THiRD SHiFT5 Joulu 2017

IG2G - The Game Awards Special

THiRD SHiFT presents a special dive into The Game Awards for 2017.

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Key

EP = Eric's Pick EW = Eric's Projected Winner MP = Matt's Pick MW = Matt's Projected Winner ALL IN = Both Picks and Projected Winners

Winners in bold/italics.

Best Chinese Game

MW King of Glory (王者荣耀) - Timi Studio Group ICEY (艾希)- FantaBlade Network EW Gumballs & Dungeons (不思议迷宫)- QcPlay Limited jx3 HD (剑网3)重制版 - Kingsoft Corporation MP Monument Valley 2 (纪念碑谷2)- ustwo games

Best Debut Indie Game

ALL IN Cuphead - Studio MDHR Entertainment Golf Story - Sidebar Games Hollow Knight - Team Cherry Mr. Shifty - Team Shifty Slime Rancher - Monomi Park

Best eSports Team

EW Cloud 9 FaZe Clan Lunatic-Hai MP/MW SK Telecom T1 EP Team Liquid

Best eSports Player

ALL IN Lee "Faker" Sang-hyeok - SK Telecom T1, League of Legends Marcelo “coldzera” David - SK Gaming, Counter-Strike: GO Nikola ‘NiKo’ Kovac - FaZe Clan, Counter-Strike: GO Ryu “ryujehong” Je-hong - Seoul Dynasty, Overwatch Kuro “KuroKy” Salehi Takhasomi - Team Liquid, DOTA 2

Best eSports Game

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive - Valve DOTA2 - Valve MP League of Legends - Riot EP/EW/MW Overwatch - Blizzard Rocket League - Psyonix

Trending Gamer

EP/EW Andrea Rene - What’s Good Games Clint Lexa - “Halfcoordinated” Guy Beahm - “Dr. Disrespect” Mike Grzesiek - “Shroud” MP Steven Spohn - AbleGamers

Best Student Game

MP Falling Sky - Jonathan Nielssen, Nikolay Savoy, Mohsen Shah / National Film & TV School From Light - Alejandro Grossman, Steven Li, Sherveen Uduwana / USC EP Hollowed - Erin Marek, Jerrick Flores, Charley Choucard / University of Central Florida Impulsion - Hugo Verger, Remi Bertrand, Maxime Lupinski / IIM Level Squared - Kip Brennan, Stephen Scoglio, Dane Perry Svendsen / Swinburne University Meaning - Hariz Yet / DigiPen Institute of Technology Singapore

Best Independent Game

MW/EW Cuphead - Studio MDHR Entertainment EP Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice - Ninja Theory MP Night in the Woods - Infinite Fall Pyre - Supergiant Games What Remains of Edith Finch - Giant Sparrow / Annapurna Interactive

Most Anticipated Game

God of War - Santa Monica Studio / Sony Interactive Entertainment Marvel’s Spider-Man - Insomniac Games / Sony Interactive Entertainment Monster Hunter World - Capcom EW/MW Red Dead Redemption II - Rockstar Games EP The Last of Us Part II - Naughty Dog / Sony Interactive Entertainment

Best Multiplayer

Call of Duty: WWII - Sledgehammer Games / Activision EP Destiny 2 - Bungie / Activision MP Fortnite - Epic Games Mario Kart 8 Deluxe - Nintendo EAD / Nintendo MW/EW PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds - PUBG Corp. Splatoon 2 - Nintendo EPD / Nintendo

Best Sports/Racing Game

EW FIFA 18 - EA Vancouver / EA MW Forza Motorsport 7 - Turn 10 Studios / Microsoft Studios Gran Turismo Sport - Polyphony Digital / Sony Interactive Entertainment NBA 2K18 - Visual Concepts / 2K Sports MP Pro Evolution Soccer 2018 - PES Productions / Konami EP Project Cars 2 - Slightly Mad Studios / Bandai Namco Entertainment

Best Strategy Game

Halo Wars 2 - Creative Assembly, 343 Industries / Microsoft Studios MW/EP/EW Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle - Ubisoft Paris + Milan / Ubisoft Total War: Warhammer II - Creative Assembly / Sega MP Tooth and Tail - Pocketwatch Games XCOM 2: War of the Chosen - Firaxis Games / 2K

Best Family Game

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe - Nintendo EAD / Nintendo Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle - Ubisoft Paris + Milan / Ubisoft Sonic Mania - PagodaWest Games, Headcannon / Sega Splatoon 2 - Nintendo EPD / Nintendo ALL IN Super Mario Odyssey - Nintendo EAD / Nintendo

Best Fighting Game

ARMS - Nintendo EPD / Nintendo EP/EW Injustice 2 - NetherRealm Studios / Warner Bros. Interactive Ent MW Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite - Capcom Nidhogg 2 - Messhof Games MP Tekken 7 - Bandai Namco Studios / Bandai Namco Entertainment

Best Role Playing Game

Divinity: Original Sin II - Larian Studios MW Final Fantasy XV - Square Enix Business Division 2 / Square Enix NieR: Automata - Platinum Games / Square Enix EP/EW/MP Persona 5 - Atlus South Park: The Fractured But Whole - Ubisoft San Francisco / Ubisoft

Best Action/Adventure Game

MP Assassin’s Creed: Origins - Ubisoft Montreal / Ubisoft EP/EW Horizon Zero Dawn - Guerrilla Games / Sony Interactive Entertainment Super Mario Odyssey - Nintendo EPD / Nintendo MW The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - Nintendo EPD / Nintendo Uncharted: The Lost Legacy - Naughty Dog / Sony Interactive Entertainment

Best Action Game

Cuphead - Studio MDHR Entertainment EW Destiny 2 - Bungie / Activision Nioh - Team Ninja / Sony Interactive Entertainment Prey - Arkane Studios / Bethesda EP/MP/MW Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus - MachineGames / Bethesda

Best VR/AR Game

Farpoint - Impulse Gear / Sony Interactive Entertainment Lone Echo - Ready at Dawn / Oculus Studios MW/EP/EW Resident Evil 7: Biohazard - Capcom Star Trek: Bridge Crew - Red Storm Entertainment / Ubisoft MP SUPERHOT VR - SUPERHOT Team

Best Handheld Game

MP Ever Oasis - Grezzo / Nintendo EP Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia - Intelligent Systems / Nintendo EW/MW Metroid: Samus Returns - MercurySteam / Nintendo Monster Hunter Stories - Marvelous / Capcom / Nintendo Poochy and Yoshi’s Woolly World - Good-Feel / Nintendo

Best Mobile Game

MP/EP/EW Fire Emblem Heroes - Intelligent Systems / Nintendo Hidden Folks - Adriaan de Jongh / Sylvain Tegroeg Monument Valley 2 - ustwo games Old Man’s Journey - Broken Rules MW Super Mario Run - Nintendo

Best Ongoing Game

Destiny 2 - Bungie / Activision Grand Theft Auto Online - Rockstar Games EP Overwatch - Blizzard EW/MW PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds - PUBG. Corp MP Rainbow Six: Siege - Ubisoft Montreal / Ubisoft Warframe - Digital Extremes

Games for Impact

Bury Me, My Love - The Pixel Hunt / Figs / ARTE / Playdius Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice - Ninja Theory MW/EW Life is Strange: Before the Storm - Deck Nine / Square Enix MP/EP Night in the Woods - Infinite Fall Please Knock on My Door - Levall Games AB What Remains of Edith Finch - Giant Sparrow / Annapurna Interactive

Best Performance

EP/EW Ashly Burch, Horizon: Zero Dawn - As Aloy Brian Bloom, Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus - as BJ Blazkowicz MP Claudia Black, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy - as Chloe Frazer Laura Bailey, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy - as Nadine Ross MW Melina Juergens, Hellblade - as Senua

Best Audio Design

Destiny 2 - Bungie ALL IN Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice - Ninja Theory Resident Evil 7: Biohazard - Capcom Super Mario Odyssey - Nintendo EPD / Nintendo The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - Nintendo EPD / Nintendo

Best Score / Music

MW Cuphead - Kristofer Maddigan EW Destiny 2 - Mike Salvatori, Skye Lewin, C Paul Johnson NieR: Automata - Keiichi Okabe, Keigo Hoashi EP/MP 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

Best Art Direction

ALL IN 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 Narrative

Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice - Tameem Antoniades, Elizabeth Ashman-Rowe / Ninja Theory EP Horizon Zero Dawn - John Gonzalez / Ninja Theory MP NieR: Automata - Yoko Taro, Hana Kikuchi, Yoshiho Akabane / Platinum Games What Remains of Edith Finch - Ian Dallas / Giant Sparrow EW/MW Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus - Jen Matthies, Tommy Tordsson Bjork / MachineGames

Best Game Direction

MW/EW Horizon Zero Dawn - Guerrilla Games Resident Evil 7: Biohazard - Capcom Super Mario Odyssey - Nintendo EPD EP The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - Nintendo EPD MP Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus - MachineGames / Bethesda

Game of the Year

Horizon Zero Dawn - Guerrilla Games / Sony Interactive Entertainment ALL IN 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

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