Contra 4 may actually win (part of) E3

by JC Fletcher { Jul 25th 2007 at 3:00PM }

We were joking before (since there wasn't a real competition at the time), but now the Game Critics Awards have come along to validate our enthusiasm. Contra 4 has been nominated for a 2007 Game Critics Best of E3 Award for Best Handheld Game. It's in the running with The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, and, on the PSP, Dead Head Fred, God of War: Chains of Olympus, and Silent Hill Origins.

Here's the weird part. Handheld games don't appear in any of the other categories. Best Action Game? All consoles. Best Original Game? All consoles. Best of Show? Multiplatform console games! Were the console offerings really qualitatively better than everything on the DS (and Silent Hill), or were handheld games excluded from consideration for some reason?

Tags: contra4, e307, gamecriticsawards, zelda

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

hvnlysoldr @ Jul 25th 2007 7:18PM

They can't handle the sheer awesomeness that is the money-printing DS.

Duscrom @ Jul 26th 2007 8:08AM

I wanted a DS that could print money and all I got are these crappy ass games....

But no seriously.. I think has to do with the glitz and glamour still. With huge production values and fancy marketing, The Console games distract... espically this year where you have the Wii And PS3 trying to have breakout games to define their platform, and 360 who is trying to hold onto it's spot. So, PSP, DS and PS2 games, have much less attention grabbing power as they are already established platforms, and being Handheld games anyway, the budget offered to them don't include such marketing.