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Super Mario Galaxy Wins "Best Game" at BAFTAs

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By Kris Graft

March 11, 2009

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The GAME British Academy of Film and Television Arts awarded Nintendo's Super Mario Galaxy with "Best Game" honors Tuesday night in London.

The Wii game beat out fellow best game nominees Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Fable II, Fallout 3, Grand Theft Auto IV and Rock Band.

Activision and Infinity Ward's Call of Duty 4 won the most awards with three honors in the "Gameplay," "Story and Character" and public-voted "GAME Award."

Over 60K people placed their votes for the GAME Award.

Older games released in late 2007 such as Call of Duty 4 and Super Mario Galaxy were eligible due to a scheduling change that nixed the videogame BAFTA awards in 2008.

The winners of this year's videogame BAFTAs are listed below:

Best Game
SUPER MARIO GALAXY
Nintendo/Nintendo

Action and Adventure
FABLE II
Lionhead Studios/Microsoft Game Studios

Artistic Achievement
LITTLEBIGPLANET
Media Molecule & XDev Studio Europe /
Sony Computer Entertainment

Casual
BOOM BLOX
Electronic Arts LA/Electronic Arts

Gameplay
CALL OF DUTY 4: MODERN WARFARE
Infinity Ward/Activision

Handheld
PROFESSOR LAYTON AND THE CURIOUS VILLAGE
Level-5/Nintendo

Multiplayer
LEFT 4 DEAD
Valve/Valve

Original Score
DEAD SPACE
EA/EA

Sports
RACE DRIVER: GRID
Codemasters Studios/Codemasters

Strategy
SID MEIER’S CIVILIZATION REVOLUTION
Firaxis Games/2K Games

Story and Character
CALL OF DUTY 4: MODERN WARFARE
Infinity Ward/Activision

Technical Achievement
SPORE
Electronic Arts Montreal/Electronic Arts

Use of Audio
DEAD SPACE
Electronic Arts/Electronic Arts

BAFTA Ones to Watch Award
BORO-TORO
Adam Westwood, Graham Ranson, Yves Wheeler, Matthew Booton, Owen Schwehr (DarkMatter Designs)

GAME Award of 2008
CALL OF DUTY 4: MODERN WARFARE
Infinity Ward/Activision

Ambrus_Veres's picture
On March 12th Ambrus_Veres said:

'Story and Character' was awarded to CoD 4? Strange choice, I think, considering GTA IV was eligible. I would have thought, considering this is a BAFTA, that they would have chosen the more characteristically complex Rockstar game than Infinity Ward's rote nuclear threat plot.

manhattan's picture
On March 11th manhattan said:

Good choices.... I knew Braid was overrated.

ztrapwn's picture
On March 11th ztrapwn said:

"Technical Achievement
SPORE
Electronic Arts Montreal/Electronic Arts"

Err?

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On March 11th StealthBadger said:

It's nice to see a big award for mario galaxy. I can definitely say it's the game I had most fun playing over the last year or so.

I am surprised not to see fallout 3 anywhere here, maybe story and character, or something..

SaintJude's picture
On March 11th SaintJude said:

Fallout was an OK game. But a step back for Bethesda when compared to Oblivion. I'm glad it is not doing as well at the awards as Oblivion did.

SaintJude's picture
On March 11th SaintJude said:

I'm glad to see Dead Space pick up a few awards. Kudos.

ArronC07's picture
On March 11th ArronC07 said:

Agreed Dead Space is such a good game, kudos to EA on this one.

SaintJude's picture
On March 12th SaintJude said:

Do you remember a time when EA was a 'threat to the industry'? I believe even EDGE did an article about how EA was killing off innovation and new IP with its iterative cashing in.
What gives EA?

ArronC07's picture
On March 12th ArronC07 said:

Yeah I remember, now that crown is firmly on the head of Acti-Bliz. *spits*

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On March 12th SaintJude said:

Didn't you hear, they're prepared to take "selective risks"?