Shadow of Mordor Dominasi Nominasi di GDC Awards 2015

Game Develepers Conference 2015 akan digelar di San Francisco pada Maret mendatang. Dalam ajang tahunan tersebut, akan diselenggarakan acara penghargaan bagi game-game terbaik yang meluncur ke pasaran selama setahun terakhir.
Baru-baru ini, nominasi-nominasi dari penghargaan yang disebut Game Developers Choice Awards 2015 itu telah diumumkan. Dari sekian banyak kategori yang ada, nama Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor garapan Monolith Productions berulang kali muncul.
Shadow of Mordor berhasil menjadi salah satu nominasi dari kategori Game of the Year. Pada kategori tersebut, Shadow of Mordor harus bersaing dengan Bayonetta 2, Destiny, Alien: Isolation, dan Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft.
Selain berhasil masuk sebagai nominasi di Game of the Year, Shadow of Mordor juga berpeluang untuk menjadi pemenang di kategori Innovation Award, Best Design, Best Narrative, dan Best Technology. Dalam acara tersebut, nantinya pihak penyelenggara juga akan memberikan penghargaan special untuk Pioneer, Ambassador dan Lifetime Achievement awards.
“Baik finalis dan pemenang dipilih oleh International Choice Awards Network (ICAN) yang memang spesifik untuk GDC Awards, yang merupakan organisasi tertutup (khusus undangan), terdiri dari pencipta game ternama dari berbagai bagian industri,” jelas pihak penyelenggara. Untuk lebih jelasnya, berikut daftar lengkap nominasi GDC Awards 2015.

Game of the Year
- Bayonetta 2 (Platinum Games/Nintendo)
- Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Monolith Productions/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment)
- Destiny (Bungie/Activision)
- Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft (Blizzard)
- Alien: Isolation (Creative Assembly/Sega)
Honorable Mentions: Titanfall (Respawn/Electronic Arts), Valiant Hearts: The Great War (Ubisoft Montpellier/Ubisoft), Far Cry 4 (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft), Dragon Age: Inquisition (BioWare/Electronic Arts), Super Smash Bros. for Wii U (Sora Ltd. and BANDAI NAMCO/Nintendo)
Innovation Award
- Bounden (Game Oven)
- Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Monolith Productions/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment)
- This War of Mine (11 bit studios)
- The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (The Astronauts)
- Monument Valley (Ustwo)
Honorable Mentions: Crypt of the Necrodancer (Brace Yourself Games), Extrasolar (Lazy 8 Studios), Elite: Dangerous (Frontier Developments), Elegy For A Dead World (Dejobaan Games), 80 Days (Inkle Studios)
Best Debut
- Yacht Club Games (Shovel Knight)
- Respawn Entertainment (Titanfall)
- The Astronauts (The Vanishing of Ethan Carter)
- Stoic Studio (The Banner Saga)
- Upper One Games (Never Alone)
Honorable Mentions: Dynamighty (CounterSpy), Hinterland Games (The Long Dark), 1337 & Senri (Leo’s Fortune), MachineGames (Wolfenstein: The New Order), Hipster Whale (Crossy Road)
Best Design
- Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Monolith Productions/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment)
- Shovel Knight (Yacht Club Games)
- Dragon Age: Inquisition (BioWare/Electronic Arts)
- Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker (Nintendo EAD Tokyo and 1-Up Studio/Nintendo)
- Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft (Blizzard)
Honorable Mentions: Mario Kart 8 (Nintendo EAD Tokyo/Nintendo), Alien: Isolation (Creative Assembly/Sega), Destiny (Bungie/Activision), Monument Valley (Ustwo), Far Cry 4 (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft)
Best Handheld/Mobile Game
- Threes! (Sirvo)
- Super Smash Bros. 3DS (Sora Ltd. and BANDAI NAMCO/Nintendo)
- Hearthstone (Blizzard)
- 80 Days (Inkle Studios)
- Monument Valley (Ustwo)
Honorable Mentions: Bounden (Game Oven), Bravely Default (Silicon Studio and Square Enix/Nintendo and Square Enix), Desert Golfing (Blinkbat Games), Velocity 2X (FuturLab), Fantasy Life (Level-5/Nintendo)
Best Visual Art
- Monument Valley (Ustwo)
- Hohokum (Honeyslug and Sony Santa Monica/Sony)
- Child of Light (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft)
- Bayonetta 2 (Platinum Games/Nintendo)
- Alien: Isolation (Creative Assembly/Sega)
Honorable Mentions: Never Alone (Upper One Games/E-Line Media), The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (The Astronauts), Transistor (Supergiant Games), Broken Age: Act 1 (Double Fine Productions), Destiny (Bungie/Activision)
Best Narrative
- 80 Days (Inkle Studios)
- This War of Mine (11 bit studios)
- Kentucky Route Zero: Episode 3 (Cardboard Computer)
- Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Monolith Productions/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment)
- The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (The Astronauts)
Honorable Mentions: Dragon Age: Inquisition (BioWare/Electronic Arts), Valiant Hearts: The Great War (Ubisoft Montpellier/Ubisoft), Tales From The Borderlands: Episode 1 (Gearbox Software/Telltale Games), D4: Dark Dreams Don’t Die (Access Games/Microsoft), Hatoful Boyfriend (Mediatonic/Devolver Digital)
Best Audio
- Alien: Isolation (Creative Assembly/Sega)
- Hohokum (Honeyslug/Sony)
- Destiny (Bungie/Activision)
- Transistor (Supergiant Games)
- The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (The Astronauts)
Honorable Mentions: Child of Light (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft), Far Cry 4 (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft), D4: Dark Dreams Don’t Die (Access Games/Microsoft), Bayonetta 2 (Platinum Games/Nintendo), Crypt of the Necrodancer (Brace Yourself Games)
Best Technology
- Destiny (Bungie/Activision)
- Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Monolith Productions/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment)
- Wolfenstein: The New Order (MachineGames/Bethesda)
- Elite: Dangerous (Frontier Developments)
- Far Cry 4 (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft)
Honorable Mentions: Assassin’s Creed Unity (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft), The Last of Us: Remastered (Naughty Dog/Sony), Sunset Overdrive (Insomniac Games/Microsoft), Alien: Isolation (Creative Assembly/Sega), Infamous: Second Son (Sucker Punch Productions/Sony)
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