2005 Tyler's Choice Video Game Awards

(Boldface = winner; Italics = runner-up)

Game of the Year

• Call of Duty 2 (Ken Murphy)
• God of War (Shannon Studstill)
• Guitar Hero (Daniel Sussman)
• Nintendogs (Hideki Konno & Shigeru Miyamoto)
• Shadow of the Colossus (Kenji Kaido)
  (Honourable Mentions: Animal Crossing: Wild World, Civilization IV, The Movies, Psychonauts, Resident Evil 4)

Best Action/Adventure Game

• Call of Duty 2 (Jason West)
• God of War (David Jaffe)
• Peter Jackson's King Kong (Michel Ancel)
• Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones (Jean-Christophe Guyot)
• Shadow of the Colossus (Fumito Ueda)
  (Honourable Mentions: Battlefield 2: Modern Combat, Indigo Prophecy, Psychonauts, Resident Evil 4, Ultimate Spider-Man)

Best Game Design

• God of War (David Jaffe)
• Guitar Hero (Rob Kay)
• The Movies (Adrian Moore)
• Nintendogs (Junji Morii)
• Shadow of the Colossus (Fumito Ueda)
  (Honourable Mentions: Animal Crossing: Wild World, Peter Jackson's King Kong, Psychonauts, Resident Evil 4, We Love Katamari)

Best Family/Casual Game

• Dance Dance Revolution: Mario Mix (Yukihiro Yamazaki)
• Guitar Hero (Greg LoPiccolo)
• Mario Party 7 (Shuichiro Nishiya)
• Nintendogs (Kiyoshi Mizuki)
• Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves (Grady Hunt)
• We Love Katamari (Keita Takahashi)
  (Honourable Mentions: Animal Crossing: Wild World, Kirby Canvas Curse, LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, WarioWare: Touched!)

Best Sport/Racing Game

• Burnout Revenge (Fiona Sperry & Alex Ward)
• Mario Kart DS (Makoto Wada & Yasuyuki Oyagi)
• NBA 2K6 (Jeffrey J. Thomas) 
• Need for Speed: Most Wanted (Kimihiro Taniyama)
• SSX on Tour (Steve Anthony)
• Super Mario Strikers (Mike Inglehart)
  (Honourable Mentions: FIFA 06, Forza Motorsport, Project Gotham Racing 3, Tony Hawk's American Wasteland)

Best Technical Innovation

• God of War (Tim Moss)
• Guitar Hero (Philip Winston)
• The Movies (James Brown, Matthew Chilton, Jonathan Askew & Cliff Harris)
• Nintendogs (Yoshitaka Aijoka, Yasushi Ebisawa, Soichi Nakajima & Yuzuru Ogawa)
• Shadow of the Colossus (Jinji Horagai)
  (Honourable Mentions: Battlefield 2: Modern Combat, Call of Duty 2, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, WarioWare: Touched!, We Love Katamari)

Best Multiplayer

• Animal Crossing: Wild World
• Battlefield 2: Modern Combat (Måns Vestin)
• Guild Wars
• Guitar Hero
• Super Mario Strikers

Best Strategy/Simulation Game

• Animal Crossing: Wild World (Hisashi Nogami)
• Black & White 2 (Jonty Barnes)
• Civilization IV (Barry Caudill & Sid Meier)
• The Movies (Peter Molyneux)
• Silent Hunter III (Sébastien Delen)
  (Honourable Mentions: Age of Empires III, Armored Core: Nine Breaker, Lock On: Modern Air Combat, Nintendogs, Sid Meier's Pirates)

Best Use of Audio

• Call of Duty 2 (Mark Ganus & Mark Curry)
• God of War (Jonathan Hawkins, Jason McDonald, David Murrant & Brad Aldredge)
• Guitar Hero (Kasson Crooker, Izzy Maxwell, Ross Popoff & Eric Brosius)
• Peter Jackson's King Kong (Yoan Fanise, Olivier Ranquet, Sam Hofstedt & Reed Ruddy)
• Resident Evil 4 (Yoshihiko Wada & Yoshito Kato)
  (Honourable Mentions: Electroplankton, F.E.A.R., Indigo Prophecy, Shadow of the Colossus, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory)

Best Music

• Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King (Koichi Sugiyama)
• God of War (Gerald K. Marino, Michael Reagan, Ron Fish, Winifred Phillips, Winnie Waldron, Cris Velasco & Marcello DeFrancisi)
• Jade Empire (Jack Wall)
• The Movies (Daniel Pemberton)
• Shadow of the Colossus (Kow Otani)
  (Honourable Mentions: Call of Duty 2 (Graeme Revell), Gun (Christopher Lennertz), Kameo: Elements of Power (Steve Burke), Rise of the Kasai (Jack Wall, Rod Abernethy, Jason Graves, Lars Anderson & Michael Reagan), We Love Katamari (Yuu Miyake, Yuri Misumi, Hiroshi Okubo, Masashi Sugiyama, Katsuro Tajima, Akitaka Toyama & Yoshihito Yano))

Best Handheld Game

• Burnout Revenge (Claude Verstraeten) 
• Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories (Leslie Benzies)
• The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap (Hidemaro Fujibayashi)
• Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time (Hiroyuki Kubota)
• Nintendogs (Kiyoshi Mizuki)
  (Honourable Mentions: Ancient Empires II, Animal Crossing: Wild World, Lumines, Mario Kart DS, Meteos) 

Best Fighting Game

• Fight Night Round 2 (Rondee Price & Keith J. Morton)
• Soul Calibur III (Jin Okubo, Shinobu Nimura & Taisuke Aihara)
• Tekken 5 (Masahiro Kimoto & Katsuhiro Harada)
  (Honourable Mentions: Darkstalkers Chronicle: The Chaos Tower, Genji: Dawn of the Samurai, Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks, Viewtiful Joe: Red Hot Rumble, WWE Smackdown! vs. Raw 2006)

Best Art Direction

• God of War (Terry Smith & Steve Caterson)
• Jade Empire (Matthew M. Goldman)
• Peter Jackson's King Kong (Florent Sacré)
• Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones (Olivier Leonardi)
• Shadow of the Colossus (Koji Hasegawa, Masanori Kajita & Kazuhiro Numata)
  (Honourable Mentions: Call of Duty 2, Killer 7, Psychonauts, Ultimate Spider-Man, We Love Katamari)

Best Animation

• God of War (Cory Barlog, Kwon Min, Paul Lee & Mehdi Yssef)
• Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones (Wade Konowalchuk, Yannick Bergeron, Steeve Oullet & Faoud Jeniani)
• Psychonauts (Sandra B. Christensen, Eric P. Ingerson & David Russell)
• Rise of the Kasai (Erik Medina, David Oelkers, Bang Won Lee & Floyd Bishop Jr.)
• Shadow of the Colossus (Atsuko Fukuyama, Masanobu Tanaka, Daisuke Uchikawa & Rory Little)
  (Honourable Mentions: Burnout Revenge, Devil May Cry 3, Nintendogs, Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee, Resident Evil 4)

Best Story/Writing

• Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood (Mike Neumann)
• Call of Duty 2: Big Red One (Aaron Ginsburg & Wade McIntyre)
• God of War (Marianne Krawczyk, Alexander Stein, David Jaffe & Keith Fay)
• Peter Jackson's King Kong (Jacques Exertier)
• Psychonauts (Tim Schafer & Erik Wolpaw)
  (Honourable Mentions: Gun, Indigo Prophecy, Jade Empire, Resident Evil 4, Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves)

Best Voice Acting

• John Cleese - Jade Empire for voicing Sir Roderick
• Laurence Fishburne - True Crime: New York City for voicing Isaiah Reed
• Richard Horvitz - Psychonauts for voicing Razputin "Raz" Aquato
• Kris Kristofferson - Gun for voicing Ned White
• Christopher Walken - True Crime: New York City for voicing Gabriel Whiting
  (Honourable Mentions: Jack Black - Peter Jackson's King Kong, T.C. Carson - God of War, Mariska Hargitay - True Crime: New York City, Thomas Jane - Gun, Sharon Mann - Indigo Prophecy)