BAFTA games awards nominations announced

[sambo]

BAFTA has revealed the shortlist for this year's games awards, which includes multiple nominations for Assassin's Creed 2, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Modern Warfare 2 and Left 4 Dead 2.
The final judgement is in the hands of BAFTA's judging panel, with the exception of the GAME award which is voted on by the public. Last year CoD 4 won it thanks to dubious entry criteria; the sequel is probably going to walk away with this year's award but feel free to rock the vote at the BAFTA site.

The full list of nominations is below.

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

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

Colour Coded
Quick as Thieves
Shrunk!

GAME Award of 2009 (public voted)

Assassin's Creed II
Batman Arkham Asylum
The Beatles: Rockband
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
FIFA 10
GTA Chinatown Wars
Legend of Zelda Spirit Tracks
Street Fighter IV
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
Wii Sports Resort

[GamerMan316]

Having finally played it, Uncharted 2 deserves to win the majority of awards, fantastic game.

[Failed]

My predictions as follows. Also if MW2 wins any online awards the show will be a travesty!!



Action
Batman: Arkham Asylum

Artistic Achievement
Assassin's Creed II

Best Game
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

Family & Social
New Super Mario Bros Wii

Gameplay
Assassin's Creed II

Handheld
LittleBigPlanet (PSP)

Multiplayer
Battlefield 1943

Original Score
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

Sports
Wii Sports Resort

Story
Assassin's Creed II

Strategy
Plants vs Zombies

Use of Audio
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

Use of Online
Battlefield 1943

GAME Award of 2009 (public voted)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

[GamerMan316]

Uncharted 2 dominates BAFTA Awards

Batman: Arkham Asylum shocked the BAFTA Video Game Award 2010 audience by winning Best Game - a trophy expected to fall to Uncharted 2. The Rocksteady-developed superhero game also took Best Gameplay.

Naughty Dog's superb action game Uncharted 2: Among Thieves didn't miss out, however, and took home four one-eyed golden face trophies - the most of any game.

Uncharted 2 scooped Best Action Game, Best Use of Audio, Best Original Score and Best Story. Evan Wells and Christophe Balestra were on hand to cart the trophies home. They thanked their families and loved ones for putting up with the long hours they had to put in.

FIFA 10 took home two trophies, one for Best Sports Game and one for Best Use of Online.

Wii Sports Resort was considered the Best Family & Social game, and Best Handheld Game was LittleBigPlanet PSP. Empire: Total War scooped Best Strategy Game.

Left 4 Dead 2 was voted Best Multiplayer Game, and Batman: Arkham Asylum was considered to have the Best Gameplay.

Artistic Achievement was given to Flower and the public-voted Game Award of 2009 went to Modern Warfare 2, with Assassin's Creed II in second place and Uncharted 2 in third.

BAFTA Ones to Watch was Shrunk! by The Butterflyers.

And, of course, Shigeru Miyamoto was honoured with the BAFTA Fellowship for his staggering lifetime's achievement in videogames.

The full list of winners (in bold) and their categories are in order below. Nominees are included.

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

[Astrex]

Batman should recieve something, it was so great!

AC2 should win and so should COD: MW2 

[knikki91]

Batman was a greeat game and ACR was also a well developed game obviously the success of the first one plus maybe the dev team listerned to the complaints and produced a brilliant sequel.

However I do nthink MW2 should get any award simple because it was not a revamped game or anything else. It was more of a heavley patched (and some would say it broke online) Modern Warfare.

[GamerMan316]

MW2 only won one award, GAME Award of 2009, it didn't win any online awards, so Failed will be pleased, that went to L4D2 & FIFA10, surprisingly Assassin's Creed II didn't win anything.

[Astrex]

MW2 only won one award, GAME Award of 2009, it didn't win any online awards, so Failed will be pleased, that went to L4D2 & FIFA10, surprisingly Assassin's Creed II didn't win anything.

I call FIX!!   

[GamerMan316]

Batman, Battlefield, Skyrim make BAFTA GAME Award shortlist

Heavy hitters Batman: Arkham City, Battlefield 3 and Skyrim have made the BAFTA GAME Award shortlist.

It is the UK's only publicly-voted award at the British Academy Video Game Awards.

A panel of industry experts, including Eurogamer's own Johnny Minkley, bashed their heads together to come up with the list of candidates, reproduced below.

    Batman: Arkham City
    Battlefield 3
    Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
    FIFA 12
    L.A. Noire
    Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
    Minecraft
    Portal 2
    The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
    Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception

Cast your vote at BAFTAGAMEAWARD.com. The winner will be named at a ceremony on 16th March.

[BackupLight]

Tough choice! I'm still playing Batman, which makes it harder. Skyrim maybe? But then BF3 is also amazing. ....and Batman has been wicked fun. Man.

[mackem73]

because of Skyrim's unbelievable awesomeness I've only actually played one other game on the list, so a pretty easy vote for me!

[ShadowSnake]

It'd have to be Skyrim closely followed by Batman IMO. only because Skyrim has much better replayability really

[Windedprism]

Skyrim after patches, no question.
Dark Souls should be on here.
Uncharted 3 is on but not Gears 3? holy cake Batman.

Give it to Batman though, the batcave is looking empty

[BackupLight]

Skyrim is the only game to have kept me EAGERLY entertained for 100 hours, and I could happily keep playing even now. I'll be surprised if it doesn't get it, honestly.

[ShadowSnake]

Skyrim is the only game to have kept me EAGERLY entertained for 100 hours, and I could happily keep playing even now. I'll be surprised if it doesn't get it, honestly.

put it like this, I just finihsed my first playthrough @ about 120 hrs, and now i am starting my second. Thats a game that keeps you coming.