Other than the usual time lag since release - 2007's Super Mario Galaxy won the Best Game award - the BAFTAs offered no real surprises. Perhaps only Call of Duty 4's winning of the "Story and Character" award - surely it should have been Mass Effect?? - felt misplaced. Codemasters will be especially pleased to pick up the "Sports" award for Race Diver: GRID while Civ Revolution fully deserved the "Strategy" prize for opening up the genre. Call of Duty 4 was the big winner though, taking home three BAFTAs while Pong creator Nolan Bushnell picked up the BAFTA Fellowship. The awards in full are...
ACTION & ADVENTURE
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (PC, PS3, Xbox 360)
ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENT
LittleBigPlanet (PS3)
BEST GAME
Super Mario Galaxy (Wii)
CASUAL
Boom Blox (Wii)
GAMEPLAY
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (PC, PS3, Xbox 360)
HANDHELD
Professor Layton and the Curious Village (DS)
MULTIPLAYER
Left 4 Dead (PC, Xbox 360)
ORIGINAL SCORE
Dead Space (PC, PS3, Xbox 360)
SPORTS
Race Driver: GRID (PC, PS3, Xbox 360)
STORY AND CHARACTER
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (PC, PS3, Xbox 360)
STRATEGY
Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution (DS, PS3, Xbox 360)
TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT
Spore (Mac/PC)
USE OF AUDIO
Dead Space (PC, PS3, Xbox 360)
THE BAFTA FELLOWSHIP
To Nolan Bushnell, creator of Pong and founder of Atari
BAFTA ONES TO WATCH AWARD
Boro-Toro
So, what do you think? About right? Or should the likes of GTA IV been recognised?
