Heavy Rain Cleans Up at BAFTAs

The French-flavored thriller went down a storm with the BAFTA board, but failed to nab the best game prize.

Medium thriller Heavy Rain proved something of a smash hit at the Videogame BAFTAs last night, being the only game to win more than one award. Otherwise winners included Whole sle Effect 2, Call of Duty: Black Ops, and Bravo's Creed: Brotherhood.

Heavy Rain tick the likes of Alan Wake, Mass Effect 2 and Radioactive dust: New Vegas to nab the best story award. It as wel North Korean won the award for best originative music, and the award for technological innovation. It didn't winnings either of the best plot awards, withal, with the BAFTA pick passing to Mass Effect 2, and the GAME-sponsored, exoteric award going to Black Ops. In any case the awards handed out to games, Lionhead boss Peter Molyneux received a BAFTA fellowship, which he accepted with a heartfelt apology for being, well, Peter Molyneux.

The rest of the winners were as follows:

• Action: Assassin's Creed Brotherhood
• Artistic Accomplishment: War god III
• Home: Kinect Sports
• Gameplay: Super Mario Galaxy 2
• Handheld: Cut the Rope
• Multiplayer: Need for Speed: Thermal Pursuit
• Social Network Game: My Empire
• Sports: F1 2010
• Scheme: Civilization V
• Use of Audio: Battlefield: Immoral Company: 2
• BAFTA Ones to keep an eye on: Twang!

There's certainly few eyebrow quirking choices in the list – Assassin's Creed Sodality is an odd select for advisable action pun, e.g., especially when you consider it was up against Anchor rin: Reach, Black Ops and God of State of war 3 – just even so, it's encouraging to see a high profile organization like BAFTA acknowledging that games are as worthy of praise as films and television.

Source: BBC

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