Mass Effect 2 wins 'Ultimate Game of the Year' at Golden Joysticks

Written by James Delahunty @ 29 Oct 2010 11:12 User comments (5)

Mass Effect 2 has won the "Ultimate game of the year" award at the 28th Golden Joystick awards. It also picked up the award for the "RPG of the year".

The winners are voted by UK gamers. The Guinness Book of Records lists the Golden Joystick awards as the most popular video game awards show. For games to qualify for awards this year, they had to have been released between May 2009 and May 2010, with just one exception: the "One to watch" award.

The first Golden Joystick awards in 1982 saw Jatpac winning the first "Ultimate game of the year" award. Since then, other titles to receive the award include Fallout 3, Grand Theft Auto and Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.

Awards are handed out for 16 different categories...

Action game of the year: Assassin's Creed II
Game On Shooter of the year: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Racing game of the year: Forza Motorsport 3
RPG of the year: Mass Effect 2
Puzzle game of the year: World of Goo
Fighting game of the year: Super Street Fighter 4
Sports game of the year: FIFA 10
Strategy game of the year: Plants vs. Zombies
Music game of the year: Guitar Hero 5
Online game of the year: League of Legends
Downloadable game of the year: Plants vs. Zombies
Portable game of the year: Pokemon Heart Gold/ Soul Silver
Soundtrack of the year: Final Fantasy XIII
One to watch: Call of Duty: Black Ops
UK Developer of the year: Jagex
Ultimate game of the year: Mass Effect 2

The show was held at the Park Plaza Westminster Bridge hotel and hosted by US comedian Rich Hall. Over 1.5 million votes were cast.

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130.10.2010 05:02

Zealousi

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hhmm, i am sure there has been better games then some of them.

230.10.2010 05:55

davidike

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personally i thought it sucked, the first mass effect was a far better game and that was mediocre at best.

im thinking the industry should stop these fake award ceremonies.

330.10.2010 06:00

davidike

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Originally posted by Zealousi:
hhmm, i am sure there has been better games then some of them.

these awards are much the same as the Oscars, you have a few ppl deciding on each others work, so they just pat each other on the back n dish out the awards between themselves which is why you will NEVER see any independent piece of media in the fake awards.

its all just fake public relations to sell more of their crap, pig swill for the masses.

430.10.2010 12:51

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lmao, PLANTS v ZOMBIES?

are you serious?

56.11.2010 18:57

pudly1

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Plants Vs. Zombies is the most addicting game ever made!

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