Nine BAFTA nominations for Uncharted 2

By Tom Bramwell Published 16 February, 2010

Plus loads for Batman, Assassin's, MW2.

BAFTA has announced the nominations for the British Academy Video Games Awards for 2010, with Uncharted 2 receiving the most attention.

Naughty Dog's magnificent PS3 action-adventure is nominated for nine awards: Best Game, Action, Gameplay, Story, Original Score, Use of Audio, Multiplayer, Use of Online and Artistic Achievement. So pretty much everything it does, then.

Last year's monster-selling Modern Warfare 2 picked up eight nominations, while Batman: Arkham Asylum managed a splendid seven and Assassin's Creed II a creditable six.

Best Game will be contested by those four games plus Left 4 Dead 2 and FIFA 10, while the nominations for the GAME Award - voted by the public - were announced last week.

The awards take place on 19th March in London and will be streamed live online.

In total 40 different games have been nominated. Check out the full listing below:

Action

  • Assassin's Creed II
  • Batman: Arkham Asylum
  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
  • inFAMOUS
  • Left 4 Dead 2
  • Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

Artistic Achievement

  • Assassin's Creed II
  • Batman: Arkham Asylum
  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
  • Flower
  • Street Fighter IV
  • Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

Best Game

  • Assassin's Creed II
  • Batman: Arkham Asylum
  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
  • FIFA 10
  • Left 4 Dead 2
  • Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

Family & Social

  • The Beatles: Rock Band
  • Buzz! Quiz World
  • EyePet
  • Guitar Hero 5
  • New Super Mario Bros Wii
  • Wii Sports Resort

Gameplay

  • Assassin's Creed II
  • Batman: Arkham Asylum
  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
  • New Super Mario Bros. Wii
  • PixelJunk Shooter
  • Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

Handheld

  • Gran Turismo
  • LittleBigPlanet PSP
  • LocoRoco Midnight Carnival
  • Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story
  • Professor Layton and Pandora's Box
  • Scribblenauts

Multiplayer

  • Battlefield 1943
  • The Beatles: Rock Band
  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
  • Halo 3: ODST
  • Left 4 Dead 2
  • Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

Original Score

  • Assassin's Creed II
  • Batman: Arkham Asylum
  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
  • Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
  • PixelJunk Shooter
  • Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

Sports

  • Colin McRae: DiRT 2
  • FIFA 10
  • Football Manager 2010
  • Forza 3
  • Wii Fit Plus
  • Wii Sports Resort

Story

  • Assassin's Creed II
  • Batman: Arkham Asylum
  • Broken Sword Shadow of the Templars: The Director's Cut
  • Brutal Legend
  • Dragon Age: Origins
  • Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

Strategy

  • Command & Conquer 3: Uprising
  • Empire: Total War
  • FIFA Manager 10
  • Football Manager 2010
  • Halo Wars
  • Plants vs Zombies

Use of Audio

  • Batman: Arkham Asylum
  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
  • DJ Hero
  • Flower
  • Left 4 Dead 2
  • Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

Use of Online

  • Battlefield 1943
  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
  • FIFA 10
  • LIttleBigPlanet PSP
  • SingStar Take That
  • Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

BAFTA Ones To Watch Award in association with Dare to Be Digital

  • Colour Coded (Murray Sinclair, Faye Wright, Liam Wong, Sean Donnelly, Nnanna Kama - PixelPirates)
  • Quick as Thieves (William Wright, Michael Doig, Andrew Knight, Jamie MacKinnon, Lee Cresswell - Gentleman of Fortune)
  • Shrunk! - Vykintas Kazdailis, Andrew Macdonald, Michael Cummings, Jacek Wernikowski, Stuart Kemp - The Butterflyers)

GAME Award of 2009

  • Assassin's Creed II
  • Batman: Arkham Asylum
  • The Beatles: Rock Band
  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
  • FIFA 10
  • Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars
  • The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks
  • Street Fighter IV
  • Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
  • Wii Sports Resort
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Comments (21) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • MORZTAN #1 2 years ago

    Batman: Arkham Asylum is the SHIT! Man, that game rocks! Even more so than Uncharted 2, me thinks! What a great year 2009 was for non-Nintendo gaming.

    P.S. Nintendo will OWN 2010!

  • The-Bodybuilder #2 2 years ago

    B:AA for me.

  • Murton #3 2 years ago

    Uncharted stands a very good chance at winning most if not all of its nominated awards. It definitely shouldn't lose any to MW2 with the possible exception of multiplayer, which should probably go to Left 4 Dead in my opinion though it will probably go to MW2.

    I guess we'll see what happens come March.

  • gav_and_the_gavster #4 2 years ago

    I voted for Batman AA wherever possible. Uncharted 2 is awesome, loved Modern Warfare, New Super Mario Bros Wii and Halo 3:oDST, but Batman just completely took me by surpise and for that I tipped my hat (and votes) in its direction. Good luck to all finalists.

  • kinky_mong #5 2 years ago

    If there's any justice Arkham Asylum and Uncharted 2 will bury Modern Warfare 2. Unfortunately we live in an unjust world.

  • Lee_Morris #6 2 years ago

    Gameplay award. What does that even?

    Also an Artistic Acheivement nod for Modern Warefare 2!

    Bafta: "MW2 sold alot, so lets put it into as many catagories as possible"

    Wooo for Flower getting a few nods. Amazing game.

  • ignatiusjreilly #7 2 years ago

    Bafta: "MW2 sold alot, so lets put it into as many catagories as possible"

    That really seems to be the criteria for choosing the nominations. It really just seems like a industry celebration for those games that sold really well.

  • Shrike #8 2 years ago

    What an incredibly awkward list. They might as well just draw a winner out of a tombola and be done with it.

  • SixFootHalfling #9 2 years ago

    "Command & Conquer 3: Uprising"

    Red Alert 3, not C&C3

    How did MW2 get an artistic achievement nomination?
    At least it didn't get a story nomination, that would have been taking the piss

  • magicpocket #10 2 years ago

    The whole video-game BAFTA process is meh, from shortlisting, to nominations, to jury, to the people deciding what goes forward and what doesn't.

    It's an archaic system and generally decided by people who don't play video games.

    Which is a big shame, because a video-game BAFTA 'should' mean something to those who get nominated or win. Ultimately, it's a shame.

    How would I fix it? I'd get rid of everyone currently on the board/members who vote on games and set a new critria by which people actual have to play games reguarly.

  • sarcasmoidosis #11 2 years ago

    "How did MW2 get an artistic achievement nomination?"

    Some people were really impressed with the general game (single player side) and drooled all over themselves at the space explosion, the winter level, etc.

    Bat Cave > MW2, for me at least.

  • AphoticCosmos #12 2 years ago

    ACII or Arkham Asylum for the win. They owned last year.

  • darleysam #13 2 years ago

    So, Uncharted 2: Videogame Jesus?

  • RobotRocker #14 2 years ago

    Artistic Achievement? Seriously? Uncharted 2 has a massive case of the Uncanny Valley that every single review ignored. Batman is still inflicted by the MUSCLES EVERYWHERE UE3 (Seriously, why the hell is it that Mortal Kombat of all games was the only one which avoided this, this gen). This list seems like "Screw the research, its popular, just chuck it in so the fanboys can be happy"

    Really, if you are nominating games on artistic merit alone, you would be better off with

    * Brutal Legend
    * The Beatles: Rock Band
    * Punch-Out!!
    * Flower
    * Scribblenauts
    * Silent Hill: Shattered Memories

    Ugh, populism. Same bullshit that means Avatar is going to win at the oscars and make make me sad

  • Fletche #15 2 years ago

    Good to see Pixeljunk Shooter in there BUT, no Shatter for original score? WTF? The shame!

  • RexRunti #16 2 years ago

    I know it's cool to hate MW2 but it probably deserves to be in most of the categories it's popped up in. Fair enough I think most of the other games in it's categories deserve to win more, but that doesn't stop MW2 actually being quite a good game.

    Be interesting to see the winners, I'm just glad Brutal Legend got a nomination for story, as it's far deeper and engaging than I was expecting it to be.

  • Boomerang #17 2 years ago

    In amongst all the multi-million dollar franchises...

    I love that Dare to be Digital are getting some limelight through the BAFTAs. I participated in it in its formative years (2nd or third) at Abertay and it offers so much to budding developers (learning the ropes, meeting industry heroes, etc etc) as well as the possibility of being snapped up by a big dev/publisher.

  • paulf #18 2 years ago

    @magicpocket - not saying you are right or wrong about the voting process just wondered how you knew so much about it. Currently the awards are voted for by members of Bafta who have video game experience - so they may not be voted for by people who play games but definately by people who make them, much the same as the television and movie awards

  • andyconr #19 2 years ago

    It's nice to see inFamous getting some recognition in the Action category.

  • Moz #20 2 years ago

    SO errmm Microsoft how was 2009 for you?

    But wow really shows MS's lack of interest in exclusive titles for 2009! 2010 is looking better. but then again Ninty and Sony have got some rather big titles this year too.

  • Moz #21 2 years ago

    @RobotRocker Have you actually played Uncharted 2 or just looked at pictures?? Artistic Achievement is also more then just about the model design, it's lighting, model design and the biggest point where Uncharted 2 really shines is the direction. Uncharted 2 really pushes video games as a story telling medium to rival cinema and that's a huge achivement.