they better award shadow for sumthing.

they better award shadow for sumthing.

On the site its shows all categories http://www.bafta.org/site/page413.html Oblvion should win everything it is nominated for imo.

shadow of the colossus was fun >.>

The categories are too vague,such as "Game"--that doesn't say much. I rather see some that has as many categories as the Grammy's or Oscar, even it takes forever to present them all. People will never give much credit to these awards. I, myself, am having a hard time directly understanding why they nominated some games in some categories.

No offense, but this is a British Academy, it's only natural they "make room" for British afiliated games and forget about some other big dogs such as Dead Rising. Don't take me wrong though, I personally like Tomb Raider, Hitman: Blood Money, Fifa 06 WC, and Moto GP '06; I own them all, and I'm playing them right now (check my blog, and see my collection or gamertag).

Guitar Hero and Locoroco FTW!

well Oblivion was good

Oblivion appears it will prevale this year overall at this rate...

bad nominations

Shadow of the Colossus should be in Game.

Geez. Quit complaining. Fact is, these ARE this year's game. Mostly because this year sucked so far.

But there are actually so games which save themselves.

these games kinda suck...ok im thinkin guitar hero for innovation, oblivion for gameplay, graw action and adventure, fnr3for sports and graw for best game...where the hell is oblivion in best game and why is tomb raider in act. and adv.>?!?1!???! and blood money isnt that good of a game and black sucks

hoping here that guitar hero wins GO GUITAR HERO!

I checked the website .. games are eligible if they were released (or are to be released) during the 2006 calendar year.

I still find some of the nominations surprising ... Rockstar Table Tennis is also nominated under the Simulation category

BAFTA = British Academy of Film and Television Arts ... so why the interest in games ... "The Academy is now committed to the development of the contemporary art form of video games, and to lending equal weight to its British Academy Video Games Awards as that given to film and television."

Are these really the right people to judge the awards?

An interesting list, but why aren't games like Half Life 2 Episode One included (at least in the gameplay section) wheras something really new like Lego Star Wars II is?

Also I don't see how Guitar Hero is all that innovative.. its only a tap a jam game linked to a guitar after all.

Black looks like a good choice however, and Dr Kawashima's Brain Training is a good choice as well.

im in for tombraider , fifa 2006 and shadow of clossus

I hope shadow of the colossus gets the awards it deserves (all of them)

Neat, I suppose.

Rockstar Table Tennis rocks but look at the games it has to contend with!

Gameplay - Oblivion A+A - GRAW
Sports - Pro Evo 6 tie with FN3
Best Game - Why is Saints Row not nominated?
Volition or THQ not pay a big enough bribe eh? It came out before Lego starwars2??? WTF
and pro evo 6 isn't even out yet.
This seems like a fake award ceremony to me where only the bigger companies can bid for an award, reminds me of the awful Music Industry.
But BAFTA you can't fool gamers, we are not stupid!

i love Oblivion this game sis really cool.

metroid hunters all the way

I'd vote LocoRoco all of the way!

Riiigghhhttt...Didn't nintendo do kirby tilt n roll before loco roco came out?

Yeah i agree with you shasam712, loco roco is the best and most original game for PSP and gamespot soo underated it, ign have the right review

they have some good nomiees here but we need an official award ceremony thing like the grammies or something

Yeah! Go Shadow of the Colossus!

It may not be about the machines the games were released on, but it is sure about the marketing spends and size of publisher more than the games themselves. Just look at the related companies on the right.

legos made it?

I am so happy that LocoRoco is getting the credit it deserves. I wrote a review of that hailing it as the best PSP game and I stant by that. As far as all the other nominations go they all look great, nothing which I wouldn't expect.

yeah, i'd be upset too, if the games I love the most weren't on there, like GTA / Halo / WoW / (insert overrated game here).

But instead, most of them actually deserve the awards they are about to receive. Note that I used the word 'most'....take that into consideration.

Remember, voting is not a high school popularity contest. If it was, then Final Fantasy VII would still be on the top charts, unfortunately.

I knew the nominations would be crap, and I knew they would ignore all the games that weren't in the charts . . .

Good for LocoRoco.

LocoRoco pwns all

Go loco roco and Shadow of the Colossus

kool

GRAW and Oblivion are like the best games on this list

i cant beleive black is up for the best game award, its pretty bad to be honest. it looks like katamari or shadow of the colossus will wipe the board.

gavlam69 Here are the rules of entry:

If your title is selected for jury consideration, you will be required to make that game available to the BAFTA jury via any of the following methods:

*Providing the Academy with approximately 10 copies of the game for the jurors to play
*Providing one copy of the game for a closed gaming session for the jurors at the Academy
*Hosting your own secure gaming session for the judges at your own offices

I guess Konami were not in the position to do that with MGS3

Wheres MGS3 substistence for example? They nominate black but not a good game like MGS. What decides these things anyways?

Hopefully Shadow of the Colossus and Guitar Hero will win something

Oblivion!, some of the other games make no sense...

I hope Oblivion, and Loco win

Hurray for Loco Roco , hope itl win !

go Locco Rocco

Shadow of Colossus should easily win every category it's in. Gameplay should either go to LocoRoco or Guitar Hero, Pro Evo should get sports and best overall game should definitely be Guitar Hero.

A good selection of games there. Hopefully Tomb Raider: Legend and LocoRoco will do well.

It's about time somebody put on a awards show celebrating video gaming that wasn't half-assed. These aren't the games I would personally nominate, but it's definitely something that represents gaming as an art form rather than a toy for grown-ups.

some of the games here are shocking

LEGO KATAMARI! Hey, that sounds fun, wait a minute, there are already legos in Katamari, now have katamaris in LEGOS!

shadow of the colossus wshould win in every catrgory it is in Its a truly awesome game..