BAFTA Awards 2007: Wii Sports bowls over 6 awards, Crackdown bags 3

With the London Games Festival well underway, The British Academy for Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) concluded its British Academy Video Game Awards night leaving Nintendo with complete bragging rights for one full year. Nintendo’s Wii Sports held up against all competition in six categories and was crowned king in Casual, Gameplay, Innovation, Multiplayer, Sports, and Strategy and Simulation.

Microsoft‘s Crackdown took three titles home, while SCEE’s God of War 2 and Capcom‘s Okami snagged two apiece. The Best Game Award went to 2K Games‘ BioShock, while on user-voted front, the PC World Gamers Award went to SEGA’s Football Manager 2007. Sims creator Will Wright was inducted to the Academy Fellowship, where he joins the likes of Steven Spielberg and Charlie Chaplin.

The full list of winners begins at the full article!

Buy: [ Wii Sports ]
Buy: [ Crackdown ]
Buy: [ BioShock (Games for Windows), (Xbox 360) ]
Buy: [ Football Manager 2007 (PC) ]

With the London Games Festival well underway, The British Academy for Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) concluded its British Academy Video Game Awards night leaving Nintendo with complete bragging rights for one full year. Nintendo’s Wii Sports held up against all competition in six categories and was crowned king in Casual, Gameplay, Innovation, Multiplayer, Sports, and Strategy and Simulation.

Microsoft‘s Crackdown took three titles home, while SCEE’s God of War 2 and Capcom‘s Okami snagged two apiece. The Best Game Award went to 2K Games‘ BioShock, while on user-voted front, the PC World Gamers Award went to SEGA’s Football Manager 2007. Sims creator Will Wright was inducted to the Academy Fellowship, where he joins the likes of Steven Spielberg and Charlie Chaplin.

The winners per category are as follow:

Action and Adventure
Crackdown (Xbox 360) – Development Team (Realtime Worlds/Microsoft Game Studios)

Artistic Achievement
Okami (PS2) – Atsushi Inaba (Clover(Capcom)/Capcom)

Best Game
BioShock (Xbox 360) – Development Team (2K Boston/2K Australia/2K Games)
 
Casual
Wii Sports (Wii) – Development Team (Nintendo/Nintendo)

Gameplay
Wii Sports (Wii) – Development Team (Nintendo/Nintendo)

Innovation
Wii Sports (Wii) – Development Team (Nintendo/Nintendo)

Multiplayer
Wii Sports (Wii) – Development Team (Nintendo/Nintendo)

Original Score
Okami (PS2) – Atsushi Inaba (Clover (Capcom)/Capcom)

Sports
Wii Sports (Wii) – Development Team (Nintendo/Nintendo)

Strategy and Simulation
Wii Sports (Wii) – Development Team (Nintendo/Nintendo)

Story and Character
God of War 2 (PS2) – Cory Barlog, David Jaffe, Marianne Krawczyk (SCE Santa Monica Studio/Sony Computer Entertainment Europe)

Technical Achievement
God of War 2 (PS2) – Tim Moss, Christer Ericson (SCE Santa Monica Studio/Sony Computer Entertainment Europe)

Use of Audio
Crackdown (Xbox 360) – Development Team (Realtime Worlds/Microsoft Game Studios)

BAFTA Ones To Watch Award in association with Dare to Be Digital
Ragnarawk – Voodoo Boogy (Malcom Brown, Robert Clarke, Peter Carr, Lynne Robertson, Finlay Sutton)

The PC World Gamers Award (The only award to be voted for by the public)
Football Manager 2007 (PC) (Sports Interactive/SEGA)

Buy: [ Wii Sports ]
Buy: [ Crackdown ]
Buy: [ BioShock (Games for Windows), (Xbox 360) ]
Buy: [ Football Manager 2007 (PC) ]