Now that, sadly, E3 is over I wanted to announce my “Best and Worst of E3″, and give my final impressions.

Final Impressions: I am completely overwhelmed with the games coming to us the rest of this year, and in a few cases, next year. It may actually take a few days to absorb this avalanche of content. I can’t contain my excitement with so many amazing titles coming out and I’ve already generated a list of the games I want to play, and it’s LONG. The game publishers and developers are spoiling gamers ROTTEN and it’s going to be an incredible fall and holiday season, probably the best yet!

Best and Worst:

Best Console Manufacturer and First Party Developer Conference:

Winner: Microsoft. With a conference where they have so many amazing games coming out they were really pressed for time trying to cover them all, the biggest “surprise” announcement – Final Fantasy XIII coming to the Xbox360, and huge changes for Live, Microsoft packed the biggest punch.

Runner Up: Sony. With Little Big Planet, Resistance 2, and Resistance Retribution coming, Sony console and handheld owners have some great material to look forward to. God of War for the PS3 was also a huge announcement.

Loser: Nintendo. An extremely annoying host showed us a slew of games targeted dead-on for casual and non-traditional gamers, completely alienating their hardcore base. One of the most interesting games coming out this year, Deadly Creatures, was not even featured at their press conference. Other than that, Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party was the only game at Nintendo’s press event that got me excited.

Best Publisher Conference:

Winner: Ubisoft. So many amazing-looking titles, for multiple consoles. The announcement of Jade Raymond’s new game “I Am Alive”. Incredible innovation, such as the voice commands on Tom Clancy’s EndWar. Not surprisingly, Ubisoft came through for gamers, especially hardcore gamers, again with the strongest all-around lineup in my opinion.

Runner Up: Electronic Arts. With possibly the most interesting game coming out this holiday: Mirror’s Edge, as well as a boatload of other interesting titles EA has a very strong lineup this year and their press conference was compelling from beginning to end.

Loser: Capcom. We know about Resident Evil 5 and Street Fighter but Capcom didn’t bother talking about them or ANY other game at their press conference. They devoted the entire thing to the announcement of a Lost Planet movie. No doubt exciting news, but after the first 10 minutes of talking about it not so much, especially when we want to hear more about the two aforementioned games as well as what else they’re working on.

Best Game: Nintendo console/handheld:

Winner: Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party. Each installment of this series has been the most hilarious fun I’ve ever had playing videogames, and this year’s edition looks like it will be no exception.

Runner Up: Deadly Creatures. Although not featured at Nintendo’s press event, this game looks completely different than anything I’ve ever played before, and that’s exciting. You play as a spider or scorpion exploring your world and fending for yourself against deadly creatures such as rattlesnakes and even humans.

Loser: Wii Music. I don’t want to play the Super Mario theme on a music based game where you just goof around not trying to play notes that remotely go along with the music, just “winging it” with not consequences because the game “fixes” what you do and turns it into real music. If you count classic videogame themes as real music.

Best Game: Xbox 360:

Winner: This might have some Gears of War junkies cringing, but I’ve got to go with Fallout 3. With over 100 hours of gameplay brought to us from the makers of Oblivion and lots of exclusive download content I am teeming with excitement.

Runner Up: Rock Band 2. A lot of improvements, the ability to play all your download content from Rock Band with Rock Band 2, and even the ability to play most of the tracks from the original disc with Rock Band 2 (without switching discs), plus no cover songs, 84 on discs songs and a bunch of free downloads at launch, and last but not least, 500 songs by the end of the year… My head is spinning just thinking about it.

Loser: You’re In the Movies. This game looked like it would probably be fun for kids, but way, way, WAY too goofy, silly, and ridiculous for everyone else.

Best game Sony console/handheld:

Winner: Little Big Planet. An innovative game where the player can unleash their creativity with a quirkily charming art style and share their creativity with friends.

Runner Up: Resistance 2. Amazing graphics and gameplay, 60 player skirmishes. Wow. Just wow.

Loser: All the PS2 games… We are still sitting through PS2 game presentations at E3 ‘08 WHY??????

I know some of you have your own favorites, feel free to reply with those. (I know some of you Gears heads want to respond!). I hope you enjoyed my E3 coverage. I do have one more post coming pertaining to E3 that is a response to an editorial on IGN that questions whether the E3 events should continue. I’ll have that next time. Also coming soon, my impressions on the Too Human demo on Xbox Live Marketplace.