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Game BAFTA winners announced

Published on 17th March 2011 by Joe Martin

The BAFTA awards saw both Call of Duty and Mass Effect winning big this year.

The BAFTA awards for games have been handed out, finally, with Electronic Arts and Activision proving to be the big winners, alongside Quantic Dream.

The award ceremony also saw Microsoft’s Peter Molyneux granted a BAFTA Academy Fellowship for service to the industry, joining previous inductees Nolan Bushnell, Shigeru Miyamoto and Will Wright.

All but one of the winners were elected by a panel of judges. The only publicly chosen award, the GAME Award of 2010, went to Call of Duty: Black Ops.

Want to know which games Custom PC and Bit-Gamer readers would have voted for? Gaze at our own Top 10 Games of 2010, or the staff-selected and constantly updated Hall of Fame.

Check the full list of winners below, then let us know your thoughts in the forums.

Action
Assassin's Creed Brotherhood

Artistic Achievement
God of War III

Best Game
Mass Effect 2

Family
Kinect Sports

Gameplay
Super Mario Galaxy 2

Handheld
Cut the Rope

Multiplayer
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit

Original Music
Heavy Rain

Social Network Game
My Empire

Sports
F1 2010

Story
Heavy Rain

Strategy
Civilization V

Technical Innovation
Heavy Rain

Use of Audio
Battlefield: Bad Company: 2

BAFTA Ones To Watch Award in association with Dare to Be Digital
Twang!

GAME Award of 2010
Call of Duty: Black Ops

Let us know your thoughts in the forums.

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Phalanx 17th March 2011, 15:19

Oh, big thumbs up for BC2's audio. I love the wartapes setting!

wuyanxu 17th March 2011, 15:23

Multiplayer
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit

wait what?

Assassin's Creed Brotherhood better be good. can't wait for Friday :D

sotu1 17th March 2011, 15:26

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Originally Posted by wuyanxu
Multiplayer
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit

wait what?

Like I said in the forum: Autolog. Good call on the innovative system.

Ream 17th March 2011, 15:39

As expected Call of Duty. People when you keep voting for this stuff it makes the devs think that you dont want the genre to move forward.

Unknownsock 17th March 2011, 15:45

Quote:

Use of Audio
Battlefield: Bad Company: 2

I massively agree on this, although it does make me notice how crap other games sfx are now.

Blops game of the year? Pff
I find it hilarious that MW2 seems to have more players than it on Steam now. Great game eh?

Fizzban 17th March 2011, 15:45

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Originally Posted by Ream
As expected Call of Duty. People when you keep voting for this stuff it makes the devs think that you dont want the genre to move forward.

If all you want is multiplayer action it's not so bad. And seemingly that's all the masses want. And the game companys don't want to innovate encase the game flops, so they are more than happy to keep dishing out the same crap with a different cover.

If like me you want a solid 1-player experience like Half-Life 2 then you silently curse every COD/Battlefield type game that releases. That said, Battlefield 3 does look ffing good so far..

bob_lewis 17th March 2011, 15:46

CODBLOPS? Nevermind the bollocks.

It will, however, be rather interesting to se this/next years contestants, now that we have some games that might actually be really good coming out this year.

Woodspoon 17th March 2011, 16:24

F1 2010 ? really? seriously?

That game was/is such a buggy heap it's untrue.
OK somewhere deep deep down in it's heart there might be the beginning's of a decent game, but for the most part, it's a pile with bugs galore.

r3loaded 17th March 2011, 16:30

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ream
As expected Call of Duty. People when you keep voting for this stuff it makes the devs think that you dont want the genre to move forward.

I certainly didn't vote for it, and I doubt many BT'ers did. Who decides this stuff anyway?

altdoom 17th March 2011, 16:40

I think the audio in Amnesia The Dark Descent was better. It was critical to creating the eerie atmosphere.

Sloth 17th March 2011, 17:24

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Originally Posted by wuyanxu
Multiplayer
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit

wait what?

Assassin's Creed Brotherhood better be good. can't wait for Friday :D

Have you played it? The multiplayer was surprisingly fun, bashing around with other cars and what not.

Just a terribly empty game when you start considering the singleplayer.

sWW 17th March 2011, 17:27

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Originally Posted by Ph4lanx
Oh, big thumbs up for BC2's audio. I love the wartapes setting!

completely agree the wartapes setting is amazing!

wuyanxu 17th March 2011, 17:30

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sloth
Have you played it? The multiplayer was surprisingly fun, bashing around with other cars and what not.

Just a terribly empty game when you start considering the singleplayer.

played single player, the actual mechanism for deciding when the car is scrapped wasn't very good so tossed it aside.

ledbythereaper 17th March 2011, 17:43

More like Game Award for Keeping Us Out of the Recession for Black Ops

SMIFFYDUDE 17th March 2011, 17:46

I've not played Fallout New Vegas, is it a strategy game?

FelixTech 17th March 2011, 20:38

Congratulations to the winners of the Ones to Watch award. I thought it looked like an interesting competition, but couldn't work out why anyone who can make a decent game in 6 weeks by themselves would be interested in the job offers that came as a prize...

Necrow 17th March 2011, 20:49

Can't believe the destruction in BFBC2 didn't win it Game Of The Year instead of CODBLOPS....just another typical FPS

Pieface 17th March 2011, 20:54

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Originally Posted by Necrow
Can't believe the destruction in BFBC2 didn't win it Game Of The Year instead of CODBLOPS....just another typical FPS

It's not their top prize. Top Prize was Best Game which was Mass Effect 2.

roblikesbeer 17th March 2011, 22:38

I'm glad BC2 got the audio award but why the flip did it not get the multiplayer award too?!

frontline 18th March 2011, 07:31

BC2 Audio was good, even if the different settings in game just seemed to ramp up the amount of reverb. They did a great job on the audio for Medal of Honor's multiplayer too.

leveller 18th March 2011, 07:37

Disagree on Hot Pursuit. It was a short-lived bit of fun. There was no ability to communicate with other drivers (PC version) and the game grew stale very quickly. My choice would have been BC2.

Cei 18th March 2011, 10:08

Mass Effect 2? Good show, glad they went with that.

SMG2 for gameplay? Oh dear...

niro 18th March 2011, 11:17

These awards are pretty much a joke...not surprised black ops won because it has the most amount of players thus will get more votes, all this does is swell the heads of the suited clowns running Activision.

This just enforces their view that they can charge more for a game which delivers a lot less, release a game whenever they want even if it has problems and just release patches to fix them one by one, and just produce a clone of the same game year on year.

They need to change the title to make it realistic...game of the year without beating any other game on storyline, innovation, audio, or gameplay? hmm right

Pieface 18th March 2011, 16:38

Quote:

Originally Posted by niro
These awards are pretty much a joke...not surprised black ops won because it has the most amount of players thus will get more votes, all this does is swell the heads of the suited clowns running Activision.

This just enforces their view that they can charge more for a game which delivers a lot less, release a game whenever they want even if it has problems and just release patches to fix them one by one, and just produce a clone of the same game year on year.

They need to change the title to make it realistic...game of the year without beating any other game on storyline, innovation, audio, or gameplay? hmm right

It wasn't Game of the year..

It was GAME (A UK games company) Award of 2010. In lots of award ceremonys you get the sponsors giving out awards (Such as the normal Bafta's it's Orange I believe?).

Like a people's choice award, not Game of the year.

chrismarkham1982 19th March 2011, 08:00

what gets me is the fact that a lot of people were very dissapointed with cod blops but still insisted on playing it and trying to rope everyone else into getting it despite the fact that they dont like that much and then flame me for getting reach, a game that i enjoyed