Tyler's Choice Awards: 2011 Tyler's Choice Video Game Awards

(Boldface = winner; Italics = runner-up)

Game of the Year

Batman: Arkham City (Daniel Bailie & Nathan Burlow)
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Craig Lafferty & Ashley Cheng)
L.A. Noire (Josh Needleman & Naresh Hirani)
Portal 2 (Gabe Newell & Bill van Buren)
Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception (Evan Wells & Christophe Balestra)
(Honourable Mentions: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Dark Souls, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, LittleBigPlanet 2)

Best Action/Adventure Game

Assassin's Creed: Revelations (Alexandre Amancio)
Batman: Arkham City (Sefton Hill)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (Bret Robbins & Glen Schofield)
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (Hidemaro Fujibayashi)
Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception (Amy Hennig & Justin Richmond)
(Honourable Mentions: Battlefield 3, Dead Space 2, Gears of War 3, L.A. Noire, Saints Row: The Third)

Best Game Design

Batman: Arkham City (Ian Ball & Frank Rooke)
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Bruce Nesmith)
L.A. Noire (Alex Carlyle)
Portal 2 (Matt T. Wood)
Super Mario 3D Land (Kenta Motokura)
(Honourable Mentions: Bastion, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, From Dust, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, LittleBigPlanet 2)

Best Family/Casual Game

Dance Central 2 (Kasson Crooker, Jon Carter & Naoko Takamoto)
Just Dance 3 (Stephan Logier)
LittleBigPlanet 2 (Mark Healey & Siobhan Reddy)
Rayman Origins (Michel Ancel & Sébastien Morin)
Super Mario 3D Land (Koichi Hayashida)
(Honourable Mentions: Jetpack Joyride, LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game, Mario Kart 7, Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure, Sonic Generations)

Best Sport/Racing Game

FIFA 12 (David Rutter)
Kinect Sports: Season Two (Mark Findlay & Scott Henson)
MLB '11: The Show (Chris Gill, Jody Kelsey & Jason Villa)
NBA 2K12 (Jeffrey J. Thomas)
NHL 12 (David Littman & Sean Ramjagsingh)
(Honourable Mentions: Driver: San Francisco, Forza Motorsport 4, Madden NFL 12, Mario Kart 7, Need for Speed: The Run)

Best Technical Innovation

Bastion (Gavin Simon & Andrew F. Wang)
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Guy Carver)
L.A. Noire (Franta Frulin)
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (Toshio Iwawaki & Kazuaki Morita)
Portal 2 (Garrett Rickey & Jeep Barnett)
(Honourable Mentions: Batman: Arkham City, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Rayman Origins, Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure, Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception)

Best Multiplayer

Best Strategy/Simulation Game

Ace Combat: Assault Horizon (Natsuki Isaki)
Dark Souls (Hidetaka Miyazaki)
Deus Ex: Human Revolution (Jean-François Dugas)
From Dust (Éric Chahi)
Total War: Shogun 2 (Mike Simpson)
(Honourable Mentions: Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective, Iron Brigade, Orcs Must Die!, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars, Toy Soldiers: Cold War)

Best Sound Design

Batman: Arkham City (Nick Arundel, Lee Banyard, Andrew Riley & Kevin Vail)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (Stephen Miller)
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Mark Lampert)
L.A. Noire (Matthew Smith, Alastair McGregor & Jeffrey R. Whitcher)
Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception (Mark Jasper, Lydian Tone, Chris Pinkston & Ronald Dutch Hill)
(Honourable Mentions: Bastion, Battlefield 3, Dead Space 2, Need for Speed: The Run, Portal 2)

Best Music

Batman: Arkham City (Nick Arundel & Ron Fish)
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Jeremy Soule)
LittleBigPlanet 2 (Kenneth C M Young, Paul Thomson, Richard Jacques, Winifred Phillips, Baiyon, Keith Tenniswood & Daniel Pemberton)
Portal 2 (Mike Morasky)
Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception (Greg Edmonson)
(Honourable Mentions: Assassin's Creed: Revelations - Lorne Balfe & Jesper Kyd, Bastion - Darren Korb, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 - Brian Tyler, L.A. Noire - Andrew & Simon Hale, Rayman Origins - Christophe Héral & Billy Martin)

Best Handheld/Mobile Game

Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective (Shu Takumi)
Infinity Blade II (Donald Mustard)
Mario Kart 7 (Kosuke Yabuki)
Professor Layton and the Last Specter (Usuke Kumagai)
Super Mario 3D Land (Koichi Hayashida)
(Honourable Mentions: Contre Jour, Dead Space, Jetpack Joyride, Kirby Mass Attack, Tiny Tower)

Best Fighting Game

Best Art Direction

Assassin's Creed: Revelations (Raphaël Lacoste)
Batman: Arkham City (David Hego)
Portal 2 (Jeremy Bennett & Randall Lundeen)
Rayman Origins (Céline Tellier)
Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception (Erick Pangilinan & Robh Ruppel)
(Honourable Mentions: Battlefield 3, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, LittleBigPlanet 2)

Best Animation

Assassin's Creed: Revelations (Kama Dunsmore, Daniel Desjardins, Michael Donnell & Vincent Presseau)
Batman: Arkham City (Zafer Coban, Max Fanning, David Houston & Adam Vincent)
L.A. Noire (Jim Jagger, Felipe Busquets, Dermot Bailie & Francesca Howard)
Rayman Origins (Anthony Le Du, Nicolas Athane, Anaïs Dusautois & Eric Verwaerde)
Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception (Josh Scherr, Eric Baldwin, Jeremy Yates & Kion Phillips)
(Honourable Mentions: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Dead Space 2, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, LittleBigPlanet 2, Portal 2)

Best Story/Writing

Bastion (Greg Kasavin)
Batman: Arkham City (Paul Dini, Paul Crocker & Sefton Hill)
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Emil Pagliarulo)
Portal 2 (Erik Wolpaw, Jay Pinkerton & Chet Faliszek)
Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception (Amy Hennig)
(Honourable Mentions: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Catherine, L.A. Noire, Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One, The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings)

Best Voice-Over Performance

Stephen Fry - LittleBigPlanet 2 for voicing The Narrator
Mark Hamill - Batman: Arkham City for voicing The Joker
Ellen McLain - Portal 2 for voicing GLaDOS
Nolan North - Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception for voicing Nathan Drake
Elias Toufexis - Deus Ex: Human Revolution for voicing Adam Jensen
(Honourable Mentions: Troy Baker - Catherine, Logan Cunningham - Bastion, Stephen Merchant - Portal 2, Aaron Staton - L.A. Noire, J.K. Simmons - Portal 2)

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