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Check out the nominees for The Game Awards 2020

Check out the nominees for The Game Awards 2020 in every category, from Game of the Year to best direction and best independent game.

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The Game Awards 2020 has officially announced the games that will compete in its various categories. Check them out:

Game of the Year

Recognizing a game that delivers the best experience across all creative and technical fields.

  • Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo)
  • DOOM Eternal (id Software / Bethesda Softworks)
  • Final Fantasy VII Remake (Square Enix)
  • Ghost of Tsushima (Sucker Punch / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
  • Hades (Supergiant Games)
  • The Last of Us Part II (Naughty Dog / Sony Interactive Entertainment)

Best Game Direction

Awarded for outstanding creative vision and innovation in game direction and design.

  • Final Fantasy VII Remake (Square Enix)
  • Ghost of Tsushima (Sucker Punch / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
  • Hades (Supergiant Games)
  • Half-Life: Alyx (Valve)
  • The Last of Us Part II (Naughty Dog / Sony Interactive Entertainment)

Best Narrative

For storytelling and narrative development in a game.

  • 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim (written by George Kamitani)
  • Final Fantasy VII Remake (written by Kazushige Nojima, Motomu Toriyama, Hiroaki Iwaki, and Sachie Hirano)
  • Ghost of Tsushima (written by Ian Ryan, Liz Albl, Patrick Downs, and Jordan Lemos)
  • Hades (written by Greg Kasavin)
  • The Last of Us Part II (written by Neil Druckmann and Haley Gross)

Best Art Direction

For outstanding creative and/or technical achievement in artistic design and animation.

  • Final Fantasy VII Remake (Square Enix)
  • Ghost of Tsushima (Sucker Punch / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
  • Hades (Supergiant Games)
  • Ori and the Will of the Wisps (Moon Studios / Xbox Game Studios)
  • The Last of Us Part II (Naughty Dog / Sony Interactive Entertainment)

Best Score and Music

For exceptional music, including scores, original music and/or licensed soundtrack.

  • DOOM Eternal (composed by Mick Gordon)
  • Final Fantasy VII Remake (composed by Nobuo Uematsu, Masashi Hamazu and Mitsuto Suzuki)
  • Hades (composed by Darren Korb)
  • Ori and the Will of the Wisps (composed by Gareth Coker)
  • The Last of Us Part II (composed by Gustavo Santaolalla with additional music by Mac Quayle)

Best Performance

Awarded to an individual for voice acting, movement and/or performance capture.

Best Independent Game

For outstanding creative and technical achievement in a game made outside the traditional publisher system.

Innovation in Accessibility

Recognizing software and/or hardware that is pushing the medium forward by adding features, technology and content to help games be played and enjoyed by an even wider audience.

  • Assassin’s Creed Valhalla (Ubisoft Montreal / Ubisoft)
  • Grounded (Obsidian Entertainment / Xbox Game Studios)
  • Hyperdot (Tribe Games)
  • The Last of Us Part II (Naughty Dog / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
  • Watch Dogs: Legion (Ubisoft Toronto / Ubisoft)

Best Action

For the best action game focused primarily on combat.

  • DOOM Eternal (id Software / Bethesda Softworks)
  • Hades (Supergiant Games)
  • Half-Life: Alyx (Valve)
  • Nioh 2 (Team Ninja)
  • Streets of Rage 4 (Dotemu)

Best Action/Adventure

For the best action/adventure game, combining combat with traversal and puzzle solving.

  • Assassin’s Creed Valhalla (Ubisoft Montreal / Ubisoft)
  • Ghost of Tsushima (Sucker Punch / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
  • Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales (Insomniac Games / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
  • Ori and the Will of the Wisps (Moon Studios / Xbox Game Studios)
  • Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (Respawn Entertainment / Electronic Arts)
  • The Last of Us Part II (Naughty Dog / Sony Interactive Entertainment)

Best RPG

For the best game designed with rich character customization and player character progression, including massively multiplayer experiences.

  • Final Fantasy VII Remake (Square Enix)
  • Genshin Impact (miHoYo)
  • Persona 5 Royal (Atlus / P Studio / Sega)
  • Wasteland 3 (inXile Entertainment / Deep Silver)
  • Yakuza: Like a Dragon (Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio / Sega)

Best Fighting Game

For the best game designed primarily around head-to-head combat.

  • Granblue Fantasy: Versus (Arc System Works / Cygames / XSEED Games)
  • Mortal Kombat 11 Ultimate (NetherRealm Studios / Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment)
  • Street Fighter V Champion Edition (Dimps / Capcom)
  • One Punch Man: A Hero Nobody Knows (Spike Chunsoft / Bandai Namco)
  • Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late[cl-r] (French-Bread / Arc System Works / Aksys Games)

Best Sim/Strategy

Best game focused on real-time or turn-based simulation or strategy gameplay, regardless of platform.

Best Sports/Racing

For the best traditional and non-traditional sports and racing game.

  • DIRT 5 (Codemasters Cheshire / Codemasters)
  • F1 2020 (Codemasters Birmingham / Codemasters)
  • FIFA 21 (EA Vancouver / EA Sports)
  • NBA 2K21 (Visual Concepts / 2K Games)
  • Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 (Vicarious Visions / Activision)

Best Multiplayer

For outstanding online multiplayer gameplay and design, including cooperative and massively multiplayer experiences, regardless of game genre or platform.

  • Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo)
  • Among Us (Innersloth)
  • Call of Duty: Warzone (Infinity Ward / Activision)
  • Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout (Mediatonic / Devolver Digital)
  • Valorant (Riot Games)

Most Anticipated Game

  • Elden Ring (FromSoftware / Bandai Namco Entertainment)
  • God of War Sequel (Sony Interactive Entertainment Santa Monica Studio / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
  • Halo Infinite (343 Industries / Xbox Game Studios)
  • Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
  • The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Sequel (Nintendo)
  • Resident Evil Village (Capcom)

Source: TheGameAwards

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