BAFTA announces Video Games Awards nominations

UK's most prestigious gaming awards to be given out on October 23; BioShock, Wii Sports both in the running for Best Game.

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts, the body responsible for the UK's equivalent to the Oscars, has announced the 2007 shortlist for its Video Game Awards. Last year, BAFTA raised the status of its games awards to the same level as the gongs given out to the film and television industries, and this year's event will continue that tradition. The London-based ceremony will be televised by Channel 4.

Games released in the UK between October 6, 2006, and December 31, 2007, were eligible for nomination to the awards, but had to be playable by the jury members by September 6 in order to be judged--which may account for the absence of Halo 3 from any of the shortlists this year. Games not ready for judging by September 6 "will be eligible in the following year's Awards," according to the BAFTA Web site.

Nintendo's Wii Sports has been shortlisted in seven categories, including Casual, Sports, Multiplayer and Innovation. BioShock and Crysis are both nominated for the Best Game award, taking on Gears of War, Guitar Hero II, Kane & Lynch: Dead Men, and the omnipresent Wii Sports.

The number of categories has been reduced to 15 from 17 last year, and the full shortlist is as follows:

Action and adventure
Crackdown (Realtime Worlds)
Gears of War (Epic Games)
God of War 2 (SCE Santa Monica Studio)
Orange Box (Valve)
Ratchet and Clank: Tools of Destruction (SCE Foster City Studio & Insomniac)
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Nintendo)

Artistic achievement
BioShock (2K Boston/2K Australia)
Heavenly Sword (Ninja Theory)
Okami (Clover(Capcom))
Ratchet and Clank: Tools of Destruction (SCE Foster City Studio & Insomniac)
skate (EA Black Box)
Viva Piņata (Rare)

Best game
BioShock (2K Boston/2K Australia)
Crysis (Crytek)
Gears of War (Epic Games)
Guitar Hero II (Harmonix)
Kane & Lynch: Dead Men (Eidos)
Wii Sports (Nintendo)

Casual
Big Brain Academy for Wii (Nintendo)
Cake Mania (Digital Embryo)
Guitar Hero II (Harmonix)
More Brain Training (Nintendo)
SingStar (SCE London Studio)
Wii Sports (Nintendo)

Gameplay
Crackdown (Realtime Worlds)
Gears of War (Epic Games)
Sega Rally (SEGA Racing Studio)
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Nintendo)
Warhawk (Incognito)
Wii Sports (Nintendo)

Innovation
fl0w (SCE Santa Monica Studio/Thatgamecompany)
Okami (Clover(Capcom))
Super Paper Mario (Intelligent Systems)
The Eye of Judgement (SCE Japan Studio)
Trauma Center: Second Opinion (Atlus USA)
Wii Sports (Nintendo)

Multiplayer
Battlefield 2142 (EA Dice)
Crackdown (Realtime Worlds)
Guitar Hero II (Harmonix)
Wii Sports (Nintendo)
World in Conflict (Massive Entertainment)
World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade (Blizzard Entertainment)

Original score
Final Fantasy XII (Final Fantasy XII Project Team)
God of War 2 (SCE Santa Monica Studio)
Lair (SCE Foster City Studio & Factor 5)
Okami (Clover (Capcom))
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Nintendo)
Viva Piņata (Rare)

Sports
Football Manager 2008 (Sports Interactive)
Colin McRae: DiRT (Codemasters)
FIFA 08 (EA Chicago)
MotorStorm (SCE External Development Studio & Evolution)
Virtua Tennis 3 (Sumo Digital)
Wii Sports (Nintendo)

Strategy and simulation
Command & Conquer: Tiberium Wars (Electronic Arts LA)
Forza Motorsport 2 (Turn 10) Medieval II: Total War Kingdoms (The Creative Assembly)
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas (Ubisoft Studios (Montreal))
Wii Sports (Nintendo)
World in Conflict (Massive Entertainment)

Story and character
Final Fantasy XII (Final Fantasy XII Project Team)
God of War 2 (SCE Santa Monica Studio)
Heavenly Sword (Ninja Theory)
Okami Clover (Capcom))
The Darkness (Starbreeze Studios)
The Simpsons Game (EA)

Technical achievement
Crackdown (Realtime Worlds)
Gears of War Epic Games)
God of War 2 (SCE Santa Monica Studio)
MotorStorm (SCE External Development Studio/Evolution)
Okami (Clover(Capcom))
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (Naughty Dog)

Use of audio
Crackdown (Realtime Worlds)
Elite Beat Agents (iNiS)
Gears of War (Epic Games)
God of War 2 (SCE Santa Monica Studio)
Guitar Hero II (Harmonix)
skate (EA Black Box)

BAFTA One's To Watch Award (in association with Dare to Be Digital)
Ragnarawk (Voodoo Boogy)
ClimbActic (Carebox)
Bear Go Home (Phoenix Seed)

The PC World Gamers Award (voted for by the public)
Dr Kawashima's Brain Training (Nintendo)
FIFA 07 (EA Canada)
Football Manager 2007 (Sports Interactive)
Gears of War (Epic Games)
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories (Rockstar Leeds)
Resistance: Fall of Man (Insomniac)
Wii Play (Nintendo)

228 Comments

  • penguins227

    Posted May 9, 2009 2:43 pm PT

    bf2142 best multiplayer game!

  • division_9

    Posted Jun 22, 2008 3:04 am PT

    Most of the games up there are boring but it doesnt mean they dont have innovation etc. Halo series are getting boring.

  • Sim_genius

    Posted Nov 18, 2007 8:12 am PT

    Wow Im glad Okami is there

  • Welshmun

    Posted Oct 30, 2007 3:27 am PT

    WTF??????????????????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • davidnoakes

    Posted Oct 28, 2007 3:06 pm PT

    I can understand some games like gears of war or C&C tiberium wars doing well but i don't see the obsession with crackdown and it is ridiculous that the wii does so well in the awards. Halo 3 isn't even on the list and that game could be the best every year for years to come. And as for some championship manager game getting awards i ask, crysis isn't even out so i'm confused there and the categories that some of these games fall into are all over the place. These BAFTA awards nominations must be done by people who don't play video games or something because i certainly wouldn't of nominated some of the games on that list.

  • MrAuthority

    Posted Oct 18, 2007 10:17 am PT

    can anybody please tell me why Crysis is there (release nov) and halo 3 isnt as surly if they were playing crysis as it hasnt been finished and not halo 3 which i think halo had gone gold by then were the ***k is the logic ?! also ... crysis .... TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENTS ?!

  • VGLeo34

    Posted Oct 17, 2007 9:50 pm PT

    Wheres Bioshock in story?

  • hotlavaman

    Posted Oct 13, 2007 1:49 pm PT

    lol at wii sports

  • elmetfano

    Posted Oct 8, 2007 1:25 pm PT

    Warhawk

  • KBenDeBeste

    Posted Oct 6, 2007 7:33 am PT

    humikimi:
    Games released in the UK between October 6, 2006, and December 31, 2007, were eligible for nomination to the awards, but had to be playable by the jury members by September 6 in order to be judged--which may account for the absence of Halo 3 from any of the shortlists this year. Games not ready for judging by September 6 "will be eligible in the following year's Awards," according to the

  • Humikimi

    Posted Oct 5, 2007 11:13 pm PT

    I wonder why Halo 3 isn't on there, because I'm sure it qualifies for something. Nonetheless I'm glad Elite Beat Agents is up there and I sure as heck hope Okami wins something, preferably Artistic, though I have a feeling Bioshock is going to win that one. For the most part though I agree with the nominations.

  • Dark_MetaRidley

    Posted Oct 2, 2007 8:51 am PT

    PC World is a shop people... not just one shop.. but a multimillion company... they only sell Electronics... and they have stores all around the UK and Europe.... they sell tv's, pc's, games, cameras... ect! Since the show is sponsered by PC WORLD they made THE PC WORLD GAMERS AWARD... geddit!

    And by the way all those nominations are voted by the public...

  • hooperfax006

    Posted Oct 1, 2007 1:23 pm PT

    cool

  • microwavedapple

    Posted Oct 1, 2007 8:34 am PT

    Warhawk should be in the multiplayer category. Other than that, they seem to be spot on.

  • StOcKoHeArTs

    Posted Sep 30, 2007 12:24 pm PT

    playstation_wii

    i think its from a PC mag which you could vote from.

  • playstation_wii

    Posted Sep 29, 2007 2:13 pm PT

    Brain Age, GTA, Resistance, and Wii Play are on the PC?

  • Lord_Tigger

    Posted Sep 29, 2007 5:54 am PT

    Why the heck is Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas under strategy games? Why isn't Bioshock listed for more awards? Sheesh.

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