Golden Percy Award Results

Best game featuring Gunplay or Shooting

Winner: Modern Warfare 2
Runners-up: Borderlands, Uncharted 2. Halo: ODST

Best game featuring Driving or Flying

Winner: Forza 3
Runners-up: DiRT 2, Need for Speed: Shift

Best game featuring RPG mechnics

Winner: Dragon Age: Origins
Runners-up: Mario & Luigi: Bowsers Inside Story, Borderlands

Best game featuring Music/Rhythm gameplay

Winner: Guitar Hero 5
Runners-up: The Beatles: Rock Band, DJ Hero

Best game featuring an Open World

Winner: Assassin’s Creed 2
Runners-up: infamous, GTA: Chinatown Wars (DS), Borderlands

Best game featuring Martial Arts or Melee Combat

Winner: Street Fighter IV
Runners-up: Soul Calibur Broken Destiny, Brutal Legend, Batman Arkham Asylum, Assassins Creed 2

Best sports themed game

Winner: FIFA 10
Runners-up: Blood Bowl, Wii Sports Resort

Best Strategy or Tactics game

Winner: Tropico 3
Runners-up: Football Manager 2010, Empire: Total War

Best in-game sound

Winner: Forza 3
Runners-up: Uncharted 2, Batman Arkham Asylum, Modern Warfare 2

Best use of licensed music

Winner: Brutal Legend
Runners-up: Shatter, Guitar Hero 5, Beatles Rock Band, DJ Hero

Best original soundtrack

Winner: Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
Runners-up: Batman Arkham Asylum, Halo 3: ODST

Best in-game graphics

Winner: Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
Runners-up: Modern Warfare 2, Batman Arkham Asylum, DiRT 2

Best in-game story or narrative

Winner: Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
Runners-up: Brutal Legend, Halo 3 ODST, Assassin’s Creed 2

Best online co-op game

Winner: Borderlands
Runners-up: Halo: ODST, Left 4 Dead 2, Resident Evil 5

Best online multiplayer game

Winner: Modern Warfare 2
Runners-up: Modern Warfare 2, 1 v 100, Killzone 2, FIFA 10

Best game on a Microsoft platform

Winner: Forza 3
Runners-up: Forza 3, Modern Warfare 2, Batman Arkham Asylum

Best game on a Sony platform

Winner: Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
Runners-up: Modern Warfare 2, Infamous

Best game on a Nintendo platform

Winner: Professor Layton & Pandora’s Box
Runners-up: Rhythm Paradise, Dead Space Extraction, Wii Sports Resort

Best handheld game

Winner: Professor Layton & Pandora’s Box
Runners-up: Flight Control, Art Style: PiCOPiCT

Best downloadable game

Winner: Battlefield 1943
Runners-up: Shatter, Trials HD, Flower, Bit Trip Beat, Shadow Complex

Best downloadable content

Winner: GTA: The Lost and the Damned
Runners-up: Rock Band Queen Track Pack, The Pitt (Fallout 3)

Worst new game played in 2009

Winner: Leisure Suit Larry

“Can’t believe I even bought it, but previous were at least funny. This is awful in every way, graphics, sound, music, plot.”

Runners-up: The House of the Dead: Overkill, Guitar Hero Greatest Hits, Pro Evolution Soccer 2010, Killzone 2, Sacred II: Fallen Angel, Scribblenauts, Resident Evil 5, Fuel, Risen, Lord of the Rings: Conquest

Best Game of 2009

Winner: Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

“… has superb story, characters, and dialogue; fantastic environments, set-pieces and a pure sense of adventure. Uncharted 2 sets the benchmark for all future action games.”

Runners-Up = Modern Warfare 2, The Beatles: Rock Band, Assassin’s Creed 2, Forza 3, Infamous, Batman: Arkham Asylum