Bafta 2011 - video game awards - winners announced!

[Gannu]

Academy Fellowship:

Peter Molyneux

Action:

Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood

Gaëlec Simard

Ubisoft Entertainment/Ubisoft Montreal



Battlefield: Bad Company 2

Patrick Bach, David Goldfarb

Electronic Arts/DICE

BioShock 2

Jordan Thomas, Zak McClendon

2K Games/2K Marin

Call of Duty: Black Ops

Development Team

Activision Blizzard UK Ltd/Treyarch

God of War III

Stig Asmussen, Todd Papy, Steve Caterson

Sony Computer Entertainment/SCE Santa Monica Studio

Halo: Reach

Marcus Lehton, Joe Tung, Alex Cutting

Microsoft Games Studios/Bungie

Artistic Achievement:

God of War III

Stig Asmussen, Ken Feldman, Cecil Kim

Sony Computer Entertainment/SCE Santa Monica Studio



Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood

Mohamed Gambouz

Ubisoft Entertainment/Ubisoft Montreal

Call of Duty: Black Ops

Colin Whitney, Brian Anderson, Dominique Drozdz

Activision Blizzard UK Ltd/Treyarch

Heavy Rain

David Cage, Guillaume de Fondaumiere, Scott Johnson

Sony Computer Entertainment/Quantic Dream & XDev Studio Europe

LIMBO

Arnt Jensen, Morten Bramsen

Xbox Live Arcade/Playdead Games

Mass Effect 2

Development Team

Electronic Arts/BioWare

Best Game:

Mass Effect 2

Development Team

Electronic Arts/BioWare

Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood

Vincent Pontbriand

Ubisoft Entertainment/Ubisoft Montreal

FIFA 11

Kaz Makita, David Rutter, Gavin Paterson

Electronic Arts/ Electronic Arts Canada

Heavy Rain

David Cage, Guillaume de Fondaumiere, Scott Johnson

Sony Computer Entertainment/Quantic Dream & XDev Studio Europe

LIMBO

Arnt Jensen, Dino Patti, Mads Wibroe

Xbox Live Arcade/Playdead Games

Super Mario Galaxy 2

Koichi Hayashida, Yoshiaki Koizumi, Takashi Tezuka

Nintendo/Nintendo

Family:

Kinect Sports

Development Team

Microsoft Games Studios/Rare



Dance Central

Development Team

Microsoft Games Studios & MTV Games/MTV & Harmonix

Kinect Adventures

Development Team

Microsoft Games Studios/Good Science Studio

Kinectimals

Development Team

Microsoft Games Studios/Frontier Developments Ltd

LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4

Development Team

Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment/TT Games

Toy Story 3

John Blackburn, Jonathan Warner, Jeff Bunker

Disney Interactive Studios/Avalanche Software

Gameplay:

Super Mario Galaxy 2

Koichi Hayashida, Yoshiaki Koizumi, Takashi Tezuka

Nintendo/Nintendo



Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood

Patrick Plourde

Ubisoft Entertainment/Ubisoft Montreal

God of War III

Stig Asmussen, Todd Papy, Adam Puhl

Sony Computer Entertainment/SCE Santa Monica Studio

Heavy Rain

David Cage, Guillaume de Fondaumiere, Scott Johnson

Sony Computer Entertainment/Quantic Dream & XDev Studio Europe

LIMBO

Arnt Jensen, Jeppe Carlsen, Peter Buchardt

Xbox Live Arcade/Playdead Games

Mass Effect 2

Development Team

Electronic Arts/BioWare

Handheld:

Cut the Rope

Efim Voinov, Semyon Voinov

Chillingo/Zeptolab



God of War: Ghost of Sparta

Development Team

Sony Computer Entertainment/Ready at Dawn & SCE Santa Monica Studio

LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4

Development Team

Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment/TT Games

Professor Layton and the Lost Future

Akihiro Hino

Nintendo/Level 5 Games

Sonic Colours

Development Team

SEGA/Sonic Team

Super Scribblenauts

Joseph M Tringali, Marius Fahlbusch, Jeremiah Slaczka

Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment/5th Cell

Multiplayer:

Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit

Development Team

Electronic Arts/Criterion Games



Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood

Yann le Guyader

Ubisoft Entertainment/Ubisoft Montreal

Battlefield: Bad Company 2

Patrick Bach, David Goldfarb

Electronic Arts/DICE

Call of Duty: Black Ops

Mark Gordon, Dan Bunting, David Vonderhaar

Activision Blizzard UK Ltd/Treyarch

Halo: Reach

Development Team

Microsoft Games Studios/Bungie

Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty

Development Team

Blizzard Entertainment/Blizzard Entertainment

Original Music:

Heavy Rain

Normand Corbeil

Sony Computer Entertainment/Quantic Dream & XDev Studio Europe

Alan Wake

Petri Alanko

Microsoft Games Studios/Remedy

Fable III

Russell Shaw

Microsoft Games Studios/Lionhead Studios

James Bond 007: Bloodstone

Richard Jacques

Activision Blizzard UK/ Bizarre Creations

Mass Effect 2

Jack Wall

Electronic Arts/BioWare

Super Mario Galaxy 2

Koji Kondo

Nintendo/Nintendo

Social Network Game:

My Empire

Development Team

Playfish/Playfish



Bejeweled Blitz

Jon David, Heather Hazen, Jason Kapalka

Popcap Games/Popcap Games

Farmerama

Tobias Reisberger, Jan-Michel Saaksmeier, Marten Schröder

Bigpoint/Bigpoint

FIFA Superstars

Development Team

EA Sports/Playfish

Zoo Mumba

Tobias Reisberger, Eduard Röhrich, Jan-Michel Saaksmeier

Bigpoint GMBH/Bigpoint GMBH

Zuma Blitz

Isaac Aubrey, Jon David, Jason Kapalka

PopCap Games/PopCap Games

Sports:

F1 2010

Development Team

Codemasters/Codemasters Birmingham



FIFA 11

Development Team

Electronic Arts/ Electronic Arts Canada

Football Manager 2011

Development Team

SEGA/Sports Interactive

Gran Turismo 5

Development Team

Sony Computer Entertainment/Polyphony Digital Inc

International Cricket 2010

Development Team

Codemasters/Trickstar Games

Pro Evolution Soccer 2011

Shingo Takatsuka, Naoya Hatsumi, Jon Murphy

Konami/Winning Eleven Productions

Story:

Heavy Rain

David Cage, Guillaume de Fondaumiere, Scott Johnson

Sony Computer Entertainment/Quantic Dream & XDev Studio Europe



Alan Wake

Development Team

Microsoft Games Studios/Remedy

BioShock 2

Jordan Thomas, Zak McClendon

2K Games/2K Marin

Call of Duty: Black Ops

Dave Anthony, Craig Houston

Activision Blizzard UK Ltd/Treyarch

Fallout: New Vegas

John Gonzalez, Eric Fenstermaker, Travis Stout

Bethesda Softworks/Obsidian Entertainment

Mass Effect 2

Development Team

Electronic Arts/BioWare

Strategy:

Civilization V

Jon Shafer, Dorian Newcomb, Brian Wade

2K Games/Firaxis



Fallout: New Vegas

Josh Sawyer, Frank Kowalkowski, Justin Reynard

Bethesda Softworks/Obsidian Entertainment

FIFA Manager 11

Development Team

EA Sports/Bright Future

Napoleon Total War

Development Team

SEGA/Creative Assembly

Plants vs. Zombies XBLA

George Fan, Matt Lee Johnston, Ty Roberts

PopCap Games/PopCap Games

Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty

Development Team

Blizzard Entertainment/Blizzard Entertainment

Technical Innovation:

Heavy Rain

David Cage, Guillaume de Fondaumiere, Scott Johnson

Sony Computer Entertainment/Quantic Dream & XDev Studio Europe



Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood

Stéphane Girard, Stephane Assadourian

Ubisoft Entertainment/Ubisoft Montreal

Call of Duty: Black Ops

Adam Rosas, Scott Bean, Dominique Drozdz Drozdz

Activision Blizzard UK Ltd/Treyarch

Halo: Reach

Development Team

Microsoft Games Studios/Bungie

Kinectimals

Development Team

Microsoft Games Studios/Frontier Developments Ltd

Super Mario Galaxy 2

Koichi Hayashida, Yoshiaki Koizumi, Takashi Tezuka

Nintendo/Nintendo

Use of Audio:

Battlefield: Bad Company: 2

Patrick Bach, David Goldfarb

Electronic Arts/DICE/05.03.10

Alan Wake

Development Team

Microsoft Games Studios/Remedy/14.05.10

Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood

Mathieu Jeanson

Ubisoft Entertainment/Ubisoft Montreal/19.11.10

Call of Duty: Black Ops

Brian Tuey, Chris Cowell

Activision Blizzard UK Ltd/Treyarch/ 09.11.10

DJ Hero 2

Development Team

Activision Blizzard UK LTD/Freestylegames/22.10.10

LIMBO

Martin Stig Andersen

Xbox Live Arcade/Playdead Games/21.07.10

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

Twang!

Jocce Marklund, Annette Nielsen, Linus Nordgren, Marcus Heder, Thomas Finlay

(That Game Studio)



Mush

Henry Hoffman, Ahmed Zaman, Matthew Dennis, Katherine Killick, Greg O’Brien

(Angry Mango)

Sculpty

Druhin Mukherjee, Fabien Roussot, James Long, Fraser Littlejohn, Ronan Suess

(Team Tickle)

GAME Award of 2010:

Call of Duty: Black Ops

Activision Blizzard UK Ltd/Treyarch



Dance Central

Microsoft Games Studios & MTV Games/MTV & Harmonix

FIFA 11

Electronic Arts/ Electronic Arts Canada

Halo Reach

Microsoft Games Studios/Bungie

Heavy Rain

Sony Computer Entertainment/Quantic Dream & XDev Studio Europe

Limbo

Xbox Live Arcade/Playdead Games

Mass Effect 2

Electronic Arts/BioWare

Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit

Electronic Arts/Criterion Games

Red Dead Redemption

Rockstar Games/Rockstar San Diego

Super Mario Galaxy 2

Nintendo/Nintendo

Source

Crap, Red Dead could have easily won a lot more. Rockstar did not submit the entry to BAFTA!

 

[Zinc]

And as usual the choices are pretty crap
Which gives one an idea how much persuasion has been done by the winning studios :cool2:

 

[Gannu]

Gameplay - Super Mario Galaxy 2? Seriously? :/

 

[jojothedragon]

Stupid ratings. :|

 

[thegame]

I voted for Black Ops and I feel that it truely deserves it (only last week came across this Bafta when i saw it in NFS HP where they were requesting to vote for NFS HP)

 

[Aman27deep]

I think BAFTA is shit, even Spike video game awards is better than this.

Agree with gannu, RDR is really good, although there is a serious lack of AA and Draw Distance on the PS3 version, how awesome would RDR have looked on a PC? nevermind.

 

[whatsinaname]

Gameplay - Super Mario Galaxy 2? Seriously? :/

:O

There are mechanics in individual levels of that game that could be whole games by themselves!

 

[Gannu]

:O

There are mechanics in individual levels of that game that could be whole games by themselves!

Not that I am complaining, but how could a platforming game like Super Mario have got that award when there were other contenders which were better, is what surprises me. A quick search reveals that SMG 2 has indeed received critical acclaim - not sure on what grounds was this reward chosen though. I haven't played the game since it came for the Wii so cannot comment.

Quite sad, even Alan Wake did not receive anything. The game had one of the best storylines I've played for a game till date. Between Heavy Rain and Alan Wake, although it's a tough call, my take would be Alan Wake.

 

[stalker]

Not that I am complaining,
but how could a platforming game like Super Mario have got that award when there were other contenders
A quick search reveals that SMG 2 has indeed received critical acclaim
- not sure on what grounds was this reward chosen though.
I haven't played the game since it came for the Wii so cannot comment.

Seriously Gannu? You've never played it, so there's no grounds for it to get an award? Or is it that SMG is a platformer, hence not worthy of your approval?

 

[Gannu]

Seriously Gannu? You've never played it, so there's no grounds for it to get an award? Or is it that SMG is a platformer, hence not worthy of your approval?

What I meant was I was initially baffled that a game like Super Mario won the best award for the gameplay. Not because I haven't played it, it doesn't deserve an award. Where do you draw such lame ass conclusions? :lol:

The last sentence meant I shouldn't comment any further since I haven't played it.

 

[stalker]

but how could a platforming game like Super Mario have got that award when there were other contenders
- not sure on what grounds was this reward chosen though.

Where do you draw such lame ass conclusions? :lol:

:|
Try reading what you've posted for once, before you hit the submit button

 

[Gannu]

:|
Try reading what you've posted for once, before you hit the submit button

How about posting the complete sentence for once? :/

Not that I am complaining, but how could a platforming game like Super Mario have got that award when there were other contenders which were better, is what surprises me.

Bugger stop pulling my legs. :chair:

 

[pretttt]

Why is Fallout: New Vegas among the nominees for Strategy?

 

[dinjo]

Why should Super Mario Galaxy 2 is so awesome , it has to be best gameplay mechanics used till date, especially some of the boss level.

I agree Alan wake had one of the best story lines though there were plot holes in the end, but story telling was really good,