Crumpled Tin Awards: Sports Games

In the spirit of the season, that being the making of top ten lists and yearly awards, I hereby inaugurate the First Annual Crumpled Tin Awards. These really are (mostly) for the best games, but will have to be made out of crumpled tin. After all, this site is still noncommercial so I can barely afford the shipping here. But, I've cornered the market on useless old tin and various metals, so that's what the trophies will be. I've got a poll on the sidebar for you to vote for Game of the Year. It's not like whoever gets the most votes wins, because I decide which game I liked the most, but vote anyway and maybe I'll see your point. Anyway, today's Crumpled Tin Award is for the best Sports game of 2007. This will actually require two awards to be given out, I've decided. First:



The Crumpled Tin for Best Sports Game of the Year goes to:

Skate by EA Canada

My personal favorite game of the year, and the one I made the most money off of when I got 60 bucks for writing an FAQ for it. Skate beat out the Tony Hawk series in the minds of most this year, a previously unheard-of feat, even though Thrasher: Skate and Destroy was totally better than Tony Hawk's Pro Skater to begin with. Skate's innovative controls polarized public opinion, which always makes for a great game. That's my site's new motto, actually: "Controversiality equals Quality" There's only one issue, and that's people who don't consider skateboarding a sport. Okay, then, here's---


The Crumpled Tin for Best Sports Game if you don't consider skateboarding a sport (AKA second best sports game) of the Year goes to:

FIFA 08 from EA Somewhere Other Than Canada

I'm reluctant to do this, because I'm generally not much of a FIFA fan, but I think that it got the prize among conventional sports games. I don't have much conviction here, so comment if you think differently before I can get the Crumpled Tin in the mail.