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Best Game Archives

The Best Game award recognizes the overall best - as interpreted by developers - game released during the year.

 

 

10th annual Game Developers Choice Awards (2010)

uncharted2

Recipient

  • Uncharted 2 (Naughty Dog)
    -     Evan Wells, Christophe Balestra, Amy Hennig, Bruce Straley

    • Nominees

  • Dragon Age: Origins (BioWare)
    - Mark Darrah, Mike Laidlaw, Ross Gardner, Matt Goldman
  • Batman: Arkham Asylum (Rocksteady Studios)
    - Sefton Hill, Jamie Walker
  • Demon's Souls (From Software)
    - Takeshi Kajii, Hidetaka Miyazaki
  • Assassin's Creed II (Ubisoft Montreal)
    - Sebastien Puel, Patrice Desilets
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    9th annual Game Developers Choice Awards (2009)

    Fallout3 Recipient
  • Fallout 3 (Bethesda Game Studios)
    - Todd Howard, Emil Pagliarulo, Istvan Pelyl

    • Nominees

  • Fable II (Lionhead Studios)
  • LittleBigPlanet (Media Molecule)
  • Left 4 Dead (Valve Software)
  • Grand Theft Auto IV (Rockstar North)
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    8th annual Game Developers Choice Awards (2008)

    Portal

    Recipient

  • Portal (Valve)
    - Kim Swift, Erik Wolpaw

    • Nominees

  • BioShock (2K Boston / 2K Australia / 2K Games)
    - Ken Levine, Jon Chey, Alyssa Finley, Melissa Miller
  • Call of Duty 4 (Infinity Ward / Activision)
    - Jason West, Grant Collier, Vince Zampella
  • Rock Band (Harmonix Music Systems / MTV Games)
    - Alex Rigopulos, Greg LoPiccolo
  • Super Mario Galaxy (Nintendo EAD / Nintendo)
  • - Yoshiaki Koizumi
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    7th annual Game Developers Choice Awards (2007)

    Recipient
  • Gears of War (Epic Games / Microsoft Game Studios)
    - Cliff Bleszinski, Michael Capps, Rod Fergusson

    • Nominees

  • Okami (Clover Studio / Capcom Entertainment)
    - Atsushi Inaba, Hideki Kamiya
  • The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Bethesda Game Studios / 2K Games/Bethesda Softworks)
    - Todd Howard
  • The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Nintendo EAD / Nintendo)
    - Eiji Aonuma, Satoru Iwata, Shigeru Miyamoto
  • Wii Sports (Nintendo)
    - Satoru Iwata, Shigeru Miyamoto, Keizo Ohta, Takayuki Shimamura, Yoshiaki Yamashita
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    6th annual Game Developers Choice Awards (2006)

    Recipient

  • Shadow of the Colossus (Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.)
    - Kenji Kaido, Yasuhide Kobayashi, Fumito Ueda

    • Nominees

    • Call of Duty 2 (Infinity Ward / Activision)
      - Mark Ganus
    • Electroplankton (Nintendo)
      - Toshio Iwai, Koichi Kyuma, Yuichi Ozaki
    • God of War (Sony Computer Entertainment America)
      - Brad Aldredge, Clint Bajakian, Chuck Doud, Dave Murrant
    • Project Gotham Racing 3 (Bizarre Creations / Microsoft Game Studios)
      - Nick Bygrave, Guy Whitmore, Nick Wiswell

     

     

    5th annual Game Developers Choice Awards (2005)

    Recipient
  • Half-Life 2 (Valve Software / Vivendi Universal Games)
    - Ken Birdwell, Gabe Newell, Jay Stelly

    • Nominees

    • Burnout 3: Takedown (Criterion Games / Electronic Arts)
      - Paul Glancey, Chris Roberts, Paul Cross, Fiona Sperry, Alex Ward
    • Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Rockstar North / Rockstar Games)
      - Leslie Benzies, Adam Fowler, Aaron Garbut, Sam Houser, Alexander Roger, Obbe Vermeij
    • Katamari Damacy (Namco)
      - Keita Takahashi
    • World of Warcraft (Blizzard Entertainment)
      - Mark Kern, Mike Morhaime, Rob Pardo

     

     

    4th annual Game Developers Choice Awards (2004)

    Recipient
  • STAR WARS: KNIGHTS OF THE OLD REPUBLIC (BioWare Corp.)

    • Nominees

  • BEYOND GOOD & EVIL (Ubisoft Pictures)
  • CALL OF DUTY (Infinity Ward)
  • PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OF TIME (Ubisoft Montreal)
  • THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: THE WIND WAKER (Nintendo EAD)
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    3rd annual Game Developers Choice Awards (2003)

    Recipient
  • METROID PRIME (Retro Studios)

    • Nominees

  • BATTLEFIELD 1942 (Digital Illusions)
  • GRAND THEFT AUTO: VICE CITY (Rockstar North)
  • NEVERWINTER NIGHTS (BioWare Corp.)
  • TOM CLANCY'S SPLINTER CELL (Ubi Soft Montreal)
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    2nd annual Game Developers Choice Awards (2002)

    Recipient
  • GRAND THEFT AUTO III (DMA Design/Rockstar Games)

    • Nominees

    • BLACK & WHITE (Lionhead Studios)
    • HALO: COMBAT EVOLVED (Bungie Studios)
    • ICO (Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc.)
    • MAX PAYNE (Remedy Entertainment)

     

     

    1st annual Game Developers Choice Awards (2001)

    Recipient
  • THE SIMS (Maxis)

    • Nominees

  • DEUS EX (ION Storm Austin)
  • JET GRIND RADIO (Smilebit)
  • NO ONE LIVES FOREVER (Monolith)
  • SHENMUE (Sega AM2)
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