So the gaming Baftas 2009 were held yesterday and contained a few surprises in and out of the winners list.
Call of Duty 4 picked up three awards for Gameplay, Story and Character and The People's Choice. Professor Layton and Boom Blox picked up awards for Handheld and Casual respectively. Great to see these games getting recognition even if it had to be with the rather ambiguous 'Casual' tag. GTA IV failed to pick up anything despite being nominated in seven categories, as did Fallout 3, my personal favourite game of 2008.
Game of the year went to Super Mario Galaxy.
Some of the big winners you'll note were actually released in late 2007 but were allowed to be included due to a scheduling change.
The full list of winners can be seen here.
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Wednesday 11 March 2009
Video Games Bafta Winners
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Seems strange that the Baftas can give CoD 4 the 'game of the year' award in 2008 and still give loads of awards to it in 2009. One game, one year surely??
It seems odd to me too. I just read this on gamezine.co.uk which explains a little...
It turns out that it was Activision's choice to submit Modern Warfare instead of World at War. BAFTA's response to Gamezine's enquiry read:
"Call of Duty Modern Warfare missed the deadline for the 2007 Awards and so Activision elected to put that game forward for this year's Awards and chose not to enter World at War this time. We can only judge those games which are entered for BAFTA consideration."
Therefore, Treyarch might be lucky enough to be entered next year; though we doubt this since the game didn't miss the 2008 deadline. Furthermore, other video games released after Modern Warfare in 2007, weren't afforded the same virtue. Still, as BAFTA said, it's down to the publisher to submit the games for consideration, meaning they might not have realised that late-2007 games were eligible.
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