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LittleBigPlanet Cleans Up at AIAS Awards

by Nick Breckon, Feb 20, 2009 12:31pm PST

Media Molecule's innovative platformer LittleBigPlanet (PS3) took top honors at the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences awards, held last night at the DICE Summit in Las Vegas.

The title took Overall Game of the Year, in addition to Console Game of the Year, Family Game of the Year, and achievements in Game Direction, Art Direction, Visual Engineering, Character Performance and Innovation in Gaming. The Sackboy himself took home the award for Outstanding Character Performance.

Valve's Left 4 Dead also did well, winning the Computer Game of the Year category and being recognized for its achievements in Online Game Play.

The full list of categories and winners follows:

Overall Game of the Year:

LittleBigPlanet

Console Game of the Year:

LittleBigPlanet

Computer Game of the Year:

Left 4 Dead

Outstanding Achievement in Game Direction:

LittleBigPlanet

Casual Game of the Year:

Braid

Fighting Game of the Year:

Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Handheld Game of the Year:

God of War: Chains of Olympus

Massively Multiplayer Game of the Year:

World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King

Cellular Game of the Year:

Spore Origins

Role-Playing Game of the Year:

Fallout 3

Racing Game of the Year:

Burnout Paradise

Outstanding Achievement in Game Design:

World of Goo

Adventure Game of the Year:

Mirror's Edge

Sports Game of the Year:

NHL 09

Strategy/Simulation Game of the Year:

Command & Conquer 3: Red Alert

Action Game of the Year:

Dead Space

Family Game of the Year:

LittleBigPlanet

Outstanding Achievement in Animation:

Prince of Persia

Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction:

LittleBigPlanet

Outstanding Achievement in Visual Engineering:

LittleBigPlanet

Outstanding Character Performance:

Sackboy in LittleBigPlanet

Outstanding Achievement in Story - Adapted:

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed

Outstanding Achievement in Story - Original:

Fallout 3

Outstanding Achievement in Online Game Play:

Left 4 Dead

Outstanding Innovation in Gaming:

LittleBigPlanet

Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composition:

Metal Gear Solid 4

Outstanding Achievement in Soundtrack:

Rock Band 2

Outstanding Achievement in Sound Design:

Dead Space

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So let me get this straight.

According to them, a stick figure under a different name with no developer defined story or personality whatsoever gets an award for "Outstanding Character Performance".

Also according to them, Mirror's edge (an action/platformer/shooter) is an adventure game, Smash Bros. (a license driven casual party game) is a fighting game, and Rock Band 2 was an "outstanding achievement in soundtrack" because it licensed a lot of already existing popular music and put it in a video game.

They also say Braid is a casual game, I assume that's because it doesn't cost 60 dollars.

Video game awards are a joke...

Feb 20, 2009 3:23pm PST

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  It's because it's made by people who don't know shit about gaming I assume. It's sad. : Johnnsen
  - The game? Or the awards? This is probably one of the more game industry oriented awards available...right... : Sturm08
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  smash bros is a fighting game, even if it's "casual." : ermac
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    oops sorry, i see we already tried reasoning with people in a lower thread. : ermac
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      Tell me the mechanics which it shares with any well established fighting series. The fact that there a... : SFtheWolf
      
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      The only real gameplay dynamic of the game is combat. Is it the multiple combatants at a time that is con... : Memitim
      
      Firstly, Brawl's single player *is* just a token stroyline attached to a series of AI matches. The fact t... : SFtheWolf

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A fighting game should have one the Best Fighting Game category don't you think?

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Feb 20, 2009 1:32pm PST

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A fighting game should have one the Best Fighting Game category don't you think? elohel : kodt
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  Guess they needed the big N represented somewhere, what with them crushing everyone in their path. Still... : NuMMnUtZ
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    but still, it's a fighting game no? : Bingo
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      In a very loose sense of the word. SF2HD, MK v DC, SCIV, even WWE and UFC are true fighting games. : NuMMnUtZ
      
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      No, it's a fighting game, period. Not in a "loose sense of the word" at all. You have characters to play ... : SabinRaijin
      
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      Counter-Strike lets you play as characters that fight with melee weapons and projectile attacks. Counter-... : SFtheWolf
      
      Great detective work, seeing as how the other other genre listed that CS might fall under would be Action... : Memitim
      
      Perfection? You do see the games I mentioned right? Not one of those is anywhere near perfection but ar... : NuMMnUtZ
      
      id call it more like tickling than fighting. Its a pretty sorry game. : james t kirk
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      I like to call it a party game. : kodt
      
      That would be the term I would use as well thanks. : NuMMnUtZ
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  It's definitely a fighting game. : Begawkiness
  - agreed, perhaps not in the style of a classic fighting game, but certainly it is one. glad to see it g... : senor135

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I must be getting old. Most of these games I have no interest in or just didn't think I'd have fun playing them. C&C Red Alert 2 (not into RTS games), Left 4 Dead (I don't do horror too well), Fallout 3 (I can't stand the Oblivion feel, and format), Spore: Origins on cellular (a stunningly boring game, how it won is beyond me). The only games I've played don't really deserve much recognition anyway; Mirror's Edge (mediocre fun), WoW: WotLK (addictive, but not much competiton). I do enjoy Burnout Paradise a lot, and that deserved the kudos.

The rest is just console fare I don't have the consoles for, and most of them seem too casual for my tastes.

So, am I getting old, or was 2008 a bad year for gaming?

Feb 20, 2009 1:47pm PST

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- L4D is hardly horror. It's not scary at all. : coolbreezr
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  Getting old. : Nick Breckon
  - Near death I'd say. : Sturm08
- may i present you with the 2008 Jaded Gamer Award : gyokuro
- You're not old, you just have specialized tastes. : ieGod

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LBP is good, but damn, it's not that good.

Feb 20, 2009 6:11pm PST

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LBP is good, but damn, it's not that good. : Freon
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- Agreed. Definitely an above average title and one that I really enjoyed but to clean up like it did does... : silverback1138

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I was of course skeptical of these awards because they always seem to heap praise on games that really weren't standouts and don't even mention other genre games that are more deserving. Then I saw the award for Outstanding Character Performance: Sackboy. Wow was I ever wrong about these guys. Really nailed that one for sure. He's a cutsey sack of beans who doesn't even frigging talk, I'm surprised he isn't nominated for a Best Actor Oscar.

Feb 20, 2009 1:20pm PST

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  Everytime you post, I am surprise to see you are still not banned. I guess the mods really don't check ou... : razlebol
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    We? Who is we? I'd love to know who is responsible for this bit of amusement. I originally thought thi... : NuMMnUtZ
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      It is peer driven. I am on the soundtrack panel. Publishers submit titles. We narrow it down to a group a... : Fred Garvin
      
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It's weird. I was dying to play this game when it released. Now that I own it, I played it probably for no more than 8 hours total. It's collecting dust on my shelf.

Feb 20, 2009 12:44pm PST

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It deserves it. it gets better every day it's out.

Feb 20, 2009 7:43pm PST

It deserves it. it gets better every day it's out. : Boxelder

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a bit of speculation/hypothesis but, does it seem to anyone else that the LBP loses it's "family gaming" replayability after completing the included levels. I think the creator/level edit stuff adds tons of replayability if someone is interested in that or inclined to do it (my roommate spends enormous amounts of time making stuff), but i dont see that portion of the game really being used by families, at least not nearly as much.

thoughts?

Feb 20, 2009 3:15pm PST

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  Tons of replayability , my two kids go looking on the PSN for cool levels people have come up with and it... : Cock_Goblin
  - Somehow i just don't see you as being mature enough to have kids. Maybe its the name? : Zombified13
  - So you haven't found the cock goblin levels? I played the other night and my sis showed me a level w... : Freon

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