Saturday, June 14, 2025

2008 Tyler's Choice Video Game Awards

(Boldface = winner; Italics = runner-up)

Game of the Year

  • Fallout 3 (Gavin Carter & Craig Lafferty)
  • Grand Theft Auto IV (Leslie Benzies)
  • LittleBigPlanet (Claire Boissiere, Michelle Ducker & Martin Lynagh)
  • Spore (Guillaume Pierre, Matthew J. Powers & Kip Katsarelis)
  • Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Kensuke Tanabe, Keisuke Terasaki & Akiya Sakamoto)
    (Honourable Mentions: Gears of War 2, Left 4 Dead, Mario Kart Wii, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, Mirror's Edge)

Best Action/Adventure Game

  • Gears of War 2 (Michael V. Capps)
  • Grand Theft Auto IV (Andrew Semple)
  • Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (Hideo Kojima)
  • Mirror's Edge (Senta Jakobsen)
  • Prince of Persia (Jean-Christophe Guyot)
    (Honourable Mentions: Braid, Dead Space, Fable II, Far Cry 2, Tomb Raider: Underworld)

Best Game Design

  • Fable II (Peter Molyneux)
  • Fallout 3 (Emil Pagliarulo)
  • LittleBigPlanet (Mark Healey & David Smith)
  • Spore (Will Wright, Alex Hutchinson & Jenna Chalmers)
  • World of Goo (Kyle Gabler)
    (Honourable Mentions: Gears of War 2, Left 4 Dead, Mario Kart Wii, Mirror's Edge, Patapon)

Best Family/Casual Game

  • Animal Crossing: City Folk (Hisashi Nogami & Isao Moro)
  • Boom Blox (Jason Chayes & Steven Spielberg)
  • LittleBigPlanet (Mark Healey)
  • Rock Band 2 (Josh Randall & Tracy Rosenthal-Newsom)
  • Wii Fit (Hiroshi Matsunaga)
    (Honourable Mentions: Braid, de Blob, Mario Kart Wii, Professor Layton and the Curious Village, World of Goo)

Best Sport/Racing Game

  • Burnout Paradise (Alex Ward)
  • FIFA 09 (David Rutter)
  • Mario Kart Wii (Yasuyuki Oyagi)
  • Mario Super Sluggers (Hideki Tomida)
  • Wii Fit (Hiroshi Matsunaga)
    (Honourable Mentions: Madden NFL 09, MLB '08: The Show, NHL 09, Shaun White Snowboarding, WipeOut HD)

Best Technical Innovation

  • Fallout 3 (Guy Carver & Steven Meister)
  • LittleBigPlanet (Alex Evans & David Smith)
  • Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (Yuji Korekado)
  • Spore (Andrew Willmott)
  • Wii Fit (Katsuhiro Nishimura)
    (Honourable Mentions: Boom Blox, Braid, Grand Theft Auto IV, Left 4 Dead, Mirror's Edge)

Best Multiplayer

  • Call of Duty: World at War (David Vonderhaar)
  • Gears of War 2 (Diana Antczak)
  • Left 4 Dead
  • Mario Kart Wii
  • Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Best Strategy/Simulation Game

  • Advanced Wars: Days of Ruin (Daisuke Nakajima & Masaki Tawara)
  • Civilization Revolution (Barry Caudill)
  • Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 (Jill Eckhart)
  • Spore (Eric Todd)
  • Tom Clancy's EndWar (Michael de Plater)
  • Viva Piñata: Pocket Paradise (Gary Richards & Paul J. Machacek)
    (Honourable Mentions: Age of Booty, Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift, Ninjatown, Sins of a Solar Empire)

Best Sound Design

  • Dead Space (David Feise, Andrew Lackey & David Swenson)
  • Fallout 3 (Mark Lampert)
  • LittleBigPlanet (Kenneth C M Young)
  • Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (Sōtarō Tojami, Ryoji Makimura, Hiroyuki Nakayama & Masashi Watanabe)
  • Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (Darragh O'Farrell, Brian Tibbetts, Tom Bible & Erik Foreman)
    (Honourable Mentions: Auditorium, Gears of War 2, Grand Theft Auto IV, Left 4 Dead, Prince of Persia)

Best Music

  • Fable II (Russell Shaw & Danny Elfman)
  • Fallout 3 (Inon Zur)
  • LittleBigPlanet (Kenneth C M Young, Mat Clark & Daniel Pemberton)
  • Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (Harry Gregson-Williams, Nobuko Toda, Shuichi Kobori & Kazuma Jinnouchi)
  • Spore (Brian Eno & Cliff Martinez)
    (Honourable Mentions: Castle Crashers, de Blob, Dead Space, Mario Kart Wii, World of Goo)

Best Handheld Game

  • Advanced Wars: Days of Ruin (Daisuke Nakajima & Masaki Tawara)
  • Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia (Akihiro Minakata)
  • God of War: Chains of Olympus (Ru Weerasuriya)
  • Professor Layton and the Curious Village (Tatsuya Shinkai)
  • Viva Piñata: Pocket Paradise (Gary Richards & Paul J. Machacek)

Best Fighting Game

  • Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe (Ed Boon)
  • Soul Calibur IV (Katsutoshi Sasaki, Katsuhiro Harada & Daishi Odashima)
  • Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Masahiro Sakurai)
    (Honourable Mentions: Bleach: Dark Souls, Dragon Ball Z: Burst Limit, Naruto: The Broken Band, WWE Smackdown! vs. Raw 2009)

Best Art Direction

  • Braid (David Hellman)
  • Fallout 3 (Istvan Pely)
  • Gears of War 2 (Christopher Perna)
  • LittleBigPlanet (Kareem Attouney)
  • Prince of Persia (Mickail Labat)
    (Honourable Mentions: Dead Space, Fallout 3, LEGO Indiana Jones, Mirror's Edge, Tomb Raider: Underworld)

Best Animation

  • Castle Crashers (Dan Paladin)
  • Gears of War 2 (Scott Dossett, Aaron Herzog, Alexander Whitney & Jay Hosfelt)
  • Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (Hiromi Sato, Masaaki Kawata, Tetsuya Wakao & Teppei Takehana)
  • Prince of Persia (Dennis Collantes, Daniel Desjardins, David Wilkinson & Marc De Flores)
  • Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (Noah Bordner, Kento Kojima, Patrick Przybyla & Tristan Sacramento)
    (Honourable Mentions: The Bourne Conspiracy, Dead Space, Left 4 Dead, Mirror's Edge, Spore)

Best Story/Writing

  • Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway (Mike Neumann)
  • Fallout 3 (Emil Pagliarulo)
  • Grand Theft Auto IV (Dan Houser & Rupert Humphries)
  • Professor Layton and the Curious Village (Noriko Ikeura & Kazuya Kuranari)
  • Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (W. Haden Blackman, Shawn Pitman, John Stafford & Cameron Suey)
    (Honourable Mentions: Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney, Braid, Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3, Fable II, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots)

Best Voice-Over Performance

  • Nathalie Cox - Star Wars: The Force Unleashed for voicing Juno Eclipse
  • Stephen Fry - LittleBigPlanet for voicing The Narrator
  • David Hayter - Super Smash Bros. Brawl for voicing Solid Snake
  • Michael Hollick - Grand Theft Auto IV for voicing Niko Bellic
  • Liam Neeson - Fallout 3 for voicing James
    (Honourable Mentions: John DiMaggio - Gears of War 2, Keeley Hawes - Tomb Raider: Underworld, David Hayter - Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, Kiefer Sutherland - Call of Duty: World at War, Jason Zumwalt - Grand Theft Auto IV)

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