i knew shadow of the collosus wud win. its undeniably the greatest action adventure ever made.

well its understandable why GRAW gets it, its such a good game i mean i have neve played them all but this one impressed the hell outta me

Never played GRAW...

Why did Oblvion not win any, let alone get nominated for GOTY???!!! I'm from the UK and Oblvion is easily the most popular there...

...Black wasn't popular here either WTF???!!!

I personally thought that the program was poorly done. Its good that G.r.a.w. got an award, its a well constructed game. There were obviously a lot of other great games that failed to receive a mention, at least if you played them then you enjoyed them !

It would be good to see an award ceremony that lasts longer and caters more to hard core gamers rather than being so commercial, a combination of both ideally.

We, the (consumers) are the ones that matter, not celebrities that know nothing about games handing out awards !

amar GRAW was certainly what we had hoped for and personally - oblivion was not to my liking. Your other comment on how all we are good at in the UK is eating kebab and getting drunk is simply something constructed by media frenzy and the naiveity of folk like you.

The Uk mainstream can never get anything right. Truth is all the Uk mainstream know and care about is getting drunk in pubs and then going for e kebab, they can not be trusted to host a video game award show. I bet they had like one expert come in from the most biased video game mag they could think off too choose the games for selcetions. The judges were probably rich ass wipes that only came along for an extra buck and could care less about games.

Yeah I am from the UK and we don't get much choice on tv even on our sky ( satelitte) and so when I heard there was going to be a video game award show on one of our big tv channels I got very excited. I had been waiting to watch ot for about a month. I even voted. I voted for Oblivion and Hitman and a few other games . Not one of my votes seems to have won. When I saw this I realised that this how was a farce. Video games are getting big in our country and some money grabbing excs saw an opprutunity to cash in. I am very dissapointed , I was so looking forward to seeing the Elder Scrolls pick up an award for GOTY. We all know that Elder Scrolls is easily the GOTY, so why on earth it wasn't on the list I have no clue. GRAW should have been in the most hyped game of the year award. It's a good game but no where near as good as we all thought it would be.

What a shame. The one chance the UK had to be on top of something other than drinking beer and eating fish and chips and they drop the ball.

So no Bafta for 47 Hitman now, eh?

that's great

Gamespot gets Site of the Year award for most efficient news title. 19-letter title stands for 101-letter expanded definition (Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter gets Game of the Year award at British Academy of Film and Television Arts).

I dont think they knew what they were doing really. They've been doing telly stuff for ages, then some nutter suggested doing BAFTAs for videogames, then all of a sudden they were faced with a whole new situation, where they didn't know what to do: "Oh ****, what are we gonna do guys! we don't know anything about games!... Umm, you there, tea boy, go out and write down the games in the discount section of GAME... they'll do"

From the source of the votes im suprised that batboy and the aliens that are secretly in charge of the world got zero awards.

Shadow of the colossus is a great game, but oblivion is far better and should have won the best action&adventure game.

I must explain as I live in the UK but am an American. This is not the fourth Bafta awards for games, it's the first! So yes, they c@cked it up big time with some of the choices and nominations but then again so did MTV with the first music awards. The only cr@p thing is I voted online for everyone of these categories and I don't think one that I voted for won! Oh well...

good for loco roco and shadow od the colossus
New super mario deserved an award as well

Id like to know how oblivion and shadow of the collosus were omitted from goty noms and blood money, black, and lego star wars wasnt/ Im guessing just pure idiocy then?

locoroco as best character? Lolz, that's a bit weird. Ok they have a funny and cute appearance, but I would rather prefer an award as innovation or gameplay. ow well

"Awarded by online vote by readers of the tabloid The Sun"

That explains A LOT. If youre american, The Sun is the bottom end of Newspapers. It's pretty much cheap ass paparazzi stories and fuel for idiots.

what a terrible selection of games. I mean GRAW? seriously...=/

GRAW! Game of the year! I wonder which version of GRAW they played? The one I bought for the PC was useless, terrible AI, terrible animation and the graphics weren't as good as BF2. I bought it after seeing the XBOX 360 version which looked a lot more accomplished. I prefer BF2 tbh, who were these so called 'judges' anyway, cretins!

Umm... some of those choice of winners was pretty shocking...ly stupid.

Casual and Social goes to Buzz instead of Guiter Hero? Lego Star Wars has better gameplay than Oblivion? wtf?

Shadow of the colossus is like 2 years old and still getting award.

I think locoRoco is stupid.

GRAW deserves it.

those crazy euro, ME2:TW isnt even out .

GRAW defienetly deserved awards

Shadow of the colossus has got 2 awards

Aahh... this is all wombo numble stuff. Who knows.

Congratulations to Ubisoft on a great game and on the award can't wait to play the next installment.

I think even the nominations were messed up and Gamer's Award went to 24: The Mobile Game? They should've actually had the poll among proper gamers, not every Tom, Dick and Harry with a mobile.

24 the moble game the SUN SUCKS MON THE 360

Black, Lego Star Wars and Hitman get BOTY nominations, but not Oblivion?

Do these people even play games?

they lost all credibility by having "black" in the running for GOTY.

Great!

wtf lego star wars beat oblivion in best gameplay............wow well mind you in the uk most children play games ,not sayin LSW 2 is a childs game (i actual own a copy of it ) just that i think they went with more of the best sold games rather than games with actual substance to them but mind you if that was the case pixars Cars would have won a bunch of awards

wow, a mobile game won an award

So...many...acronyms *explodes*

...Never liked any Ghost Recon game...two shots death is too much for me...

At least Shadow of the Collossus got some love. That game was beautiful.

Hmmm. I am in the UK but BAFTA sure aren't on my planet. This list doesn't reflect any sense of taste or merit any technical achievement or follow any sense of logic whatsoever. Was GRAW a FUN game to play? er.. no.

Company of Heroes should have easily won yet it wasn't even on the list.

They may as well have given their worthless BAFTA to Andy Millman, of "When The Whistle Blows" comedy sitcom fame... "ARE YOU 'AVIN A LAFF?!?!"

(Watch episode 4 of series 2 of Extras) HeH

Just think of OBLIVION and the love for the game will come back .................................LOL

GRAW on 360 is a GREAT game , why the hate ? It's probably the most realistic combat game ever made , it's astonishingly good in hard mode , tremendous AI & it really brings out the best in you .
People who hated probably sucked at it caz they are no good . The Graphics of GRAW is probably gonna stand out even years from now , a good game - appreciate it .

The hate / love for GRAW is easy to explain:

Those who enjoy it like Realism
Those who no not like RAMBO

not many good games in categorys thanks to slow game development this year.

GRAW is simply flawless

I don't understand why all the hate on GRAW....if you don't like the AI of your team mates? don't use them....it's that simple. From a technical stand point, GRAW looked and played great. Those who don't think so must not have known much about the franchise before they went into it. Seeing how it was the 360 version that won it too, I guess the hermits can finally accept that the PC version wasn't even close to what 360 owners got.

Not that im into World of Warcraft anymore... but considering the success it has and the amount of players it has over the UK - how come its not even in the list?
EDIT: I meant in the multiplayer awards section.

What a farce.

If GRAW is the best game of this year then I'm never playing a game ever again.

Atleast Oblivion didn't win.... Still not sure how GRAW wins(AI of your buddies is dumber then 6 year olds) and in what world do DDO and R&F: Civs at war win anything?!?!

What a load of crap. The BAFTA's are obviously non-gamers who probably do research and talk to developers to work out what games should be nominated. Then I don't believe votes are ever counted, yet again BAFTA trying to work out which is the better game.

I don't see the point in these awards, they never reflect what gamers are really playing. The UK charts are also don't reflect what we're playing. EA games everywhere. It 's probably EA buying their own games to stay in the top ten so casualers will think their gamers are better and buy EA games based off what they see in the top ten. A bit like how the music industry work.