Video Game BAFTA's

[justbiglee]

The BAFTA's are on March 16th and will be hosted by Dara O’Briain. (which is cool, i like him) The ceremony will be streamed live on BAFTA's website too - no news on TV broadcast yet. I can't remember where I watched it last year.


anyways here's the list of nominees. Discuss.

Action

• Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood (Ubisoft)
• Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (EA)
• BioShock 2 (2K Games)
• Call Of Duty: Black Ops (Activision)
• God Of War III (SCEE)
• Halo: Reach (Microsoft Games Studios)

Artistic Achievement

• Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood (Ubisoft)
• Call Of Duty: Black Ops (Activision)
• God Of War III (SCEE)
• Heavy Rain (SCEE)
• Limbo (Playdead)
• Mass Effect 2 (EA)

Best Game

• Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood (Ubisoft)
• FIFA 11 (EA)
• Heavy Rain (SCEE)
• Limbo (Playdead)
• Mass Effect 2 (EA)
• Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Nintendo)

Family

• Dance Central (Microsoft Games Studios / MTV Games)
• Kinect Adventures (Microsoft Games Studios)
• Kinect Sports (Microsoft Games Studios)
• Kinectimals (Microsoft Games Studios)
• Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4 (Warner Bros)
• Toy Story 3 (Disney Interactive)

Gameplay

• Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood (Ubisoft)
• God Of War III (SCEE)
• Heavy Rain (SCEE)
• Limbo (Playdead)
• Mass Effect 2 (EA)
• Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Nintendo)

Handheld

• Cut The Rope (Chillingo)
• God Of War: Ghost Of Sparta (SCEE)
• Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4 (Warner Bros)
• Professor Layton And The Lost Future (Nintendo)
• Sonic Colours (Sega)
• Super Scribblenauts (Warner Bros)

Multiplayer

• Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood (Ubisoft)
• Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (EA)
• Call Of Duty: Black Ops (Activision)
• Halo: Reach (Microsoft Games Studios)
• Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit (EA)
• Starcraft II: Wings Of Liberty (Blizzard)

Original Music

• Alan Wake (Microsoft Games Studios)
• Fable III (Microsoft Games Studios)
• Heavy Rain (SCEE)
• James Bond 007: Bloodstone (Activision)
• Mass Effect 2 (EA)
• Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Nintendo)

Social Network Game

• Bejeweled Blitz (PopCap)
• Farmerama (Bigpoint)
• FIFA Superstars (EA)
• My Empire (Playfish)
• Zoo Mumba (Bigpoint)
• Zuma Blitz (PopCap)

Sports

• F1 2010 (Codemasters)
• FIFA 11 (EA)
• Football Manager 2011 (EA)
• Gran Turismo 5 (SCEE)
• International Cricket 2010 (Codemasters)
• Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 (Konami)

Story

• Alan Wake (Microsoft Games Studios)
• BioShock 2 (2K Games)
• Call Of Duty: Black Ops (Activision)
• Fallout: New Vegas (Bethesda)
• Heavy Rain (SCEE)
• Mass Effect 2 (EA)

Strategy

• Civilization V (2K Games)
• Fallout: New Vegas (Bethesda)
• FIFA Manager 11 (EA)
• Napoleon Total War (Sega)
• Plants Vs Zombies XBLA (PopCap)
• Starcraft II: Wings Of Liberty (Blizzard)

Technical Innovation

• Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood (Ubisoft)
• Call Of Duty: Black Ops (Activision)
• Halo: Reach (Microsoft Games Studios)
• Heavy Rain (SCEE)
• Kinectimals (Microsoft Games Studios)
• Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Nintendo)

Use Of Audio

• Alan Wake (Microsoft Games Studios)
• Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood (Ubisoft)
• Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (EA)
• Call Of Duty: Black Ops (Activision)
• DJ Hero 2 (Activision)
• Limbo (Playdead)

BAFTA Ones To Watch Award

• Mush (Angry Mango)
• Sculpty (Team Tickle)
• Twang (That Game Studio)

Game Award Of 2010 - public vote

• Call Of Duty: Black Ops (Activision)
• Dance Central (Microsoft Games Studios / MTV Games)
• FIFA 11 (EA)
• Halo: Reach (Microsoft Games Studios)
• Heavy Rain (SCEE)
• Limbo (Playdead)
• Mass Effect 2 (EA)
• Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit (EA)
• Red Dead Redemption (Rockstar Games)
• Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Nintendo)

[The Preacher]

What the fuck is New Vegas doing under the strategy category? That is such a massive cock-up I don't even know where to begin. It's not a fucking strategy game at all! If New Vegas wins that over Napoleon or Plants vs. Zombies, I will spend literally the rest of that day in a massive fucking huff.

[Adam]

It's in Strategy because it's a more generalised term for RP, it's easier to sell that way. The Video Game BAFTA's are there to pretty much sell the industry to the rest of the country and promote awareness that it's big enough to warrant having a fairly high profile event to honor that. It would be great if the BAFTAs could be a little more in line with our thinking but we're not there yet The only thing that bites me is that they list the publishers alongside the game rather than the developers -I would much rather see Bungie's name next to Halo than Microsoft Game Studios but Bungie isn't a recognisable brand that far out into the public.

I'd very much like to see Mass Effect sweep that board, particularly for Artistic Achievement. The cinematic quality is something that games have tried to replicate for years but fail to do because they always end up coming short on gameplay, I think ME2 kicked that one right in the teeth.

I'd hope Halo: Reach could take best Multiplayer and Technical Innovation for Forge alone, the breadth of possibilities with that game is nuts and it's a shame that Bungie haven't seen many awards go their way this year. Reach was by far the greatest of the Halo series (imo) and it would be great to see that rewarded.

Be nice to see Alan Wake win both its Music and Audio categories, I'm told it really does sell the experience.

And the public votes going to CODBLOPS whether we like it or not :p

[Rynstex]

Story
Call Of Duty: Black Ops (Activision)

Is like Twilight being nominated for an Oscar.

Edit: Just noticed it's in the Technical Innovation category too, what did it do so impressive?

[justbiglee]

Is like Twilight being nominated for an Oscar.

Edit: Just noticed it's in the Technical Innovation category too, what did it do so impressive?

that made me laugh

[Mr Swift]

that made me laugh

It's funny and true!

Best multiplayer just for the uniqueness is AC:B

Reach has the technical inovation for me!

Best game: mass effect 2

[The Preacher]

Surely technical innovation should go for something that was... actually innovative on technical terms? Seems to me that the only one that really qualifies there is Kinectimals. Crap shovelware to give people something to do with the hardware until better games come along or not, at least the Kinect is new and innovative. None of the others are.

[joeydale13]

I'd like to see Heavy Rain pick up a couple of gongs. Loved the game, fresh and unique.

[Adam]

Surely technical innovation should go for something that was... actually innovative on technical terms? Seems to me that the only one that really qualifies there is Kinectimals. Crap shovelware to give people something to do with the hardware until better games come along or not, at least the Kinect is new and innovative. None of the others are.

Reach's Forge and Theatre modes are well worth the nods. Heavy Rain so because of its gesture based control scheme that manages to pull you into what is essentially an interactive movie. AC Multiplayer mode is worthy of its nod, that sort of mutiplayer hasn't been tried beyond Indie game The Ship and bot CODBLOPS and Mario get the nomination because Mario is still selling games 25 years later and CODBLOPS has managed to dupe a lot of stupid people of their money?

You are right, it should really be for more innovative things but in the AAA world of games that people on the street can say they've heard of, thats what we get

[justbiglee]

if i was the golden faced BAFTA king this is how i'd go.

Action

• Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (EA)

Artistic Achievement

• Mass Effect 2 (EA)

Best Game

• Mass Effect 2 (EA)

Family

• Kinectimals (Microsoft Games Studios)

Gameplay

• Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Nintendo)

didn't see that one coming did you?

Handheld

• Cut The Rope (Chillingo)

Multiplayer

• Halo: Reach (Microsoft Games Studios)

Original Music

• Alan Wake (Microsoft Games Studios)

or

• Mass Effect 2 (EA)

I cant make my mind up

Social Network Game
not played any of these i cant believe its even a category

Sports

• F1 2010 (Codemasters)

Story

• Mass Effect 2 (EA)

Strategy

• Starcraft II: Wings Of Liberty (Blizzard)

not much experience in this one based on what i have seen and played though (i ignored fallout because it was in the wrong hole)

Technical Innovation

• Halo: Reach (Microsoft Games Studios)

Use Of Audio

• Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (EA)

BAFTA Ones To Watch Award

• i dont know what these are

Game Award Of 2010 - public vote

• Mass Effect 2 (EA)