Assassin's Creed Brotherhood leads BAFTA nominations

Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood has been nominated for seven GAME British Academy Video Game Awards.
Along with Activision's Call of Duty: Black Ops, Brotherhood is up for Action, Artistic Achievement, Multiplayer, Technical Innovation and Use of Audio awards. The Ubisoft title is also nominated for Best Game and Gameplay, with Black Ops also in the Story category.
That puts Black Ops at six nominations, the same as Sony's Heavy Rain, which is eligible for Artistic Achievement, Best Game, Gameplay, Original Music, Story and Technical Innovation.
BioWare's Mass Effect 2 is up for five nominations and Nintendo's Super Mario Galaxy 2 and Limbo are up for four awards each.
The only public voted award, the GAME Award of 2010, includes Call of Duty: Black Ops, Dance Central, FIFA 11, Halo: Reach, Heavy Rain, Limbo, Mass Effect 2, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, Red Dead Redemption and Super Mario Galaxy 2.
The full list of nominations follow:
Action

• Assassin's Creed Brotherhood
• Battlefield: Bad Company 2
• BioShock 2
• Call of Duty: Black Ops
• God of War III
• Halo: Reach

Artistic Achievement

• Assassin's Creed Brotherhood
• Call of Duty: Black Ops
• God of War III
• Heavy Rain
• LIMBO
• Mass Effect 2

Best Game

• Assassin's Creed Brotherhood
• FIFA 11
• Heavy Rain
• LIMBO
• Mass Effect 2
• Super Mario Galaxy 2

Family

• Dance Central
• Kinect Adventures
• Kinect Sports
• Kinectimals
• LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
• Toy Story 3

Gameplay

• Assassin's Creed Brotherhood
• God of War III
• Heavy Rain
• LIMBO
• Mass Effect 2
• Super Mario Galaxy 2

Handheld

• Cut the Rope
• God of War: Ghost of Sparta
• LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
• Professor Layton and the Lost Future
• Sonic Colours
• Super Scribblenauts

Multiplayer

• Assassin's Creed Brotherhood
• Battlefield: Bad Company 2
• Call of Duty: Black Ops
• Halo: Reach
• Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit
• Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty

Original Music

• Alan Wake
• Fable III
• Heavy Rain
• James Bond 007: Bloodstone
• Mass Effect 2
• Super Mario Galaxy 2

Social Network Game

• Bejeweled Blitz
• Farmerama
• FIFA Superstars
• My Empire
• Zoo Mumba
• Zuma Blitz

Sports

• F1 2010
• FIFA 11
• Football Manager 2011
• Gran Turismo 5
• International Cricket 2010
• Pro Evolution Soccer 2011

Story

• Alan Wake
• BioShock 2
• Call of Duty: Black Ops
• Fallout: New Vegas
• Heavy Rain
• Mass Effect 2

Strategy

• Civilization V
• Fallout: New Vegas
• FIFA Manager 11
• Napoleon Total War
• Plants vs. Zombies XBLA
• Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty

Technical Innovation

• Assassin's Creed Brotherhood
• Call of Duty: Black Ops
• Halo: Reach
• Heavy Rain
• Kinectimals
• Super Mario Galaxy 2

Use of Audio

• Alan Wake
• Assassin's Creed Brotherhood
• Battlefield: Bad Company: 2
• Call of Duty: Black Ops
• DJ Hero 2
• Limbo

BAFTA Ones to Watch Award in association with Dare to Be Digital

• Mush
• Sculpty
• Twang

GAME Award of 2010

• Call of Duty: Black Ops
• Dance Central
• FIFA 11
• Halo Reach
• Heavy Rain
• Limbo
• Mass Effect 2
• Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit
• Red Dead Redemption
• Super Mario Galaxy 2

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