Spike TV, America’s network for men, is available in 86 million homes and is
a division of MTV Networks. On December 4th, 2003 they aired for the first time
the Spike TV Video Game Awards. After video games resurfaced with next generation
consoles and became such a big hit, it was likely that an award ceremony would
be produced to reward the people that make us sit by our TV sets for hours at
a time.

During the show and pre-show celebrities were everywhere, between some of these
were: David Spade, DMX, Jaime Pressly, Lil Kim, Orlando Jones, Pamela Anderson,
Ray Liotta, P.O.D., Tony Hawk, and many others. If you were not able to watch
the award ceremony be sure to go Spike TV’s web site for highlights, videos,
and pictures of the event.

As most people know, the show aired at 9 PM EST. But the most important question
is not when did it happened, is WHO won. And the winners were (drumroll please)…

  • Best Sports Game: Tony Hawk’s Underground – Activision
  • Best Action Game: True Crime: Streets of LA – Activision
  • Best Animation Game: Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball
    – Tecmo
  • Best Driving Game: NASCAR Thunder 2004 – EA Sports
  • Best Game Based on a Movie: Enter The Matrix – Atari
  • Best Music in a Game: Def Jam Vendetta – EA Big
  • Best Performance by a Human: Ray Liotta (GTA: Vice City)
    – Rockstar Games
  • Most Anticipated Game: Halo 2 – Microsoft
  • Most Addictive Game: Soul Calibur II – Namco
  • Best PC Game: Halo: Combat Evolved – Microsoft
  • Best Online Game: Final Fantasy XI – Square Enix
  • Best Handeld Game: Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell – Ubi Soft
  • Best Fighting Game: WWE Smackdown!: Here Comes the Pain
    – THQ
  • Best First-Person Action Game: Call of Duty – Activision
  • Best Fantasy Game: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
    – LucasArts
  • Game of the Year: Madden NFL 2004 – EA Sports

Many people were surprised of some of the results, but most (if not all) of
the decisions were at least partly based on a public poll Spike TV had up on
their website for some time. Thanks to all our forum
users that helped us keep up to speed with the ceremony. Come join our discussion
of the awards on our forum
thread or leave a comment!!!

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