Call of Duty 4 Leads BAFTA Game Award Nominees

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts announced today the nominees for the GAME British Academy Video Games Awards. 39 games were nominated in total, with Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare garnering seven BAFTA nominations, Grand Theft Auto IV getting six, Fable II and LittleBigPlanet following with five apiece, Assassin's Creed, Dead Space, and Fallout 3 accumulating four nominations each, and finally Gears of War 2, Rock Band, and Super Mario Galaxy each have three. The Awards will be given out at the London Hilton on Park Lane on March 10.

Full list of nominees:

Action & Adventure
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Infinity Ward/Activision)
Dead Space (Electronic Arts)
Fable II (Lionhead Studios/Microsoft Game Studios)
Grand Theft Auto IV (Rockstar North/Rockstar Games)
Prince of Persia (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft Entertainment)
Tomb Raider: Underworld (Crystal Dynamics/Eidos)

Artistic Achivement
Assassin's Creed (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft Entertainment)
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Infinity Ward/Activision)
Dead Space (Electronic Arts)
Gears of War 2 (Epic Games/Microsoft Games Studios)
LittleBigPlanet (Media Molecule & XDev Studio Europe/Sony Computer Entertainment)
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (Kojima Productions/Konami Digital Entertainment)

Best Game
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Infinity Ward/Activision)
Fable II (Lionhead Studios/Microsoft Game Studios)
Fallout 3 (Bethesda Game Studio/Bethesda Softworks Europe)
Grand Theft Auto IV (Rockstar North/Rockstar Games)
Rock Band (Harmonix Music Systems/MTV Games)
Super Mario Galaxy (Nintendo)

Casual
Boom Blox (Electronic Arts LA/EA Games)
Buzz! Quiz TV (Relentless Software & XDev Studio Europe/Sony Computer Entertainment)
Guitar Hero: World Tour (Neversoft/Activision)
LittleBigPlanet (Media Molecule & XDev Studio Europe/Sony Computer Entertainment)
SingStar Vol. 2 (SCE London Studio/Sony Computer Entertainment)
Wii Fit (Nintendo)

Gameplay
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Infinity Ward/Activision)
Grand Theft Auto IV (Rockstar North/Rockstar Games)
Left 4 Dead (Valve)
Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)
Rock Band (Harmonix Music Systems/MTV Games)
Super Mario Galaxy (Nintendo)

Handheld
Geometry Wars: Galaxies (Doublesix/Sierra)
God of War: Chains of the Olympus (Ready at Dawn & SCE Santa Monica Studio/Sony Computer Entertainment)
The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (Nintendo)
Patapon (Pyramid & SCE Japan Studio/Sony Computer Entertainment)
Professor Layton and the Curious Village (Level 5/Nintendo)
Soul Bubbles (McKensleep/Eidos)

Multiplayer
Buzz! Quiz TV (Relentless Software& SCE XDev Studio Europe/Sony Computer Entertainment)
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Infinity Ward/Activision)
Gears of War 2 (Epic Games/Microsoft Games Studios)
Left 4 Dead (Valve)
Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)
Rock Band (Harmonix Music Systems/MTV Games)

Original Score
Assassin's Creed (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft Entertainment)
Dead Space (Electronic Arts)
Fable II (Lionhead Studios/Microsoft Game Studios)
Fallout 3 (Bethesda Game Studio/Bethesda Softworks Europe)
LittleBigPlanet (Media Molecule & XDev Studio Europe/Sony Computer Entertainment)
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (Kojima Productions/Konami Digital Entertainment)

Sports
FIFA 09 (EA Canada/Electronic Arts)
Football Manager 2009 (Sports Interactive/Sega)
Motorstorm Pacific Rift (Evolution Studios/Sony Computer Entertainment)
Pure (Black Rock Studios/Disney Interactive Studios)
Race Driver: GRID (Codemasters Studios/Codemasters)
Wii Fit (Nintendo)

Strategy
Advance Wars: Dark Conflict (Intelligent Systems/Nintendo)
Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3 (EA Los Angeles/Electronic Arts)
Ninjatown (Venan in conjunction with Casmere Productions & Shalinamals/Southpeak Games)
Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution (Firaxis Games/2K Games)
SOCOM: US Navy Seals Tactical Strike (Slant Six Games & SCE Foster City Studio/Sony Computer Entertainment)
Viva Pinata: Pocket Paradise (Rare/THQ)

Story and Character
Assassin's Creed (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft Entertainment)
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Infinity Ward/Activision)
Fable II (Lionhead Studios/Microsoft Game Studios)
Fallout 3 (Bethesda Game Studio/Bethesda Softworks Europe)
Grand Theft Auto IV (Rockstar North/Rockstar Games)
Mass Effect (Bioware/Electronic Arts)

Technical Achievement
Assassin's Creed (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft Entertainment)
Fable II (Lionhead Studios/Microsoft Game Studios)
Fallout 3 (Bethesda Game Studio/Bethesda Softworks Europe)
Grand Theft Auto IV (Rockstar North/Rockstar Games)
LittleBigPlanet (Media Molecule & XDev Studio Europe/Sony Computer Entertainment)
Spore (Electronic Arts Montreal/Electronic Arts)

Use of Audio
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Infinity Ward/Activision)
Dead Space (Electronic Arts)
Gears of War 2 (Epic Games/Microsoft Games Studios)
Grand Theft Auto IV (Rockstar North/Rockstar Games)
LittleBigPlanet (Media Molecule & XDev Studio Europe/Sony Computer Entertainment)
Super Mario Galaxy (Nintendo)

BAFTA One's to Watch Award:
Boro-Toro
Adam Westwood, Graham Ranson, Yves Wheeler, Matthew Booton, Owen Schwehr (DarkMatter Designs)
Origamee
Richard Barlow, Alberto Fustinoni, Jonathon Holmes, Kevin Dunlop, Jade Law
(Blue Skies)
VegeMe
Guo Lin, Gao Ting, Zhang Jun, Laing Wei, Alexander Syminton (Ctrl_D)

GAME Award of 2008:
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Infinity Ward/Activision)
Fallout 3 (Bethesda Game Studio/Bethesda Softworks Europe)
Gears of War 2 (Epic Games/Microsoft Games Studios)
Grand Theft Auto IV (Rockstar North/Rockstar Games)
Guitar Hero World Tour (Neversoft/Activision)
Left 4 Dead (Valve)
LittleBigPlanet (Media Molecule & XDev Studio Europe/Sony Computer Entertainment)
Professor Layton and the Curious Village (Level 5/Nintendo)
Wii Fit (Nintendo)
World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King (Blizzard Entertainment/Activision)