Tuesday, June 3, 2025

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)

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