2004 Tyler's Choice Video Game Awards

(Boldface = winner; Italics = runner-up)

Game of the Year

• Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Dan Houser & Leslie Benzies)
• Half-Life 2 (Gabe Newell & Bill van Buren)
• Halo 2 (Michel Bastien, Hamilton Chu & Curtis Creamer)
• Katamari Damacy (Hideki Tomida & Mitsumasa Fujita)
• World of Warcraft (Carlos Guerrero & Shane Dabiri)
  (Honourable Mentions: Burnout 3: Takedown, Ninja Gaiden, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Pikmin 2, Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal)

Best Action/Adventure Game

• Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Andrew Semple)
• Half-Life 2 (David Speyrer)
• Halo 2 (Jason Jones)
• Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (Hideo Kojima)
• Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (Mark Pacini)
  (Honourable Mentions: Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, Doom 3, Pikmin 2, Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandorra Tomorrow)

Best Game Design

• Fable (Peter Molyneux, Dene Carter, Ben Huskins & Mark Webley)
• Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Craig Filshie, Imran Sarwar, William Mills & Chris Rothwell)
• Half-Life 2 (Dave Riller & Matt T. Wood)
• Katamari Damacy (Masatoshi Ogita)
• World of Warcraft (Robert Pardo & Allen Adham)
  (Honourable Mentions: City of Heroes, Halo 2, Prince of Persia: Warrior Within, Rome: Total War, The Sims 2)

Best Family Game

• Donkey Konga (Hiroyuki Onoda)
• Katamari Damacy (Keita Takahashi)
• Mario Party 6 (Shuichiro Nishiya)
• Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Ryota Kawade)
• Sly 2: Band of Thieves (Grady Hunt)
  (Honourable Mentions: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Pikmin 2, Pokémon Colosseum, Shrek 2, WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Party Game$)

Best Sport/Racing Game

• Burnout 3: Takedown (Fiona Sperry & Siobhan Reddy)
• Madden NFL 2005 (Phil Frazier & Jeremy Strauser)
• Mario Power Tennis (Haruki Kodera)
• NBA Ballers (Mark Turmell)
• Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005 (Mike Olsen)
  (Honourable Mentions: FlatOut, F-Zero GP Legend, Need for Speed Underground 2, NFL 2K5, Tony Hawk's Underground 2)

Best Technical Innovation

• Donkey Konga (Masanori Higashi, Hiroyuki Akamatsu, Ayako Murakami & Yoshiro Kurohata)
• Half-Life 2 (Yahn Bernier & Brian Jacobson)
• Halo 2 (Michael Evans, Chris Butcher, Charles Gough & Ben Wallace)
• Katamari Damacy (Kazumi Yamabe)
• The Sims 2 (Matthew M. Brown & David Gregory)
  (Honourable Mentions: Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures, Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal, Rome: Total War, World of Warcraft)

Best Multiplayer

• Burnout 3: Takedown
• Half-Life 2
• Halo 2
• Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal
• World of Warcraft
  

Best Strategy/Simulation Game

• Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War (Kazutoki Kono)
• Lord of the Rings: The Battle of the Middle-Earth (Chris Corry & Bing Gordon)
• RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 (Jonny Watts)
• Rome: Total War (Mike Simpson)
• The Sims 2 (Charles Landon)
  (Honourable Mentions: Dog's Life, Full Spectrum Warrior, Pacific Fighters, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War, Zoo Tycoon 2)

Best Use of Audio

• Doom 3 (Christian Antkow & Ed Lima)
• Halo 2 (C Paul Johnson, Martin O'Donnell & Jay Weinland)
• Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (Sōtarō Tojima, Hiroe Noguchi, Waichiro Ozaki & Ryoji Makimura)
• Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (Clark Wen & Scott Peterson)
• Myst IV: Revelation (Mathieu Jeanson, Steven Dumont, Alexandre Letendre & Jocelyn Daoust)
  (Honourable Mentions: Call of Duty: Finest Hour, Half-Life 2, Pikmin 2, Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal, Sly 2: Band of Thieves)

Best Music

• Fable (Russell Shaw & Danny Elfman)
• Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles (Kumi Tamioka)
• Halo 2 (Martin O'Donnell)
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Jeremy Soule)
• Rome: Total War (Jeff van Dyck)
  (Honourable Mentions: Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Killzone, Onimusha 3: Demon Siege, Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal)

Best Handheld Game

• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Brett Skogen & Geraldine Wong)
• Kingdom Hearts: Chains of Memories (Tetsuya Nomura & Aguro Tanaka)
• Metroid: Zero Mission (Yoshio Sakamoto)
• Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen (Junichi Masuda)
• Super Mario 64 DS (Shinichi Ikematsu)
  (Honourable Mentions: Ancient Empires, Astro Boy: Omega Factor, Colin McRae Rally 2005, Mario Golf: Advance Tour, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005)

Best Fighting Game

• Custom Robo (Keiji Okayasu)
• Dead or Alive: Ultimate (Tomonobu Itagaki)
• Mortal Kombat: Deception (Ed Boon)
  (Honourable Mentions: Def Jam: Fight for NY, Fight Night 2004, Godzilla: Save the Earth, Onimusha Blade Warriors, WWE Smackdown! vs. Raw)

Best Art Direction

• Fable (Ian Yarwood-Lovett)
• Half-Life 2 (Viktor Antonov)
• Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (Todd Keller)
• Prince of Persia: Warrior Within (Mickail Labat)
• Sly 2: Band of Thieves (Dev Madan)
  (Honourable Mentions: Burnout 3: Takedown, Doom 3, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Myst IV: Revelation, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandorra Tomorrow)

Best Animation

• Half-Life 2 (Miles Estes & Bay Raitt)
• Halo 2 (William O'Brian, Mike Budd, John Butkus & Nathan Walpole)
• Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (Masahiro Yoshinaga, Makoto Akashi, Goro Kaneko & So Toyota)
• Prince of Persia: Warrior Within (Sylvain Bernard, Paul David Jesper, Guillaume Lefebvre & Steeve Oullet)
• Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal (Kevin Grow, David Hancock, John Lally & David Pritchard)
  (Honourable Mentions: Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, Doom 3, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Killzone, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandorra Tomorrow)

Best Story/Writing

• The Bard's Tale (Matthew Findley, Eric Flannum, Dennis M. Miller & John Parry)
• Fable (James Leach)
• Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Dan Houser, James Worrall & DJ Pooh)
• Half-Life 2 (Marc Laidlaw)
• Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Hironobu Suzuki & Misao Fukuda)
  (Honourable Mentions: Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone, Katamari Damacy, Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy, The Suffering)

Best Voice-Over Performance

• Vin Diesel - Chronicles of Narnia: Escape from Butcher Bay for voicing Richard B. Riddick
• Peter Fonda - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas for voicing "The Truth"
• Robert Guillaume - Half-Life 2 for voicing Eli Vance
• Samuel L. Jackson - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas for voicing Frank Tenpenny
• Matt Olsen - Sly 2: Band of Thieves for voicing Bentley
  (Honourable Mentions: Max Casella - Jak 3, David Cross - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Cary Elwes - The Bard's Tale, Dennis Haysbert - Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandorra Tomorrow, Vanessa Marshall - Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone)