The Video Game BAFTAs: the winners and how we all feel about Alex Zane
Celebs, fancy chocolates, PSP jokes – and videos of some hot gameplay the gaming BAFTAs was all you’d ever dream it to be.
Walking away with the bronze mask that everyone had their eye on, was the Batman Arkham Asylum team who carried off the Best Game BAFTA with a round of cheers.
Batman also picked up Best Gamplay, but the real winner of the night felt like Uncharted 2: Among Thieves – the developing team walked away with a whopping four Baftas for: Best Original Score, Best Story, Best Audio and Best Action.
“Playing that game is like being in your own film” the guy next to me breathed.
The guy who got the most cheers was Miyamoto – the Nintendo CEO – the man who invented the Wii, Donkey Kong and set the blueprint for the modern gaming industry. A smiley Japanese man who told a reverent audience that he was inspired to make games by the world around him and that his dogs barking spurred him on to make Nintendogs.
Other interesting facts:
1) No-one likes Alex Zane
2) The CEO of sponsors GAME is a laydee:
3) Host Dara O’Briain told us that games aren’t guilty pleasures, groping women on the tube is a guilty pleasure. Err, move away from the tall Irishman on the Bakerloo line..
THE WINNERS:
Action – Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
Development Team
Sony Computer Entertainment/Naughty Dog and SCE Foster City Studio
Artistic Achievement – Flower
Development Team
Sony Computer Entertainment/ThatGameCompany and SCE Santa Monica Studio
Family & Social – Wii Sports Resort
Katsuya Eguchi, Takayuki Shimamura, Yoshikazu Yamashita
Nintendo/Nintendo
Gameplay – Batman: Arkham Asylum
Sefton Hill, David Hego, Nick Arundel
Eidos/Rocksteady Studios
Handheld – LittleBigPlanet (PSP)
James Shepherd, Piers Jackson, Mark Green
Sony Computer Entertainment/SCE Cambridge & xev Studio Europe
Multiplayer – Left 4 Dead 2
Gabe Newell, Chet Faliszek, Tom Leonard
Valve/EA
Original Score – Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
Development Team
Sony Computer Entertainment/Naughty Dog & SCE Foster City Studio
Sports – FIFA 10
Andrew Wilson, David Rutter, Gary Paterson
Electronic Arts/EA Canada
Story – Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
Development Team
Sony Computer Entertainment/Naughty Dog & SCE Foster City Studio
Strategy – Empire: Total War
Development Team
Sega/Creative Assembly
Use of Audio – Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
Development Team
Sony Computer Entertainment/Naughty Dog and SCE Foster City Studio
Use of Online – FIFA 10
Andrew Wilson, David Rutter, Gary Paterson
Electronic Arts/ EA Canada
BAFTA Ones To Watch Award in association with Dare to Be Digital – Shrunk!
Vykintas Kazdailis, Andrew Macdonald, Michael Cummings, Jacek Wernikowski, Stuart Kemp
(The Butterflyers)
GAME Award of 2009 – Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
(The only award to be voted for by the public)
Best Game – Batman: Arkham Asylum
