BAFTA Awards: Mass Effect 2 titled ‘best game’

EA’s last year release, Mass Effect 2 bagged yet another award at the BAFTAs. Mass Effect 2 was titled as the Best Game of 2010, like it has been at so many sites and publications, including us.

Sony’s Heavy Rain was the only game that managed to bag multiple awards, winning in the Music, Story and Technical Innovation categories.

Given below is the full list of nominees and winners.

ACTION

• WINNER: 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
  Dave Anthony, Corky Lehmkuhl, Jason Blundell
  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 Lehto, Joe Tung, Alex Cutting
  Microsoft Games Studios/Bungie

ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENT

• 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
• WINNER: God of War III
  Stig Asmussen, Ken Feldman, Cecil Kim
  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, Morten Bramsen
  Xbox Live Arcade/Playdead Games
• Mass Effect 2
  Development Team
  Electronic Arts/BioWare

BEST GAME

• Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
  Vincent Pontbriand
  Ubisoft Entertainment/Ubisoft Montreal
• FIFA 11
  David Rutter, Kaz Makita, Gary 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
• WINNER: Mass Effect 2
  Development Team
  Electronic Arts/BioWare
• Super Mario Galaxy 2
  Koichi Hayashida, Yoshiaki Koizumi, Takashi Tezuka
  Nintendo/Nintendo

FAMILY

• Dance Central
  Development Team
  Microsoft Games Studios & MTV Games/MTV & Harmonix
• Kinect Adventures
  Development Team
  Microsoft Games Studios/Good Science Studio
• WINNER: Kinect Sports
  Development Team
  Microsoft Games Studios/Rare
• 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

• 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
• WINNER: Super Mario Galaxy 2
  Koichi Hayashida, Yoshiaki Koizumi, Takashi Tezuka
  Nintendo/Nintendo

HANDHELD

• WINNER: 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

• 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
  Marcus Lehto, Joe Tung, Alex Cutting
  Microsoft Games Studios/Bungie
• WINNER: Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit
  Development Team
  Electronic Arts/Criterion Games
• Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty
  Development Team
  Blizzard Entertainment/Blizzard Entertainment

ORIGINAL MUSIC

• Alan Wake
  Petri Alanko
  Microsoft Games Studios/Remedy
• Fable III
  Russell Shaw
  Microsoft Games Studios/Lionhead Studios
• WINNER: Heavy Rain
  Normand Corbeil
  Sony Computer Entertainment/Quantic Dream & XDev Studio Europe
• 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

• 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
• WINNER: My Empire
  Development Team
  Playfish/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

• WINNER: F1 2010
  Development Team
  Codemasters/Codemasters Birmingham
• FIFA 11
  David Rutter, Kaz Makita, Gary Paterson
  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

• 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
• WINNER: Heavy Rain
  David Cage, Guillaume de Fondaumiere, Scott Johnson
  Sony Computer Entertainment/Quantic Dream & XDev Studio Europe
• Mass Effect 2
  Development Team
  Electronic Arts/BioWare

STRATEGY

• WINNER: 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
  Gerald Köhler, Cord Westhoff, Bernhard Maiberg
  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

• Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
  Stéphane Girard, Stephane Assadourian
  Ubisoft Entertainment/Ubisoft Montreal
• Call of Duty: Black Ops
  Adam Rosas, Dominique Drodz, Scott Bean
  Activision Blizzard UK Ltd/Treyarch
• Halo: Reach
  Marcus Lehto, Joe Tung, Alex Cutting
  Microsoft Games Studios/Bungie
• WINNER: Heavy Rain
  David Cage, Guillaume de Fondaumiere, Scott Johnson
  Sony Computer Entertainment/Quantic Dream & XDev Studio Europe
• Kinectimals
  Development Team
  Microsoft Games Studios/Frontier Developments Ltd
• Super Mario Galaxy 2
  Koichi Hayashida, Yoshiaki Koizumi, Takashi Tezuka
  Nintendo/Nintendo

Use of Audio

• Alan Wake
  Development Team
  Microsoft Games Studios/Remedy/14.05.10
• Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
  Mathieu Jeanson
  Ubisoft Entertainment/Ubisoft Montreal/19.11.10
• WINNER: Battlefield: Bad Company: 2
  Stefan Strandberg
  Electronic Arts/DICE/05.03.10
• 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

• 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)
• WINNER: Twang
  Jocce Marklund, Annette Nielsen, Linus Nordgren, Marcus Heder, Thomas Finlay
  (That Game Studio)

GAME Award of 2010
(The only award to be voted for by the public)

• WINNER: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

 

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