Wii Sports Sweeps BAFTA Awards October 24, 2007
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In the second year of the BAFTA Video Game Awards, Wii Sports swung, bowled and served its way to awards in six categories.
It snapped up gongs in Gameplay, Casual, Innovation, Multiplayer, Sports and Strategy & Simulation, making it the biggest overall winner at the 2007 awards. Not bad, since it was nominated in just seven categories. Just look how different the 2006 Winners were.
There were still some scraps left though for the others to fight over.
Xbox 360 games managed a strong showing with Bioshock winning Best Game and Crackdown taking Best Action & Adventure and Best Use of Audio.
Life wouldn’t be fair if God Of War 2 didn’t manage to hack its way to the front somewhere and it didn’t disappoint, with the PS2 jewel taking the Best Technical Achievement and Best Story & Character.
The award for Best Artistic Achievement and Best Original Score went to Okami for the PS2 while the PC Gamers Award For Best Game – the only public-voted award - went to Football Manager 2007 for the PC.
Most notably, the PS3 didn’t bag a single gong.-Martin Lynch
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Comments
Who said being innovative never got you anywhere? I've found the Wii to be really refreshing and fun, and it's good to see that being different has paid off so well for them. Well done to them, and to the BAFTA people for having the foresight not just awarding the same old games the same old awards again.