COD4 is AIAS Game of the Year

By Games Industry.biz Published 8 February, 2008

As BioShock takes the most awards.

Activision's Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare was selected as 2007's Game of the Year at the 11th annual Interactive Achievement Awards, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

The awards, hosted by actor/comedian Jay Mohr and presented at the 2008 D.I.C.E. Summit in Las Vegas, are voted upon by members of the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences.

This year, the Academy presented Ken Kutaragi, creator of the PlayStation, with its Lifetime Achievement Award.

"Ken Kutaragi is the smartest guy in the history of the videogame business," said Trip Hawkins, founder of EA and himself an AIAS Hall of Fame member.

"Without Ken, there is no Sony PlayStation and that is beyond comprehension."

Blizzard co-founder and CEO Mike Morhaime was also honoured as the newest AIAS Hall of Fame Member.

Call of Duty 4, Bioshock, The Orange Box, Rock Band and Assassin's Creed led the nominees. Although Bioshock won the most awards, it was edged out by Call of Duty 4 in both the Console Game of the Year and Overall Game of the Year categories.

The complete list of award winners is as follows:

Handheld Game of the Year:
Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass

Family Game of the Year:
Rock Band

Outstanding Achievement in Animation:
Assassin's Creed

Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction:
Bioshock

Outstanding Achievement in Visual Engineering:
Crysis

Outstanding Achievement in Character Performance:
The Orange Box: Portal

Outstanding Achievement in Story Development:
Bioshock

Outstanding Achievement in Gameplay Engineering:
The Orange Box: Portal

Outstanding Achievement in Online Gameplay:
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

Downloadable Game of the Year:
Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords

Outstanding Achievement in Music Composition:
Bioshock

Outstanding Achievement in Soundtrack:
Rock Band

Outstanding Achievement in Sound Design:
Bioshock

Cellular Game of the Year:
Skate

Role-Playing Game of the Year:
Mass Effect

Racing Game of the Year:
Motorstorm

Outstanding Achievement in Game Design:
The Orange Box: Portal

Outstanding Innovation in Gaming:
Rock Band

Adventure Game of the Year:
Super Mario Galaxy

Sports Game of the Year:
Skate

Strategy/Simulation Game of the Year:
Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars

Action Game of the Year:
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

Massively Multiplayer Game of the Year:
World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade

Computer Game of the Year:
The Orange Box

Console Game of the Year:
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

Overall Game of the Year:
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

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  • eddiep #1 4 years ago

    "Outstanding innovation in gaming - Rock Band"
    "Cellular game of the year - Skate"

    Laughing Out Loud.

    Rock Band is a natural extension to Guitar Hero, and Skate is an average mobile game.
    Want to see real mobile GOTY material?
    Try Solarola, Urban Attack, Kamikaze Robots...

  • LeD #2 4 years ago

    I think you kind of have to agree with most choices here really.

  • asphaltcowboy #3 4 years ago

    Seems odd that Rock Band would get best soundtrack - it's not like anyone actually composed the soundtrack as a whole, it's just a list of licensed song! 8)

  • NegativeZero #4 4 years ago

    Seems odd that Rock Band would get best soundtrack - it's not like anyone actually composed the soundtrack as a whole, it's just a list of licensed song! 8)

    That's why they have a separate award for music composition.

  • jiveguy #5 4 years ago

    These remind of the awards they used to give out in my school. They just made up so many of them so that everyone got an award.

    Outstanding achievement in the use of Achievements in a rhythm action game released on XBLA, anyone?

  • asphaltcowboy #6 4 years ago

    @NegativeZero

    So does that mean the soundtrack award is reserved solely for games with licensed "who's got the most money" soundtracks?!

  • Fab4 #7 4 years ago

    "Outstanding Achievement in Online Gameplay:
    Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare"

    Yeah, they managed to implement a lousy client/server model where the host is in charge of whether a game continues or not, and with non-existent matchmaking of any real depth...way to go!!!

  • bnazir #8 4 years ago

    As somebody who never saw the fun in multiplyer FPS, COD4 was a revelation....so definately agree with it winning the multiplayer award. There are very few games that entice hardcore and the novice gamers alike, again COD4 hit the spot, so winning game of the year is deserving too.

  • AHiFi #9 4 years ago

    Does anyone find it sad that in most game of the year awards - Halo 3 is nowhere to be seen? I mean, it's still a pretty superb game! May not be game of the year material, but it's disappointing to see the series so, overlooked (?), for once...

  • Return2Dust #10 4 years ago

    I thought Halo 3 was average in all areas, and no way in hell deserved 10/10. COD4 pisses on it from a great height and is GOTY by a country mile.

  • Fab4 #11 4 years ago

    The host migration patch will still put you back at the game lobby, to start a NEW match. So what exactly changes? Oh yes, you get to play with the same people minus the host that left...whoop-dee-effing-doo!!

    As for the matchmaking, well I disagree, they implemented a ranked system for public games, yet never implemented any sort of TrueSkill matchmaking (no matter how lame it is), so you have people who are good at the game put into lobbies with complete novices. I'm halfway decent, but nothing special, and I can consistently have games where my k/d ratio is well over 8...if I didnt play HQ a lot to bring it down, i'd be embarrassed.

    I'll not even go into the fact that you can get put into games that are virtually over by the time you enter, the spawn points are beyond a joke (especially in HQ) and there are some serious faults with host selection...I've been put in rooms where the host must have been using a dial-up to play ffs.

    Decent online MP is much more than just pretty graphics.

  • Fab4 #12 4 years ago

    Really? When it first came out everyone on my friends list were playing it..now most of them play PGR4, Forza2, R6V and CoD2....and these arent people who flit between games as a general rule...most of these guys were playing CoD2 every night for well over a year, so they know about addiction to a game.

    Before Xmas I was continually seeing 300,000 people in the game lobbies, now you are lucky if it peaks at 85,000.

    CoD4 is like a chinese meal, its tasty but after an hour you are still hungry.

  • Fab4 #13 4 years ago

    The game is fine, the MP is far from perfection. I dont care whether i'm in a minority or not.

  • BarrettBonden #14 4 years ago

    In the grand scheme of things Bioshock will be remembered as a greater game than the spawnalot funbox that was CoD4.

  • DrDamn #15 4 years ago

    @Fab4
    RE: Matchmaking
    You don't think this might be related to the party system then? You have to balance matchmaking with people available, take into account parties which have to be kept together and people who whinge if they aren't in a game within 5 seconds of searching.

    RE: Popularity
    It has just passed Halo3 as the most played game on the 360.

  • Raz76 #16 4 years ago

    Best animation - Shouldn't that in all fairness have gone to Uncharted. And what's this nonsense with Orange Box winning best computer game and COD4 winning best console game, when they're both out on both platforms?

  • Fab4 #17 4 years ago

    You see it also in Mercenary TDM, so no, it isnt just because parties are involved.

  • Kropotkin #18 4 years ago

    Motorstorm driving game of the year? WHAT THE HELL? What were they on when they selected that? Surely Forza 2 is a far better driving game. Motorstorm has the depth of the many puddles you drive through in it. Ah well, at least they got their moment to shine I guess...

  • asphaltcowboy #19 4 years ago

    "Best animation - Shouldn't that in all fairness have gone to Uncharted."

    Nope!

  • Rash' #20 4 years ago

    Racing game of the year: Motorstorm

    +1

  • Raz76 #21 4 years ago

    @ farticus and asphaltcowboy

    Fair enough, I just thought it got hyped a lot because of the animations, I haven't actually played it.

  • Raz76 #22 4 years ago

    maybe you're right but I thought The Orange Box looked fine on a console, especially Episode 2 and Portal. I guess the answer lies with the voting system somewhere.

  • DrDamn #23 4 years ago

    @Fab4
    I think you are being a little over critical - complaining about owning too much - I ask you ;). You can nit pick any online game. Bring it down to basics and CoD4 is massively popular online game. Take a look at the online leader boards and there are millions of people with scores there and a substantial number of those who have played a fair amount of time. They have done a hell of a lot more right than wrong with the game and the numbers back that up.

  • Fab4 #24 4 years ago

    I dont mind 'owning', I do however like to feel I achieved something when I did it, i.e. by playing against my peers, not someone who is unfamiliar with the maps. And I agree that in many respects CoD4 is a good game, but there are some (glaringly obvious) things which just dont sit right.....and there are some very basic MP options that every 'modern' game should have, which CoD4 just glosses over.

  • DrDamn #25 4 years ago

    Where did you get the info that host quiting fix will still stop the current game btw? I assumed it would be similar to Halo where there is a pause and resync before continuing.

  • Fab4 #26 4 years ago

    post by 402 (from IW) in the official xbox forum, under Addition of Host Migration:

    "If Host of lobby leaves, all players will be deposited back to the lobby where next best host will be selected before new game restarts. Players will no longer be kicked out of game entirely."

  • DrDamn #27 4 years ago

    That is a bit crap but at least is better than the current situation. I often play in a party of 6 or more and when we are up against another well balanced team it can result in some good matches. It is a pity when the host leaves to break that up.

    Do you ever try the Ground War games Fab4? Seems to me this is where the more dedicated players end up - if you are after more of a challenge.

  • convercide #28 4 years ago

    Better than Halo (3)!

  • Trikk #29 4 years ago

    Guitar Hero is not the first guitar rhythm game and Rock Band is not the first game to combine several instrument rhythm games into one.

    Once again the console market shows how green it really is when it comes to gaming.

  • m0thr4 #30 4 years ago

    I wasn't impressed by CoD4 either; it just seems like the other CoD games but with a modern setting.

    As with the CoD2 and 3, I particularly don't like the way the enemies respawn endlessly until you get a certain point on the ground that the game wants you to pass through. Once you realise this is how it works, the game just feels kind of fake.

    If it had an online co-op mode, I might have enjoyed it more.

  • james-mw3-mw3 #31 7 months ago

    To promote Modern Warfare 3, Activision will be holding a two day event called Call of Duty: Experience! The official Call of Duty: MW3 site was launched on May 18. It currently has an interactive map that was seen in the MW3 teaser trailers. I'm sure we will see the perks soon.