ECTS Awards: Lucky XIII for Ubi Soft

The annual ECTS Awards have been announced at Earls Court in London, with Ubi Soft's cel-shaded FPS title XIII walking away from the ceremony with the Best Console Game and Game of Show awards tucked under its arm.

The company's multiplayer FPS title Far Cry also won the Best PC Game award, while Everquest 2 - published in Europe by Ubi - picked up the Best Online game award. To top it off, the Game of the Year (Germany) award went to Splinter Cell.

Nintendo somewhat unsurprisingly walked off with the Best Handheld Game award for Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising, while the somewhat oddly named London Games Week Award went to Valve's Half-Life 2 - which is causing huge queues in Earls Court despite being almost exactly the same footage that was shown at E3 in May.

The awards were presented by TV personality and soi disant technophile Kate Russell on a specially erected stage in the ECTS show hall at Earls Court. The main awards were chosen by an anonymous panel of journalists on behalf of ECTS.

Be sure to check back tomorrow, when gi.biz will be announcing its own ECTS show awards in partnership with our sister site, Eurogamer.net!

Voted for by readers or the editorial teams:

• Game of the Year UK (in conjunction with Gamer.tv) — Pro Evolution Soccer 2, Konami
  
• Game of the Year France (in conjunction with JDLI) — Battlefield 1942, EA
  
• Game of the Year Germany (in conjunction with Gamigo.de — Splinter Cell, Ubi Soft
  
• Game of the Year Italy (in conjunction with Game Live) — GTA: Vice City, Rockstar
  
• Game of the Year Scandinavia (in conjunction with Manual) — Battlefield 1942, EA
  

Voted for by the editorial teams:

• The PC Gamer Best PC Games Developer Award — Creative Assembly
  
• The PC Format Best New Games Kit Award — Shuttle for Small Form Factor PCs
  
• The Edge Award — Viewtiful Joe, Capcom
  
• The Loaded Award — GTA: Vice City, Rockstar
  
• The Times Award — Sony EyeToy
  

Voted for on www.ects.com:

• Best Console of the Year — Xbox
  
• Best Publisher of the Year — Nintendo
  
• Best PC Hardware of the Year — ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
  

âBest of Showâ Awards (voted for by press panel):

• Best PC Game of the Show — Far Cry, Ubi Soft
  
• Best Console Game of the Show — XIII, Ubi Soft
  
• Best Handheld Game of the Show — Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising, Nintendo
  
• Best Online Game of the Show — Everquest II, Ubi Soft
  
• Overall Best Game of the Show — XIII, Ubi Soft
  
• The London Games Week Award — Half-Life 2, Vivendi