Mass Effect 2 Crowned Best Game at BAFTAs
Last night the BAFTA Video Games Awards took place at the London Hilton and Mass Effect 2 was the game that snagged the coveted Best Game title.
Last night's BAFTAs saw Mass Effect 2 beat out Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood, FIFA 11, Heavy Rain, LIMBO and Super Mario Galaxy 2 to scoop the top award of the night, while God of War III won the BAFTA for artistic achievement and Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood won best action game.
Peter Molyneux was also honoured last night, receiving the 2011 Academy Fellowship for his contribution to gaming. Since co-founding Bullfrog Productions in 1987 Molyneux has given us games such as Populous, Powermonger, Theme Park, Magic Carpet, Dungeon Keeper and the Fable series. Cumulative sales of his games are at approximately fifteen million worldwide.
Check out the full list of BAFTA nominees and winners below:
Best Game
Winner:
Mass Effect 2
Nominees:
Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
FIFA 11
Heavy Rain
LIMBO
Super Mario Galaxy 2
Action
Winner:
Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
Nominees:
Battlefield: Bad Company 2
BioShock 2
Call of Duty: Black Ops
God of War III
Halo: Reach
Artistic Achievement
Winner:
God of War III
Nominees:
Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
Call of Duty: Black Ops
Heavy Rain
LIMBO
Mass Effect 2
Family
Winner:
Kinect Sports
Nominees:
Dance Central
Kinect Adventures
Kinectimals
LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
Toy Story 3
Gameplay
Winner:
Super Mario Galaxy 2
Nominees:
Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
God of War III
Heavy Rain
LIMBO
Mass Effect 2
Handheld
Winner:
Cut the Rope
Nominees:
God of War: Ghost of Sparta
LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
Professor Layton and the Lost Future
Sonic Colours
Super Scribblenauts
Multiplayer
Winner:
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit
Nominees:
Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
Battlefield: Bad Company 2
Call of Duty: Black Ops
Halo: Reach
Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty
Original Music
Winner:
Heavy Rain
Nominees:
Alan Wake
Fable III
James Bond 007: Bloodstone
Mass Effect 2
Super Mario Halaxy 2
Social Network Game
Winner:
My Empire
Nominees:
Bejeweled Blitz
Farmerama
FIFA Superstars
Zoo Mumba
Zuma Blitz
Sports
Winner:
F1 2010
Nominees:
FIFA 11
Football Manager 2011
Gran Turismo 5
International Cricket 2010
Pro Evolution Soccer 2011
Story
Winner:
Heavy Rain
Nominees:
Alan Wake
BioShock 2
Call of Duty: Black Ops
Fallout: New Vegas
Mass Effect 2
Strategy
Winner:
Civilization V
Nominees:
Fallout: New Vegas
FIFA Manager 11
Napoleon Total War
Plants vs. Zombies XBLA
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty
Technical Innovation
Winner:
Heavy Rain
Nominees:
Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
Call of Duty: Black Ops
Halo: Reach
Kinectimals
Super Mario Galaxy 2
Use of Audio
Winner:
Battlefield: Bad Company: 2
Nominees:
Alan Wake
Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
Call of Duty: Black Ops
DJ Hero 2
LIMBO
BAFTA Ones to Watch Award in association with Dare to Be Digital
Winner:
Twang!
Nominees:
Mush
Sculpty
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That must give you a good feeling!
Need For Speed? Best Multiplayer?
I can't help but laugh
ME2 best game? It certainly has a great story but it is a crappy shooter. Very crappy at that and planet scanning was interesting the first 30 minutes. This game is far from perfect. It felt like a good interactive movie mixed with a bad GoW rip-off. The action in ME1 was way better. I hope they come up wiyh better level design in ME3.
The action levels in ME2 were very artificial, compared with the realistic feeling in the RPG part of the game.
I loved the game and I hated it at the same time.
Well maybe the other games are worse??
"Artistic achievement:
Nominated:
Call of Duty: Black Ops"
AHAHAHAHAHAHAAAH. Excuse me while I give myself a hernia.
Some of these choices are a little odd to say the least though.
Need for speed as best multiplayer? Hell no.
Need For Speed? Best Multiplayer?
I can't help but laugh
AND STARCRAFT II WAS IN THAT CATEGORY AND EVERYTHING. A happy camper I am not.
Technical innovation - CoD:BO was a nominee? How.........?
elder scroll skyrim will be 2011 game of the year
Really not sure how Just Cause 2 wasn't nominated for anything. What did you guys think of that?
Award titles leave a lot to be desired, the least they could have done was chose the best game of each type