MTV Multiplayer continues one of their most popular features, and today has announced the results of their "Greatest Aquatic Animal in the History of Video Games" search. Multiplayer's Tracey John had asked me to participate as a judge, and I could have had a tougher job.
The world of aquatic animals in gaming is great and complicated, from the Bloopers from Super Mario Bros. to the Finny the Fish of Finny the Fish & the Seven Waters "fame." Ultimately, the spirit and influence of Destructoid's dolphin-loving Chad Concelmo forced the hands of the judges, and Sega's Ecco the Dolphin emerged as an overwhelming favorite.
I know our own Hamsa "CTZ" Aziz will be miffed that no sharks were chosen as finalists -- was a grave error in judgement made when choosing Ecco the Dolphin?
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9:54 AM on 04.02.2008
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I threw my vote in for Seaman, man!
Developers need to think out side of the box on this too. Just because it deals with a shark, doesn't mean it has to be in present times. Why not have a futuristic setting? Underwater colonies in glass bubbles you can fuck with. Destroy and flood their homes, drown people and their colonies bit by bit. Fight off submarines and deep sea diving suits like big daddies from Bioshock. Or tear apart an entire underwater city like Rapture.
How terrifying would that have been in Bioshock to see a massive great white slowly drift by a window as you walk down a dimly lit hallway and just as you think he safely passed by without seeing you he snaps back and shatters the glass window flooding the room and you have to haul your ass quick-like. I want to be that Shark!
Yay.
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