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The winners of The Games Awards 2017

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The best games award ceremony ended a few hours ago. It took 3 hours to name the winners and show trailers of the upcoming games.

So here are the nominations and the winners:

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Games of the year

Nominees:

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Super Mario Odyssey
Playeruknown's Battlegrounds
Persona 5
Horizon: Zero Dawn

Winner: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Description: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild – is a sequel for a famous The Legend of Zelda. Now, Link can climb the towers and other high buildings including the pick of the mountain. A hero also needs to consider the climate, as the changes in weather and temperature affect the environment and the survival abilities.

Best art directions:

Wolfenstein II
Resident Evil 7
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of Wild
Super Mario Odyssey
Horizon: Zero Dawn

Winner: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of Wild

Best narrative:

Wolfenstein II
What Remains of Edith Finch
Nier: Automata
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
Horizon: Zero Dawn

Winner: What Remains of Edith Finch

Description:

What Remains of Edith Finch – a collection of strange stories about a family from Washington state.

Edith Finch tries to understand why she is the only representative of the family. By exploring the family mansion, it will be like you are getting acquainted with each family member and live out the day that became the last one for one of Finches – just from the past till these days.

The gameplay and the atmosphere of the stories are different just like the characters of the Finches differ. Only the first-person game remains the same, as well as each story ends with the death of the family member.

For in the end, this is a game that tells how small and insignificant the person is comparing to the huge and incomprehensible world.

Best art direction:

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Destiny 2
Cuphead
Persona 5
Horizon: Zero Dawn

Winner: Cuphead

Description:

Cuphead is literary a classic platformer. A classic one because everything here conforms with the spirit of 1930, starting from the graphics which looks like Walt Disney worked on it on his own, and up to water colors backgrounds and jazz theme music.

A player needs to choose one of two players (you can play on your own or with a friend) and take a trip to astonishing worlds defeating everyone on your way. Earn new weapon, learn deadly combat moves, solve the puzzles, and let the enemies tremble on hearing your name!

Best music:

Destiny 2
Cuphead
Nier: Automata
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Super Mario Odyssey
Persona 5

Winner: Nier: Automata

Description:

The plot of NieR Automata tells about the far future when the Earth gets occupied by mechanic creatures, and the mankind escapes to the Moon. Now, the androids replace human beings to fight with robots. During one of the missions, the android division of a new type gets under unexpected attack, and only four units No. 4, No. 16, No. 21 и No. 2 (or 2B, the main hero) survive.

Best audio design:

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
Destiny 2
Resident Evil 7
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Super Mario Odyssey

Winner: Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice

Description:

A new game about the trips to the depth of legends and madness from Heavenly Sword, Enslaved: Odyssey to the West and DmC: Devil May Cry developers.

During the epoch of Vikings, a tortured Celtic warrior goes to the land of deads to fight for the soul of her dead lover.

The authors used the experience of neurobiologists and people with mental disorders when creating Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice game. You will get deep into the melancholic rage and out-of-tune consciousness of the Senua warrior

Best performance:

Melina Juergens, Hellblade (as Senua)
Laura Bailey, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy (as Nadine Ross)
Claudia Black, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy (as Chloe Frazer)
Ashly Burch, Horizon: Zero Dawn (As Aloy)
Brian Bloom, Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus (as BJ Blazkowicz)

Winner: Melina Juergens, Hellblade (as Senua)

Games for impact:

Please Knock on My Door
Night in the Woods
Life is Strange: Before the Storm
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
Bury Me, My Love
What Remains of Edith Finch

Winner: Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice

Best ongoing game:

Warframe
Rainbow Six Siege
Overwatch
GTA Online
Destiny 2
PUBG

Winner: Overwatch

Best mobile:

Super Mario Run
Old Man's Journey
Monument Valley 2
Hidden Folks
Fire Emblem Heroes: Shadow of Valentia

Winner: Monument Valley 2

Description:

Carry the mother and her child through the world of magic architecture, and find the illusory ways, solve delightful puzzles and reveal the secrets of the Sacred Geometry.

The sequel for The Game of the Year 2014 according to Apple, Monument Valley 2 is an absolutely new journey in the beautiful world of impossible.

Help the hero to teach her kid all the secrets of the valley by exploring wonderful levels and managing the architecture objects to achieve the goal.

Best handheld game:

Metroid: Samus Return
Poochy and Yoshi's Woolly World
Monster Hunter Stories
Ever Oasis
Fire Emblem: Echoes

Winner: Metroid: Samus Return

Best VR/AR game:

Superhot VR
Star Trek: Bridge Crew
Lone Echo
Farpoint
Resident Evil 7

Winner: Resident Evil 7

Description:

The rotten walls of the abandoned farm in Utah breed the feeling of fear and loneliness. A creepy isolated camera is a new page in survival horror genre. RE Engine expanders the borders of horror – you won’t be able to break away from the screen, as the picture will be extremely realistic. Try to survive this new hideous horror!

Best action game:

Destiny 2
Nioh
Prey
Cuphead
Wolfenstein II

Winner: Wolfenstein II

Description:

Wolfenstein® II: The New Colossus™ is a long-awaited sequel for Wolfenstein®: The New Order™, a well-received by the critics first-person action game developed by the award-winning MachineGames studio.

In Wolfenstein® II, you’ll join a new exciting adventure, that will created by the top-notch id Tech® 6 technology. You’ll visit America occupied by Nazis and will find brave leaders of the resistance who managed to survive. Fight against Nazis in Roswell, a small town in New Mexico, on the flooded streets of New Orleans and contaminated Manhattan. Collect the stockpile and learn new skills to defeat the legion of Nazi fights, cyborgs, and supersoldiers.

Best Adventure:

Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Assassin's Creed Origins
Super Mario Odyssey
Horizon: Zero Dawn

Winner: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Best RPG:

South Park: The Fractured but Whole
Final Fantasy XV
Divinity: Original Sin 2
Nier: Automata
Persona 5

Winner: Persona 5

Description:

Persona 5 is a sequel for the popular jRPG Persona series. You will play for a high school sophomore who moved from Tokyo right before the academic year starts and stops at the café of his friend parents. The hero becomes the owner of Persona due and unexpected event. From the first view, the protagonist looks like a good guy, but when he becomes a Phantom, everything changes. Together with his new friends, who are also the owner of Persona, the hero attracts different places each night.

Best fighting:

Tekken 7
Nidhogg 2
Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite
Injustice 2
ARMS

Winner: Injustice 2

Description:

Injustice 2 is a modern multiplayer fighting that offers to go to the battlefield as one of the DC comics heroes. This time, you can not only enjoy your favorite heroes, who have been rescuing the planet and mankind for a long time. The villains will also join this battle. But there is no division into good or bad, as the players will get into the story of different interest and will be surprised by the communication of heroes and their main goals alike. So if you are ready to join the battle, just download the game, and let the fight start!

The game also has a single player mode, where the story of the world and the main goal o of the conflict are told. Also, there is a multiplayer mode, that is the main one. It gives a chance for the players from all over the world to fight against each other. It’s enough to learn the hero carefully and use all his abilities and peculiarities. However, you should also remember about the tactics. All the tricks and other animation are on the highest level, which is a great bonus to the game.

Best family game:

Splatoon 2
Sonic Mania
Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
Super Mario Odyssey

Winner: Super Mario Odyssey

Best strategy:

XCOM 2: War of the choosen
Tooth and Tail
Total War: WARHAMMER 2
Halo Wars 2
Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle

Winner: Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle

Best sports/racing game:

Project Cars 2
PES 2018
NBA 2K18
GT Sport
FIFA 18
Forza Motorsport 7

Winner: Forza Motorsport 7

Description:

The development of racing games has recently slowed down, and the quality of the games became lower as it does not correspond to the demand. It seems obvious, as why the developer needs to spend so much time on the game if not so many players choose it. However, that cannot be told about Turn 10 team that is ready to conquer gaming market. Previously, the company was developing products for consoles, but now they are ready to expand and offer a sequel for the best racing of all times Forza Motosport 7, available to play on the computer.

In this sequel, a player will get an expanded vehicle fleet with the legends of all times and modern innovations. There is no sense to name all the vehicle companies, as almost all of them are presented in the game. Of course, only the famous corporations are featured in Forza Motosport 7. This time, you’ll get a fleet with over 100 cars of the different class. All of them are available for tuning, you’ll be able to buy and resell them, and also to upgrade the cars.

An advanced graphics is another pleasant thing in the game. The graphics improved significantly compared to the previous games and now will surprise you with the details: the simulation of the weather, live and realistic sports tracks for racing and reconstructed models of the cars.

It should not be forgotten that Forza Motosport 7 is the stimulator of racing, so the developers also improved the simulator of behavior and control of the car. This element of the game was developed according to the opinions and recommendations of the players.

Most anticipated game: