Do you live in the UK and dream every night about the possibility of one day voting on a people's choice game of the year award? Right, us neither, but if you're into that kinda thing, UK retailer GAME is holding the second annual GAME British Academy Video Games Awards at the London Hilton on March 19 and you can vote for the awards show's top "honour." Sure, you can't actually buy tickets and attend or anything crazy like that (the event is live-streamed online, in fairness), but you still have just over a month to put in your vote for one of the 10 games in the running -- games that were chosen from a list comprising "the top selling games of the year sold in GAME stores."
At the very least, voters will automatically be entered into a contest to win a "Sony Home Entertainment Package," so, if nothing else, there's always the possibility of winning a Sony ... something (or somethings). Click through or glance a few inches up for the people's choice award contestant list.
Reader Comments (20)
Posted: Feb 12th 2010 1:03AM Rhamsey said
I can't find the Mass Effect 2 link.
Posted: Feb 12th 2010 1:09AM TheDarkWayne said
Damn, the gamer in me wants to vote for Uncharted 2. But the Me in Me wants to vote for Me!
Posted: Feb 12th 2010 1:48AM (Unverified) said
AC2 all the way
Posted: Feb 12th 2010 1:49AM (Unverified) said
And the winner is.... Wii Sports Resort! Lol lol lol
The obvious winner is Uncharted 2 but seeing how it was an exclusive to a platform of the minority, it probably won't win which is a shame.
The obvious winner is Uncharted 2 but seeing how it was an exclusive to a platform of the minority, it probably won't win which is a shame.
Posted: Feb 12th 2010 2:08AM TJF588 said
OK, so after you vote, you get a Thank You Package of wallpapers. I've been able to bring up...
http://www.baftagameaward.com/thankyou/assassinscreed2.zip
http://www.baftagameaward.com/thankyou/batmanarkhamasylum.zip
...streetfighter4.zip
...uncharted2.zip
...sportsresort.zip
...but not...
The Beatles: Rockband
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
FIFA 10
GTA China Town Wars
Legend of Zelda Spirit Tracks
If anyone could nab me those other links...
Also, funnily enough, even though AC2's image uses the Roman numeral, it's given on the voting page as "2", and as you can see, even SF4 uses the regular numeral in the URL. And "Wii Sports Resort" got truncated, which may be why I'm having such trouble with the longer game names (though FIFA baffles me, unless it's "fifa2010" or something daft).
http://www.baftagameaward.com/thankyou/assassinscreed2.zip
http://www.baftagameaward.com/thankyou/batmanarkhamasylum.zip
...streetfighter4.zip
...uncharted2.zip
...sportsresort.zip
...but not...
The Beatles: Rockband
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
FIFA 10
GTA China Town Wars
Legend of Zelda Spirit Tracks
If anyone could nab me those other links...
Also, funnily enough, even though AC2's image uses the Roman numeral, it's given on the voting page as "2", and as you can see, even SF4 uses the regular numeral in the URL. And "Wii Sports Resort" got truncated, which may be why I'm having such trouble with the longer game names (though FIFA baffles me, unless it's "fifa2010" or something daft).
Posted: Feb 12th 2010 3:10AM (Unverified) said
here ya go, they all use the sam,e name as the folders the web images are in apart from fifa which drops the "10"
fifa.zip
beatles.zip
gta.zip
zelda.zip
mw2.zip
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fifa.zip
beatles.zip
gta.zip
zelda.zip
mw2.zip
Posted: Feb 12th 2010 2:11AM Triscuit said
It bothers me that both GTA: Chinatown Wars and Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks are here shown on TV screens.
Posted: Feb 12th 2010 3:24AM calgaryaltahotmailcom said
Bothers you? It's just a picture, if they used the handhelds, they would have to be blown up to a size you can see them.
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Posted: Feb 12th 2010 8:15AM (Unverified) said
Chinatown Wars is under rated. As is typical for a GTA game it has great reviews, yet many commenters don't like it. I went in thinking it was going to be terrible with all of the "OMG 2D! :(" fear mongering. Turns out it is actually a quality GTA title, on par with the two Stories games. Anyone who hasn't tried it to at least give it a go. Obviously not good enough for game of the year, but handheld game of the year for sure.
I've only just ordered Uncharted 1, but based on all the views of the sequel, that would be my pick for GOTY 2009.
I've only just ordered Uncharted 1, but based on all the views of the sequel, that would be my pick for GOTY 2009.
Posted: Feb 12th 2010 8:36AM KamasamaK said
What's up with them having the subtitle for Uncharted 2 as "Amongst Thieves"?
Posted: Feb 13th 2010 8:35PM HDpurist said
Is the Wii even considered a contender in this BAFTA GOTY poll?
I would guess the Wii games that are competing in this poll are the future versions for the Wii HD.
Definitely.
I would guess the Wii games that are competing in this poll are the future versions for the Wii HD.
Definitely.
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