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BAFTA Games Awards winners announced
BAFTA Games Awards winners announced-November 2024
Nov 15, 2024 8:46 PM

  Following yesterday evening's Games Awards ceremony in London, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has today updated its Web site with details of the winning games. The night really belonged to Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, which won awards in no less than six categories, while EyeToy: Play and Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising claimed two awards apiece. A special BAFTA award was also bestowed upon Chris Deering, president of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, for his outstanding contribution to the games industry.

  "I am truly grateful to the British Academy for this award, which celebrates the success of Sony PlayStation over the past decade," said Deering. "British creative talent and the energy of our London-based multicultural management team have been the drivers of our leadership. The honor of this award is rightfully shared with the thousands of outstanding British game creators who have been global innovators in the merger of art and computer science since the earliest days of computer games."

  The full list of winners at this year's BAFTA Games Awards is as follows:

  Strategy - Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising

  Racing - Project Gotham Racing 2

  Adventure - The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker

  Action - Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

  Sports - FIFA 2004

  Children's - EyeToy: Play

  Multiplayer - Battlefield 1942

  Sound - Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

  Music - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

  Animation or Intro - Soul Calibur II

  Design - Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

  Xbox - Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

  PlayStation 2 - Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

  GameCube - Metroid Prime

  Game Boy Advance - Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising

  PC - Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

  Mobile - Tony Hawk's Pro Skater

  Technical Achievement - EyeToy: Play

  Sunday Times Reader Award for Games - Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

  Overall Game of the Year - Call of Duty

  If you'd like to see which other titles were nominated for awards at BAFTA's inaugural Games Awards ceremony, the full list is still available at the BAFTA Web site.

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