Apex Legends has won yet another accolade for the quality of its multiplayer, this time from the 2020 BAFTA Game Awards. Having already won Best Multiplayer at the 2019 Game Awards, Apex took home Best Multiplayer once again. Elsewhere, the premier ‘Best Game’ award went to Outer Wilds; an indie title which won Best Indie Game at the last Golden Joystick Awards.
Apex Legends and the Other BAFTA Game Awards Winners
While The Game Awards’ top-winning game was Disco Elysium, Outer Wilds managed to match it for total wins at the BAFTA Game Awards. In addition to Best Game, Outer Wilds also won the Game Design and Original Property awards. Disco Elysium, meanwhile, won the Music, Narrative, and Debut Game categories. Together, they were the only games who won more than a single category.
While Apex Legends won Best Multiplayer, mirroring its win at the 2019 Game Awards, it lost Best Evolving Game to Path of Exile. Overall, it was a good night for indie games; Ape Out won Audio Achievement, while Simogo’s Sayonara Wild Hearts won for Artistic Achievement. Similarly, fan-favourite Untitled Goose Game won Best Family Game. In the Animation category, Luigi’s Mansion 3 won against fierce competition from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, Control, and Death Stranding. In fact, while Death Stranding performed extremely well at The Game Awards last year, the game only managed to win for Technical Achievement. (Despite receiving eleven different BAFTA nominations.)
As a British award ceremony, the BAFTA Game Awards have a category for Best British Game. This category went to No Code’s ‘Observation,’ which launched in May of last year. As for individual performers, the BAFTAs feature two awards; one for Performer in a Leading Role and another for Performer in a Supporting Role. The former was won by Gonzalo Martin for his portrayal of Sean Diaz in Life is Strange 2. Martti Suosalo won the latter category for his role as Ahti the Janitor in Control. Finally, the winner of the EE Mobile Game of the Year award was Call of Duty Mobile. This special award was the only one voted for by the public
