Tyler's Choice Awards: 2010 Tyler's Choice Video Game Awards

(Boldface = winner; Italics = runner-up)

Game of the Year

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (Vincent Pontbriand)
Call of Duty: Black Ops (Charles Connoy, Pat Dwyer & Sam Nouriani)
Heavy Rain (Charles Coutier)
Mass Effect 2 (Casey Hudson, Jesse Houston & Nathan Plewes)
Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Yoshiaki Koizumi & Takashi Tezuka)
(Honourable Mentions: Dance Central, God of War III, Limbo, Red Dead Redemption, StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty)

Best Action/Adventure Game

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (Patrick Plourde)
Call of Duty: Black Ops (David Anthony)
Halo: Reach (Marcus Lehto)
Heavy Rain (David Cage)
Red Dead Redemption (Adam Fowler & Ted Carson)
(Honourable Mentions: Battlefield: Bad Company 2, BioShock 2, God of War III, Limbo, Super Mario Galaxy 2)

Best Game Design

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (Steven Masters)
Epic Mickey (Robert Chase Jones)
Heavy Rain (Raoul Barbet & Gabriel Esteves)
Red Dead Redemption (Christian Cantamessa)
Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Kenta Motokura)
(Honourable Mentions: BioShock 2, God of War III, Limbo, Mass Effect 2, StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty)

Best Family/Casual Game

Angry Birds (Raine Mäki & Harro Grönberg)
Dance Central (Kasson Crooker)
Epic Mickey (Warren Spector)
Kirby's Epic Yarn (Kentarou Sei)
Rock Band 3 (Daniel Sussman & Josh Randall)
Toy Story 3: The Video Game (Garrett Young & Randy Chua)
(Honourable Mentions: Bejeweled 3, Kinect Sports, LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4, Pac-Man Championship Edition DX)

Best Sport/Racing Game

FIFA 11 (David Rutter & Andrew Wilson)
Gran Turismo 5 (Kazunori Yamauchi)
NBA 2K11 (Erick Boenisch)
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit (Alex Ward, Craig Sullivan & Fiona Sperry)
NHL 11 (Sean Ramjagsingh)
(Honourable Mentions: F1 2010, Kinect Sports, Madden NFL 11, MLB '10: The Show, Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing)

Best Technical Innovation

Call of Duty: Black Ops (David King & Trevor Walker)
Dance Central (Marc Flury)
Heavy Rain (Ronan Marchalot)
Red Dead Redemption (Ted Carson)
Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Takeshi Hayakawa)
(Honourable Mentions: Angry Birds, Halo: Reach, Kirby's Epic Yarn, Limbo, StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty)

Best Multiplayer

Best Strategy/Simulation Game

Best Audio Design

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (Mathieu Jeanson, Hugo Bastien, Hayden Whiting & Justin Phillips)
Call of Duty: Black Ops (Brian Tuey, Chris Cowell & Stephen McCaul)
Halo: Reach (C Paul Johnson, Martin O'Donnell & Jay Weinland)
Heavy Rain (Xavier Despas, Chris Babelian, Mathieu Muller & Mathieu Fiorentini)
Limbo (Martin Stig Andersen)
(Honourable Mentions: Battlefield: Bad Company 2, BioShock 2, God of War III, Mass Effect 2, Red Dead Redemption)

Best Music

Alan Wake (Petri Alanko)
Heavy Rain (Normand Corbeil)
Mass Effect 2 (Jack Wall, Sam Hulick, Jimmy Hinson & David Kates)
Red Dead Redemption (Bill Elm & Woody Jackson)
Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Mahito Yokota, Ryo Nagamatsu & Koji Kondo)
(Honourable Mentions: Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood - Jesper Kyd, Donkey Kong Country Returns - Kenji Yamamoto, Fable III - Russell Shaw, Final Fantasy XIII - Masashi Hamauzu, Halo: Reach - Martin O'Donnell)

Best Handheld/Mobile Game

Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies (Akihiro Hino & Jin Fujisawa)
God of War: Ghost of Sparta (Dana Jan)
Infinity Blade (Donald Mustard)
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker (Hideo Kojima)
Professor Layton and the Unwound Future (Usuke Kumagai & Jun Suzuki)
(Honourable Mentions: Angry Birds, Cut the Rope, LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4, Sonic Colors, Super Scribblenauts)

Best Fighting Game

Best Art Direction

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (Mohamed Gambouz)
ENSLAVED: Odyssey to the West (Stuart Adcock & Alessandro Taini)
Kirby's Epic Yarn (Tetsuya Notoya, Rieko Kawahara & Yumiko Sano)
Red Dead Redemption (Joshua Bass, Daren Bader & Nikola Trifunovic)
Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Kazunori Hashimoto)
(Honourable Mentions: Alan Wake, Epic Mickey, God of War III, Heavy Rain, Limbo)

Best Animation

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (Marc-André Clearmont, François Lévesque, Kama Dunsmore & Chi Chun Ng)
God of War III (Bruno Velazquez, Michael Biancalana, Jason Hall & Mehdi Yssef)
Heavy Rain (Clément Castanier)
Mass Effect 2 (Parrish Ley, Bradley Kinley, Cristian Enciso & Kiaran Ritchie)
Red Dead Redemption (Sangsoon Park, DongJun Kim, Eliot Tokoroyama & Sean Letts)
(Honourable Mentions: Call of Duty: Black Ops, ENSLAVED: Odyssey to the West, God of War III, Halo: Reach, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction)

Best Story/Writing

Alan Wake (Sam Lake, Mikko Rautalahti & Petri Järvilehto)
Call of Duty: Black Ops (Craig Houston, David Anthony & Corky Lehmkuhl)
Heavy Rain (David Cage)
Mass Effect 2 (Mac Walters & Drew Karpyshyn)
Red Dead Redemption (Dan Houser, Michael Unsworth & Christian Cantamessa)
(Honourable Mentions: BioShock 2, ENSLAVED: Odyssey to the West, Fallout: New Vegas, Halo: Reach, Metro 2033)

Best Voice-Over Performance

T.C. Carson - God of War III for voicing Kratos
Nathan Fillion - Halo: Reach for voicing Edward Buck
Gary Oldman - Call of Duty: Black Ops for voicing Viktor Reznov/Daniel Clarke
Andy Serkis - ENSLAVED: Odyssey to the West for voicing Monkey
Rob Wiethoff - Red Dead Redemption for voicing John Marston
(Honourable Mentions: John Cleese - Fable III, Felicia Day - Fallout: New Vegas, Neil Kaplan - StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, Mark Meer - Mass Effect 2, Rip Torn - God of War III)

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