Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences Reveals Winning Games

11 Feb 2011 at 20:56:17 by Peter Parrish

The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences revealed the winners from its 2011 Interactive Achievement Awards at the DICE summit in Las Vegas yesterday.

"Game of the Year" was, just like here at IncGamers, awarded to Mass Effect 2, a title which also picked up RPG of the Year and an Outstanding Achievement in Story.

Here's a breakdown of the results in sexy alphabetical order (by category):

Game of the Year: Mass Effect 2

Action Game of the Year: Red Dead Redemption
Adventure Game of the Year: Limbo
Casual Game of the Year: Angry Birds
Family Game of the Year: Dance Central
Fighting Game of the Year: Super Street Fighter IV
Portable Game of the Year: God of War: Ghost of Sparta
Racing Game of the Year: Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit
Role-Playing/Massively Multiplayer Game of the Year: Mass Effect 2
Sports Game of the Year: FIFA 11
Social Networking Game of the Year: CityVille
Strategy/Simulation Game of the Year: StarCraft 2

Outstanding Achievement in Animation: God of War 3
Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction: Red Dead Redemption
Outstanding Character Performance: Rob Wiethoff as John Marston (Red Dead Redemption)
Outstanding Achievement in Game Direction: Red Dead Redemption
Outstanding Achievement in Game Play Engineering: Red Dead Redemption
Outstanding Innovation in Gaming: Heavy Rain
Outstanding Achievement in Online Game Play: StarCraft 2
Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composition: Heavy Rain
Outstanding Achievement in Sound Design: Limbo
Outstanding Achievement in Soundtrack: Rock Band 3
Outstanding Achievement in Story: Mass Effect 2
Outstanding Achievement in Visual Engineering: Heavy Rain

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