Bungie’s online shooting gaming title ‘Destiny’ grabbed the award for Best Game at the British Academy Games Awards 2015 fighting off competition from Dragon Age: Inquisition, Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor, Mario Kart 8, Monument Valley and Alien: Isolation.
Destiny is Bungie’s fourth BAFTA win, with the three others coming for entries in the Halo franchise. The shooting game was also nominated for the Game Design, Multiplayer and Persistant Game awards.
Accepting the award Bungie’s president Harold Ryan thanked Destiny’s players saying “It’s always a labour of love that we do because of the passion of the fans.”
“They really are the ones who drive you to put the energy and time into putting the game together.”
British studio UsTwo’s mobile puzzle game Monument Valley picked up two awards: Best British Game, as well as Best Mobile & Handheld title. The Last Of Us: Left Behind also won two awards for Best Story and Best Performer. Lumino City won in the Artistic Achievement category, while Alien: Isolation collected the BAFTA for Audio Achievement. OlliOlii – the low-budget skateboarding video game from London-based studio Roll7 – won BAFTA for the best sport video game and Far Cry 4 won the award for Music.
Famous comedian Rufus Hound hosted the 2015 Bafta Awards event. It was the first time Hound hosted these awards.
Here’s the full list of winners:
- Best Game: Destiny
- Artistic Achievement: Lumino City
- Game Innovation: The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
- Audio Achievement: Alien: Isolation
- Mobile and Handheld: Monument Valley
- BAFTA Ones To Watch Award in association with Dare to be Digital in 2015: Chambara
- Multiplayer: Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft
- Music: Far Cry 4
- British Game: Monument Valley
- Original Property: Valiant Hearts
- Debut Game: Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna)
- Performer: Ashley Johnson (The Last of Us: Left Behind (Ellie))
- Family: Minecraft: Console Editions
- Persistent Game: League of Legends
- Fellowship: David Braben
- Game Design: Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor
- Sport: OlliOlli
- Story: The Last of Us: Left Behind
