Tyler's Choice Awards: 2014 Tyler's Choice Video Game Awards

(Boldface = winner; Italics = runner-up)

Game of the Year

Destiny (Jonty Barnes)
Dragon Age: Inquisition (Cameron Lee)
Far Cry 4 (Cedric Decelle)
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Nathan Edson & Zeb Wedell)
Titanfall (Drew McCoy)
(Honourable Mentions: Alien: Isolation, Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, Mario Kart 8, South Park: The Stick of Truth, Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and Nintendo 3DS)

Best Action/Adventure Game

Alien: Isolation (Alistair Hope)
Destiny (Jonty Barnes)
Far Cry 4 (Alex Hutchinson & Patrik Méthé)
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Matthew T. Allen)
Titanfall (Steve Fukuda)
(Honourable Mentions: Bayonetta 2, inFAMOUS Second Son, Shovel Knight, The Wolf Among Us, Wolfenstein: The New Order)

Best Game Design

Destiny (James McQuillan, Alex Pfeiffer, Jason Jones & Luke Smith)
Dragon Age: Inquisition (Sebastian Hanlon & Daniel Kading)
Far Cry 4 (Jean-Claude Rosay & Nicolas Duclos)
Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft (Derek Sakamoto)
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Michael de Plater)
(Honourable Mentions: Alien: Isolation, Mario Kart 8, Monument Valley, Titanfall, Transistor)

Best Family/Casual Game

Disney Infinity: Marvel Super Heroes (John Vignocchi & Mathew Solie)
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze (Ryan Harris & Vince Joly)
Fantasia: Music Evolved (Daniel Sussman)
LittleBigPlanet 3 (Michelle Leonard, Simon Livesey & John O'Brien)
Mario Kart 8 (Kosuke Yabuki)
(Honourable Mentions: Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker, The LEGO Movie Videogame, Project Spark, Skylanders Trap Team, Tomodachi Life)

Best Sport/Racing Game

The Crew (Julian Gerighty)
FIFA 15 (Simon Keith Humber)
Mario Kart 8 (Kosuke Yabuki)
NBA 2K15 (Jeffrey J. Thomas & Rob Jones)
Trials Fusion (Antti Ilvessuo)
(Honourable Mentions: Forza Horizon 2, Madden NFL 15, Mario Golf: World Tour, MLB '14: The Show, OlliOlli)

Best Technical Innovation

Destiny (Chris Butcher & Ben Wallace)
Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft (Mark Kockerbeck & Sasha Sydoruk)
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Matthew Rice)
Monument Valley (Peter Pashley, Manesh Mistry & Van Le)
Titanfall (Richard A. Baker & Earl Hammon Jr.)
(Honourable Mentions: Alien: Isolation, Far Cry 4, Project Spark, Sunset Overdrive, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter)

Best Multiplayer [TIE]

Best Strategy/Simulation Game

The Banner Saga (Lance James)
Civilization: Beyond Earth (Dennis Shirk & Lena Brenk)
Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft (Robert Pardo & Hamilton Chu)
The Sims 4 (Michael Duke, James Rogers & Robert Vernick)
Tropico 5 (Gabriel Dobrev)
(Honourable Mentions: Boom Beach, Dungeon of the Endless, Endless Legend, FTL: Faster Than Light, Monument Valley)

Best Audio Design

Alien: Isolation (Mark Ganus, Byron Bullock, James Magee & Sam Cooper)
Destiny (C Paul Johnson, Martin O'Donnell, Michael Salvatori & Jay Weinland)
Far Cry 4 (Tony Gronick, Eduardo Vaisman, Martin Laplante & Kevin Vail)
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Brian Pamintuan, Lucas Carlyle, Morgan Green & Jason Wolford)
Titanfall (Erik Kraber, Bryan O. Watkins, Mitchell Osias & Tyler Parsons)
(Honourable Mentions: Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare)

Best Music

The Banner Saga (Austin Wintory)
Destiny (Martin O'Donnell, C Paul Johnson, Michael Salvatori & Paul McCartney)
Far Cry 4 (Cliff Martinez)
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Garry Schyman & Nathan Grigg)
Transistor (Darren Korb)
(Honourable Mentions: Alien: Isolation, Child of Light, Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, Titanfall, The Wolf Among Us)

Best Handheld/Mobile Game

Bravely Default (Kensuke Nakahara)
Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft (Robert Pardo & Hamilton Chu)
Shovel Knight (Sean Velasco)
Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS (Masahiro Sakurai)
Tomodachi Life (Noriyuki Sato, Ryutaro Takahashi & Eisaku Nakae)
(Honourable Mentions: 80 Days, Child of Light, Monument Valley, Threes!, The Walking Dead: Season Two)

Best Fighting Game

Best Art Direction

Assassin's Creed Unity (Mohamed Gambouz)
Dragon Age: Inquisition (Matthew M. Goldman)
Far Cry 4 (Jean-Alexis Doyon)
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Philip Straub)
Monument Valley (Ken Wong & David Fernández Huerta)
(Honourable Mentions: Child of Light, Sunset Overdrive, Transistor, Valiant Hearts: The Great War, The Wolf Among Us)

Best Animation

Assassin's Creed Unity (Mike Mennillo, Chi Chun Ng, Guillaume Lefebvre & Eduardo Simioni)
inFAMOUS Second Son (Jason Stansell, Erik Medina, Max Chapman & William Harper)
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Camille Chu, John Piel, John Van Deusen & Patrick Watje)
Titanfall (Mark Grigsby & Paul Messerly)
Valiant Hearts: The Great War (Luca Erbetta, Valérie Geoffroy, Nicolas Léger & Stéphane Rose)
(Honourable Mentions: Bayonetta 2, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, Mario Kart 8, South Park: The Stick of Truth, Sunset Overdrive)

Best Story/Writing

Dragon Age: Inquisition (David Gaider)
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Christian Cantamessa)
South Park: The Stick of Truth (Trey Parker, Matt Stone & Eric Fenstermaker)
The Walking Dead: Season Two (Nick Breckon, Andrew Grant, Pierre Shorette, JT Petty & Eric Stirpe)
The Wolf Among Us (Pierre Shorette, Dave Grossman, Adam Hines, Dan Martin & Nicole Martinez)
(Honourable Mentions: 80 Days, Broken Age, This War of Mine, Valiant Hearts: The Great War, Wolfenstein: The New Order)

Best Voice-Over Performance

Troy Baker - Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor for voicing Talion
Adam Harrington - The Wolf Among Us for voicing Bigby Wolf
Melissa Hutchinson - The Walking Dead: Season Two for voicing Clementine
Trey Parker - South Park: The Stick of Truth for voicing various characters
Kevin Spacey - Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare for voicing Jonathan Irons
(Honourable Mentions: Troy Baker - Far Cry 4, Logan Cunningham - Transistor, Phil LaMarr - Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, Hugh Laurie - LittleBigPlanet 3, Elijah Wood - Broken Age)

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