Den mest velrenommerede britiske prisoverrækkelse for underholdningsbranchen, BAFTA Awards (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) blev afholdt i går aftes. Activsion & Infinity Wards Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare blev den store vinder med hele tre priser (Gameplay, Story & Game Award of 2008). Dead Space vandt i to kategorier (Use of Audio & Original Score), Civilization Revolution nappede prisen for bedste strategi-spil og Left 4 Dead blev kåret som det bedste multiplayer-spil. Vi har inkluderet et forholdsvis langt uddrag af BAFTA’s egen pressemeddelelse herunder.
Wednesday 11th March – Tonight, Steven Spielberg claimed his third BAFTA mask, but this time it was not for a film but for his début as a games creator with his Boom Blox winning the BAFTA in the Casual category, outplaying Guitar Hero, LittleBigPlanet, Singstar Vol 2, Wii Fit and Buzz! Quiz TV.
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare which plunges its players into the frenzied epicentre of a 21st century war zone won for Gameplay, Story & Character and also proved to be the public’s game of choice, winning the GAME Award of 2008 with a record 60,000 gamers casting their votes this year. The shortlist of titles in the public award category were derived from the top-selling games sold in GAME stores in 2008.
Dead Space, the bone-chilling, deep space, horror survival game took the coveted BAFTA mask in both sound categories (Use of Audio and Original Score) evoking a genuinely scary atmosphere onboard the game’s deserted space ship. One of the most fiercely contended awards, Artistic Achievement, went to the stitched and glued 3D world that is LittleBigPlanet while the Technical Achievement BAFTA went to Spore, which allows players to control the development of a species from its beginnings as a single cell organism, to an intelligent and social creature, a tribe, a civilisation and then once uploaded to the internet, interacting with other civilisations.
In the Strategy category, Sid Meier’s Civilization Revolution, the latest iteration of a game which first appeared 15 years ago, proved that strategy games requiring clever thinking, tactical planning and logistical exploration are as compelling today as they were last century.
FIFA 09 and Football Manager took on Wii Fit, but it was Race Driver: GRID which outraced the monster trucks and rally cars of Motorstorm Pacific Rift and the off-road quad bikes of PURE to claim the BAFTA for Sport.
Left 4 Dead took the BAFTA in the Multiplayer category, Fable II won in Action and Adventure, while Professor Layton and the Curious Village was victorious in the Handheld category. This year’s highly-prized Best Game went to Super Mario Galaxy which fought off very stiff competition from Call of Duty 4 : Modern Warfare, Fable II, Fallout 3, Grand Theft Auto IV and Rock Band.


























Hvordan kan de tage et spil som CoD 4 der udkom i 2007? :S
LBP gider man ikke lige naevne her paa DR? … saa er alt jo som det plejer!
#2 havde du vel ikke regnet med?
#1
Fordi det udkom ret sent på året.
#2
LBP er jo bare hyped som fanden. Uhhhh uhhh uhhh se os!
Men synes da helt klart at CoD4 fortjente de priser. Et genialt gennemtænkt spil. Glæder mig allerede til CoDMW2
LBP er tidernes mest overvurderede spil IMO
CoD 4… klasse! Det fortjener alt den hædet det kan få!