An entire week devoted to gaming comes to a close as we reveal, the Top MegaGame of 2004. You have patiently waited to find out which title was the ultimate gamer's favorite and you have been rewarded by an in-depth look into the busiest, most promising and most controversial year in the history of gaming.
Voters will be eagerly awaiting the results of our Top 10 MegaGames of 2004 prize draw as well, which will reveal the winners of the various prizes listed below. All winners will be contacted by email within 48 hours.
After 3 weeks of voting and over 33,000 unique votes counted from over 11,000 unique hardcore gamers, the Top 10 MegaGames of 2004 have been finalized. We thought it was about time someone asked the gamers what they liked and who can give you a better description of a game than the person who has spent hundreds of hours trying it? The entire gaming industry is full of game rankings which rarely consider what gamers enjoy but serve as intellectual exercises for bored website editors. The Top10 games chosen by you, may surprise some of our editor friends out there but they are an honest and fair representation of gamer choice, not marred by any suggestion of publisher interference as so many other similar lists are.
In order to convince readers that this is a major industry event based entirely on the people that count - the gamers - MegaGames got together with some major industry forces to offer a multitude of prizes for voters of the Top 10 MegaGames of 2004. Crucial Technology, a division of Micron providing quality direct memory upgrades online at Crucial Gamer, offered two lucky Top 10 voters the chance to each win a, 1GB kit (each with a total of 2 512MB sticks) of Crucial Ballistix PC4000, another two voters will each get a 1GB Crucial Gizmo! Hi-Speed USB flash drive and yet another two voters will win Ballistix T-shirts and caps.
Capcom offered one lucky voter the chance to own a copy of Shadow of Rome Playstation 2 game, due for release in early February, 2005. MegaGames and Funcom also got together to offer voters further exciting prizes. 20 winners will each get Alien Invasion boxed sets including Anarchy Online and Notum Wars while one extremely lucky winner will get One box of Shadowlands, One box of Alien Invasion and the Preorder items for both games along with a signed print from acclaimed artist Stian Dahlslett.
The Top10 MegaGames of 2004 are also sponsored by eDimensional creators of the VirtualFX 3D TV Converter.
We thought it was about time someone asked the gamers what they liked and who can give you a better description of a game than the person who has spent hundreds of hours trying it? The entire gaming industry is full of game rankings which rarely consider what gamers enjoy but serve as intellectual exercises for bored website editors.
In a year full of ambitious games on all types of platforms it was natural to expect that gamers would be spoilt for choice. A total of 83 games were voted for, although 26 of those gained a clear lead fairly quickly. The Top10 games chosen by you, may surprise some of our learned editor friends but they are an honest and fair representation of gamer choice, not marred by any suggestion of publisher interference as so many other similar lists are.
Some of the surprises include the appearance of only one title from the world’s biggest publisher, the surprising absence of the sequel to the, until recently, best selling game of all time and the, rather disheartening fact that only one game in the Top10 is an original title and not some form of sequel, prequel or franchise spin-off.
Did all that give you some hint about how your favorite games may have faired in the Top10? Well we will not keep you waiting any longer as we reveal the Top10 MegaGames of 2004.
