Wii Sports tops 2007 BAFTA nominees

Wow good eye.

Thats a beta... look also the trees. Very different from the final product.

dude but its not the haloz!

@soulblade ... you can say that again

"Wii sports is one of the first games to really have such a wide-spread appeal through simple gameplay."

You must've missed PacMania. Pac-Man had NO BUTTONS!

But yeah, Wii Sports is the first game to have wide-spread appeal through simple gameplay since games went 3-D even.

Haven't you played the darkness?,In character development I think the Darkness totally deserves to win.

The darkness is at the same level as Bioshock in IMO.

Nope, no Darkness, just found a Wii and have been backloged on that.

Hmm...here's mine.

Action and Adventure: Twilight Princess
The gameplay was nothing new, but it's Zelda. How can anyone not like it? Were it not for God Hand, Zelda would've been my game of 2006. One of the few games that I've played for a 7 hour stretch.

Artistic Achievement: Okami
Bioshock is pretty, but ultimately it's just art deco. Okami just blows everything off the map on that list, in terms of artistic vision.

Best Game: Wii Sports
I bet this'll go to Bioshock, but Wii Sports is still fun with friends to this day. Bowling is always good, too, even alone. A game with that kind of replay value doesn't come along often.

Casual: Wii Sports
Pfft...no contest.

Gameplay: Twilight Princess
As I said, it's Zelda. It's been absolutely perfected by this point.

Innovation: Super Paper Mario
I'm really not terribly jazzed about any of those titles being innovative, although I'm tempted to give the nod to Wii Sports. But in SPM, at least we have the 2D-3D thing, which I don't think we've ever really seen before.

Multiplayer: Wii Sports
I really wish there were a better selection on this list. For me it's between Wii Sports and Guitar Hero...and since I don't like Guitar Hero (most of the music isn't my cup of tea), I give it to Wii Sports by default.

Original Score: Okami
Easy pick there. I still find myself humming the field theme without even realizing it sometimes.

Sports: Wii Sports
All I've actually played on that list is Wii Sports and Motorstorm. Motorstorm was alright, but nothing we haven't seen before, really. Wii Sports, though, was a totally new way to play a sports game. I've actually bought golf games because of it! I never thought that would happen in my life!

Strategy & Simulation: ???
I haven't played any of these but Wii Sports and I refuse to even acknowledge Wii Sports in this category. I can see HOW it's a simulation, but it completely jives with the spirit of what the category is meant to represent.

Story & Character: Okami
Okami's story didn't really floor me by any means, but it was enjoyable and I didn't see the twist with Rao coming right up until it happened after you get the Fox Rods...plus, it's hard not to like Issun.

Technical Achievement: God of War II
Pretty amazing, considering it's a PS2 game!

Use of Audio: Elite Beat Agents
I love the premise of this game. It's just a shame the DS has such lousy speakers.

Yeah, in retrospect, Wii Sports Golf feels like the most wasted potential. Baseball was just poorly executed on that game entirely, golf was there, but too few holes/playmodes, the others seemed to feel complete in and of themselves, but i think they could've gotten A LOT more out of that golf mode

I wish they'd either release downloadable content for Wii Sports Golf or just a whole new Wii Sports Golf game with a ton of courses and clubs and such.
I don't think any other golf game has gotten it as right as Wii Sports. Super Swing would have were it not for having to lock in your shot's power. So lame.

[hits a ball]
[some random person shouts "PangYa!"]

I love that.

Wow, you guys are really ragging on a technical demo.

Actually Wii sports is in casual but I agree, why is Wii sports in most of the categories and Why isn't Halo 3 or Metroid up there?

And look in popular acclaim. Football manager and FIFA 08 but where is Super Paper Mario, Metroid or Halo 3 WTF? Then look Resistance fall of men and Wii play are you serious?

The Wii is starting to do to video games what Jackson Pollock did to modern art.

@dsub

What? Leave it open for modern artists to make crap and call it art? So the wii is leaving the video game world open to crap?

And seriously where's Halo 3? It should definately be nominated. If for nothing else then at least best original score.

well IMO I definitely consider videogames an art. whether or not you want to classify it as "high" art or something else I believe is the current contention. you have a storyline in most games, musicalsoundtrack/scoring, mood, artistic styles (graphics), so basically a whole combination of various arts in one package. and don't forget all the conceptual art that goes into making the game (storyboards, sketches, renders)--there are books of videogame art in the bookstores. so yes, videogame = art.

Says you. I still play it when friends come over.