Like every year for 18 years, the English BAFTA ceremony yesterday followed in the footsteps of Game Awards and Pegasus to celebrate the video game creation of 2021. A sober and lively ceremony, which was not content to reward the same titles as other events of the genre.
Even if a big winner is emerging, with four trophies won, the academy has brewed wide and made sure to give way to a whole variety of titles which have made 2021 a year full of beautiful surprises.
BAFTA Game Awards: the list of winners
Many hoped that it would dethrone It Takes Two to the rank of supreme award at the Game Awards, and his revenge is taken! Returnal, the Housemarque box which has since been bought by Sony, leaves with four awards, including Best Game of the Year.
The BAFTA Game Awards winners
- Best Animation: Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
- Artistic Achievement: The Artful Escape
- Sound Accomplishment: Returnal
- Best game: Returnal
- Best UK Game: Forza Horizon 5
- Best First Game: TOEM
- Ever-evolving game: No Man's Sky
- Best Game Design: Inscryption
- Best Multiplayer Game: It Takes Two
- Best Music: Returnal (Bobby Krlic)
- Best Storytelling: Unpacking
- Meilleure licence (IP) : It Takes Two
- Best Actor/Actress in a Leading Role: Jane Perry as Selene (Returnal)
- Best Supporting Actor/Actress: Kimberly Brooks as Hollis (Psychonauts 2)
- Technical Achievement: Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
- People's Best Game: Chicory: A Colorful Tale
A decidedly more varied list, or one which in any case gives more space to more “modest” projects, but which contributes to portraying our favorite medium in all its diversity.
The ceremony, which lasts just under 2 hours, can be viewed below (we spared you the pre-show).
