Be Excellent To Each Other

Here's the rundown:

Gameplay Award: Call of Duty 4

Casual Award: Boom Blox

Sports Award: Race Driver: Grid

Strategy Award: Civilization Revolution

Best Audio: Dead Space

Best Story and Character: Call of Duty 4

New Talent: Boro-Toro

Best Multiplayer - Left 4 Dead

Best Technical Achievement: Spore

Best Original Score: Dead Space

People's Choice Award: Call of Duty 4

Best Handheld: Professor Layton and the Curious Village

Artistic Achievement: Little Big Planet

Best Action and Adventure: Fable II

Best Game: Super Mario Galaxy



First thoughts

[*] Best story and character to CoD4? I love that game like a child, but despite a few awesome set pieces, surely Fallout 3 or GTA IV would have had better stories/characters? I dunno... maybe it won it just for the 'All Ghillied Up' mission.

[*] Nothing for GTA IV or Fallout 3? Not that I liked GTA.

[*] Super Mario Galaxy for best game? I really disliked the game, and after playing it for a couple of hours had yet to come across anything that had been more complicated than "walk somewhere... walk somewhere else... occasionally jump".

[*] Best multiplayer for L4D? Score one for jonarob, and score minus a thousand for the bastards who talked me out of buying it. That said, there's pretty much no way I'll prefer it to CoD4, so it's okay.

[*] It seems weird to be giving awards to games released 16 months ago (SMG, CoD)

[*] I also didn't like Boom Blox. I couldn't work out what it was for. Every game I played on the 'Jenga' style levels went turn after turn with nobody ever knocking anything over, until someone had to knock over something as there were the exact minimum number of blocks left so something had to give. Oddness.

[*] Ummmm... that's about it.

Your thoughts, good people?

I guess Dawn Of War 2 was released too late to be included, but no Fallout 3? For shame.

Er, didn't SMG and CoD4 come out in 2007, even in Britishland?
Nothing for Fallout 3 is... astonishing.
What a very odd list.

Was fallout 3 actually up for awards? They moved the awards this time, as previously the awards was about 1 week before all the big xmas releases. So thats why SMG is up against new titles.

The BBC report certainly implied that Fallout 3 was nominated for a few awards, but didn't win any.

Truth-fix. Some of us were undecided after playing the demo (I thought it was ok, but I had about 4-5 other games I wanted to get first) but the full game is indeed quite awesome, indeed.

CoD4 getting awards in 2009 is ridiculous. Fair enough if it won the multiplayer award, but awards for the single player campaign? Get out.

smg was lovely, but seems years ago now, this way those awards haven't got any meaning..