The Academy has today announced the nominations for the GAME BAFTAs. In total there’s 44 different games up for nomination, with Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood topping the lot with seven nominations.
[boxout]Black Ops is in there too, and it’s nice to see Heavy Rain up for artistic achievement, although with LIMBO up for the same award our money’s on the little black and white dude.In a rather shameless lack of better ideas, here’s the entire list nicely formatted. It took me a while, so if you ‘borrow’ the list, at least give us a nod. Thanks!
Action
- Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
- Battlefield: Bad Company 2
- BioShock 2
- Call of Duty: Black Ops
- God of War III
- Halo: Reach
Artistic Achievement
- Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
- Call of Duty: Black Ops
- God of War III
- Heavy Rain
- LIMBO
- Mass Effect 2
Best Game
- Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
- FIFA 11
- Heavy Rain
- LIMBO
- Mass Effect 2
- Super Mario Galaxy 2
Family
- Dance Central
- Kinect Adventures
- Kinect Sports
- Kinectimals
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
- Toy Story 3
Gameplay
- Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
- God of War III
- Heavy Rain
- LIMBO
- Mass Effect 2
- Super Mario Galaxy 2
Handheld
- Cut the Rope
- God of War: Ghost of Sparta
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
- Professor Layton and the Lost Future
- Sonic Colours
- Super Scribblenauts
Multiplayer
- Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
- Battlefield: Bad Company 2
- Call of Duty: Black Ops
- Halo: Reach
- Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit
- Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty
Original Music
- Alan Wake
- Fable III
- Heavy Rain
- James Bond 007: Bloodstone
- Mass Effect 2
- Super Mario Galaxy 2
Social Network Game
- Bejeweled Blitz
- Farmerama
- FIFA Superstars
- My Empire
- Zoo Mumba
- Zuma Blitz
Sports
- F1 2010
- FIFA 11
- Football Manager 2011
- Gran Turismo 5
- International Cricket 2010
- Pro Evolution Soccer 2011
Story
- Alan Wake
- BioShock 2
- Call of Duty: Black Ops
- Fallout: New Vegas
- Heavy Rain
- Mass Effect 2
Strategy
- Civilization V
- Fallout: New Vegas
- FIFA Manager 11
- Napoleon Total War
- Plants vs. Zombies XBLA
- Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty
Technical Innovation
- Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
- Call of Duty: Black Ops
- Halo: Reach
- Heavy Rain
- Kinectimals
- Super Mario Galaxy 2
Use of Audio
- Alan Wake
- Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
- Battlefield: Bad Company: 2
- Call of Duty: Black Ops
- DJ Hero 2
- LIMBO
BAFTA Ones to Watch Award in association with Dare to Be Digital
- Mush
- Sculpty
- Twang
GAME Award of 2010
(The only award to be voted for by the public)
- Call of Duty: Black Ops
- Dance Central
- FIFA 11
- Halo Reach
- Heavy Rain
- Limbo
- Mass Effect 2
- Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit
- Red Dead Redemption
- Super Mario Galaxy 2
Any thoughts? Happy to see some great handheld games in there – it’s been a fabulous year for portables with Ghost of Sparta, Cut The Rope etc.
The awards will take place on Wednesday the 16th of March at the London Hilton on Park Lane. Swanky. They’ll be streamed live for the first time at http://go.ign.com/baftamicrosite and at http://www.baftagameaward.com
jimmy-google
No mgs peace walker?
Tuffcub
Wonderful, I get to do some red carpet coverage at last.
Dan Lee
So no Artistic, Story, or GoTY noms for Enslaved? *Rage*
tantalus_blank
I can’t decide what’s more ridiculous out of FIFA 11 for best game or Black Ops for artistic achievement. Seriously, who came up with this list, a 14 year old franchise sucker? While I’m sure Black Ops isn’t that bad, there are so many games that deserve those nominations much more. Brotherhood, however, is pretty damn good.
It’s like the film BAFTAs all over again – The King’s Speech winning more than twice the awards than Inception? Hmmm
tantalus_blank
ugh, shoulda got more sleep. I didn’t realise how incohesive that comment was
stonyk
a complete joke. It almost felt like someone randomly picked 5 or so games then just repeated the list for each category. It really makes 2010 look like a bad year for games if the same games come up for every category, and those games aren’t particularly innovative or generally good.
dirtyhabit
LIMBO ftw. Was dying to play this game from the 1st screen shot & it didn’t dissapoint.
djsunna
this must be a joke, fifa 11 best game, Call of duty black ops best story, 1 nomination for red dead rredemption in the public vote , GT5 only 1 nomination. AC Brotherhood and god of war 3 both top drawer and should be on the lists but it seems this is men in suits with little or no interest in gaming that took a list of the top selling games of 2010 and thought this game can be nominated in these categories, this game in these etc etc. gaming still isn’t taken as seriously as a form of entertainment such as the film industry is and are BAFTA just taking the pi$$ with some of these nomination’s and trying to prove the point that film rules the entertainment industry or what.
shields_t
Hopefully the voting panel will see sense and give Heavy Rain the credit it deserves, in reflection of the TSA awards.
m61726b
Good to see tt games get some recognition for the great work with LEGO Harry Potter. Would have liked to see Medal of Honour get something for the brilliant sound.
tactical20
TSA should do a comp for the person who guesses the most correct winners.