Mulai 1998, British Academy of Film and Television Arts memutuskan untuk mengakui video game sebagai jenis hiburan yang memberikan cara baru dalam mengekspresikan kreativitas. Ada banyak event pemberian penghargaan bergengsi diadakan tiap tahun, namun sejauh ini status BAFTA belum dapat tersaingi. Dan di akhir minggu lalu, diumumkanlah para pemenang BAFTA Games Awards 2016.
Di ajang lain, nama-nama familier berkali-kali memperoleh apresiasi, namun BAFTA Games Awards 2016 cukup berbeda. Permainan-permainan garapan developer indie tampak menguasai belasan kategori. Judul-judul blockbuster memang jadi nominasi, tapi mereka bukan juaranya. Terlepas dari itu, salah satu permainan open-world terbaik terpilih buat membawa pulang gelar Best Game – sebagai judul pertama di seri itu yang memenangkan BAFTA.
Berikut ini daftar lengkap nominasi dan pemenangnya:
Mobile & Handheld: Her Story (Sam Barlow)
Nominasi: Prune, Fallout Shelter, Lara Croft GO, Alphabear, The Room Three
Audio Achievement: Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture (The Chinese Room)
Nominasi: Batman: Arkham Knight, Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Star Wars Battlefront, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Music: Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture (The Chinese Room)
Nominasi: Batman: Arkham Knight, Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, Ori and the Blind Forest, Fallout 4, Halo 5: Guardians
Performer: Merle Dandridge | Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture (Kate Collins)
Nominasi: Oliver Dimsdale (Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture, Stephen Appleton), Mark Hamill (Batman: Arkham Knight, The Joker), Ashly Burch (Life is Strange Chloe Price), Masasa Moyo (Broken Age: Act 2, Vella), Doug Cockle (The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Witcher)
Persistent Game: Prison Architect (Introversion Software)
Nominasi: Destiny: The Taken King, Final Fantasy XIV Online, Guitar Hero: Live, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, LEGO Dimensions
Family: Rocket League (Psyonix)
Nominasi: Disney Infinity 3.0: Play Without Limits, Guitar Hero: Live, Super Mario Maker, FIFA 16, LEGO Dimensions
Sport: Rocket League (Psyonix)
Nominasi: DiRT Rally, Football Manager, FIFA 16, PES 2016, Forza Motorsport 6
British Game: Batman: Arkham Knight (Rocksteady Studios)
Nominasi: Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture, Prison Architect, Tearaway Unfolded, Until Dawn, Her Story
Artistic Achievement: Ori and the Blind Forest (Moon Studios)
Nominasi: Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture, Batman: Arkham Knight, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Story: Life is Strange (Dontnod Entertainment)
Nominasi: Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture, Until Dawn, Undertale, Her Story, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Original Property: Until Dawn (Supermassive Games)
Nominasi: Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture, Ori and the Blind Forest, Life is Strange, Splatoon, Her Story
Debut Game: Her Story (Sam Barlow)
Nominasi: Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, Prune, Ori and the Blind Forest, Mini Metro, Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
Game Design: Bloodborne (FromSoftware)
Nominasi: Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime, Rocket League, Grow Home, Her Story, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Multiplayer: Rocket League (Psyonix)
Nominasi: Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege, Destiny: The Taken King, World of Warships, Splatoon
Fellowship: John Carmack
Game Innovation: Her Story (Sam Barlow)
Nominasi: Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Life is Strange, Until Dawn, Splatoon
Best Game: Fallout 4 (Bethesda Game Studios)
Nominasi: Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture, Life is Strange, Rocket League, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Sumber: BAFTA.org.
