Best game Call of Duty 4 BAFTA winner

Call of Duty 4 won best game Award at the British Academy Video Games Awards,BAFTA. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) is seen as the British counterpart of the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which issues annual Oscars.

The nominees for the audience were previously determined based on sales of the English merchant GAME. There could be voted on by other leaders as Call of Duty 4, Fallout 3, Gears of War 2, Grand Theft Auto IV, World of Warcraft Lich King, LittleBigPlanet, Wii Fit and Guitar Hero World Tour. In total more than 600,000 people took their vote and the most votes went to the first-person-shooter Call of Duty 4.

There were also several prizes handed out by a jury. In that area was Call of Duty 4 once again successful in the categories of gameplay and story and character. CoD4 and Dead Space were the only games that received two awards of the jury, Dead Space got prices for the best audio and best music. The experts chose the Wii game Super Mario Galaxy best game of 2008, when Left 4 Dead mutiplayer game best was chosen.

Other winners Fable II (action & adventure), LittleBigPlanet (artistic achievement), Boom Blox (casual), Professor Layton and the Curious Village (handheld), Race Driver: GRID (sports), Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution (strategy), Spore (technical achievement). The game Boro-Toro was in association with Dare to Be Digital voted most promising game

BAFTA is best known for its star-studded film and television awards but, since 2003, it has also been celebrating the very best in Video Games. The GAME British Academy Video Game Awards take place on Tuesday 10 March 2009 to recognize the year's most innovative and creative releases...

BAFTA masks will be presented in thirteen categories - from Action & Adventure to Gameplay, Strategy and Multiplayer, plus the Fellowship, which is a lifetime achievement award given to someone who has made an extraordinary contribution to the industry. BAFTA also supports fresh new gamemaking talent in our Ones to Watch Award.

The Awards are voted for by the games industry and BAFTA members as well as a series of expert juries. This year, however, one outstanding winner will be selected by you - the game playing public - and presented with The GAME Award for Best Game of the Year 2008.

2009
5th British Academy Video Games Awards

• Action and Adventure: Fable II
• Artistic Achievement: LittleBigPlanet
• Best Game: Super Mario Galaxy
• Casual: Boom Blox
• Gameplay: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
• Handheld: Professor Layton and the Curious Village
• Multiplayer: Left 4 Dead
• Original Score: Dead Space
• Sports Game: Race Driver: GRID
• Story and Character: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
• Strategy: Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution
• Technical Achievement: Spore
• Use of Audio: Dead Space
• The BAFTA Fellowship: Nolan Bushnell
• BAFTA Ones to Watch Award: Boro-Toro