The holiday award season marches on! This time it's our friends at 1Up.com that are asking for the votes of you, the gamer, to determine their top ranked games of 2006. Again, Galactic Civilizations II is in the running for :
- Best Strategy Game
- Game of the Year!
The difference between 1Up and GameSpy is that the 1Up awards aren't broken down by platform, so when you're voting in the Best Strategy Game category, you're picking from the best strategy games released across ALL platforms in 2006. We're being pitted against great games such as Company of Heroes, Disgea 2 for the PS2 and LOTR: Battle for Middle Earth 2 for the PC and 360).
For the Game of the Year category, we've been placed in the company of outstanding games like Gears of War (360), The Legend of Zelda: The Twilight Princess (Wii) and Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (PC, 360). That's a very impressive list and we've made it to the final round. So here I am again, asking everyone here to do their part in helping to make Gal Civ II the Strategy Game and Overall Game of the Year for 2006!
Voters from 1Up.com, Electronic Gaming Monthly and Games for Windows Magazine are all casting their ballots here. This is a very prestigious Game of the Year competition and we need your help to win.
Go vote, get your friends to vote, bug your family to cast their ballots. Spread the word far and wide to all the gamers you know!