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| THE JUST ADVENTURE 2004 E3 AWARDS Presented
by Randy Sluganski |
There is a magazine known as Sports Illustrated. For years now athletes and professional sports teams have lived in fear of what has come to be known as ‘The Sports Illustrated Curse.’ It goes like this: if your team or favorite athlete is doing exceptionally well, then invariably their success will guarantee that they will be on the cover of Sports Illustrated. Then the athlete will have a mysterious accident and break a bone or the featured team will lose the World Series or the Super Bowl.
It may be that Just Adventure is also guilty of such a curse.
Our ‘Best Adventure Game’ award for 1999 went to Faust, a great game to be sure, but it didn’t exactly break any sales records. Our choice in 2001 was Hitchcock, the less said about that award the better. In 2002 we voted for Syberia - hey, even a blind man occasionally hits the urinal! For 2003 our choice was Broken Sword: Sleeping Dragon a game that I will defend to my grave and I’m sure the ten people who bought it would agree with me.
So as you can see, our track record is spotty at best. But this year all of that will change. This year every game we honor with an award will sell ten million copies, be on the cover of Time Magazine and revolutionize the adventure genre. This year publishers will drool over our game selections and offer scads of development money for sequels. Next year, you probably won’t be able to find this article because if our picks bomb again, then I’m deleting it from the site!
Click
here to find out what game won the award for
'Best Adventure
Game Not At the E3 2004'