Nintendo title scoops six of the thirteen categories at the British Academy Video Games Awards in association with PC World
Last night saw the first British Academy Video Games Awards take place at London’s Battersea Evolution, and it was Nintendo’s Wii launch title Wii Sports that stole the show, winning six of the thirteen possible awards on offer.
Nintendo’s title did not capture the coveted Best Game title, however, with 2K Games’ Bioshock swooping in to win.
The winners in full:
ACTION AND ADVENTURE
Crackdown (Xbox 360)
Development Team
Realtime Worlds/Microsoft Game Studios
ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENT
Okami (PS2)
Atsushi Inaba
Clover(Capcom)/Capcom
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BEST GAME
Bioshock (Xbox 360)
Development Team
2K Boston/2K Australia/2K Games
CASUAL
Wii Sports (Wii)
Development Team
Nintendo/Nintendo
GAMEPLAY
Wii Sports (Wii)
Development Team
Nintendo/Nintendo
INNOVATION
Wii Sports (Wii)
Development Team
Nintendo/Nintendo
MULTIPLAYER
Wii Sports (Wii)
Development Team
Nintendo/Nintendo
ORIGINAL SCORE
Okami (PS2)
Atsushi Inaba
Clover (Capcom)/Capcom
SPORTS
Wii Sports (Wii)
Development Team
Nintendo/Nintendo
STRATEGY AND SIMULATION
Wii Sports (Wii)
Development Team
Nintendo/Nintendo
STORY AND CHARACTER
God of War 2 (PS2)
Cory Barlog, David Jaffe, Marianne Krawczyk
SCE Santa Monica Studio/Sony Computer Entertainment Europe
TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT
God of War 2 (PS2)
Tim Moss, Christer Ericson
SCE Santa Monica Studio/Sony Computer Entertainment Europe
USE OF AUDIO
Crackdown (Xbox 360)
Development Team
Realtime Worlds/Microsoft Game Studios
BAFTA ONE’S TO WATCH AWARD IN ASSOCIATION WITH DARE TO BE DIGITAL
Ragnarawk
Voodoo Boogy (Malcolm Brown, Robert Clarke, Peter Carr, Lynne Robertson, Finlay Sutton)
THE PC WORLD GAMERS’ AWARD (the only award to be voted for by the public)
Football Manager 2007 (PC)
Sports Interactive/SEGA
In addition, the show climaxed with development legend and Sim City creator Will Wright scooping the highest accolade the Academy can offer – The Fellowship.
Hilary Bevan Jones, chairman of the Academy, stated: “The Academy believes video games have limitless potential to enlighten as well as entertain and our role is to encourage creative excellence in the field, for the benefit of a rapidly growing audience.”
Comments
Strategy & Simulation?!?!
How are you going to give Wii Sports a strategy & simulation NOMINATION, let alone gong!
SHOCKING that God of War 2 wasn't even nominated for best game!
Congrats to all the winners!
Re: Strategy & Simulation?!?!
I guess the nice peole at the BAFTA's are hoping to butter up Nintendo to get themselves some free Wii's for their kids, they have never played the games or they wanted to give it awards but couldn't just make up new categories for it so kinda dumped it into other ones.
Its odd really I mean its nice to see Okami get noticed but yeah Wii Sports...Strategy & Simulation? erm, no. How can it really win that AND sports that taking the **** a bit. I mean Bioshock is THE best game...so why doesn't it win Action and Adventure as well? As surely its better than crackdown as it won bet game overall? God of war 2, technical achievement yes. Story? er, no.
All in all a bit odd really. Then again all the award things Oscars/golden globe/normal Bafta's etc always have wierd choices.
But congratulations to the winners, lets just hope this doesn't lead to 400 Wii Sports clones as the only games coming out next year :)
Re: Strategy & Simulation?!?!
The only reason anyone bought Crackdown was to play the Halo 3 beta.
How many copies were gathering dust once the beta finished?
'Use of audio'??? How it beat out Guitar Hero II and EBA I'll never know...
Re: Strategy & Simulation?!?!
Firstly, BAFTA enlisted industry types to do the voting, so whether the BAFTA posse had played Wii or not is totally inconsequential.
And Crackdown is a fantastic game that lives long after the Halo 3 beta had died a death.
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