BAFTA Announce Video Games Awards Shortlist

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Lee Bradley

BAFTA has announced the 2012 British Academy Video Games Awards shortlist. 

Out in front with an impressive eight nominations each are Rocksteady’s Batman: Arkham City and the late Team Bondi’s L.A. Noire. Naughty Dog’s Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception and Media Molecule’s LittleBigPlanet 2 follow behind, with nominations across six different categories.

The most hotly contested category, meanwhile, will no doubt be the GAME Award of 2011. Unlike the other shortlisted awards, the best game is voted on by the public. You have a choice of Batman: Arkham City, Battlefield 3, Modern Warfare 3, FIFA 12, L.A Noire, Minecraft, Portal 2, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword and Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception.

BAFTA will reveal the winners at a ceremony held in London on Friday 16th March.

Action

  • Assassin's Creed Revelations
  • Batman: Arkham City
  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
  • Deus Ex: Human Revolution
  • Portal 2
  • Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception

Artistic Achievement

  • Batman: Arkham City
  • L.A. Noire
  • LittleBigPlanet 2
  • Rayman: Origins
  • The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim
  • Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception

Audio Achievement

  • Batman: Arkham City
  • Battlefield 3
  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
  • Dead Space 2
  • The Nightjar
  • Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception

Best Game

  • Batman: Arkham City
  • FIFA 2012
  • L.A. Noire
  • Portal 2
  • The Elder Scrolls V - Skyrim
  • The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword

Debut Game

  • Bastion
  • Eufloria
  • Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet
  • L.A. Noire
  • Monstermind
  • RIFT

Design

  • Batman: Arkham City
  • L.A. Noire
  • LittleBigPlanet 2
  • Portal 2
  • Super Mario 3D Land
  • The Elder Scrolls V - Skyrim

Family

  • Dance Central 2
  • Kinect Sports 2
  • LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean
  • LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars
  • LittleBigPlanet 2
  • Mario Kart 7

Game Innovation

  • Bastion
  • Child of Eden
  • From Dust
  • L.A. Noire
  • LittleBigPlanet 2
  • The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword

Mobile & Handheld

  • Dead Space iOS
  • Magnetic Billiards: Blueprint
  • Peggle
  • Quarrel
  • Super Mario 3D Land
  • The Nightjar

Online - Browser

  • Gardens of Time
  • I Am Playr
  • Monstermind
  • Global Resistance
  • Skylanders: Spyro's Universe
  • The Sims Social

Online - Multiplayer

  • Assassin's Creed: Revelations
  • Battlefield 3
  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
  • Dark Souls
  • Gears of War 3
  • LittleBigPlanet 2

Original Music

  • Assassin's Creed: Revelations
  • Batman: Arkham City
  • Deus Ex: Human Revolution
  • L.A. Noire
  • The Elder Scrolls V - Skyrim
  • Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception

Performer

  • Aaron Stanton (Cole Phelps) - L.A. Noire
  • Mark Hamill (The Joker) - Batman: Arkham City
  • Nolan North (Nathan Drake) - Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception
  • Stephen Fry (Narrator) - LittleBigPlanet 2
  • Stephen Merchant (Wheatley) - Portal 2
  • Togo Igawa (Dipolomat, Advisor and Military General) - Total War: SHOGUN 2

Sports/Fitness

  • Dance Central 2
  • DiRT 3
  • F1 2011
  • FIFA 2012
  • Kinect Sports 2
  • Your Shape Fitness Evolved 2012

Story

  • Batman: Arkham City
  • Deus Ex: Human Revolution
  • L.A. Noire
  • Portal 2
  • The Elder Scrolls V - Skyrim
  • Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception

Strategy

  • Dark Souls
  • Deus Ex: Human Revolution
  • Football Manager 2012
  • From Dust
  • Ghost Recon Shadow Wars
  • Total War: SHOGUN 2

BAFTA Ones to Watch Award in association with Dare to Be Digital

  • Dreamweaver
  • Joust!
  • Tick Tock Toys

GAME Award of 2011 (voted for by the public)

  • Batman: Arkham City
  • Battlefield 3
  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
  • FIFA 2012
  • L.A Noire
  • Minecraft
  • Portal 2
  • The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
  • The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
  • Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception
Comments
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  • good to see battlefield won yet another sound award :)
  • @#1 It didn't win, it's nominated
  • how has LA Noire been nominated for 8 things, it was so repetitive and boring
  • Get ready for this guys, most of the comments will be like this. In fact I'll do you guys a great service here, "How has [INSERT GAME] Been nominated for [INSERT AWARD/NUMBER OF AWARDS]? It was so [INSERT GENERIC INSULT ABOUT THE GAME]" Plus you can use my lousy winners template: "How the hell did [INSERT GAME] win [INSERT AWARD/NUMBER OF AWARDS]? It was so [INSERT GENERIC INSULT ABOUT THE GAME], the award should have gone to [INSERT OTHER GAME] it was way better then [INSERT FIRST GAME AGAIN]" follow this handy guide and you'll be able to easily dish out insults about the people you feel don't deserve to be nominated for the Gaming BAFTAs. Here's an example: "How has Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Been nominated for ANYTHING? it was so CODish (I count this as an insult now)"
  • I really don think a shooter needs to win an audio award
  • Mark Hamill FTW!! The best joker EVER!!
  • Battlefield 3 sound is amazing, Dice would get my vote for sound achievement
  • Not surprised Arkham City has multiple awards. It is British made after all! Plus a very good game. :p
  • @5 That's a joke right? Its not all about the 'music' - The audio is key to immerse yourself in the environment and atmosphere. To make it sound and feel like you really are in a war zone. The graphics are great, but the sound is what makes the game come alive! :) The sounds in BF3 blow your mind, the amount of effort and research DICE have put into the sounds in that game are quite astonishing. You should consider buying it for that reason alone! Though the gameplay is the best I have experienced as well :P
  • @4 fair comment, but please if you feel LA Noire should have been nominated, tell me why? to me it should be no where near the nominations, it was an average game with average user ratings
  • glad ti c la noire gettin th recognition it deserves hope it wins :)
  • @10 It wasn't one of the best games out there but to me L.A Noire was a brilliant game for what it did right. It did a great job at capturing the look and feel of a 50's Noire film, the game was a great game for me and I find it a shame Team Bondi can't make a sequal because if they knew what a great job L.A Noire did then the next time they could push the game out further. I see Awards as one of those things that prompts companies to make another title. The sequal to L.A Noire could be great, remember the transition from Assassin's Creed 1 to Assassin's Creed 2? There was such a leap in terms of gameplay, storyline and visuals.
  • Skyrim nominated for best story... Are you fucking kidding me???
  • What's up with the one to watch award this year? There's a few games I'd have thought would be nominated for that award but none of them seem to be up there.
  • one of my friends would be raging tht zelda is not game of the year XD
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