Wednesday, July 16, 2025

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

  • Call of Duty: Black Ops III
  • Destiny: The Taken King
  • Halo 5: Guardians (Kevin Franklin)
  • Rocket League
  • Splatoon

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

  • Dead or Alive 5 Last Round (Yohei Shimbori & Tom Lee)
  • Mortal Kombat X (Ed Boon)
  • Rising Thunder (Tom Cannon & Tony Cannon)

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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