Death Stranding, Control and other BAFTA Games Awards 2023 nominees – review

British Academy of Film and Television Arts Announces Nominees for its Annual Award BAFTA Games Awards. The leaders in the number of nominations were Death stranding and Controlwho can take with them 11 statuettes.
This year, academics will award prizes in new categories: “For Best Animation”, “For Best Role” and “For Best Supporting Role”. In addition, the award “For Best Innovation” has become part of a new category – “For technical achievements.”
Finally, the “Best Mobile Game” award was replaced with the “Mobile Game of the Year” award, the winner of which will be determined by voting by the public. The BAFTA Games Awards 2023 will be held on April 2.

Best game

  • Control
  • Disco elysium
  • Luigi’s Mansion 3
  • Outer wilds
  • Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
  • Untitled Goose Game

The best game from British developers

  • DiRT Rally 2.0
  • Heaven’s vault
  • Knights and bikes
  • Observation
  • Planet zoo
  • Total War: Three Kingdoms

For the best animation

  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
  • Control
  • Death stranding
  • Luigi’s Mansion 3
  • Sayonara wild hearts
  • Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice

For artistic achievements

  • Concrete genie
  • Control
  • Death stranding
  • Disco elysium
  • Knights and bikes
  • Sayonara wild hearts

For achievements in the field of audio

  • Ape out
  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
  • Control
  • Death stranding
  • Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
  • Untitled Goose Game

Best debut

  • Ape out
  • Death stranding
  • Disco elysium
  • Katana zero
  • Knights and bikes
  • Manifold garden

The best evolving game

  • Apex legends
  • Destiny 2
  • Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers
  • Fortnite
  • No Man’s Sky: Beyond
  • Path of exile

Best family game

  • Concrete genie
  • Knights and bikes
  • Luigi’s Mansion 3
  • Untitled Goose Game
  • Vacation Simulator
  • Wattam

The best game abroad ordinary entertainment

  • Civilization VI: Gathering Storm
  • Death stranding
  • Kind Words (lo fi chill beats to write to)
  • Life is Strange 2
  • Neo cab
  • Ring fit adventure

Best game design

  • Baba is you
  • Control
  • Disco elysium
  • Outer wilds
  • Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
  • Wattam

Best multiplayer

  • Apex legends
  • Borderlands 3
  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
  • Luigi’s Mansion 3
  • Tick ​​Tock: A Tale for Two
  • The division 2

The best music

  • Control
  • Death stranding
  • Disco elysium
  • Outer wilds
  • The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening
  • Wattam

Best storytelling

  • Control
  • Disco elysium
  • Life is Strange 2
  • Outer wilds
  • The outer worlds
  • Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order

Best New IP

  • Baba is you
  • Control
  • Death stranding
  • Disco elysium
  • Outer wilds
  • Untitled Goose Game

Best role

  • Laura Bailey (Kate Diaz from Gears 5)
  • Courtney Hope (Jesse Feyden from Control)
  • Logan Marshall Green (David of Telling Lies)
  • Gonzalo Martin (Sean Diaz from Life is Strange 2)
  • Barry Sloan (Captain Price from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare)
  • Norman Reedus (Sam from Death Stranding)

Best Supporting Role

  • Jolene Andersen (Karen Reynolds of Life is Strange 2)
  • Troy Baker (Higgs from Death Stranding)
  • Sarah Bartholomew (Cassidy from Life is Strange 2)
  • Aisha Issa (Fliss from The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan)
  • Lea Seydoux (Fragyle from Death Stranding)
  • Martti Suosalo (Control Ahti Cleaner)

For technical achievements

  • A plague tale: innocence
  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
  • Control
  • Death stranding
  • Metro exodus
  • Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice

Mobile game of the year

  • Assemble with care
  • Call of Duty: Mobile
  • Dead man’s phone
  • Pokemon go
  • Tangle tower
  • What the golf?

More on review

  • Hideo Kojima will receive the highest BAFTA award
  • Valve showed 3 (!) Half-Life: Alyx gameplay videos
  • New map, Soup and the final of the zombie mode: a new season has started in Call of Duty Mobile
  • Death Stranding will be released on PC on June 2