The Last of Us Part II and Hades were the big winners of Thursday night’s Bafta Game Awards.
The Last of Us Part II (TLOU2), the sequel to the post-apocalyptic PS3 game of 2013, won EE Game of the Year – an award voted by the public in record numbers.
However, despite accumulating a record of 13 nominations, TLOU2 only managed to get three awards in total, coming out with the award for her animation, as well as a performer in a lead role for Laura Bailey, who voiced Abby.
Hades came out with five awards at the ceremony. Photo: Supergiant Games
Meanwhile, Hades, an RPG set in the world of Greek mythology on Nintendo Switch, PC and Mac, has won five awards, including artistic achievement, best game, game design and narrative.
Logan Cunningham, who voices several characters in the game, won his first Bafta as a supporting actor.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons, which kept everyone busy during the first blockade in 2020, also won two prizes – game in addition to entertainment and multiplayer, while Sackboy: Big Adventure won British game and family awards.
Elsewhere, the long-awaited superhero after Marvel Spider-Man: Miles Morales, won the music award, and the Carrion horror game, where players control a tentacle monster, grabbed the gong for the game of debut.
Pirate-based Xbox game Sea of Thieves won in the evolving, point-and-click adventure game Kentucky Route Zero: TV Edition won original ownership and Dreams, where players control a “little devil” to interact with the world, won the award technical achievement.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons was launched during the blockade in 2020. Photo: Nintendo
The Bafta Fellowship, the academy’s biggest homage, went to Media Molecule’s Siobhan Reddy, best known for her work on the LittleBigPlanet series.
The awards were presented by London-based arts journalist Elle Osili-Wood, with presenters and award winners dialing on Zoom.