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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?

Once people begin to get tired of the CoD series, sales will fall.

I see what you mean however I don't agree that battlefield was the best all round shooter. Mw3 wins in the multiplayer department, and for me and most other gamers te campaign was also a lot better than battlefields. It finished where mw2 left off and puts all of the pieces together and it's good how it all interlinks. Battlefield 3 had the upper hand of graphics and gameplay but the campaign just wasnt there on a storyline level.

Both are great games but there can only be one winner and in my eyes mw3 deserved it :y:

I didn't buy the game. I didn't like the engine. Battlefield Bad Company 2 was way better. I actually enjoy Battlefield but BF3 was a letdown. Bad Company 2 is probably better than MW3.

I agree BC2 is better but BF3 isn't a total failure, Dice nerfing everything because of people crying is the failure IMHO.

to tell you the truth i agree with you on that MW3 had some better kinda better story yet if you understood Bf3 story you'll find it good enough but then again it have a story but doesn't make much sense

This makes me wanna go buy the new Batman game now.

Xbox 360 best game is a fail, it's not even an exclusive?

If that's the case then you can pretty much guarantee they were bribed. I'm no fanboy and I stick to whatever game is best, and there's no way in hell MW3 is the best shooter right now. NO WAY.

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Are you actually suggesting the work done on the engine since BFBC2 has made it worse? You can't be serious.

In terms of game design it's all down to preference but how the f*ck is the engine worse now than it was back then? Especially on console, the sensitivity lag was appalling.

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What exactly did they 'nerf'?

MW3 would have one best MP back in 09, two years later they release the same game and you think it deserves to win again, against BF3?! You :dumb: