All the buzz on the year that was. It's our 2004 Louie Awards.

The Tales franchise isn’t quite as famous here in the US as it is in Japan, but that doesn’t make its latest iteration, Tales of Symphonia, any less spectacular. A stunning cel-shaded world, an epic soundtrack, and an innovative battle system showed that the folks at Namco just know how to make their games. One can only hope that the studio makes another GameCube game in the near future.