BAFTA's 2011 Round-up: Heavy Rain sweeps up three awards
Something Charlie Sheen can't claim to have won.
Posted by: Miles Jolliffe
17/03/2011 - 11:11
The British Academy Video Game Awards 2011 were held in London last night, and we’re happy to report that Heavy Rain was the big winner, securing three BAFTA’s.
Quantic Dream’s superb murder-mystery PlayStation 3 exclusive won the awards for Best Story, Technical Innovation and Best Music, topping the likes of BioWare’s Mass Effect 2 and 2K Games’ BioShock 2. Studio co-founder and all-round nice guy David Cage was there to pick up the prizes.
Elsewhere, Mass Effect 2 picked up the award for Best Game and Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood won the Action BAFTA. You can find the full list of winners below.
Action: Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood (Ubisoft)
Artistic Achievement: God of War III (Sony Santa Monica)
Best Game: Mass Effect 2 (BioWare)
Family: Kinect Sports (Microsoft Games Studios/Rare)
Gameplay: Super Mario Galaxy (Nintendo)
Handheld: Cut the Rope (ZeptoLab)
Multiplayer: Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit (Criterion Games)
Original Music: Heavy Rain/Normand Corbeil (Quantic Dream)
Social Network Game: My Empire (Playfish)
Sports: F1 2010 (Codemasters)
Story: Heavy Rain (Quantic Dream)
Strategy: Civilization V (Fireaxis)
Technical Innovation: Heavy Rain (Quantic Dream)
Use of Audio: Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (DICE)
Ones to Watch: Twang (That Game Studio)
GAME Award of 2010 (public vote): Call of Duty: Black Ops
Congratulations to all the winners.
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