Video Game Awards 2005” ceremony
featured musical performances by 50 Cent, Def Leppard and Missy Elliott and show
appearances by Charlize Theron, Kiefer Sutherland, Jack Black, The Red Hot Chili
Peppers, The Rock, Vin Diesel, Carson Daly, Donald Faison, Jaime Pressly, Josie
Maran, Snoop Dogg, Xzibit, Carmen Electra, Natasha Bedinfield and Dane Cook,
among others.
The show also featured the Television World Premieres
of 24: The Game (2K Games),
Spyhunter:
Nowhere to Run (Midway
Games) and
Star Wars: Empire of War (Lucas
Arts) Scarface (Vivendi
Universal) as well as a 25th anniversary comic tribute to
Pac Man (Namco).
Categories and winners for the Spike TV “Video Game
Awards 2005” are:
GAME OF THE YEAR
Resident
Evil 4 (Capcom)
BEST ACTION GAME
God of War
(Sony Computer Entertainment
America)
BEST INDIVIDUAL SPORTS GAME
Tony Hawk’s
American Wasteland (Activision, Inc.)
BEST TEAM SPORTS GAME
Madden NFL
06 (Electronic Arts)
CYBER VIXEN OF THE YEAR
Maria
Menounos as Eva in James Bond 007: From
Russia With Love
(Electronic Arts)
BEST GAME BASED ON A MOVIE
Peter
Jackson’s King Kong: The Official Game of
the Movie (Ubisoft)
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A HUMAN – MALE
Jack Black
in Peter Jackson’s King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie (Ubisoft)
BEST SUPPORTING MALE PERFORMANCE
Christopher
Walken in True Crime™:
New York City (Activision, Inc.)
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A HUMAN – FEMALE
Charlize
Theron in Aeon Flux (Majesco Entertainment)
BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE PERFORMANCE
Traci Lords
in True Crime™:
New York City (Activision, Inc.)
BEST CAST
Peter
Jackson’s King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie (Ubisoft)
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
“Maybe We
Crazy” by 50 Cent in 50 Cent: Bulletproof (Vivendi Universal Games)
BEST SOUNDTRACK
Guitar Hero
(RedOctane)
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
We
♥ Katamari™ (Namco Hometek Inc.)
DESIGNER OF THE YEAR
David Jaffe
for God of War (Sony Computer Entertainment
America)
PONTIAC
BEST DRIVING GAME AWARD (Viewer’s Choice)
Burnout
Revenge (Electronic Arts)
MOST ADDICTIVE GAME FUELED BY DEW (Viewer’s Choice)
World of
Warcraft (Blizzard Entertainment)
BEST WIRELESS GAME (Viewer’s Choice)
Marc Ecko’s
Getting Up (Atari, Inc. & Glu)
BEST FIGHTING GAME
EA Sports
Fight Night Round 2 (Electronic Arts)
BEST FIRST PERSON ACTION
F.E.A.R. (Vivendi
Universal Games)
BEST MILITARY GAME
Call of
Duty 2 (Activision, Inc.)
BEST GRAPHICS
Resident
Evil 4 (Capcom)
BEST HANDHELD GAME
Lumines (Ubisoft)
BEST MULTI-PLAYER GAME
World of
Warcraft (Blizzard Entertainment)
BEST BREAKTHROUGH TECHNOLOGY
Sony PSP
(Sony Computer Entertainment
America)
BEST PC GAME
World of
Warcraft (Blizzard Entertainment)
BEST RPG
World of
Warcraft (Blizzard Entertainment)
The
official sponsors of the Spike TV Video Game Awards 2005 are AOL, Burger King
Corporation®,
Circuit
City, Mountain Dew, New Dentyne® Fire
Mints,
Pontiac,
U.S. Air Force and
Verizon Wireless V Cast™.
Albie
Hecht and Casey Patterson serve as Executive Producers of the Spike TV “Video
Game Awards 2005.” Greg Sills is Supervising Producer,
Magda Liolis is Producer and Scott
Fishman is the Executive in Charge of Production. Julia Knowles serves as
director.
Spike TV,
the first network for men, is available in 88 million homes and is a division of
MTV Networks. MTV Networks, a division of Viacom International Inc. (NYSE: VIA,
VIA.B).
