A still from Bioshock, that won three awards
San Francisco: Valve’s Portal and 2K Studio’s Bioshock
dominated the eighth annual Game Developers Choice (GDC) Awards as
video game-makers heaped laurels on the action puzzle and
morality-probing shooter titles.
Portal was voted the best video game of 2007, and took home awards for
innovation and design excellence on Wednesday.
In
the game, players must solve a series of puzzles by transporting their
characters through a maze-like network via “portals” made with a
“portal gun.”
Bioshock, the brainchild of 2K’s creative director Ken Levine, won top honours
for story writing, visual arts, and audio.
“I
wanted to challenge people a little bit,” Levine said of his game, set
in an under-sea city fallen to ruin amid scientific chaos, which has
been lauded for its play and potentially disturbing moral choices.
Urban
action game Crackdown was voted the best game to debut in the past
year, while flash-based Flow, which features a worm-like organism
devouring others to evolve, won in the newly-created Best Downloadable
Game category.
Science-fiction shooter Crysis was honored for
having the best technology. The award for Best Handheld Game went to
Nintendo’s Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass.
“It’s pretty
incredible,” said Ralph Baer – ‘the father of video games’ – who built
the first ever home video game console and was honoured with the GDC
Pioneer Award. “The talent curve in game making is going straight up to
heaven. There is no telling what we are going to see in five years.”
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