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BioShock, Wii Sports top BAFTAs

By Staff, GameSpot UKPosted Oct 23, 2007 5:58 pm PT

Take-Two's undersea actioner crowned game of the year, but Nintendo's plucky minigame compilation wins most trophies at UK's most prestigious gaming awards.

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has announced the winners of its 2007 Video Games Awards at a ceremony in London attended by hundreds of members of the gaming industry. At the Battersea Evolution venue, host Vic Reeves and a throng of minor celebrities including Gareth Gates and Margaret Hodge announced the winners at the illustrious black tie event.

Nintendo's minigame-compilation-turned-cultural-phenomenon Wii Sports cleaned up at the event with a total of six awards, although it didn't manage to score Best Game. That honour went to BioShock, the atmospheric Xbox 360 and PC sci-fi shooter from Take-Two Interactive.

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.

The full list of winners and runners-up is as follows:

Action and adventure
Winner: 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
Winner: Okami (Clover(Capcom))

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

Best game
Winner: 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
Winner: Wii Sports (Nintendo)

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

Gameplay
Winner: Wii Sports (Nintendo)

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

Innovation
Winner: Wii Sports (Nintendo)

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)

Multiplayer
Winner: Wii Sports (Nintendo)

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

Original score
Winner: Okami (Clover (Capcom))

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

Sports
Winner: Wii Sports (Nintendo)

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

Strategy and simulation
Winner: Wii Sports (Nintendo)

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))
World in Conflict (Massive Entertainment)

Story and character
Winner: God of War 2 (SCE Santa Monica Studio)

Final Fantasy XII (Final Fantasy XII Project Team)
Heavenly Sword (Ninja Theory)
Okami (Clover (Capcom))
The Darkness (Starbreeze Studios)
The Simpsons Game (EA)

Technical achievement
Winner: God of War 2 (SCE Santa Monica Studio)

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

Use of audio
Winner: 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 Ones To Watch Award (in association with Dare to Be Digital)
Winner: Ragnarawk (Voodoo Boogy)

ClimbActic (Carebox)
Bear Go Home (Phoenix Seed)

The PC World Gamers Award (voted for by the public)
Winner: Football Manager 2007 (Sports Interactive)

Dr Kawashima's Brain Training (Nintendo)
FIFA 07 (EA Canada)
Gears of War (Epic Games)
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories (Rockstar Leeds)
Resistance: Fall of Man (Insomniac)
Wii Play (Nintendo)

407 Comments

  • rocky_aj17

    Posted Oct 31, 2007 11:42 pm PT

    thats real politics

  • Zabadack

    Posted Oct 29, 2007 5:50 am PT

    Bioshock was ok but in my opinion the only reason it could get an award like that is because it had no competition.

    and to the people who said about the story, go play system shock 2 and you'll see how stupidly similar it is, the story isn't impressive at all. and honestly anyone who thinks the graphics in bioshock are impressive needs a slap those character models were about as good as UT2K4's

  • playstation_wii

    Posted Oct 28, 2007 1:31 pm PT

    Wii Play, Resistance, and GTA aren't on PC.

  • DynamoFan

    Posted Oct 27, 2007 7:37 am PT

    "The PC World Gamers Award (voted for by the public)
    Winner: Football Manager 2007 (Sports Interactive)

    Dr Kawashima's Brain Training (Nintendo)
    FIFA 07 (EA Canada)
    Gears of War (Epic Games)
    Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories (Rockstar Leeds)
    Resistance: Fall of Man (Insomniac)
    Wii Play (Nintendo)" HOW DID WII PLAY GET ON THERE?! THAT'S MY LEAST FAVORITE GAME FOR MY WII!

  • JohnDW

    Posted Oct 27, 2007 4:24 am PT

    dualmask - SIMULATION

    Tennis
    Golf Boxing
    Bowling
    Baseball
    SIMULATIONS

  • Dualmask

    Posted Oct 26, 2007 11:06 am PT

    I love Wii Sports, but how the heck did it win the strategy and simulation award? That's just...funny.

  • matty_sen

    Posted Oct 26, 2007 10:19 am PT

    dude, where is halo,assassin creed crackdown int eventhat good?

  • majidok

    Posted Oct 26, 2007 9:20 am PT

    Some of the games haven't been released and some has just been released . the awards indirectly advertised for the games , Its like saying we've seen these games they deserve an award and therefore deserve your attention !

  • andyrulesliver

    Posted Oct 26, 2007 3:44 am PT

    go wii sports
    its your birthday
    its not
    but anyway
    go wii sports!

  • m4x1

    Posted Oct 26, 2007 12:35 am PT

    WHERE IS BIOSHOCK IN BEST USE OF AUDIO
    WHERE IS BIOSHOCK IN STORY AND CHARACTER.
    WHY IS VIVA PINATA'S ORIGINAL SCORE NOMINATED.
    WHY THE -insert word here- IS THE SIMPSONS GAME IN STORY AND CHARACTER, ITS A BLOODY TV SHOW. WHY DOES THE CASUAL CATEGORY MEAN THAT GAMES PLAYED WITH A CONTROLLER CAN'T BE NOMINATED. WHERES HALO 3.
    [/rantwithoutquestionmarks]

  • shoe8me

    Posted Oct 25, 2007 5:43 pm PT

    To Longfire3000: as for Halo 3, the introduction states that the games had to be playable by Sept. 6, 2007...Bungie would never follow that release

  • Longfire3000

    Posted Oct 25, 2007 3:51 pm PT

    How did both Gears and Halo 3 not get any. I'm British and the BAFTA's are normally sensible, but this is out of the window!

    NEWSFLASH: CREATE AN OFFICIAL GAMING VERSION OF THE OSCARS JUDGED BY GAMING PROFESSIONALS!

  • strategyking92

    Posted Oct 25, 2007 3:12 pm PT

    uh, so wii sports won best multiplayer? and 2 games based on online play didnt win it? POOR JUDGING. Although crackdown deserved its praise.

  • wadley101

    Posted Oct 25, 2007 10:46 am PT

    How is a Crysis runner up in one of the categories, its not out yet!

  • McGregor

    Posted Oct 25, 2007 10:06 am PT

    Huh? I'm confused...what is a TV board doing rating video games? Or are video games now considered television art? That would be funny since so many "professionals" say that video games are not art. Maybe i'm not sophisticated enough...for the record, strategy and simulation need to be 2 separate category's

  • Zazalon

    Posted Oct 25, 2007 1:57 am PT

    Crackdown was great, but should'nt have gotten that much attention. Wii Sports is just a minigame compilation that is now overrated. How can they say Crackdown has the best use of audio? The only thing good about its sound is the opening tune. It should be Guitar Hero 2 , but hey, that goes to show how some of us work...

  • Zee666

    Posted Oct 25, 2007 1:47 am PT

    ??? Crackdown... best use of audio??? WTF!!!!
    And why isn't halo 3 best multiplayer?
    And why is WII sports best strategy and simulation? and why?
    and why? and why? and why and why and why and why....

  • epsilonone

    Posted Oct 25, 2007 1:08 am PT

    halo 3 is a Hype and would win that award and

  • MadlilMart

    Posted Oct 24, 2007 11:40 pm PT

    hmm there is somethign seriously wrong here

  • fififans

    Posted Oct 24, 2007 10:49 pm PT

    halo 3 in none of them ... wtf

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