X-Play Best of 2010 Awards Nominees, Award Show Tonight - News
by VGChartz Staff , posted on 14 December 2010 / 4,399 Views
Spike's star-studded VGA's have come and gone. Tonight on G4TV, the seminal video game show X-Play is having their annual Best of 2010 show. Along with their chosen Best of 2010 Awards, they'll also be announcing a winner in their "Videogame Deathmatch" online user-voting contest.
Here's their nominees:
Game of the Year
1. Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood
2. Disney Epic Mickey
3. Mass Effect II
4. NBA 2K11
5. Red Dead Redemption
6. Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty
Most Original Game
1. Deadly Premonition
2. Heavy Rain
3. Limbo
4. Minecraft
5. Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale
Best Gameplay Innovation
1. Heavy Rain
2. Kinect
3. Mass Effect Saves
4. Rock Band Network
5. Rock Band Pro Mode
Best Multiplayer Game
1. Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood
2. Call of Duty: Black Ops
3. Halo: Reach
4. Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty
5. Super Street Fighter IV
Best Action/Adventure Game
1. Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood
2. Bayonetta
3. Disney Epic Mickey
4. God of War III
5. Red Dead Redemption
Best Shooter
1. Battlefield: Bad Company 2
2. Bioshock 2
3. Call of Duty: Black Ops
4. Halo: Reach
5. Medal of Honor
Best Fighting
1. BlazBlue: Continuum Shift
2. Super Street Fighter IV
3. Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars
Best Art Direction
1. Bayonetta
2. Disney Epic Mickey
3. God of War III
4. Limbo
5. Red Dead Redemption
Best Animation
1. Bayonetta
2. Disney Epic Mickey
3. God of War III
4. NBA 2K11
5. Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2
Best Writing
1. Alan Wake
2. Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood
3. Fallout: New Vegas
4. Mass Effect 2
5. Red Dead Redemption
Best Soundtrack
1. Disney Epic Mickey
2. Halo: Reach
3. Mass Effect 2
4. Nier
5. Red Dead Redemption
Best Sound Design
1. Alan Wake
2. Battlefield: Bad Company 2
3. Limbo
4. Red Dead Redemption
5. Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty
Best Downloadable Game
1. Costume Quest
2. DeathSpank
3. Limbo
4. Pac-Man Championship Edition DX
5. Super Meat Boy
Best DLC
1. Bioshock 2: Minerva’s Den
2. Borderlands: The Secret Armory of General Knoxx
3. Left 4 Dead 2: The Passing
4. Mass Effect 2: Lair of the Shadow Broker
5. Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare
Best Multiplayer Co-Op
1. Dead Rising 2
2. Call of Duty: Black Ops
3. Halo: Reach
4. Red Dead Redemption
5. Rock Band 3
Best Strategy
1. Civilization V
2. RUSE
3. Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty
4. Supreme Commander 2
5. Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II – Chaos Rising
Best Music/Rhythm
1. Dance Central
2. Def Jam Rapstar
3. DJ Hero 2
4. Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock
5. Rock Band 3
Best Sports Game
1. FIFA Soccer 11
2. Madden NFL 11
3. MLB: The Show 10
4. NBA 2K11
5. NHL 11
Best RPG
1. Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies
2. Fallout: New Vegas
3. Final Fantasy XIII
4. Mass Effect 2
5. Nier
Best Racing Game
1. Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit
2. Gran Turismo 5
3. Split/Second
4. Blur
5. ModNation Racers
Best Handheld Game
1. Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies
2. Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker
3. Persona 3 Portable
4. Picross 3D
5. Ys Seven
Some...interesting...choices here for nominees. Give us your thoughts in the comments section. Catch their Best of 2010 show tonight at 6pm EST on G4TV.
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O_o God of war 3 not even nominated for game of the year
wow this list is even shittier then Spike TV
Game of the Year
- Assassin�s Creed: Brotherhood (never played it, just came out so i cant say anything about the game)
- Disney Epic Mickey (this game is only on the list because Adam Sessler praised it to death like it was fucking GOD..
- Mass Effect II (yes, that makes sense because it was a fantastic game)
- NBA 2K11 (greatest sports game ever but not GOTY worthy)
- Red Dead Redemption (BORING) just another dumbass Rockstar sandbox game
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Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty (never played it so i cant judge it)
WHAT?????????? there is better wii games to put in the goty category just like others said, Super Mario Galaxy 2..
The Wii Conspiracy is REAL !
just like what this guy said
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE0SRD_IG0g
if you say their isn't, your in denial
Typical anti-Nintendo snobbery.
Only Epic Mickey gets recognition, and that's a shoddy game, not even in the top 10 Wii games of the year.
Galaxy 2 has the highest metacritic of any game this year, but it seems no site has the balls to place it as GOTY.
Wow Epic mickey in some list but no SMG2, Kirby's Epic Yarn and DKC Return... What a bias against Nintendo
I must've missed the memo that said that X-Play was relevant again.
Terrible list, by the way.
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 should definitely be on the best multiplayer of the year category on all of these game awards shows. It was better than half of the games on their, not to say that they're bad, bfbc2 is just a really good game.
This list has so much fail it burns my eyes.
Where the fuck is Super Mario Galaxy 2 on this list?
WTF? I mean the game has the highest Metacritic score of any game released this year!
So much wrong with this list..
Of course there is no platformer category, because Nintendo would have to win it. We can't have that.
where the HELL is Mario Galaxy 2??????
ok............ even i know that list is wrong.....
Interesting choice for the token Nintendo game as GOTY. It's a bit silly announcing the GOTY nominees, 'cause it kinda makes the genre categories a bit obvious who's gonna win.
Interesting no graphics award, but rather animation and art direction. I hope Naruto wins for animation. Would be nice to have something different win something. Also it shoulda been in the best fighter category, if nothing else but to make up the numbers. At its core it's a fighting game and there's only 3 nominated games when the field is open to up to 6 games. Actually just noticed the category is "best fighting" not "best fighting game" so like platforming games it doesn't actually get a genre category.
Would be cool to have a sports game win GOTY, but somehow I doubt that's gonna happen, so NBA2K11 is another token entry.
Why is VGchartz endorsing x-play? The show is at the bottom of video game journalism.
Black ops might actually win something, I see mass effect is in quite alot of categories
Black ops might actually win something, I see mass effect is in quite alot of categories
Why do all game awards annoy me?
Not even a best platformer category?
guys get real! Wii games are leagues behind HD competition. And this is about art and innovation, not commercial sucess.
It's good to see Japanese games here after the pro-Western VGA, espacially Bayonetta.
