Call of Duty 4 leads BAFTA winners

Activision’s Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare captured three awards at last night’s GAME British academy video game awards.

The Infinity Ward-developed shooter secured the Gameplay, Story and Character and the GAME Award, which is voted for by the public.

Other big winners included Nintendo, which won the Best Game and Best Handheld Game award for Super Mario Galaxy and Professor Layton and the Curious Village, while EA secured multiple gongs, including Best Use of Audio and Best Original Score for Dead Space, the new Casual game award for Boom Blox, and Will Wright’s Spore took home the Technical Achievement Award.

The full list of winners are as follows:

Best Game:
Super Mario Galaxy

Action and Adventure:
Fable II

Artistic Achievements:
LittleBigPlanet

Casual:
Boom Blox

Gameplay:
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare

Handheld Game:
Professor Layton and the Curious Village

Multiplayer:
Left 4 Dead

Original Score:
Dead Space

Sports:
Race Driver: GRID

Strategy:
Sid Meier’s Civilization Revolution

Story and Character:
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare

Technical Achievement:
Spore

Use of Audio:
Dead Space

BAFTA one’s to watch award, in association with Dare to Be Digital:
Boro-Toro

GAME Award of 2008:
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare