BAFTA game nominations revealed Comments by Robert Purchese

No SMG in the original score section!?

Absolutely, best score of all time.

Here here.

Fallout 3 should win all it's categories.

The reason COD4, Assassins's Creed, Super Mario Galaxy, Mass Effect and Patapon are on the list is because there was no Bafta awards last year; they realised that holding awards in October was daft (as everyone else does them at the end of the year to include the christmas releases so the Baftas just looked out of place).

So they moved it to March.

The result is that this list includes every game released between October 2007 and March 2009.

The reason why greats like Valkyria chorincles have gone overlooked (no artistic achievement nomination? seriously??) are probably down to the publishers not wanting to spend a few hundred quid to put their game up for voting by a panel of judges who think that LittleBigPlanet is a "casual" game and that Tomb Raider is a better game than MGS4.

This is not about artistic - or any other sort - merit , folks. Companies have to pay to have a game considered, and they have to choose categories for themselves for which they'd like their title considered.

It is, without a shadow of a doubt, complete and utter bullshit. Saddening but true.

ok wheres the real list?
how can metal gear solid only be in two catogories. so there saying tomb raider and fable's bettr than mgs.
why havent they got a seperate racing catagory as it is a pretty big genre.
how did assasins creed and cod even get in to story and character the wort thing about them were there story.
and how do they even decide what games on it as assasins creed and cod4 came out in 07.

The process is more thorough than some of you are suggesting. I forget how much I can say without breaking confidentiality, so I'll keep it pretty vague.

They made two big changes. They only considered games which had been released (no betas etc) and they moved the dates to better coincide with Christmas releases. The period this year is 26th October 2007 to 31st December 2008. Publishers and/or developers can put forward games they would like for consideration. The long list is gradually whittled down to a final six in each category (the nominations) and a secret ballot by the jury to find a winner.

It's a pretty thorough process taken really seriously by BAFTA and I think it's good for gaming. I think the committee is made up of people who know their onions and the juries are well selected too. If you have comments then direct them to Kelly at BAFTA.

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