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Last night was the annual video game awards which sums together the best video games across multiple platforms of 2011. Obviously in the list their will be no surprise of some of these winners and they are well deserved. Here is a list of the winners of each category:

Best PC Game: Portal 2
Best PS3 Game: Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception
Best Xbox 360 Game: Batman: Arkham City
Best Graphics: Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception
Best Shooter: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
Best DLC: Peer Review (Portal 2)
Best Downloadable Game: Bastion
Best Performance By a Human Female: Ellen McLain as GladOS (Portal 2)
Best Performance By a Human Male: Stephen Merchant as Wheatley (Portal 2)
Best Original Score: Bastion
Best Song in a Game: ‘Build that Wall (Zia’s Theme) By Darren Kobb (Bastion)
Best Adapted Game: Batman: Arkham City
Best Motion Game: The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
Best Independent Game: Minecraft
Best Fighting Game: Mortal Kombat
Best Driving Game: Forza Motorsport 4
Best Team Sports Game: NBA 2K12
Best Individual Sports Game: Fight Night Champion
Best Multi-Player: Portal 2
Best RPG: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Best Action Adventure Game: Batman: Arkham City
Best Handheld/Mobile Game: Super Mario 3D Land
Best Wii Game: The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
Studio of the Year: Bethesda Game Studios

And lastly the most prestigious game of 2011?

Game Of The Year: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

There was no surprise that best shooter would go to Call of Duty - Modern Warfare 3, keeping the call of duty series consistent winners of this category.

As usual Portal 2 managed to gather a load of awards, 5 awards and this again was no surprise for this game.

One of the surprises, at least to me was the sports game of the year, and not seeing FIFA take this as easily as I would have expected.

Now for game of the year it was good to see Skyrim to take the thrown away from Portal 2. Skyrim has had a huge launch and is up there beating modern warfare 3 as the most played game of 2011. (based on hours played and hours per session)

Reading an article online it picked up on a very interesting point about the awards.



How can batman win the best Xbox game when Skyrim is the most played game on Xbox? It doesn't really make sense about how that was figured out by the panel. The panel is made up of 25 game journalists, which in my opinion isn't the best option when deciding the best games of the year, and it's the actual customers, the gamers who really know what they like.

Overall it was a successful event for multiple games and there were some very obvious winners.

How do you feel about how the winners are decided and the results of the awards?

journalists or not, **** them cod fanboys. :carling:

I don't think Skyrim deserves the Game of the Year award. :fa:

You're an idiot. Just because a game is single player doesn't mean you should feel inclined to play it once and never touch it again. I've played Oblivion completely through 5/6 times and I'm sure skyrim will be the same, with at least 80 hours in each game.

I've played FFXIII through for 50 hours a game 8-9 times, and it's Z0MG single player. I've also played Bioshock and Bioshock 2's single player through multiple times, for a combined total of somewhere around 200 hours.

Yeah I wrote it on my iPhone so there was gonna be a mistake somewhere :megusta:

but that is just boring i mean i dont know about you but i can rember the plot and hwat happens in games i havent play in maybe 10 yers so once i have done it once i find it pointless to do it again so yeah every time i play say COD does it change in any way no so i only play it once same with quest games fallout etc i know that i can do things slightly differently but overall im going to do the same story and quests i did before.

not being a fanboy but hell call of duty won?
its suppose to be best shooter not best multiplayer shooter!
best shooter : BF3 , best mp shooter : Mw3 and thats a fact
best best on pc overall : BF3

oh yea 'bout skyrim being the GOTY i think it both deserve it and don't
deserve because its an awesome game actually best rpg singleplayer game atm
but don't deserve cause the graphic idk seems like shit really i remember a program can do it just hover using the mountain tool and make a mountain or atleast a higher than sea level land and thats almost what they did

anyway its just my opinion hate it or like , agree or disagree its your choice

fifa 12 is only popular in europe , so its not a suprise and 2k12 is a pretty good game , this is there 2nd time winning it

The VGAs are a joke, nuff said.

My mum could do a better job at choosing the nominations.