With the BAFTA Game Awards 2021 all done and dusted, the event marked another successful night for Sony. Many PlayStation 4 exclusives won various categories, the most celebrated of which was The Last of Us: Part II. It was the overall winner in three different brackets, those being Animation, Performer in a Leading Role (Laura Bailey as Abby), and the EE Game of the Year. That final category was the only one voted on by the wider gaming community. However, the overall Best Game slot went to Hades. We're still sat here waiting for the indie hit from Supergiant Games to come to PS5 and PS4.
Throughout the evening, Ghost of Tsushima was recognised for its Audio Achievement, Sackboy: A Big Adventure won the British Game and Family categories, and Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales was praised for Music. Dreams won the Technical Achievement bracket and Media Molecule's studio director Siobhan Reddy became the next BAFTA Fellowship member.
All of the winners on the night were as follows:
- Animation – The Last of Us Part II
- Artistic Achievement – Hades
- Audio Achievement – Ghost of Tsushima
- Best Game – Hades
- British Game – Sackboy: A Big Adventure
- Debut Game – Carrion
- EE Game of the Year – The Last of Us Part II
- Evolving Game – Sea of Thieves
- Family – Sackboy: A Big Adventure
- Game Beyond Entertainment – Animal Crossing: New Horizons
- Game Design – Hades
- Multiplayer – Animal Crossing: New Horizons
- Music – Spider-Man: Miles Morales
- Narrative – Hades
- Original Property – Kentucky Route Zero: TV Edition
- Performer in a Leading Role – Laura Bailey as Abby in The Last of Us Part II
- Performer in a Supporting Role – Logan Cunningham for multiple roles in Hades
- Technical Achievement – Dreams
- BAFTA Fellowship – Siobhan Reddy
Do you think the right games won? Share your thoughts in the comments below.
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Seems fair. Surprised that Hades also won performer in a supporting role and narrative however...
It won't be a popular opinion here but I'm glad that the Bafta's have given Hades a larger nod. Last of Us Part 2 is a remarkable achievement, but I still don't believe that Video Games imitating Film/TV is the pinnacle of the video game medium and I'm glad Bafta agrees.
(I'm also super super happy to see Sackboy getting some double award love!!)
Fair play to Ghost, Dreams, LOU2 and Miles getting wins, but its allllllll about Hades. Fully deserving of those awards!
Loads of awards for PlayStation! Congrats to all!
I don't understand these game award things. Surely 'Best Game' and 'Game of the Year' is the same thing?
Last of us 2 was one of the best games I’ve ever played. The fact that it was beaten by Hades makes me really really want to play it.
Good to see LOU2 as the people’s champ as well.
Hades is absolutely fantastic so glad to see it getting recognition. The voice acting in particular is astoundingly good for what’s ultimately a roguelike. I could see it still being in contention for game of the decade come 2029.
Hopefully Hades will appear on PS4/PS5 soon!
Ghost of Tsushima should've gotten a lot more recognition than TLOU II imo but I'm glad Hades is still proving to be a tour de force since the game is great
TLOU die hard here but it's nice to see some other game take the top spot. Or is that GOTY? Eh, it's whatever. Congrats to Hades. Maybe someday I'll get to play it.
@MightyDemon82
Same here, I'm super keen to play Hades on Playstation, I hope they announce a release date soon.
Loved Hades and TLOU2 but prefer Hades so glad to see it get recognition it deserves.
Never even heard of Hades, and looking at it I'm not surprised - not even remotely my sort of thing.
Still, Sony studios picking up almost half the awards... that's quite something.
Animal Crossing winning multiplayer of the year is just sad
Waiting as hell for Hades on PS4.
I'm fine with that as Hades is one of the best games of last year and a game everyone should play if they own a PC or Switch. Glad Bailey won best performer, you can hate Abby all you want but doesn't change the fact that Bailey was incredible in the role.
What does EE stand for?
Really hope Hades comes to playstation soon, heard a lot of people saying how good it is, and really want to play it.
People in the live chat were saying "SONY BIAS! SONY'S WINNING ALL THE AWARDS!" Can you blame them?! Sony's output on the market this year was massive! Dreams was a masterpiece, TLOU2 was TLOU2 and Ghost was amazing too!
Never even heard of Hades, it looks like an indie from those pics. For me the best game of 2020 was "Like a Dragon" or ff7 remake. All these games in the list made for casual gamers like tlou2 getting awards is annoying to me, that particular game had one of the most shallow skill trees and gameplay depth of all the games I played last year. Sure it had awesome production and was very slick but the core gameplay was boring it was like playing a graphical novel after a few hours and the freshness wore off, how something like that gets such high praise is a sign of how shallow these awards and the people dishing them out are.
@Vyns On this one the EE Game of the Year was the player voted category. Best Game was the one voted by Bafta.
I’m glad to see Hades win, I happened to enjoy Hades way more than TLoU2.
Haven't played Hades or TLoU2. Neither seem like my kinda game.
Well, good on Supergiant Games. An indie outfit getting this level of recognition and acclaim for a game is the dream, I'd say.
I just started Hades last week. Really enjoying it so far. It's just an amazing production. Definitely not to be missed if you're into roguelites.
So happy to see Miles Morales soundtrack get some recognition.
But....Yakuza: Like A Dragon was last year's best game. I guess it did release pretty late in the year. Gotta give the obvious boring choices their moments to be fair too.
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