Tyler's Choice Awards: 2015 Tyler's Choice Video Game Awards

(Boldface = winner; Italics = runner-up)

Game of the Year

Bloodborne (Kentaro Motomura, Masaaki Yamagiwa & Teruyuki Toriyama)
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (Hideo Kojima & Kenichiro Imaizumi)
Splatoon (Hisashi Nogami)
Super Mario Maker (Takeshi Tezuka & Hiroyuki Kimura)
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (Piotr Krzywonosiuk & Jędrzej Mróz)
(Honourable Mentions: Batman: Arkham Knight, Fallout 4, Her Story, Life is Strange, Undertale)

Best Action/Adventure Game

Batman: Arkham Knight (Sefton Hill)
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (Hideo Kojima)
Ori and the Blind Forest (Thomas Mahler)
Rise of the Tomb Raider (Noah Hughes, Brian Horton & Daniel Neuberger)
Star Wars: Battlefront (Robert Wasser)
(Honourable Mentions: Assassin's Creed Syndicate, Bloodborne, Call of Duty: Black Ops III, Just Cause 3, Splatoon)

Best Game Design

Bloodborne (Kazuhiro Hamatani)
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (Hideo Kojima)
Rocket League (Corey Davis)
Splatoon (Seita Inoue & Keisuke Nishimori)
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (Mateusz Tomaszkiewicz, Adam Wrotek & Lukasz Maj)
(Honourable Mentions: Assassin's Creed Syndicate, Fallout 4, Lara Croft Go, Super Mario Maker, Undertale)

Best Family/Casual Game

Disney Infinity 3.0 (John Vignocchi & Mathew Solie)
LEGO Dimensions (Jon Burton & James McLoughlin)
Splatoon (Yusuke Amano & Tsubasa Sakaguchi)
Super Mario Maker (Yosuke Oshino & Yoshikazu Yamashita)
Yoshi's Woolly World (Atsushi Kono)
(Honourable Mentions: FIFA 16, Guitar Hero Live, Rock Band 4, Skylanders: SuperChargers, Tearaway Unfolded)

Best Sport/Racing Game

FIFA 16 (Scott Murray & Greg Palstra)
Forza Motorsport 6 (William Giese & Dan Greenawalt)
NBA 2K16 (Jeffrey J. Thomas & Mike Wang)
Need for Speed (Craig Sullivan)
Rocket League (Thomas Silloway)
(Honourable Mentions: Dirt Rally, Madden NFL 16, MLB '15: The Show, Pro Evolution Soccer 2016, Project Cars)

Best Technical Innovation

Her Story (Sam Barlow)
Life is Strange (Julien Fryer, Sam Hocevar, Stéphane Hubart & Alexis Holstein)
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (Daizaburo Nakamura & Makoto Sonoyama)
Splatoon (Shintaro Sato)
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (Piotr Tomsiński, Michał Słapa, Marcin Gollent & Łukasz Mrozowski-Zięba)
(Honourable Mentions: Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, Just Cause 3, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Star Wars: Battlefront, Until Dawn)

Best Multiplayer

Best Strategy/Simulation Game

Cities: Skylines (Mariina Hallikainen)
Fallout Shelter (Craig Lafferty)
Heroes of the Storm (Dustin Browder & Alan Dabiri)
Kerbal Space Program (Ezequiel Ayarza & Adrian Goya)
StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void (Dustin Browder)
(Honourable Mentions: Grey Goo, Invisible, Inc., Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, Pillars of Eternity, Prison Architect)

Best Audio Design

Batman: Arkham Knight (Nick Arundel, Lee Banyard, Andrew Riley & Bryan O. Watkins)
Fallout 4 (Mark Lampert, Dave Schreiber & James Tanenbaum)
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (Makoto Yamakawa & Hiroyuki Nakayama)
Star Wars: Battlefront (Ben Minto, Philip Eriksson, Gustav Rathsman & Martin Wöhmer)
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (Piotr Malinowski, Hanna Obradovic, Paweł Daudzward & Krzysztof Lipka)
(Honourable Mentions: Assassin's Creed Syndicate, Call of Duty: Black Ops III, Crypt of the NecroDancer, Ori and the Blind Forest, Rise of the Tomb Raider)

Best Music

Assassin's Creed Syndicate (Austin Wintory)
Batman: Arkham Knight (Nick Arundel & David Buckley)
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (Ludvig Forssell, Justin Burnett & Daniel James)
Ori and the Blind Forest (Gareth Coker)
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (Marcin Przybyłowicz & Mikołaj Stroiński)
(Honourable Mentions: Crypt of the NecroDancer - Danny Baranowsky, Everybody's Gone to the Rapture - Jessica Curry, Fallout 4 - Inon Zur, The Order: 1886 - Jason Graves, Undertale - Toby Tox)

Best Handheld/Mobile Game

Fallout Shelter (Todd Howard & Craig Lafferty)
Her Story (Sam Barlow)
Lara Croft Go (Daniel Lutz)
Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate (Kaname Fujioka)
Pac-Man 256 (Andrew Sum & Matthew Hall)
(Honourable Mentions: Alphabear, Downwell, Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon, The Room Three, Yo-Kai Watch)

Best Fighting Game

Best Art Direction

Assassin's Creed Syndicate (Thierry Dansereau)
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (Yoji Shinkawa)
Ori and the Blind Forest (Johannes Figlhuber)
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (Marian Chomiak)
Yoshi's Woolly World (Ayano Otsuka)
(Honourable Mentions: Batman: Arkham Knight, Bloodborne, The Order: 1886, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Star Wars: Battlefront)

Best Animation

Batman: Arkham Knight (Zafer Coban, Max Fanning, David Houston & Adam Vincent)
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (Yusuke Nishida, Masaaki Kawata, Masakazu Kato & Keiichiro Emura)
Ori and the Blind Forest (James Nicholas Benson)
Rise of the Tomb Raider (Brandon Fernandez, Jeff Wilcox, Tracy Jasperson & Benjamin Stanton)
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (Jamie Bury-Zawada, Daria Bury-Zawada, Michał Czerniec & Soheyl Mohammad)
(Honourable Mentions: Assassin's Creed Syndicate, Fallout 4, Kirby and the Rainbow Curse, The Order: 1886, Star Wars: Battlefront)

Best Story/Writing

Batman: Arkham Knight (Martin Lancaster, Sefton Hill & Ian Ball)
Her Story (Sam Barlow)
Life is Strange (Christian Divine & Jean-Luc Cano)
Tales from the Borderlands (Pierre Shorette, Jeremy Breslau, Chuck Jordan, Eric Stirpe, Brian Freyermuth, Anthony Burch & Zack Keller)
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (Marcin Blacha)
(Honourable Mentions: Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, Fallout 4, Minecraft: Story Mode, Undertale, Until Dawn)

Best Voice-Over Performance

Ashly Burch - Life is Strange for voicing Chloe Price
Mark Hamill - Batman: Arkham Knight for voicing The Joker
Camilla Luddington - Rise of the Tomb Raider for voicing Lara Croft
Viva Seifert - Her Story for voicing Hannah Smith
Patrick Warburton - Tales from the Borderlands for voicing Hugo Vasquez
(Honourable Mentions: Doug Cockle - The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Merle Dandridge - Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, Brett Dalton - Until Dawn, John Noble - Batman: Arkham Knight, Catherine Taber - Minecraft: Story Mode)

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