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2019 BAFTA Game Awards – ‘God of War’ Wins Five BAFTA Awards
Sony Santa Monica’s “God of War” took home five British Academy Games Awards on Thursday, including best game.
BAFTA announced the winners of the 2019 British Academy Games Awards at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London. Dara O’Briain hosted the event.
“God of War” was also recently named game of the year at the Game Developers Choice Awards in San Francisco. Before that, it was named Game of the Year at the 22nd annual DICE Awards in Las Vegas and took home eight other awards, including outstanding achievement in art direction and adventure game of the year.
Lucas Pope’s nautical murder mystery “Return of the Obra Dinn” was also a big winner Thursday night, receiving two awards for artistic achievement and game design. Nintendo Labo won for family and game innovation, while Epic Games’ hugely popular battle royale title “Fortnite” grabbed the award for best evolving game.
‘God of War’ Wins Five BAFTA Awards
As a surprise to no one, God of War – the soft reboot of the long-running action series – took home five awards during the British Academy Game Awards show Thursday.
Every year, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) recognizes the best games of the year. Here are the 2019 winners:
- Artistic Achievement – Return of the Obra Dinn
- Audio Achievement – God of War
- Best Game – God of War
- British Game – Forza Horizon 4
- Debut Game – Yoku’s Island Express
- Evolving Game – Fortnite
- Family – Nintendo Labo
- Game Beyond Entertainment – My Child Lebensborn
- Game Design – Return of the Obra Dinn
- Game Innovation – Nintendo Labo
- Mobile Game – Florence
- Multiplayer – A Way Out
- Music – God of War
- Narrative – God of War
- Original Property – Into the Breach
- Performer – Jeremy Davies
- EE Mobile Game of the Year (Voted For By The Public) – Old School Runescape
It’s not shocking that God of War took home a whopping five awards – we had great things to say about the game when it launched last year.
https://www.gameinformer.com/2019/04/08/god-of-war-reigns-at-bafta-game-awards
