Uncharted 2 arrasa na 10ª Game Developers Conference Awards ..

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Durante a cerimónia de ontem na 10ª UBM TechWeb Game Network's 2010 Game Developers Conference (GDC), o jogo da Naughty Dog's, Uncharted 2, foi eleito como o grande vencedor, ganhando em 5 categorias distintas, entre elas o melhor enredo e o mais aguardado Jogo Do Ano.

A 5th Cell, por outro lado venceu os troféus para Best Handheld Game e Innovation Award, pelo seu didáctico e inovador jogo Scribblenauts.

Por outro lado, e a provar que as redes sociais cada vez têm maior influência no mundo dos videojogos, a Zynga (criadora dos viciantes Farmville, Mafia Wars e cafe World) recebeu o galardão para a recém-criada categoria Best New Social/Online Game.

Por outro lado o brilhante jogo da Rocksteady Studios', Batman: Arkham Asylum venceu a categoria para Best Game Design, enquanto que o prémio para The Best Debut Game foi para a Runic Games' e o seu jogo Torchlight.

O titulo de The Best Downloadable Game foi para o jogo Flower, que corresponde ao segundo troféu para esse editor, que já tinha vencido em 2008 com o jogo fl0w.

Convém identificar o método de votação:
"The Game Developers Choice Awards, which honor the very best games of the year, created for developers and voted on by developers. The finalists were chosen via a combination of open game industry nominations and the votes of the leading creators in the Choice Awards Advisory Committee."
"Starting this year, winners were selected by the Game Developers Choice Awards-specific International Choice Awards Network (ICAN), which is a new invitation-only group comprised of 500 leading game creators from all parts of the video game industry."

Os vencedores da 10ª Annual Game Developers Choice Awards são então:
Game of the Year
Uncharted 2 (Naughty Dog)
Dragon Age: Origins (BioWare)
Batman: Arkham Asylum (Rocksteady Studios)
Demon's Souls (From Software)
Assassin's Creed II (Ubisoft Montreal)

Best Writing:
Uncharted 2 (Naughty Dog)
Brutal Legend (Double Fine)
Batman: Arkham Asylum (Rocksteady Studios)
Dragon Age: Origins (BioWare)
Halo 3: ODST (Bungie)

Best Game Design:
Batman: Arkham Asylum (Rocksteady Studios)
Assassin's Creed II (Ubisoft Montreal)
Flower (Thatgamecompany)
Uncharted 2 (Naughty Dog)
Plants Vs. Zombies (PopCap)

Best Technology:
Uncharted 2 (Naughty Dog)
Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Infinity Ward)
Red Faction: Guerrilla (Volition)
Killzone 2 (Guerrilla Games)
Assassin's Creed II (Ubisoft Montreal)

Best Visual Arts:
Uncharted 2 (Naughty Dog)
Borderlands (Gearbox Software)
Assassin's Creed II (Ubisoft Montreal)
Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Infinity Ward)
Flower (thatgamecompany)

Best New Social/Online Game:
Farmville (Zynga)
Restaurant City (Playfish)
Dungeon Fighter Online (Neople/Nexon)
Free Realms (Sony Online Entertainment San Diego)
Bejeweled Blitz (PopCap)

Best Debut Game:
Torchlight (Runic Games)
The Maw (Twisted Pixel)
League Of Legends (Riot Games)
Spider: The Secret Of Bryce Manor (Tiger Style)
Zeno Clash (ACE Team)

Innovation Award:
Scribblenauts (5th Cell)
Flower (thatgamecompany)
Uncharted 2 (Naughty Dog)
Plants Vs. Zombies (PopCap)
Demon's Souls (From Software)

Best Handheld Game:
Scribblenauts (5th Cell)
Flight Control (Firemint)
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars (Rockstar Leeds/Rockstar North)
Spider: The Secret Of Bryce Manor (Tiger Style)
Legend Of Zelda: Spirit Tracks (Nintendo EAD)

Best Audio:
Uncharted 2 (Naughty Dog)
Dragon Age: Origins (BioWare)
Rock Band: The Beatles (Harmonix)
Flower (thatgamecompany)
Brutal Legend (Double Fine Productions)

Best Downloadable Game:
Flower (thatgamecompany)
Plants Vs. Zombies (PopCap)
Trials HD (RedLynx)
PixelJunk Shooter (Q Games)
Shadow Complex (Chair Entertainment)

Foram também atribuídos alguns Prémios especiais e as suas categorias dividiram-se por:
Lifetime Achievement Award
John Carmack
Pioneer Award
Gabe Newell
Ambassador Award
Penny Arcade (Jerry Holkins, Mike Krahulik, Robert Khoo)

Meggan Scavio, director do evento Game Developers Conference afirmou que "This year has seen some incredible titles across platforms and genres -- big-budget blockbusters like Uncharted 2 and Batman: Arkham Asylum and addictive online games like Farmville all made for an amazing year in games,".
"The winners at the Game Developers Choice Awards have exhibited that they can create compelling experiences that set the bar even higher for other developers to follow. We'd like to thank all the winners and the nominees for their countless hours furthering the art of game creation, and crafting some awesome experiences for gamers the world over."

No embate que se antevia "quente" entre Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 e Uncharted 2, o titulo da Infinity saiu claramente derrotado, aliás, nas duas categorias para as quais se encontrava nomeado, o troféu foi precisamente parar às mãos de Uncharted 2.

Gostava de realçar a presença e vitória de Scribblenauts, da 5th Cell na categoria de Best HandHeld Game, pois trata-se sem duvida dum jogo muito bem conseguido quer em termos de inovação quer em termos de conteúdos (didácticos). E que entretanto já se encontra a aguardar uma sequela, pois já correm rumores na Net que Scribblenauts 2 está para breve.

Link Oficial aqui.