Video-game BAFTAs Announced

Quote:

---

Nominations
16 February 2010

Action

Assassin’s Creed II

Batman: Arkham Asylum

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

inFAMOUS

Left 4 Dead 2

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

Artistic Achievement

Assassin’s Creed II

Batman: Arkham Asylum

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

Flower

Streetfighter IV

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves


Best Game

Assassin’s Creed II

Batman: Arkham Asylum

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

FIFA 10

Left 4 Dead 2

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

Family & Social

The Beatles: Rock Band

Buzz! Quiz World

EyePet

Guitar Hero 5

New Super Mario Bros Wii

Wii Sports Resort

Gameplay

Assassin’s Creed II

Batman: Arkham Asylum

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

New Super Mario Bros Wii

PixelJunk Shooter

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

Handheld

Gran Turismo

LittleBigPlanet (PSP)

LocoRoco Midnight Carnival

Mario and Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story

Professor Layton and Pandora’s Box

Scribblenauts

Multiplayer

Battlefield 1943

The Beatles: Rock Band

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

Halo 3 ODST

Left 4 Dead 2

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

Original Score

Assassin’s Creed II

Batman: Arkham Asylum

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

PixelJunk Shooter

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

Sports

Colin McRae: DiRT 2

FIFA 10

Football Manager 2010

Forza 3

Wii Fit Plus

Wii Sports Resort


Story

Assassin’s Creed II

Batman: Arkham Asylum

Broken Sword – Shadow of the Templars: The Director’s Cut

Brutal Legend

Dragon Age: Origins

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves


Strategy

Command and Conquer 3: Uprising

Empire: Total War

FIFA Manager 10

Football Manager 2010

Halo Wars

Plants vs Zombies

Use of Audio

Batman: Arkham Asylum

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

DJ Hero

Flower

Left 4 Dead 2

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

Use of Online

Battlefield 1943

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

FIFA 10

LIttleBigPlanet (PSP)

Singstar TakeThat

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

GAME Award of 2009
(The only award to be voted for by the public)

Assassin’s Creed II

Batman Arkham Asylum

The Beatles: Rockband

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

FIFA 10

GTA China Town Wars

Legend of Zelda Spirit Tracks

Street Fighter IV

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

Wii Sports Resort

---

It's bad knowing that Casual of Duty: MW2 is going to win everything.

Saddened to know that Borderlands didn't get one single nomination.

Arkham Asylum/ Uncharted 2 are my picks to take Best Game. Rocksteady is a UK based developer (Arkham) and Uncharted 2 is just downright delicious.

MW2 certainly up for lot there. Hope FIFA 10 dosen't win anything, its too glitchy and crappy tbh.

AC2 for story - it's quite amazing and I really got into it

Quote:

---

Action

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

Artistic Achievement

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

Best Game

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

Family & Social

Guitar Hero 5

Gameplay

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

Multiplayer

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

Original Score

Batman: Arkham Asylum

Sports

Colin McRae: DiRT 2

Story

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves


GAME Award of 2009
(The only award to be voted for by the public)
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

---

Those are my predictions and what i think deserve some of the wins.

Quote:

---

Action


Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2


Artistic Achievement


Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2


Best Game


Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2


Family & Social


Wii Sports Resort


Gameplay


Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2


Handheld


Professor Layton and Pandora’s Box


Multiplayer


Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2


Original Score



Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2


Sports


Wii Sports Resort


Story

Assassin’s Creed II


Strategy


Command and Conquer 3: Uprising


Use of Audio


Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2


Use of Online


Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2


GAME Award of 2009
(The only award to be voted for by the public)


Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

---

And here are my predictions..Pretty annoyed that Borderlands didn't at least get nominated for multiplayer, it's far better that most of those listed.

Whether MW2 deserves much of that is another matter, I'd be happy to see MW2 take use of audio and that's about it.

This would be the only one to grind my gears, since the whole BAFTA awards are pretty casual anyway.

Quote:

---

Artistic Achievement

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

---

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Apeel

This would be the only one to grind my gears, since the whole BAFTA awards are pretty casual anyway.

---

Well as far as the campaign goes it's pretty mind blowing but other than that the whole game is just CoD4 reskinned, modders on the PC could of done it.

Not exactly artistic. Sure it was epic wins and represented the brutality and desperation, exactly what an artistic achievement is.

Flower or Assassin's Creed 2 deserves it more.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Apeel

Not exactly artistic. Sure it was epic wins and represented the brutality and desperation, exactly what an artistic achievement is.

Flower or Assassin's Creed 2 deserves it more.

---

flower wasnt new last year was it? :S

and tbh, although U2 was a lot like the graphics in the first game, it was still faaaaaaaar better than that of any of those nominated.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Apeel

Not exactly artistic. Sure it was epic wins and represented the brutality and desperation, exactly what an artistic achievement is.

Flower or Assassin's Creed 2 deserves it more.

---

Assassins Creed 2 deserves the majority of the listings to be honest, Borderlands should of had multiplayer related ones, although MW2 is good online it's too generic now, L4D2 was ok but half the time you never got into full lobbies.

Batman maybe for a few as well but I donno, it was a sweet game but I'm not sure it compares well for Assassins Creed, then obvious handheld winner and the family games stuff, Nintendo are all over that.

Action
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

Artistic Achievement
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

Best Game
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

Gameplay
Assassin’s Creed II
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

Handheld
LittleBigPlanet (PSP)

Multiplayer
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

Original Score
Assassin’s Creed II
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

Story
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

Use of Audio
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

Use of Online
Battlefield 1943
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

GAME Award of 2009
(The only award to be voted for by the public)
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (and I obv voted for it)#

Those are the ones I wouldn't mind winning, if I deleted a topic it means I didn't play the games (or the majority).

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Neil

Assassins Creed 2 deserves the majority of the listings to be honest, Borderlands should of had multiplayer related ones, although MW2 is good online it's too generic now, L4D2 was ok but half the time you never got into full lobbies.

Batman maybe for a few as well but I donno, it was a sweet game but I'm not sure it compares well for Assassins Creed, then obvious handheld winner and the family games stuff, Nintendo are all over that.

---

I totally agree with Borderlands. Never had more fun with co-op in any videogame ever.

MW2 has run out of game, hasn't reinvented the cycle, broke most of its mechanics. L4D2 is great for PC but us 360ers get awful server connections.

Arkham Asylum was a breath of fresh air from the usual comic book tripe. You can't compare it to Assassins Creed really, since Arkham is strictly linear and Creed has more freedom.

Nintendo will win all the casual categories because it prints money.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by kk.

flower wasnt new last year was it?

and tbh, although U2 was a lot like the graphics in the first game, it was still faaaaaaaar better than that of any of those nominated.

---

Flower was released in February. I remember playing the review copy and being awestruck by it.

Uncharted 2 is the real deserver of 'Best Game', but it's so obvious Casual of Duty 2 will win.

Here's my list. Italics is what I personally want to win and normal is what my predictions of what will win.

Quote:

---

Action

Batman: Arkham Asylum

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

Artistic Achievement

Assassin’s Creed II

Flower

Best Game

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

Gameplay


Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

(TIE)
PixelJunk Shooter

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

Multiplayer

No real point in 'wanting', since it's to inevitable MW2 will win.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

Original Score

Assassin’s Creed II

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

Story

Assassin’s Creed II

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

Strategy

Command and Conquer 3: Uprising


Halo Wars

Plants vs Zombies

Use of Audio

Batman: Arkham Asylum

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

Use of Online


Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

GAME Award of 2009
(The only award to be voted for by the public)

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

---

Not necessarily, uncharted 2 got goty when most thought it would be MW2.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by mrselenagomez

Not necessarily, uncharted 2 got goty when most thought it would be MW2.

---

So did Borderlands, MW2 and I think some Wii game but I don't remember.

BAFTAs decide the actual GoTY.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Neil

So did Borderlands, MW2 and I think some Wii game but I don't remember.

BAFTAs decide the actual GoTY.

---

Arguable.

Most publishers regard the 'Spike TV VGAs' and the GDC awards (next month), I remember when the ESRB wouldn't allow the GotY of Fallout 3 to be commissioned until GDC awards came in.

BAFTAs still count though. Too bad they usually just shove celebrities on our screens, who are apparently 'gamers'.

Not to say some celebs aren't gamers, it's all for publicity really, Dara (who's hosting) is an older gamer than I am.

So really there is no real Game of the Year, personally I'd go by BAFTAs because that's more official but I guess in the "gaming universe" stuff like GDC and Spike is something better to go by.

I guess it's best they had more than one GoTY anyway, if I had my way you could only get GoTY if it was a new IP or at least a previous game in the series hadn't already got it.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Neil

So really there is no real Game of the Year, personally I'd go by BAFTAs because that's more official but I guess in the "gaming universe" stuff like GDC and Spike is something better to go by.

I guess it's best they had more than one GoTY anyway, if I had my way you could only get GoTY if it was a new IP or at least a previous game in the series hadn't already got it.

---

BAFTAs are always biased towards the casual audience, or British developers. GDC is more of a collective of worldwide developers and journalists.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Apeel

It's bad knowing that Casual of Duty: MW2 is going to win everything. ...

---

LMAO :P MW2 and FIFA10 are the only games on that list which I've played and they certainly don't deserve any of those awards. Why is FIFA10 even nominated for best game? :S Just from what I see people talking about on the forum, I'm sure lots of those other nominations are far superior.

I want The Beatles: Rock Band to win family & social. I know it will probably be a Wii game or Guitar Hero 5 though.

Where is ODST on original score? Martin O'Donnel is a genius.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Coheed&Cambria

Where is ODST on original score? Martin O'Donnel is a genius.

---

Even I will agree with this.