Nine BAFTA nominations for Uncharted 2
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