Wii Sports picks up 3 wins at the 10th Annual IAA

Nintendo’s Wii Sports has managed to pick up three awards at the 10th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards which is hosted by the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences. Wii Sports got awards in the fields of Outstanding Innovation in Gaming, Game Play Engineering and Game Design. Twilight Princess also picked up an award for Story and Character Development while Nintendo’s Brain Age was named handheld game of the year.

Full List Inside

The winners in each category are as follows:
I. Game of the Year:
a. Overall
* Gears of War (P: Microsoft Game Studios, D: Epic Games,
Producer: Rod Ferguson, Game Director: Michael Capps, Creative
Director: Cliff Bleszinski)

b. Computer
* Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (P: 2K Games, D: Bethesda
Softworks, Executive Producer: Todd Howard)

c. Console
* Gears of War (P: Microsoft Game Studios, D: Epic Games,
Producer: Rod Ferguson, Game Director: Michael Capps, Creative
Director: Cliff Bleszinski)

d. Handheld Game of the Year
* Nintendo Brain Age (P: Nintendo, D: Nintendo, Producer:
Shinya Takahashi, Game Director: Kouichi Kawamoto, Creative
Directors: Kouichi Kawamoto, Noriko Kitamura, Masamichi
Sakaino, Shinji Kitahara, Yoshinori Katsuki, Tadashi
Matsushita, Masura Nishida)

II. Outstanding Innovation in Gaming
* Wii Sports (P: Nintendo, D: Nintendo, Executive Producer:
Satoru Iwata, Producer: Katsuya Eguchi, Game Directors: Keiza
Ohta, Takayuki Shimamura, Yoshikazu Yamashita)

III. Outstanding Achievement:
a. Animation
* Gears of War (P: Microsoft Game Studios, D: Epic Games,
Producer: Rod Ferguson, Game Director: Michael Capps, Creative
Director: Cliff Bleszinski)

b. Art Direction
* Gears of War (P: Microsoft Game Studios, D: Epic Games,
Producer: Rod Ferguson, Game Director: Michael Capps, Creative
Director: Cliff Bleszinski)

c. Soundtrack
* Guitar Hero 2 (P: Activision/Red Octane, D: Harmonix,
Producer: John Tam, Game Director: Daniel Sussman, Creative
Director: Josh Randall)

d. Original Music Composition
* LocoRoco (P: Sony Computer Entertainment, D: Sony Computer
Entertainment, Producer/Game Director/Creative Director:
Tsutomo Kouno)

e. Sound Design
* Call of Duty 3 (P: Activision, D: Treyarch, Producer/Game
Director/Creative Director: Treyarch)

f. Story and Character Development
* The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (P: Nintendo, D:
Nintendo, Producer: Shigeru Miyamoto, Game Director: Eiji
Aonuma, Executive Producer: Satoru Iwata)

g. Game Play Engineering
* Wii Sports (P: Nintendo, D: Nintendo, Executive Producer:
Satoru Iwata, Producer: Katsuya Eguchi, Game Directors: Keiza
Ohta, Takayuki Shimamura, Yoshikazu Yamashita)

h. Online Game Play
* Gears of War (P: Microsoft Game Studios, D: Epic Games,
Producer: Rod Ferguson, Game Director: Michael Capps, Creative
Director: Cliff Bleszinski)

i. Visual Engineering
* Gears of War (P: Microsoft Game Studios, D: Epic Games,
Producer: Rod Ferguson, Game Director: Michael Capps, Creative
Director: Cliff Bleszinski)

j. Game Design
* Wii Sports (P: Nintendo, D: Nintendo, Executive Producer:
Satoru Iwata, Producer: Katsuya Eguchi, Game Directors: Keiza
Ohta, Takayuki Shimamura, Yoshikazu Yamashita)

IV. Outstanding Character Performance:
a. Male
* Gears of War (P: Microsoft Game Studios, D: Epic Games,
Producer: Rod Ferguson, Game Director: Michael Capps, Creative
Director: Cliff Bleszinski)

b. Female
* Viva Pinata (P: Microsoft Game Studios, D: Rare,
Producer/Game Director/Creative Director: Greg Mayles)

V. Genre Awards:
a. Sports Game of the Year
* Tony Hawk Project 8 (P: Activision, D: Neversoft
Entertainment, Producer; Chris Parise, Game Director/Creative
Director: Brian Bright)

b. First-Person Action Game of the Year
* Rainbow Six: Vegas (P: Activision, D: Neversoft
Entertainment, Producer; Chris Parise, Game Director/Creative
Director: Brian Bright)

c. Role-Playing Game of the Year
* Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (P: 2K Games, D: Bethesda
Softworks, Executive Producer: Todd Howard)

d. Fighting Game of the Year
* Fight Night Round 3 (P/D: Electronic Arts, Producer: Kudo
Tsunoda, Game Director: Keith Morton, Creative Director:
Darren Bennett)

e. Action/ Adventure Game of the Year
* Gears of War (P: Microsoft Game Studios, D: Epic Games,
Producer: Rod Ferguson, Game Director: Michael Capps, Creative
Director: Cliff Bleszinski)

f. Racing Game of the Year
* Burnout Revenge (P: Electronic Arts, D: Criterion Games,
Creative Director: Alex Ward, Criterion Games)

g. Children’s Game of the Year
* LocoRoco (P: Sony Computer Entertainment, D: Sony Computer
Entertainment, Producer/Game Director/Creative Director:
Tsutomo Kouno)

h. Downloadable Game of the Year
* Bookworm Adventures (P/D: PopCap, Producer/Game
Director/Creative Director: Tysen Henderson)

i. Family Game of the Year
* Guitar Hero 2 (P: Activision/Red Octane, D: Harmonix,
Producer: John Tam, Game Director: Daniel Sussman, Creative
Director: Josh Randall)

j. Simulation Game of the Year
* Microsoft Flight Simulator X (P/D: Microsoft Game Studios,
Producer: Shawn Firminger, Game Director: John Licata,
Creative Director: Patt Cook, Jason Waskey)

k. Strategy Game of the Year
* Company of Heroes (P: THQ, D: Relic, Producer/Game Director:
John Johnson, Creative Director: Sean Dunn)

l. Massively Multiplayer/Persistent World Game of the Year
* Guild Wars Nightfall (P: NCsoft, D: ArenaNet, Producer: Jay
Adams, Game)

m. Mobile Game of the Year
* Orcs and Elves (P: Electronic Arts Mobile, D: Fountainhead
Entertainment, Producer/ Game Director/ Creative Director:
John Carmack, Katherine A. Kang)