The British Academy Video Games Awards nominees have been announced and PS2 and PS3 games feature quite heavily. The actual event will be held on Tuesday 23rd October so we look forward to seeing how the games will do. It seems that gaming is fast becoming accepted as an equivalent of the film industry, which is great, and following the cinematic aspects/Hollywood actor-led motion capture of the likes of Heavenly Sword, the industry as a whole is receiving its due attention.
To view the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3 nominated games, click through…
ACTION AND ADVENTURE
GOD OF WAR 2 (PS2) - Cory Barlog, Michael Cheng, Eric Williams (SCE Santa Monica Studio/Sony Computer Entertainment Europe)
ORANGE BOX (PS3) - Development Team (Valve/Electronic Arts)
RATCHET AND CLANK: TOOLS OF DESTRUCTION (PS3) - Development Team (SCE Foster City Studio & Insomniac/Sony Computer Entertainment Europe)
ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENT
HEAVENLY SWORD (PS3) - Development Team (Ninja Theory/Sony Computer Entertainment Europe)
OKAMI (PS2) - Atsushi Inaba (Clover(Capcom)/Capcom)
RATCHET AND CLANK: TOOLS OF DESTRUCTION (PS3) - Development Team (SCE Foster City Studio & Insomniac/Sony Computer Entertainment Europe)
SKATE (PS3) - Development Team (EA Black Box/Electronic Arts)
BEST GAME
GUITAR HERO II (PS2) - Development Team (Harmonix/Activision/Red Octane)
CASUAL
GUITAR HERO II (PS2) - Development Team (Harmonix/Activision/Red Octane)
SINGSTAR (PS3) - Development Team (SCE London Studio/Sony Computer Entertainment Europe)
GAMEPLAY
SEGA RALLY (PS3) - Development Team (SEGA Racing Studio/SEGA)
WARHAWK (PS3) - Dylan Jobe, Bruce Woodard, Brian Upton (Incognito/Sony Computer Entertainment Europe)
INNOVATION
FLOW (PSN) - Jenova Chen, Nicholas Clark, Austin Wintory (SCE Santa Monica Studio/Thatgamecompany/Sony Computer Entertainment Europe)
OKAMI (PS2) - Atsushi Inaba (Clover(Capcom)/Capcom)
THE EYE OF JUDGEMENT (PS3) - Kazuhito Miyaki, Yuseke Watanabe (SCE Japan Studio/Sony Computer Entertainment Europe)
MULTIPLAYER
GUITAR HERO II (PS2) - Development Team (Harmonix/Activision/Red Octane)
ORIGINAL SCORE
FINAL FANTASY XII (PS2) - Hitoshi Sakimoto, Nobuo Uematsu (Final Fantasy XII Project Team/Square Enix)
GOD OF WAR 2 (PS2) - Clint Bajakian, Jonathan Mayer, Chuck Doud (SCE Santa Monica Studio/Sony Computer Entertainment Europe)
LAIR (PS3) - John Debney, Ryan Hamlyn, Clint Bajakian (SCE Foster City Studio & Factor 5/Sony Computer Entertainment America)
OKAMI (PS2) - Atsushi Inaba (Clover (Capcom)/Capcom)
SPORTS
FIFA 08 (PS3) - Development Team (EA Chicago/Electronic Arts)
MOTORSTORM (PS3) - Mick Hocking, Martin Kenwright, Pete Smith (SCE External Development Studio & Evolution/Sony Computer Entertainment Europe)
STORY AND CHARACTER
FINAL FANTASY XII (PS2) - Development Team (Final Fantasy XII Project Team/Square Enix)
GOD OF WAR 2 (PS2) - Cory Barlog, David Jaffe (SCE Santa Monica Studio/Sony Computer Entertainment Europe)
HEAVENLY SWORD (PS3) - Development Team (Ninja Theory/Sony Computer Entertainment Europe)
OKAMI (PS2) - Atsushi Inaba (Clover (Capcom)/Capcom)
TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT
GOD OF WAR 2 (PS2) - Tim Moss, Christer Ericson (SCE Santa Monica Studio/Sony Computer Entertainment Europe)
MOTORSTORM (PS3) - Scott Kirkland, Martin Kenwright, Pete Smith (SCE External Development Studio/Evolution/Sony Computer Entertainment Europe)
OKAMI (PS2) - Atsushi Inaba (Clover(Capcom)/Capcom)
UNCHARTED: DRAKE’S FORTUNE (PS3) - Development Team (Naughty Dog/Sony Computer Entertainment Europe)
USE OF AUDIO
GOD OF WAR 2 (PS2) - Dave Murrant, Philip Kovats, Chuck Russom (SCE Santa Monica Studio/Sony Computer Entertainment Europe)
GUITAR HERO II (PS2) - Development Team (Harmonix/Activision/Red Octane)
SKATE (PS3) - Development Team (EA Black Box/Electronic Arts)
THE PC WORLD GAMERS AWARD
(The only award to be voted for by the public)
FIFA 07 (PS2) (EA Canada/Electronic Arts)
GRAND THEFT AUTO: VICE CITY STORIES (PSP) (Rockstar Leeds/Take Two)
RESISTANCE: FALL OF MAN (PS3) (Insomniac/Sony Computer Entertainment Europe)
WII PLAY (Wii) (Nintendo/Nintendo)
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Thats nice for Sony BUT where is the statment from Sony about the store that was promised weeks ago?
Comment by carl — Sep 26, 2007 @ 6:05 pm
I would also like to know where Sony’s statement is.
Comment by DelUK — Sep 26, 2007 @ 6:54 pm
Anyone find this VERY suspicious?
So much PS2/PS3 domination, many games not even out yet, even in demo form…
Hmm..
Comment by Mark Gillespie — Sep 26, 2007 @ 8:00 pm
Same here about the statement..
Btw, whats up with using capital letters on all recent posts?
Comment by Stormon — Sep 26, 2007 @ 8:15 pm
it’s not suspicious .. they just didn;t include all the wii, ds and 360 titles. shame the ps3 titles are up against titles like bioshock and gears of war which will wipe the floor with them. shame
Comment by bitchain — Sep 26, 2007 @ 9:45 pm
singstar is included? does that even come out this year?
Comment by Josh — Sep 27, 2007 @ 2:10 am
Gooooo OKAMI!!
Comment by Matthew — Sep 27, 2007 @ 2:24 am
It’s some news. It’s a list. Quit grumbling all the time.
Comment by Velteeen — Sep 27, 2007 @ 9:19 am
WHERE IS THE SONY STATEMENT!!!
Comment by Terry — Sep 27, 2007 @ 9:29 am
I dont htink Heavenly Sword should have got many awards, dont get me wrong its an amazing piece of work but its over waaaaaay too quickly or at least it would be if I could beat the final boss who is just too hard.
Comment by Terry — Sep 27, 2007 @ 10:04 am
@ Stormon - It’s always been like that with the caps.
Comment by Three Speech — Sep 27, 2007 @ 10:20 am
How on earth can Singstar be up for an award?
They cannot possibly have a clue how it has been recieved by the public as we have not recieved it yet.
Just like all these awards things eveywhere it is just industry nobs patting themselves on the back for some reason.
Comment by Ton Capone — Sep 27, 2007 @ 5:44 pm
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