Resident Evil 4 Tops Spike TV Awards

North American television channel Spike TV, the self-proclaimed “First Network for Men”, has revealed the winners of its 2005 VGA Video Game Awards, held in Los Angeles and introduced by movie actor Samuel L. Jackson, and for which Capcom's Resident Evil 4 received the Game Of The Year award. The show also featured performances by Missy Elliott, Def Leppard and 50 Cent. Other stars making an appearance included last year’s presenter Snoop Dogg, Carmen Electra, The Rock, Vin Diesel, The Red Hot Chili Peppers and Carson Daly. Some eyebrows were raised when the nominees for the awards were first announced in October, when many of the games featured had not been released. However, the jury of more than 200 video game industry journalists appear to have attempted to vote on games they had played, despite the difficulty of including unreleased titles, though an always-sardonic Jack Black, upon receiving his award for Best Performance by a Human – Male, asked: “Who votes on this thing?” and thanked “all the people of the b******* academy over there”, according to a report on consumer game website GameSpot. A full list of winners from the awards is as follows: Game of the Year: Resident Evil 4 (Capcom) Best Game Based on a Movie: Peter Jackson's King Kong (Ubisoft) Best Action Game: God of War (Sony) Best Individual Sports Game: Tony Hawk's American Wasteland (Activision Inc.) Best Team Sports Game: Madden NFL 06 (Electronic Arts) Best Fighting Game: Fight Night: Round 2 (Electronic Arts) Best Military Game: Call of Duty 2 (Activision) Best Driving Game: (Viewer's Choice): Burnout Revenge (Electronic Arts) Best Mobile Game: Marc Ecko's Getting Up (Atari, Inc. & Glu) Best RPG: World Of Warcraft (Blizzard) Most Addictive Game: (Viewer's Choice): World Of Warcraft (Blizzard) Best PC Game: World of WarCraft (Blizzard) Best Handheld Game: Lumines (Ubisoft) Best Graphics: Resident Evil 4 (Capcom) Best First Person Action: F.E.A.R (Vivendi Universal Games) Best Multi-Player Game: World of Warcraft (Blizzard) Designer of the Year: David Jaffe for God of War (Sony) Best Original Score: We Love Katamari (Namco) Best Soundtrack: Guitar Hero (RedOctane) Best Original Song: "Maybe We Crazy" By 50 Cent in 50 Cent: Bulletproof (Vivendi Universal Games) Best Breakthrough Technology: PSP (Sony) Best Cast: Peter Jackson’s King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie (Ubisoft) Best Performance by a Human - Female: Charlize Theron in Aeon Flux (Majesco) Best Performance by a Human - Male: Jack Black in Peter Jackson's King Kong (Ubisoft) Best Supporting Male Performance: Christopher Walken in True Crime: New York City (Activision) Best Supporting Female Performance: Traci Lords in True Crime: New York City (Activision) Cyber Vixen of the Year: Maria Menounos as Eva in From Russia With Love (Electronic Arts) [UPDATE - 8.10am PST - added full list of winners.]