{"id":432,"date":"2006-09-12T15:26:23","date_gmt":"2006-09-12T19:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2006\/09\/12\/bafta-game-nominees\/"},"modified":"2006-09-12T15:26:23","modified_gmt":"2006-09-12T19:26:23","slug":"bafta-game-nominees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2006\/09\/12\/bafta-game-nominees\/","title":{"rendered":"BAFTA Game Nominees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The British Academy of Film and Television Arts now has a gaming division and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bafta.org\/site\/page413.html\">they&#8217;ve announced their nominees<\/a> for the British Academy Video Games Awards (October 5).<\/p>\n<p>The strategy nominees are:<\/p>\n<p><em>Age of Empires: The Age Of Kings<\/em> (Nintendo\/Majesco Entertainment)<br \/>\n<em>Football Manager 2006<\/em> (Sega Europe\/Sports Interactive)<br \/>\n<em>Medieval II Total War<\/em> (Sega Europe\/The Creative Assembly)<br \/>\n<em>Rise And Fall: Civilizations At War<\/em> (Midway\/ Stainless Steel)<br \/>\n<em>Sid Meier&#8217;s Civilization IV Warlords<\/em>  (2K Games\/Firaxis Games)<br \/>\n<em>Tom Clancy&#8217;s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter<\/em> (Ubisoft\/Red Storm Entertainment)<\/p>\n<p>Note that a sports management game was nominated in this category (yay!), as was, <em>Medieval 2<\/em>, which hasn&#8217;t even gone gold yet (boo!). So was a first person shooter. Plus we have one handheld turn based game, one expansion to a great turn-based game and your typical real time strategy game. Who says strategy games are all the same?<\/p>\n<p>(<em>Football Manager 2006<\/em> is also nominated for best simulation and sports game.)<\/p>\n<p>All kinds of little curiosities here, as there is for any award nomination list. How does a sequel (<em>We Love Katamari<\/em>) get nominated for innovation? Isn&#8217;t a category like &#8220;gameplay&#8221; kind of like nominating a song for &#8220;sounds best&#8221;? Can <em>Guitar Hero<\/em> be stopped?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British Academy of Film and Television Arts now has a gaming division and they&#8217;ve announced their nominees for the British Academy Video Games Awards (October 5). The strategy nominees are: Age of Empires: The Age Of Kings (Nintendo\/Majesco Entertainment) Football Manager 2006 (Sega Europe\/Sports Interactive) Medieval II Total War (Sega Europe\/The Creative Assembly) Rise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-6Y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}