BAFTA Video Game Award 2010 winners include Batman: Arkham Asylum (Best Game), Uncharted 2 (Most Awards) and Shigeru Miyamoto

20 March 2010

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Batman: Arkham Asylum won Game of the Year and Uncharted 2 picked up the most awards at the 2010 BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) GAME: British Academy Video Game Awards ceremony that took place in London.

Batman sealed the deal as quite possibly the best game of 2009 by unseating Uncharted 2 at BAFTA and winning Best Game along with Best Game Design. This impressive showing follows directly on the heels of doing the same at the Game Developer’s Choice Awards just last week where it beat Uncharted in the Best Game Design category.

However Uncharted 2 plowed onward in a big way, winning the most awards of the night, including: Best Action Game, Best Original Score, Best Story, and Best Use of Audio.

Other games were also highlighted at the event of as well of course. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 won the Game Award of 2009 for being voted as the best game by the public, Flower won the award for Best Artistic Achievement and LittleBigPlanet PSP won the Best Handheld Game Award.

This was also a big night for Shiggy, i.e. Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of Mario, Zelda, Donkey Kong, Pikmin, Wii Sports, Wii Fit and overall Nintendo mastermind, who won the honorary Fellowship Award. This very prestigous category is shared by previous winners Will Wright (of The Sims and SimCity creator fame) and Nolan Bushnell (founder of Atari and the one who popularized and trademarked the game “Pong”. Based on Ralph Baer’s original “tennis” design).

One contentious or rather sad moment of the show came with the Modern Warfare 2 win for most public votes, as the award was accepted by an Activision UK representative, and NOT by the creators of the game at Inifinity Ward. This is due to a brutal legal fight between the publisher Activision and developer Infinity Ward. The latter’s two presidents were terminated and Activision is now being sued for over $36 million in damages by the two in a messy court battle.

The awards were hosted by comedian Dara O’Briain for the second year running, and the show was located at the London Hilton Metropole Hotel.

Here is a full list of the categories and winners.

Action
WINNER: Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
Assassin’s Creed II
Batman: Arkham Asylum
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Infamous
Left 4 Dead 2

Artistic Achievement
WINNER: Flower
Assassin’s Creed II
Batman: Arkham Asylum
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Streetfighter IV
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

Best Game
WINNER: Batman: Arkham Asylum
Assassin’s Creed II
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
FIFA 10
Left 4 Dead 2
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

Family & Social
WINNER: Wii Sports Resort
The Beatles: Rock Band
Buzz! Quiz World
EyePet
Guitar Hero 5
New Super Mario Bros Wii

Gameplay
WINNER: Batman: Arkham Asylum
Assassin’s Creed II
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
New Super Mario Bros Wii
PixelJunk Shooter
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

Handheld
WINNER: Little Big Planet (PSP)
Gran Turismo
LocoRoco Midnight Carnival
Mario and Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story
Professor Layton and Pandora’s Box
Scribblenauts

Multiplayer
WINNER: Left 4 Dead 2
Battlefield 1943
The Beatles: Rock Band
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Halo 3 ODST
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

Original Score
WINNER: Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
Assassin’s Creed II
Batman: Arkham Asylum
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
PixelJunk Shooter

Sports
WINNER: FIFA 10
Colin McRae: DiRT 2
Football Manager 2010
Forza Motorsport 3
Wii Fit Plus
Wii Sports Resort

Story
WINNER: Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
Assassin’s Creed II
Batman: Arkham Asylum
Broken Sword – Shadow of the Templars: The Director’s Cut
Brutal Legend
Dragon Age: Origins

Strategy
WINNER: Empire: Total War
Command and Conquer 3: Uprising
FIFA Manager 10
Football Manager 2010
Halo Wars
Plants vs Zombies

Use of Audio
WINNER: Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
Batman: Arkham Asylum
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
DJ Hero
Flower
Left 4 Dead 2

Use of Online
WINNER: FIFA 10
Battlefield 1943
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Little Big Planet (PSP)
Singstar TakeThat
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

GAME Award
WINNER: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Assassin’s Creed II
Batman Arkham Asylum
The Beatles: Rockband
FIFA 10
GTA China Town Wars
Legend of Zelda Spirit Tracks
Street Fighter IV
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
Wii Sports Resort

The Fellowship Award
Shigeru Miyamoto

Via BAFTA GAME 2010 Awards official website