"Game Awards 2001-2002" is for the games released within Japan from January 1 to December 31, 2000. The 6th CESA GAME AWARDS Selection Committee selected the awards based on the vote received from mail, FAX, mobile phone, and internet. Awards for Excellence Presentation   Special Award Presentation   Grand Award Presentation   GAME AWARDS 2001-2002 Award Presentation Details First, we present the Awards for Excellence. The Awards for Excellence are presented to the highly rated games for the year. This year, 6 games were selected for the Awards for Excellence. [[ Awards for Excellence ]] - Onimusya 2 (CAPCOM) - KINGDOM HEARTS (Square) - Dynasty Warriors 3 (Koei) - Animal Crossing (Nintendo) - Pikumin (Nintendo) - METAL GEAR SOLID2 =SONS OF LIBERTY= (Konami) Onimusya 2 (CAPCOM) We are very happy that our game has been selected from many games. We are very fortunate that our hard work lead to a win for this award. Animal Crossing (Nintendo) Our goal was to develop software which friends, couples, family can play together. If you have not had chance to play our game, please give us a try. KINGDOM HEARTS (Square) Please look forward to our next version which will be developed by our same staff. Pikumin (Nintendo) Although we had many difficulties in developing this game, we are very fortunate that many people played our game for their entertainment. We like to work harder to provide new entertainment. Dynasty Warriors 3 (KOEI) Thank you for your support, we would like to work even harder in order to live up to our Dynasty Warriors fans expectation. METAL GEAR SOLID2 -SONS OF LIBERTY- (Konami) Since it is very difficult to get praised in this game industry, we are so happy to receive the award. I hope we can also win the award for our other games next time. Next, we presented the 3 Special Awards. Special Awards were awarded to the most creative games in the computer entertainment industry by the award selection committee. [[ Special Award ]] - ICO (Sony Computer Entertainment) - Gyakuten Saiban (CAPCOM) - Lineage (NC Japan) ICO (Sony Computer Entertainment) All I remember about the development of this game is just very long and tough memories but the reward we just received is overwhelming. I am glad that I went though all the troubles now. Thank you very much. Gyakuten Saiban (CAPCOM) I believe the game scenario that our director created and the attractions of the game lead us to receive this award. I hope we can also receive this awards for our new version 2 just released and version 3 that we are currently developing. Thank you very much. Lineage (NC Japan) We are very fortunate wining this award that we were not expected to receive. We believe the online game market will grow more as internet expands in the future. Our Lineage and NC Japan would also like to grow as the market expands. Thank you for your support. Finally, we presented the Grand Award. The Grand Award was presented to the best game of the year. [[ Grand Award ]] FINAL FANTASY X (Square) "FINAL FANTASY X" was selected for the Grand Award for "CESA GAME AWARDS 2001-2002". This game was selected by attracting and receiving an overwhelming support from many game fans. Congratulations! Thank you for your support. It has been a year since the FINAL FANTASY X has been released. At the time we released the game, we were very worried not only about the sales but also if users will like this game. We are very glad and this award gives us a lot of motivation to work from seeing that not only many people buy our game but also they actually liked playing. Thank you very much. Congratulations all the award recipients! All the recipients expressed their difficulties and time-consuming development effort in their comments as well as their appreciations to the game users for their support. BACK NEXT Copyright (C) 2002 CESA. All rights reserved.