Tyler's Choice Awards: 2006 Tyler's Choice Video Game Awards

(Boldface = winner; Italics = runner-up)

Game of the Year

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Gavin Carter & Craig Lafferty)
Gears of War (Erika Carlson & Rod Fergusson)
Guitar Hero II (Elena Siegman & Tracy Rosenthal-Newsom)
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Eiji Aonuma, Shigeru Miyamoto & Satoru Iwata)
Wii Sports (Katsuya Eguchi & Shigeru Miyamoto)
(Honourable Mentions: Final Fantasy XII, LocoRoco, Ōkami, Saints Row, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter)

Best Action/Adventure Game

Gears of War (Michael V. Capps)
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Eiji Aonuma)
Metroid Prime Hunters (Masamichi Abe)
Ōkami (Hideki Kamiya)
Saints Row (Michael Kulas)
(Honourable Mentions: Bully, Dreamfall: The Longest Journey, Just Cause, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter, Tomb Raider: Legend)

Best Game Design

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Ken Rolston)
Gears of War (Cliff Bleszinski)
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Yoshiyuki Oyama & Atsushi Miyagi)
New Super Mario Bros. (Masanao Arimoto)
Wii Sports (Junji Morii)
(Honourable Mentions: Bully, Company of Heroes, Nintendo Brain Age, Ōkami, Viva Piñata)

Best Family/Casual Game

Guitar Hero II (Daniel Sussman)
New Super Mario Bros. (Shigeyuki Asuke)
Nintendo Brain Age (Kouichi Kawamoto)
Viva Piñata (Chris Sutherland & Steven Brand)
Wii Sports (Keizo Ohta, Takayuki Shimamura & Yoshikazu Yamashita)
(Honourable Mentions: Cooking Mama, LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy, LocoRoco, Over the Hedge, Rayman Raving Rabbids)

Best Sport/Racing Game

Cars: The Video Game (Aaron Cammarata)
FIFA 07 (Joe Booth)
MLB '06: The Show (Chris Gill)
NBA 2K7 (Jeffrey J. Thomas)
Wii Sports (Keizo Ohta, Takayuki Shimamura & Yoshikazu Yamashita)
(Honourable Mentions: Excite Truck, FlatOut 2, Need for Speed: Carbon, NHL 07, Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam)

Best Technical Innovation

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Guy Carver & Craig Winston)
Gears of War (Ray Davis)
LocoRoco (Hiroya Matsugami & Gregg Tavares)
Nintendo Brain Age (Jun Ito, Shinji Kitahara & Yoshinori Katsuki)
Wii Sports (Tsutomu Kaneshige)
(Honourable Mentions: Call of Duty 3, Company of Heroes, Ōkami, Resistance: Fall of Man, Viva Piñata)

Best Multiplayer

Best Strategy/Simulation Game

Company of Heroes (John Johnson)
Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth II (Chris Corry)
Medieval: Total War (Robert T. Smith)
Star Wars: Empire at War (Theodore A. Morris & Charles J. Kroegel Jr.)
Zoo Tycoon 2: Marine Mania (Linda Currie)
(Honourable Mentions: Age of Empires: The War Chiefs, Defcon, Microsoft Flight Simulator X, Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends, Sid Meier's Railroads!)

Best Use of Audio

Call of Duty 3 (Jerry Berlongieri, Chris Cowell, Scott Purvis & Brian Tuey)
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Mark Lampert)
Guitar Hero II (Izzy Maxwell, Jeff Allen, Devon Newsom & Sachi Sato)
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Takahiro Watanabe, Yohei Miyagawa, Atsushi Masaki & Mitsuhiro Kida)
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter (Jeff Wesevich, Frederic Devanlay, Darren Mitchell & Jason Drust)
(Honourable Mentions: Company of Heroes, Final Fantasy XII, Gears of War, Ōkami, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent)

Best Music

Black (Chris Tilton & Michael Giacchino)
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Jeremy Soule)
Final Fantasy XII (Hitoshi Sakimoto)
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Toru Minegishi, Asuka Ohta & Koji Kondo)
LocoRoco (Nobuyuki Shimizu & Kemmei Adachi)
Wii Sports (Kazumi Totaka)
(Honourable Mentions: Call of Duty (Joel Goldsmith), Company of Heroes (Jeremy Soule), Ōkami (Masami Ueda), Tomb Raider: Legend (Troels Brun Folmann)

Best Handheld Game

LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy (Jon Burton)
LocoRoco (Tsutomu Kuono)
New Super Mario Bros. (Shigeyuki Asuke)
Nintendo Brain Age (Kouichi Kawamoto)
Tetris DS (Masaki Tawara)
(Honourable Mentions: Elite Beat Agents, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, Metroid Prime Hunters, Orcs & Elves)

Best Fighting Game

Fight Night Round 3 (Jennifer Gadrinab & Keith J. Morton)
Mortal Kombat: Armageddon (Ed Boon)
Tekken: Dark Resurrection (Katsuhiro Harada)
(Honourable Mentions: Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2, God Hand, Guilty Gear: Judgment, WWE Smackdown! vs. Raw 2007, Yakuza)

Best Art Direction

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Matthew Carofano)
Final Fantasy XII (Akihiko Yoshida, Hideo Minaba & Isamu Kamikokuryo)
Gears of War (Jeremiah O'Flaherty)
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Satoru Takizawa)
Ōkami (Naoki Katakai)
(Honourable Mentions: Call of Duty 3, The Godfather: The Game, Marvel Ultimate Alliance, Viva Piñata, Yoshi's Island DS)

Best Animation

Call of Duty 3 (Dom Drozdz, Eric Campanella, Jamie Egerton & Adam Rosas)
Final Fantasy XII (Kohichiro Shiratori & Hirotaka Sawada)
Gears of War (Scott Dossett, Aaron Herzog & Jay Hosfelt)
Kingdom Hearts II (Kohichiro Shiratori & Yoshihiro Kitano)
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Marumi Nakajo, Yuko Yoshimura, Kimihiro Ozaki, Takeshi Yamaguchi)

Best Story/Writing

24: The Game (Duppy Demetrius & Chris Sorrell)
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Bruce Nesmith & Ken Rolston)
Final Fantasy XII (Daisuke Watanabe, Miwa Shoda & Yasumi Matsuno)
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Aya Kyogoku & Takayuki Ikkaku)
Saints Row (Steve Jaros)
(Honourable Mentions: Bully, Dreamfall: The Longest Journey, Ōkami, Rogue Trooper, Tomb Raider: Legend)

Best Voice-Over Performance

Sean Bean - The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion for voicing Martin Septim
Johnny Depp - Pirates of the Caribbean: The Legend of Jack Sparrow for voicing Jack Sparrow
Christopher Lee - Kingdom Hearts II for voicing DiZ/Ansem the Wise
Patrick Stewart - The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion for voicing Uriel Septim VII
Kiefer Sutherland - 24: The Game for voicing Jack Bauer
Catherine Taber - Final Fantasy XII for voicing Penelo
(Honourable Mentions: James Caan - The Godfather: The Game, John DiMaggio - Gears of War, James Gandolfini - The Sopranos: Road to Respect, Seth MacFarlane - Family Guy Video Game!)

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