Tyler's Choice Awards: 2013 Tyler's Choice Video Game Awards

(Boldface = winner; Italics = runner-up)

Game of the Year

Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Martin Schelling)
Grand Theft Auto V (Imran Sarwar & Leslie Benzies)
The Last of Us (Evan Wells & Christophe Balestra)
Super Mario 3D World (Yoshiaki Koizumi)
Tearaway (Michelle Ducker)
(Honourable Mentions: BioShock Infinite, Gone Home, The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, Papers, Please, Tomb Raider)

Best Action/Adventure Game

Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Jean Guesdon & Ashraf Ismail)
BioShock Infinite (Ken Levine)
Grand Theft Auto V (Andrew Semple)
The Last of Us (Bruce Straley & Neil Druckmann)
Tomb Raider (Noah Hughes, Daniel Chayer & Daniel Neuberger)
(Honourable Mentions: Battlefield 4, The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, Saints Row IV, The Stanley Parable, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist)

Best Game Design

BioShock Infinite (François Roughol, Paul Green & Albert Meranda)
Grand Theft Auto V (Leslie Benzies & Imran Sarwar)
The Last of Us (Jacob Minkoff)
Papers, Please (Lucas Pope)
Super Mario 3D World (Yuichi Isawa, Eisaku Sato & Futoshi Shirai)
(Honourable Mentions: Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, The Stanley Parable, Tearaway, Tomb Raider)

Best Family/Casual Game

Animal Crossing: New Leaf (Isao Moro & Aya Kyogoku)
Disney Infinity (John Vignocchi)
Skylanders: SWAP Force (Jeremy Russo)
Super Mario 3D World (Koichi Hayashida & Kenta Motokura)
Tearaway (Mark Healey & Siobhan Reddy)
(Honourable Mentions: Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, LEGO Marvel Super Heroes, Plants vs. Zombies, Pokémon X & Y, Rayman Legends)

Best Sport/Racing Game

FIFA 14 (David Rutter & Kazuya Makita)
Forza Motorsport 5 (Dan Greenawalt)
Gran Turismo 6 (Kazunori Yamauchi)
NBA 2K14 (Jeffrey J. Thomas & Rob Jones)
NHL 14 (Cameron Boutin & Peter Sobczak)
(Honourable Mentions: F1 2013, Madden NFL 25, MLB '13: The Show, Need for Speed Rivals, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14)

Best Technical Innovation

Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Alexandre Begnoche & Julien Desaulniers)
Grand Theft Auto V (Adam Fowler)
The Last of Us (Travis McIntosh & Jason Gregory)
Papers, Please (Lucas Pope)
The Stanley Parable (Jesús Higueras)
(Honourable Mentions: Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, Gone Home, Super Mario 3D World, Tearaway, Tomb Raider)

Best Multiplayer

Best Strategy/Simulation Game

Civilization V: Brave New World (Dennis Shirk)
Fire Emblem: Awakening (Kouhei Maeda & Genki Yokota)
Papers, Please (Lucas Pope)
Surgeon Simulator 2013 (Tom Jackson)
XCOM: Enemy Within (Clint McCaul & Garth DeAngelis)
(Honourable Mentions: Democracy 3, Europa Universalis IV, Forza Motorsport 5, Plants vs. Zombies 2, SimCity)

Best Audio Design

BioShock Infinite (Scott Haraldsen, Patrick Balthrop & Jeffrey Seamster)
Grand Theft Auto V (Jeffrey R. Whitcher, Alistair McGregor, George Williamson & John McCavish)
The Last of Us (Phillip A. Kovats, Shannon Potter, Neil Uchitel & Scott Martin Gershin)
Saints Row IV (Brandon Bray, Aaron Gallant, Kyle Vander Slunt & Roel Sanchez)
Tomb Raider (Jack Grillo, Karl Gallagher & Alex Wilmer)
(Honourable Mentions: Battlefield 4, Dead Space 3, God of War: Ascension, Puppeteer, Tearaway)

Best Music

Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Brian Tyler)
The Last of Us (Gustavo Santaolalla)
Puppeteer (Patrick Doyle)
Super Mario 3D World (Mahito Yokota, Toru Minegishi & Koji Kondo)
Tearaway (Kenneth C M Young & Brian D'Oliveira)
(Honourable Mentions: Beyond: Two Souls - Lorne Balfe, God of War: Ascension - Brian Tyler, The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds - Ryo Nagamatsu, Ni no Kumi: Wrath of the White Witch - Joe Hisaishi, Rayman Legends - Christophe Héral & Billy Martin)

Best Handheld/Mobile Game

Fire Emblem: Awakening (Kouhei Maeda & Genki Yokota)
The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds (Hiromasa Shikata)
Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon (Bryce Holliday)
Pokémon X & Y (Junichi Masuda)
Tearaway (Mark Healey & Siobhan Reddy)
(Honourable Mentions: Animal Crossing: New Leaf, Infinity Blade III, Plants vs. Zombies 2, Ridiculous Fishing, The Room Two)

Best Fighting Game

Best Art Direction

Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Raphaël Lacoste)
BioShock Infinite (Scott Sinclair)
The Last of Us (Erick Pangilinan & Nathan Wells)
Ni no Kumi: Wrath of the White Witch (Nobuyuki Yanai)
Tearaway (Kareem Ettouney)
(Honourable Mentions: God of War: Ascension, Puppeteer, Rayman Legends, Ryse: Son of Rome, Tomb Raider)

Best Animation

Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Kama Dunsmore, Guillaume Lefebvre, Daniel Desjardins & Gaëlle Robert)
Beyond: Two Souls (Kenn McDonald, Clément Castanier & Teppei Takehana)
The Last of Us (Shaun Escayg, David Lam, Eric Baldwin & Troy Slough)
Ni no Kumi: Wrath of the White Witch (Kazuyoshi Onoda & Masafumi Yokota)
Tomb Raider (Brandon Fernandez, Jeff Wilcox, Erik Medina & Jake Spence)
(Honourable Mentions: DuckTales: Remastered, Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon, Puppeteer, Rayman Legends, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist)

Best Story/Writing

Beyond: Two Souls (David Cage)
BioShock Infinite (Ken Levine)
The Last of Us (Neil Druckmann)
The Stanley Parable (Davey Wreden & William Pugh)
Tomb Raider (Rhianna Pratchett & Susan O'Connor)
(Honourable Mentions: Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, Deadpool, Gone Home, The Novelist, Remember Me)

Best Voice-Over Performance

Troy Baker - The Last of Us for voicing Joel
Willem Dafoe - Beyond: Two Souls for voicing Nathan Dawkins
Ashley Johnson - The Last of Us for voicing Ellie
Steven Ogg - Grand Theft Auto V for voicing Trevor Philips
Ellen Page - Beyond: Two Souls for voicing Jodie Holmes
(Honourable Mentions: Kevan Brighting - The Stanley Parable, Courtnee Draper - BioShock Infinite, Stephen Greif - Puppeteer, Camilla Luddington - Tomb Raider, Alan Young - DuckTales: Remastered)

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