DICE’s all-peer-based voting panel must have had a great time hacking supermutants apart to Skeeter Davis’s End of the World, ‘cause Fallout 4 took three awards home, including Game of the Year. But of course, Fallout 4 wasn’t the only big winner at the 19th DICE Awards
In total, five games had wins in more than one category this year. They are:
Fallout 4
Game of the Year
Outstanding Achievement in Game Direction
Role-Playing/Massively Multiplayer Game of the Year
Ori and the Blind Forest
Outstanding Achievement in Animation
Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction
Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composition
Rocket League
DICE Sprite Award (“having disproportionate resources for development and exposure, as compared to AAA titles”)
Sports Game of the Year
Outstanding Achievement in Online Gameplay
Star Wars Battlefront
Action Game of the Year
Outstanding Achievement in Sound Design
The Witcher 3
Outstanding Achievement in Game Design
Outstanding Achievement in Story
Outstanding Technical Achievement
Seven other games won in a single category:
Forza Motorsport 6 – Racing Game of the Year
Helldivers – Handheld Game of the Year
Heroes of the Storm – Strategy/Simulation Game of the Year
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain – Adventure Game of the Year
Mortal Kombat X – Fighting Game of the Year
Rise of the Tomb Raider – Outstanding Achievement in Character
Super Mario Maker – Family Game of the Year
Besides recognizing the above twelve games, the Academy also inducted Hideo Kojima in its Hall of Fame for his efforts to advance the gaming industry, and posthumously honored Nintendo’s Satoru Iwata with its fifth Lifetime Achievement Award.
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