CGW Announced 1999 Premier Award Nominees
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Every year, for the past 14 years, editors of Computer *** World reflect on the year's
best games and *** hardware. On Wednesday, CGW released a list of the nominees in its
annual Premier Awards. Winners will be unveiled online on Feb. 10. The Feb. 22 awards
ceremony will have a March 6 broadcast on ZDTV. The Premier Awards will be featured in the
April 1999 issue of CGW magazine, which hits newsstands nationwide on March 2.
Action
Battlezone (Activision)
Half-Life (Sierra Studios)
Heretic 2 (Activision)
Rainbow Six (Red Storm)
Thief: The Dark Project (Looking Glass/Eidos)
Adventure
Blackstone Chronicles (Legend/Mindscape Entertainment)
Grim Fandango (LucasArts)
King's Quest VIII (Sierra)
Redguard (Bethesda)
Sanitarium (Dreamforge/ASC Games)
Role-Playing
Baldur's Gate (Interplay)
Fallout 2 (Interplay)
Final Fantasy VII (Squaresoft/Eidos)
Might & Magic VI (New World Computing/3DO)
Return to Krondor (Sierra)
Simulation
Combat Flight Simulator (Microsoft)
European Air War (MicroProse)
F-15 (Jane's Combat Simulations)
F-22 Total Air War (Infogrames)
Falcon 4.0 (MicroProse)
WW2 Fighters (Jane's Combat Simulations)
Space Simulation
Descent: Freespace (Interplay)
Independence War (Infogrames)
Sports
FIFA 98 (EA Sports)
Front Office Football (Solecismic Software)
Links LS '99 (Access)
Madden 99 (EA Sports)
NHL 99 (EA Sports)
Driving
F1 Racing Simulation (UbiSoft)
Grand Prix Legends (Sierra Sports/Papyrus)
Motocross Madness (Microsoft)
Moto Racer 2 (EA)
Need for Speed 3 (EA)
Strategy
Populous: The Beginning (Bullfrog/EA)
Railroad Tycoon II (PopTop/Gathering of Developers)
Starcraft (Blizzard)
Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate (SSI)
Wargames
Aide De Camp 2 (HPS Simulations)
Great Battles of Julius Caesar (Erudite/Interactive Magic)
Operational Art of War (TalonSoft)
West Front (TalonSoft)
*** Hardware
Monster Sound MX300 (Diamond)
MouseMan+ Mouse (Logitech)
Sidewinder Force Feedback Steering Wheel (Microsoft)
Xterminator Gamepad (Gravis)
YST-M28 speakers (Yamaha)
Add-On
Age of Empires: Rise of Rome (Ensemble/Microsoft)
Diablo: Hellfire (Sierra)
Starcraft: Brood War (Blizzard)
Total Annihilation: Core Contingency (Cavedog)
Doh.
