Skyrim, Portal 2 and Uncharted dominate IAAs at DICE
Bethesda RPG takes 5 gongs, including GOTY, while Naughty Dog, Valve scoop 3
Skyrim, Uncharted 3 and Portal 2 have all won multiple prizes at the Interactive Achievement Awards at the DICE event in Les Vegas.
Bethesda's RPG was the major victor, collecting the award for game of the year alongside prizes for best RPG, excellence in story, engineering and direction. Uncharted 3 took excellence in animation, art direction and visual engineering while Portal was awarded the trophies for best character performance, for Stephen Merchant's Wheatley, best music and best connectivity.
The IAAs are held each year at DICE by the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences.
"Each year the Interactive Achievement Awards sees the top minds and personas of our industry coming together to not only celebrate, but recognize one another for the achievements of the year," said Martin Rae, president.
"2011 produced an outstanding number of fantastic games in all areas of the industry - console, PC, social and mobile - we are truly witnessing a new golden age of gaming. Bravo to our winners!"
I'm truly happy for Portal. It received the awards it deserved, but not all of them. Having played both Skyrim and Portal 2 I can safely say, in my opinion, that Portal had many more features that creates a game of the year. While Skyrim really is astonishingly beautiful and immersive (a.k.a Time Consuming), Portal is presented in a completely new, innovative and even pioneering way: its narrative is supported and developed by the dialogues of two perfect characters, Wheatley and Glados (and technically Cave Johnson).
The setting, the story, the context, the development, the plot twists are all so terrifyingly genius. I regret Portal 2 didn't win more GOTY awards.
Posted:A year ago