Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood leads BAFTA noms with seven

Somebody alert the world, a Brotherhood of assassins has infiltrated the British Academy Video Games Awards. Ubisoft’s stealthy sequel, Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, garnered seven nominations, more than any other game, including one for Best Game.

Other big honorees from this year’s Video Games Awards include Call of Duty: Black Ops, Heavy Rain (six nominations apiece) and Mass Effect 2 (four nominations).

Awarded annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), the winners of this year’s Video Games Awards will announced in a ceremony on March 16.

The full list of every nominee and every award up for grabs can be found after the break.

Best Game

  • Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood
  • FIFA 11
  • Heavy Rain
  • Limbo
  • Mass Effect 2
  • Super Mario Galaxy 2

Action

  • Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood
  • Battlefield: Bad Company 2
  • BioShock 2
  • Call of Duty: Black Ops
  • God of War III
  • Halo: Reach

Artistic Achievement

  • Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood
  • Call of Duty: Black Ops
  • God of War III
  • Heavy Rain
  • Limbo
  • Mass Effect 2

Family

  • Dance Central
  • Kinect Adventures
  • Kinect Sports
  • Kinectimals
  • Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4
  • Toy Story 3

Gameplay

  • Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood
  • God of War III
  • Heavy Rain
  • Limbo
  • Mass Effect 2
  • Super Mario Galaxy 2

    Handheld

  • Cut the Rope
  • God of War: Ghost of Sparta
  • Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4
  • Professor Layton and the Lost Future (Released as “Professor Layton and the Unwound Future” in the US)
  • Sonic Colours
  • Super Scribblenauts

    Multiplayer

    • Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood
    • Battlefield: Bad Company 2
    • Call of Duty: Black Ops
    • Halo: Reach
    • Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit
    • Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty

    Original Music

    • Alan Wake
    • Fable III
    • Heavy Rain
    • James Bond 007: Blood Stone
    • Mass Effect 2
    • Super Mario Galaxy 2

    Social Network Game

  • Bejeweled Blitz
  • Farmerama
  • FIFA Superstars
  • My Empire
  • Zoo Mumba
  • Zuma Blitz

    Sports

  • F1 2010
  • FIFA 11
  • Football Manager 2011
  • Gran Turismo 5
  • International Cricket 2010
  • Pro Evolution Soccer 2011

    Story

    • Alan Wake
    • BioShock 2
    • Call of Duty: Black Ops
    • Fallout: New Vegas
    • Heavy Rain
    • Mass Effect 2

    Strategy

    • Civilization V
    • Fallout: New Vegas
    • FIFA Manager 11
    • Napoleon: Total War
    • Plants vs. Zombies (XBLA)
    • Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty

    Technical Innovation

    • Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood
    • Call of Duty: Black Ops
    • Halo: Reach
    • Heavy Rain
    • Kinectimals
    • Super Mario Galaxy 2

    Use of Audio

    • Alan Wake
    • Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood
    • Battlefield: Bad Company: 2
    • Call of Duty: Black Ops
    • DJ Hero 2
    • Limbo

    BAFTA Ones To Watch Award
    In Association With “Dare to Be Digital”

    • Mush
    • Sculpty
    • Twang!

    GAME Award of 2010
    People’s Choice, Vote at BAFTA.org

    • Call of Duty: Black Ops
    • Dance Central
    • FIFA 11
    • Halo: Reach
    • Heavy Rain
    • Limbo
    • Mass Effect 2
    • Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit
    • Red Dead Redemption
    • Super Mario Galaxy 2
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