This year's annual BAFTA Games Awards show took place yesterday, and the results are now in. As you'd probably expect, last year's Baldur's Gate 3 has scooped up plenty of awards here, with Xbox's Hi-Fi RUSH also managing to get on the list.
In total, BG3 won four awards: Music, Narrative, Players' Choice and the coveted Best Game category - plus a performance award thanks to Andrew Wincott as character Raphael. Xbox's Hi-Fi RUSH took home the Animation prize, shortly after its arrival on PlayStation 5 last month.
Here's the full list of BAFTA Games winners for 2024:
- Best Game - Baldur's Gate 3
- Animation - Hi-Fi RUSH
- Artistic Achievement - Alan Wake 2
- Audio Achievement - Alan Wake 2
- British Game -Viewfinder
- Debut Game - Venba
- Evolving Game - Cyberpunk 2077
- Family - Super Mario Bros. Wonder
- Game Beyond Entertainment - Tchia
- Game Design - Dave the Diver
- Multiplayer - Super Mario Bros. Wonder
- Music - Baldur's Gate 3
- Narrative - Baldur's Gate 3
- New IP - Viewfinder
- Performer in a Leading Role - Nadji Jeter as Miles Morales in Marvel’s Spider-Man 2
- Performer in a Supporting Role - Andrew Wincott as Raphael in Baldur’s Gate 3
- Players' Choice - Baldur's Gate 3
- Technical Achievement - The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Since its full launch last year, Baldur's Gate 3 has been picking up awards left, right and centre - so it's no surprise to see the cracking RPG grab another handful at the 2024 BAFTA Games show. Congrats to the team over at Larian Studios!
As for the rest of this list, there are some great titles on here - including the fantastic Alan Wake 2 which added to an amazing 2023 for video games. Here's hoping the coming year turns out just as well!
What do you think to this year's BAFTA Games list? Let us know your thoughts down below.
[source bafta.org]
Comments 4
The Zelda game deserved at least 5 other awards but for *****'s sake, Best Technical Achievement? Game ran like crap.
"Ah but at they made it run on Switch". Brother freaking Hogwarts Legacy runs on Switch, that's hardly noteworthy.
I said many times, in many forums, that BG3 was going to be a phenomenon and would win every Game of the Year award, and I am so happy to be right. Not because I want to be right, but because I wanted BG3 to be properly recognised for the masterpiece that it is. So chuffed to see it winning so many awards. Larian are easily the best developer out there...
@TheLastHarbinger Does Hogwarts let you travel to 3 different levels of a huge open world without any perceptible load times?
Does Hogwarts let you attach literally anything to the world to literally anything else?
Does Hogwarts let you craft equipment using any item found in the world that apply unique properties to that equipment?
Are all the trees, grass, rocks, in the world able to be interacted with in some way in Hogwarts?
Can you build vehicles in Hogwarts out of stuff found in the game world?
Does Hogwarts have a physics engine that governs everything I just listed?
I would highly agree that Zelda deserves best technical achievement because there is a level of interactivity, creativity, and ingenuity that even games on more powerful consoles haven't done before.
It isn't just because it's a big game running on Switch. It's the entire core design of the game that makes it a technical achievement. The fact it's being done on a mobile system with 3 usable CPU cores and only 3.5GB of useable RAM makes it all the more impressive.
I never agree with this stuff. Not the exception.
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