2009 BAFTA Winners: Batman Takes Best Game

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The British Academy of Film and Television Arts have distributed its 2009 video game awards. Upsetting Uncharted 2, which has been scooping up game of the year awards left and right, is Batman: Arkham Asylum.

Other notable winners are Uncharted 2 for Story, LittleBigPlanet for Handheld Game, and Flower for Artistic Achievement.

The full list of winners can be found below.

Action

  • WINNER: Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
  • Assassin's Creed II
  • Batman: Arkham Asylum
  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
  • inFAMOUS
  • Left 4 Dead 2

Artistic Achievement

  • WINNER: Flower
  • Assassin's Creed II
  • Batman: Arkham Asylum
  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
  • Street Fighter IV
  • Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

Best Game

  • WINNER: Batman: Arkham Asylum
  • Assassin's Creed II
  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
  • FIFA 10
  • Left 4 Dead 2
  • Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

Family & Social

  • WINNER: Wii Sports Resort
  • The Beatles: Rock Band
  • Buzz! Quiz World
  • EyePet
  • Guitar Hero 5
  • New Super Mario Bros Wii

Gameplay

  • WINNER: Batman: Arkham Asylum
  • Assassin's Creed II
  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
  • New Super Mario Bros Wii
  • PixelJunk Shooter
  • Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

Handheld

  • WINNER: LittleBigPlanet (PSP)
  • Gran Turismo
  • LocoRoco Midnight Carnival
  • Mario and Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story
  • Professor Layton and Pandora's Box (ed: "Diabolical Box" in the US)
  • Scribblenauts

Multiplayer

  • WINNER: Left 4 Dead 2
  • Battlefield 1943
  • The Beatles: Rock Band
  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
  • Halo 3 ODST
  • Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

Original Score

  • WINNER: Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
  • Assassin's Creed II
  • Batman: Arkham Asylum
  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
  • Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
  • PixelJunk Shooter

Sports

  • WINNER: FIFA 10
  • Colin McRae: DiRT 2
  • Football Manager 2010
  • Forza 3
  • Wii Fit Plus
  • Wii Sports Resort

Story

  • WINNER: Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
  • Assassin's Creed II
  • Batman: Arkham Asylum
  • Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars: The Director's Cut
  • Brutal Legend
  • Dragon Age: Origins

Strategy

  • WINNER: Empire: Total War
  • Command and Conquer 3: Uprising
  • FIFA Manager 10
  • Football Manager 2010
  • Halo Wars
  • Plants vs Zombies

Use of Audio

  • WINNER: Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
  • Batman: Arkham Asylum
  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
  • DJ Hero
  • Flower
  • Left 4 Dead 2

From The Chatty
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    March 19, 2010 9:06 PM

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      March 19, 2010 9:11 PM

      IHmmm, I wonder if Batman: AA being awesome had anything to do with it winning Best Game.

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        March 19, 2010 9:27 PM

        My thoughts exactly. It really was a superb game.

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        March 19, 2010 9:33 PM

        Yet Uncharted won best action, best score and best use of audio over batman.

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        March 19, 2010 9:59 PM

        Batman earned it. Rocksteady did a phenomenal job on gameplay, portraying all the characters, setting the tone, story, dialog, delivering a polished bug free game. There have been so many failed super hero IP tie in games, the cards were stacked against them but they hit it out of the park. Uncharted 2 was a refinement of the first and far less risky a project.

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      March 19, 2010 10:58 PM

      Batman was the best $12.50 I ever spent on a game. It deserved full retail price and I really should have bought it earlier.

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      March 20, 2010 6:41 PM

      lol

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      March 21, 2010 1:54 PM

      your post makes me question if you ever even played it?

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