The Game Awards 2017 Roundup
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So, another year gone, another Game Awards out of the way. This year, we had some incredible games, so let’s see who won what. Plus, we’ll be looking at the few trailers that dropped during the show, including the newest trailer for Dead Stranding.
So, awards then. Just to keep it short, we’re going to go through the most important of awards, including Best Art Direction, Best Game Direction, Best Soundtrack and Games for Impact. Also, the coveted Game of the Year award too. The runners-up are also there, the winner is in bold.
Game of the Year:
- Horizon Zero Dawn (Guerrilla Games / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- Persona 5 (Atlus)
- PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG Corp.)
- Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo EPD / Nintendo)
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo EPD / Nintendo)
Best Game Direction:
- Horizon Zero Dawn (Guerrilla Games)
- Resident Evil 7: Biohazard (Capcom)
- Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo EPD)
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo EPD)
- Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (MachineGames / Bethesda)
Best Art Direction:
- Cuphead (Studio MDHR Entertainment)
- Destiny 2 (Bungie / Activision)
- Horizon Zero Dawn (Guerrilla Games / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- Persona 5 (Atlus)
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo EPD / Nintendo)
Best Soundtrack
- Cuphead (Kristofer Maddigan)
- Destiny 2 (Mike Salvatori, Skye Lewin, C Paul Johnson)
- NieR: Automata (Keiichi Okabe, Keigo Hoashi)
- Persona 5 (Shoji Meguro)
- Super Mario Odyssey (Naoto Kubo, Shiho Fujii, Koji Kondo)
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Manaka Kataoka, Yasuaki Iwata)
Games for Impact
- Bury Me, My Love (The Pixel Hunt / Figs / ARTE / Playdius)
- Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice (Ninja Theory)
- Life is Strange: Before the Storm (Deck Nine / Square Enix)
- Night in the Woods (Infinite Fall)
- Please Knock on My Door (Levall Games AB)
- What Remains of Edith Finch (Giant Sparrow / Annapurna Interactive)
You can read the entire list of entries and winners here.
It’s awesome that games like Hellblade and NieR got some recognition. I was afraid that these games would slip under the radar. Well done to the winners. I mean, I can’t agree with the fact that Zelda had better game direction than the likes of Horizon or Odyssey but, hey-ho.
The Game Awards were hosted by Geoff Keighley and featured, for the first time, the Game Awards Orchestra. It’s pretty sweet.
Trailers then.
First up, I have no idea what’s going on here, but it’s the new Death Stranding trailer. The love child of Guillermo del Toro and Hideo Kojima, the trailer explains nothing, and we still don’t have any gameplay. Hype is decidedly low.
And Metro: Exodus, as promised, got a new trailer too. Artyom, the main character from the other two games, is searching for something, with Ana, his wife(?) giving a monologue to him as he wanders the wastes. We can’t wait!
Finally, we got a little snippet of gameplay from the desert map coming to PUBG.
And we’re done for the Game Awards 2017! Be sure to stick around for our top games of the year!