Fallout 4 Leaves Vault 101 And Gets 'Best Game' BAFTA Award, Her Story Wins 3 Categories
The BAFTA Game Awards 2016 has decreed its list of winners this year and taking the top prize is Bethesda Softworks' Fallout 4 which takes home to Vault 101 'Best Game'.
Winning the British Game for stiff-upper-lip-ness was Rocksteady's Batman: Arkham Knight, which tells you they probably didn't send them Steam code for the PC version after all that debacle. Rocket League for the 'Family' award for being so crazy fun and inoffensive, and they took 'Multiplayer' and 'Sport' too, unsurprisingly.
Her Story meanwhile pigged out on three category wins for 2016 taking 'Debut Game', 'Game Innovation' and 'Mobile & Handheld'. Bloodborne totally slayed the competition for 'Game Design' while Until Dawn got 'Original Property' for its spooky mountain drama.
Prison Architect won 'Persistent Game' which can help cover things that have been in the works for a long time, such as in Early Access, but only recently launched officially. Life is Strange rewinded time and changed their decisions until they secured 'Story' for themselves, and Everybody's Gone to the Rapture took 'Audio Achievement' and 'Music'.
'Artistic Achievement' went to the beautiful looking Ori and the Blind Forest and 'Performer' landed in Merle Dandridge's lap for Everybody's Gone to the Rapture.
• Artistic Achievement
WINNER: Ori and the Blind Forest
Contenders: Assassin's Creed Syndicate, Batman: Arkham Knight, Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.
• Audio Achievement
WINNER: Everybody's Gone to the Rapture
Contenders: Assassin's Creed Syndicate, Batman: Arkham Knight, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Star Wars Battlefront, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.
• Best Game
WINNER: Fallout 4
Contenders: Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, Life is Strange, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Rocket League, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.
• British Game
WINNER: Batman: Arkham Knight
Contenders: Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, Her Story, Prison Architect, Tearaway Unfolded, Until Dawn.
• Debut Game
WINNER: Her Story
Contenders: Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime, Mini Metro, Ori and the Blind Forest, Prune.
• Family
WINNER: Rocket League
Contenders: Disney Infinity 3.0: Play Without Limits, FIFA 16, Guitar Hero: Live, LEGO Dimensions, Super Mario Maker.
• Game Design
WINNER: Bloodborne
Contenders: Grow Home, Her Story, Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime, Rocket League, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.
• Game Innovation
WINNER: Her Story
Contenders: Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, Life is Strange, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Splatoon, Until Dawn.
• Mobile & Handheld
WINNER: Her Story
Contenders: Alphabear, Fallout Shelter, Lara Croft GO, Prune, The Room Three.
• Multiplayer
WINNER: Rocket League
Contenders: Destiny: The Taken King, Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime, Splatoon, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege, World of Warships.
• Music
WINNER: Everybody's Gone to the Rapture
Contenders: Assassin's Creed Syndicate, Batman: Arkham Knight, Fallout 4, Halo 5: Guardians, Ori and the Blind Forest.
• Original Property
WINNER: Until Dawn
Contenders: Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture, Her Story, Life Is Strange, Ori And The Blind Forest, Splatoon.
• Performer
WINNER: Merle Dandridge (Everybody's Gone to the Rapture)
Contenders: Ashly Burch (Life is Strange), Doug Cockle (The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt), Oliver Dimsdale (Everybody's Gone to the Rapture), Mark Hamill (Batman: Arkham Knight), Masasa Moyo (Broken Age, Act 2).
• Persistent Game
WINNER: Prison Architect
Contenders: Destiny: The Taken King, Final Fantasy XIV Online, Guitar Hero: Live, Lego Dimensions, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.
• Sport
WINNER: Rocket League
Contenders: DiRT RALLY, FIFA 16, Football Manager, Forza Motorsport 6, PES 2016.
• Story
WINNER: Life is Strange
Contenders: Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture, Her Story, Undertale, Until Dawn, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.