BAFTA games awards ceremony thingy tonight...

rp2000 · 10 Mar 2009 at 22:45

Just saw a link on BBC news article (I think it just finished now).

They have some sort of text feed update that shows the following games won:

-The Gameplay award, the first of the night, goes to Call of Duty 4.

-The Casual award goes to Boom Blox - the game developed with the help of movie maven Steven Spielberg.

-The Sports award goes to Race Driver: Grid. Rack up one for the Brits. Codemasters are behind it and are based in Warwickshire.

-Bafta for best Strategy game goes to Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution

-Bafta for Story and Character goes to Call of Duty 4

-Bafta for New Talent goes to Boro-Toro

-Bafta for Best Multiplayer goes to Left 4 Dead.

-Bafta for Best Technical Achievement goes to Will Wright's Spore

-Bafta for Original Score goes to Dead Space

-People's Choice Award goes to Call of Duty 4

-Bafta for best Handheld goes to Professor Layton and the Curious Village.

-nother technical Bafta, this time for Artistic Achievement. Finally a gong for the guys in Guilford, LittleBigPlanet gets its first Bafta of the night.

-Peter Molyneux's Fable II wins a Bafta for Best Action and Adventure

-And the Bafta for Best Game goes to Super Mario Galaxy

Edit: I missed a few of the items as I just ct and paste the awards and not the interviews and comments.

original (in case I missed more stuff!) : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7933672.stm

rp2000

Whappers · 10 Mar 2009 at 22:50

rp2000 said:
-Bafta for Story and Character goes to Call of Duty 4

What?!

I thought LittleBigPlanet was widely tipped to win loads at the awards but it never won one?! :confused:

m0r94n · 10 Mar 2009 at 22:50

I'm confused. When did these games have to be made to become eligible for awards? I can think of several better across all categories. The main one that stands out for me though is

rp2000 said:
-Bafta for Story and Character goes to Call of Duty 4

What freaking story!? (Beaten by Whappers).

rp2000 · 10 Mar 2009 at 22:58

Whappers said:
What?!

I thought LittleBigPlanet was widely tipped to win loads at the awards but it never won one?!

I editted as I missed 4 awards 1st time round!!! LBP one an artistic award.

rp2000

Shamikebab · 10 Mar 2009 at 22:58

COD4 had a good story and strong characters.

cokecan · 10 Mar 2009 at 22:58

surely something like Mass Effect would have suited Story and Character more than COD4? lol

rp2000 · 10 Mar 2009 at 22:59

Shamikebab said:
COD4 had a good story and strong characters.

This is a celebration of BEST not good or average

rp2000

m0r94n · 10 Mar 2009 at 23:00

Shamikebab said:
COD4 had a good story and strong characters.

Vague setting, stereotypical characters. Oscar winning tbh

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rp2000 · 10 Mar 2009 at 23:01

m0r94n said:
Vague setting, stereotypical characters. Oscar winning tbh.

BAFTA winning. Read the thread

rp2000

m0r94n · 10 Mar 2009 at 23:03

rp2000 said:
BAFTA winning. Read the thread

rp2000

Way to devalue the game

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Shamikebab · 10 Mar 2009 at 23:03

What time period is this? Because Mass effect came out over a year ago (I doubt they'd include it again for the PC release).

m0r94n · 10 Mar 2009 at 23:04

Shamikebab said:
What time period is this? Because Mass effect came out over a year ago (I doubt they'd include it again for the PC release).

Iirc, both Mass Effect and CoD4 were late 2007.

Shamikebab · 10 Mar 2009 at 23:06

Good point :confused:

Still Mass Effect had a good story but I would say its characters were quite dull.

meths · 10 Mar 2009 at 23:08

rp2000 said:
-Bafta for Best Technical Achievement goes to Will Wright's Spore

Yeah, right. What technical achievament was that?

The most over hyped game in the history of games ever perhaps?

m0r94n · 10 Mar 2009 at 23:10

Shamikebab said:
Good point

Still Mass Effect had a good story but I would say its characters were quite dull.

I personally would have chosen Bioshock, as its in pretty much the same time frame as the other two games (2 months difference). Imo MGS4 has a better story than both Cod4 and Mass Effect combined and that is definitely within the boundaries.

rp2000 · 10 Mar 2009 at 23:16

Meths said:
Yeah, right. What technical achievament was that?

The most over hyped game in the history of games ever perhaps?

I wish I had quoted the text properly or put a disclaimer now!!

THESE ARE NOT MY VIEWS AND I HAVE NOT PLAYED ALL THESE GAMES

rp2000

chris_uk333 · 10 Mar 2009 at 23:34

Fable 2 was rubbish, that deserved no award!

Dakotacs · 10 Mar 2009 at 23:39

Ah I'm glad Grid won the sports award, I recently got back into it. Well deserved I think.

Robert1986 · 11 Mar 2009 at 00:07

What a joke. Most of those games came out 10 years ago.

Spore won an award for best techincal achievement? What? Did I just read that right?

Nymins · 11 Mar 2009 at 00:14

GTA4 didn't win anything? Wut.