4th British Academy Games Awards

The 4th British Academy Video Games Awards (known for the purposes of sponsorship as British Academy Video Games Awards in Association with PC World), awarded by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, was an award ceremony held on 23 October 2007 in Battersea Evolution. The ceremony honoured achievement in 2007 for games which were released between 6 October 2006 and 5 October 2007 and was hosted by Vic Reeves. Wii Sports led with the most nominations with seven. Wii Sports was the major winner on the night, taking six of the seven awards available, equaling the record Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2003) and Half-Life 2 (2004) had with the most awards won in any BAFTA Video Games Awards ceremony. BioShock took the main prize of Best Game.

4th British Academy Games Awards
Date	23 October 2007
Location	Battersea Evolution
Hosted by	Vic Reeves
Best Game	BioShock
Most awards	Wii Sports (6)
Most nominations	Wii Sports (7)

Winners and nominees

Winners are shown first in bold.

Action and Adventure (Sponsored by PC World) Crackdown – Realtime Worlds/Microsoft Game Studios Gears of War – Epic Games/Microsoft Game Studios God of War II – Santa Monica Studio/Sony Computer Entertainment The Orange Box – Valve/Valve Ratchet & Clank: Tools of Destruction – Insomniac Games/Sony Computer Entertainment The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess – Nintendo EAD/Nintendo	Sports Wii Sports – Nintendo EAD/Nintendo Colin McRae: Dirt – Codemasters/Codemasters Football Manager 2008 – Sports Interactive/Sega FIFA 08 – EA Canada/EA Sports MotorStorm – Evolution Studios/Sony Computer Entertainment Virtua Tennis 3 – Sega and Sumo Digital/Sega
Artistic Achievement Ōkami – Clover Studio/Capcom BioShock – 2K Boston and 2K Australia/2K Games Heavenly Sword – Ninja Theory/Sony Computer Entertainment Ratchet & Clank: Tools of Destruction – Insomniac Games/Sony Computer Entertainment Skate – EA Black Box/Electronic Arts Viva Piñata – Rare/Microsoft Game Studios	Story and Character God of War II – Cory Barlog, James Barlog and Marianne Krawczyk, Santa Monica Studio/Sony Computer Entertainment Final Fantasy XII – Daisuke Watanabe, Miwa Shoda and Yasumi Matsuno, Square Enix/Square Enix Heavenly Sword – Tameem Antoniades, Rhianna Pratchett and Andrew S. Walsh, Ninja Theory/Sony Computer Entertainment Ōkami – Hideki Kamiya, Clover Studio/Capcom The Darkness – Starbreeze Studios/2K Games The Simpsons Game – EA Redwood Shores/Electronic Arts
Best Game BioShock – 2K Boston and 2K Australia/2K Games Crysis – Crytek/Electronic Arts Gears of War – Epic Games/Microsoft Game Studios Guitar Hero II – Harmonix/Activision Kane & Lynch: Dead Men – IO Interactive/Eidos Interactive Wii Sports – Nintendo EAD/Nintendo	Strategy and Simulation Wii Sports – Nintendo EAD/Nintendo Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars – EA Los Angeles/Electronic Arts Forza Motorsport 2 – Turn 10 Studios/Microsoft Game Studios Medieval II: Total War: Kingdoms – Creative Assembly/Sega Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas – Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft World in Conflict – Massive Entertainment/Sierra Entertainment
Casual Wii Sports – Nintendo EAD/Nintendo Big Brain Academy for Wii – Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development Group No. 4/Nintendo Cake Mania – Sandlot Games/Sandlot Games Guitar Hero II – Harmonix/Activision More Brain Training – Nintendo SPD/Nintendo SingStar – London Studio/Sony Computer Entertainment	Technical Achievement God of War II – Santa Monica Studio/Sony Computer Entertainment Crackdown – Realtime Worlds/Microsoft Game Studios Gears of War – Epic Games/Microsoft Game Studios MotorStorm – Evolution Studios/Sony Computer Entertainment Ōkami – Clover Studio/Capcom Uncharted: Drake's Fortune – Naughty Dog/Sony Computer Entertainment
Gameplay (sponsored by Nokia N-Gage) Wii Sports – Nintendo EAD/Nintendo Crackdown – Realtime Worlds/Microsoft Game Studios Gears of War – Epic Games/Microsoft Game Studios Sega Rally – Sega Racing Studio/Sega The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess – Nintendo EAD/Nintendo Warhawk – Incognito Entertainment and Santa Monica Studio/Sony Computer Entertainment	Use of Audio Crackdown – Realtime Worlds/Microsoft Game Studios Elite Beat Agents – iNiS/Nintendo Gears of War – Epic Games/Microsoft Game Studios God of War II – Santa Monica Studio/Sony Computer Entertainment Guitar Hero II – Harmonix/Activision Skate – EA Black Box/Electronic Arts
Innovation Wii Sports – Nintendo EAD/Nintendo flOw – thatgamecompany/Sony Computer Entertainment Ōkami – Clover Studio/Capcom Super Paper Mario – Intelligent Systems and Nintendo SPD/Nintendo The Eye of Judgment – Japan Studio/Sony Computer Entertainment Trauma Center: Second Opinion – Atlus/Atlus	BAFTA One's to Watch Award (in association with Dare to Be Digital) Ragnarawk – Voodoo Boogy Bear Go Home – Phoenix Seed Climbatic
Multiplayer Wii Sports – Nintendo EAD/Nintendo Battlefield 2142 – EA DICE/Electronic Arts Crackdown – Realtime Worlds/Microsoft Game Studios Guitar Hero II – Harmonix/Activision World in Conflict – Massive Entertainment/Sierra Entertainment World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade – Blizzard Entertainment/Blizzard Entertainment	The PC World Gamers Award (the only award to be voted for by the public) Football Manager 2007 – Sports Interactive/Sega Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training – Nintendo SPD/Nintendo FIFA 07 – EA Canada/Electronic Arts Gears of War – Epic Games/Microsoft Game Studios Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories – Rockstar Leeds and Rockstar North/Rockstar Games Resistance: Fall of Man – Insomniac Games/Sony Computer Entertainment Wii Play – Nintendo EAD Group No. 2/Nintendo
Original Score Ōkami – Masami Ueda, Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Rei Kondoh and Akari Groves, Clover Studio/Capcom Final Fantasy XII – Hitoshi Sakimoto, Hayato Matsuo and Masaharu Iwata, Square Enix/Square Enix God of War II – Gerard Marino, Ron Fish, Mike Reagan and Cris Velasco, Santa Monica Studio/Sony Computer Entertainment Lair – John Debney, Factor 5/Sony Computer Entertainment The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess – Toru Minegishi, Asuka Ohta, Nintendo EAD/Nintendo Viva Piñata – Grant Kirkhope, Rare/Microsoft Game Studios

Academy Fellowship

• Will Wright

Games with multiple nominations and wins

Nominations Nominations Game 7 Wii Sports 6 Gears of War 5 Crackdown God of War II Ōkami 4 Guitar Hero II 3 The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess 2 BioShock Final Fantasy XII Heavenly Sword MotorStorm Ratchet & Clank: Tools of Destruction Skate World in Conflict

Wins Awards Game 6 Wii Sports 2 Crackdown God of War II Ōkami

• Two separate franchises (the FIFA and Football Manager series) garnered more than one nomination (with one each for FIFA 07, FIFA 08 Football Manager 2007 (winner of PC World Gamers Award) and Football Manager 2008).

External links

• 4th BAFTA Video Games Awards page