BAFTA Award Winners – A Surprise In Store!

Alan Baxter On March - 19 - 2010

Much to my surprise, disbelief and bewilderment, Batman: Arkham Asylum has won the Best Game award at the recent British Academy Video Game Awards. Either Uncharted 2 or Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 were touted to win the coveted prize, and in my opinion deserved it more than Batman’s latest adventure. Don’t get me wrong, Batman: Arkham Asylum is a great game, but the technical achievements and storyline of Uncharted 2 and the sales figures of MW2 surely out them at a higher running than the caped crusader?

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The incredible Uncharted 2 did get some recollection it deserves however as it picked up the Best Action Game, Best Use of Audio, Best Original Score and Best Story awards; well played Naughty Dog!

The fact that Left 4 Dead 2 pipped Modern Warfare 2 to the Best Multiplayer award does give me suspicions that the awards are either fixed or a complete bunch of crap? I’m a COD fanboy indeed, but surely the stats don’t lie.

Check out the list below for all of the Categories which are highlighted in bold, followed by the nominees and the winners of each category, which are again highlighted in bold. Leave a comment below and give us your thoughts – Do you agree with the winners? If not, who should have won and why?

Action

  • Assassin’s Creed II
  • Batman: Arkham Asylum
  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
  • inFAMOUS
  • 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

Use of Online

  • Battlefield 1943
  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
  • FIFA 10
  • LIttleBigPlanet PSP
  • SingStar Take That
  • Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

Use of Audio

  • Batman: Arkham Asylum
  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
  • DJ Hero
  • Flower
  • Left 4 Dead 2
  • Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

Handheld

  • Gran Turismo
  • LittleBigPlanet PSP
  • LocoRoco Midnight Carnival
  • Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story
  • Professor Layton and Pandora’s Box
  • Scribblenauts

GAME Award of 2009

  • Assassin’s Creed II
  • Batman: Arkham Asylum
  • The Beatles: Rock Band
  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
  • FIFA 10
  • Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars
  • The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks
  • Street Fighter IV
  • Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
  • Wii Sports Resort

Strategy

  • Command & Conquer 3: Uprising
  • Empire: Total War
  • FIFA Manager 10
  • Football Manager 2010
  • Halo Wars
  • Plants vs Zombies

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

Multiplayer

  • Battlefield 1943
  • The Beatles: Rock Band
  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
  • Halo 3: ODST
  • Left 4 Dead 2
  • Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

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

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

BAFTA Ones To Watch Award in association with Dare to Be Digital

  • Colour Coded (Murray Sinclair, Faye Wright, Liam Wong, Sean Donnelly, Nnanna Kama – PixelPirates)
  • Quick as Thieves (William Wright, Michael Doig, Andrew Knight, Jamie MacKinnon, Lee Cresswell – Gentleman of Fortune)
  • Shrunk! – Vykintas Kazdailis, Andrew Macdonald, Michael Cummings, Jacek Wernikowski, Stuart Kemp – The Butterflyers)

Artistic Achievement

  • Assassin’s Creed II
  • Batman: Arkham Asylum
  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
  • Flower
  • Street Fighter 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
Categories: Editorial, Feature

4 Responses

  1. Josh-sama says:
    March 19, 2010 at 11:09 pm

    I must agree with the L4D2 reward! L4D requires a lot more of a co-operative game style and team work rather than a group of 11 year olds whining about campers and glitching. Sure the L4D system may be simple but they made such a great game out of it with graphics and physics to back it up. I mean compare hacking apart hordes of zombies with an axe or chainsaw to knifing on Call of Duty?

  2. James says:
    March 19, 2010 at 11:45 pm

    Multiplayer for me would be Fifa 10 or ODST. GOTY? Uncharted 2

  3. Steven Taylor says:
    March 20, 2010 at 1:11 am

    IMO the game-ruining glitches cost MW2 the award

  4. Alan Baxter says:
    March 20, 2010 at 9:42 am

    I agree Steve, and probably agree with you James about Uncharted being GOTY

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