If it's an honor just to be nominated, no game has been honored more by the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences this year than Red Dead Redemption. The AIAS announced the finalists for its 14th annual Interactive Achievement Awards, giving Rockstar San Diego's open-world Western shooter nominations in nine different categories--including Game of the Year--more than any other title.

　　Red Dead Redemption could be adding to its trophy case. Red Dead Redemption has already been named GameSpot's 2010 Game of the Year and was among the nominees for the Game Developers Choice Awards' top prize. It also garnered IAA nominations for a swath of categories, including Outstanding Innovation in Gaming, as well as Outstanding Achievement nods for animation, game direction, sound design, and more.

　　Rockstar San Diego's latest isn't the only game with a chance to take home a posse of IAA awards. Namco Bandai's action game Enslaved: Odyssey to the West and God of War III also scored a half-dozen nominations each, with the latter title staking its own claim to the Game of the Year honor. Other nominees for the AIAS Game of the Year include Treyarch's best-selling Call of Duty: Black Ops, BioWare's sci-fi role-playing game Mass Effect 2, and the breakout iPad gaming hit Angry Birds HD. (The standard version of Angry Birds for the iPhone was actually released in December 2009.)

　　The Interactive Achievement Awards will be presented Thursday, February 10, during a ceremony at the D.I.C.E. Summit in Las Vegas. A complete list of categories and nominees follows below.

　　Game of the Year

　　Angry Birds HD--Chillingo--Rovio

　　Call of Duty: Black Ops--Activision--Treyarch

　　God of War III--SCEA--SCE Santa Monica Studio

　　Mass Effect 2--Electronic Arts--BioWare

　　Red Dead Redemption--Rockstar Games--Rockstar San Diego

　　Outstanding Achievement in Game Direction

　　Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood--Ubisoft--Ubisoft Montreal

　　Enslaved: Odyssey to the West--Namco Bandai--Ninja Theory

　　Limbo--Playdead--Playdead

　　Mass Effect 2--Electronic Arts--BioWare

　　Red Dead Redemption--Rockstar Games--Rockstar San Diego

　　Outstanding Achievement in Sound Design

　　Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood--Ubisoft--Ubisoft Montreal

　　Battlefield: Bad Company 2--Electronic Arts--Digital Illusions CE

　　Limbo--Playdead--Playdead

　　Medal of Honor--Electronic Arts--Danger Close/Digital Illusions CE

　　Red Dead Redemption--Rockstar Games--Rockstar San Diego

　　Social Networking Game of the Year

　　CityVille--Zynga--Zynga

　　Family Feud--iWin/Backstage Technologies--iWin/Backstage Technologies

　　FrontierVille--Zynga--Zynga

　　Nightclub City--Booyah--Booyah

　　Ravenwood Fair--Lolapps--Lolapps

　　Adventure Game of the Year

　　Alan Wake--Microsoft Game Studios--Remedy Entertainment

　　Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood--Ubisoft--Ubisoft Montreal

　　Enslaved: Odyssey to the West--Namco Bandai--Ninja Theory

　　Heavy Rain--SCEA--Quantic Dream

　　Limbo--Playdead--Playdead

　　Sports Game of the Year

　　FIFA Soccer 11--Electronic Arts--EA Canada

　　MLB 10: The Show--SCEA--SCE San Diego

　　NBA 2K11--2K Sports--Visual Concepts

　　NHL 11--Electronic Arts--EA Canada

　　Racing Game of the Year

　　Gran Turismo 5--SCEA--Polyphony Digital

　　ModNation Racers--SCEA--United Front Games/SCE San Diego

　　Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit--Electronic Arts--Criterion

　　Split/Second--Disney Interactive Studios--Black Rock Studio

　　Fighting Game of the Year

　　BlazBlue: Continuum Shift--Aksys Games--Arc System Works

　　EA Sports MMA--Electronic Arts--EA Tiburon

　　Super Street Fighter IV--Capcom--Capcom/Dimps

　　UFC 2010 Undisputed--THQ--Yuke's Co.

　　Outstanding Achievement in Online Game Play

　　Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood--Ubisoft--Ubisoft Montreal

　　Battlefield: Bad Company 2--Electronic Arts--Digital Illusions CE

　　Call of Duty: Black Ops--Activision--Treyarch

　　Halo: Reach--Microsoft Game Studios--Bungie

　　StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty--Blizzard Entertainment--Blizzard Entertainment

　　Action Game of the Year

　　Battlefield: Bad Company 2--Electronic Arts--Digital Illusions CE

　　Call of Duty: Black Ops--Activision--Treyarch

　　God of War III--SCEA--SCE Santa Monica Studio

　　Halo: Reach--Microsoft Game Studios--Bungie

　　Red Dead Redemption--Rockstar Games--Rockstar San Diego

　　Portable Game of the Year

　　Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies--Nintendo--Square Enix

　　God of War: Ghost of Sparta--SCEA--SCE Santa Monica Studio/Ready at Dawn

　　Infinity Blade--Epic Games--Chair Entertainment

　　Professor Layton and the Unwound Future--Nintendo--Level-5

　　Valkyria Chronicles II--Sega--Sega

　　Casual Game of the Year

　　Angry Birds HD--Chillingo--Rovio

　　Bejeweled 3--PopCap Games--PopCap Games

　　Kinect Sports--Microsoft Game Studios--Rare

　　Pac-Man Championship Edition DX--Namco Bandai--Namco Bandai

　　Plants vs. Zombies--PopCap Games--PopCap Games

　　Family Game of the Year

　　Dance Central--Microsoft Game Studios/MTV Games--Harmonix Music Systems

　　Kirby's Epic Yarn--Nintendo--Good-Feel/HAL Laboratory

　　Lego Harry Potter Years 1-4--Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment--Traveller's Tales

　　Rock Band 3 MTV Games Harmonix Music Systems

　　SingStar Dance--SCEA--SCE London Studio

　　Strategy/Simulation Game of the Year

　　Dawn of War II: Chaos Rising--THQ--Relic Entertainment

　　Sid Meier's Civilization V--2K Games--Firaxis

　　StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty--Blizzard Entertainment--Blizzard Entertainment

　　Supreme Commander 2--Square Enix--Gas Powered Games

　　Toy Soldiers--Microsoft Game Studios--Signal Studios

　　Outstanding Achievement in Animation

　　Call of Duty: Black Ops--Activision--Treyarch

　　Enslaved: Odyssey to the West--Namco Bandai--Ninja Theory

　　God of War III--SCEA--SCE Santa Monica Studio

　　Red Dead Redemption--Rockstar Games--Rockstar San Diego

　　Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction--Ubisoft--Ubisoft Montreal

　　Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction

　　Alan Wake--Microsoft Game Studios--Remedy Entertainment

　　Enslaved: Odyssey to the West--Namco Bandai--Ninja Theory

　　God of War III--SCEA--SCE Santa Monica Studio

　　Kirby's Epic Yarn--Nintendo--Good-Feel/HAL Laboratory

　　Red Dead Redemption--Rockstar Games--Rockstar San Diego

　　Outstanding Achievement in Visual Engineering

　　Call of Duty: Black Ops--Activision--Treyarch

　　God of War III--SCEA--SCE Santa Monica Studio

　　Heavy Rain--SCEA--Quantic Dream

　　Medal of Honor--Electronic Arts--Danger Close/Digital Illusions CE

　　Metro 2033--THQ--4A Games

　　Outstanding Achievement in Game Play Engineering

　　Dance Central--Microsoft Game Studios/MTV Games--Harmonix Music Systems

　　Kirby's Epic Yarn--Nintendo--Good-Feel/HAL Laboratory

　　Red Dead Redemption--Rockstar Games--Rockstar San Diego

　　Super Mario Galaxy 2--Nintendo--Nintendo

　　Super Scribblenauts--Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment--5th Cell

　　Outstanding Character Performance

　　Enslaved: Odyssey to the West - Monkey--Namco Bandai--Ninja Theory

　　God of War III - Kratos--SCEA--SCE Santa Monica Studio

　　Mass Effect 2 - Male Shepard--Electronic Arts--BioWare

　　Red Dead Redemption - John Marston--Rockstar Games--Rockstar San Diego

　　StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty - Tychus Findlay--Blizzard Entertainment--Blizzard Entertainment

　　Outstanding Achievement in Story

　　Alan Wake--Microsoft Game Studios--Remedy Entertainment

　　Enslaved: Odyssey to the West--Namco Bandai--Ninja Theory

　　Heavy Rain--SCEA--Quantic Dream

　　Mass Effect 2--Electronic Arts--BioWare

　　Metro 2033--THQ--4A Games

　　Role-Playing/Massively Multiplayer Game of the Year

　　Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies--Nintendo--Square Enix

　　Fable III--Microsoft Game Studios--Lionhead Studios

　　Fallout: New Vegas--Bethesda Softworks--Obsidian Entertainment

　　Mass Effect 2--Electronic Arts--BioWare

　　World of Warcraft: Cataclysm--Blizzard Entertainment--Blizzard Entertainment

　　Outstanding Innovation in Gaming

　　Angry Birds HD--Chillingo--Rovio

　　Dance Central--Microsoft Game Studios/MTV Games--Harmonix Music Systems

　　Heavy Rain--SCEA--Quantic Dream

　　Limbo--Playdead--Playdead

　　Red Dead Redemption--Rockstar Games--Rockstar San Diego

　　Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composition

　　Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood--Ubisoft--Ubisoft Montreal

　　Fable III--Microsoft Game Studios--Lionhead Studios

　　Heavy Rain--SCEA--Quantic Dream

　　StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty--Blizzard Entertainment--Blizzard Entertainment

　　World of Warcraft: Cataclysm--Blizzard Entertainment--Blizzard Entertainment

　　Outstanding Achievement in Soundtrack

　　Dance Central--Microsoft Game Studios/MTV Games--Harmonix Music Systems

　　DJ Hero 2--Activision--FreeStyleGames

　　Gran Turismo 5--SCEA--Polyphony Digital

　　Rock Band 3--MTV Games--Harmonix Music Systems