The Game Awards 2023: Baldur’s Gate 3 won in six more categories in addition to Game of the Year

He videogame role and strategy Baldur’s Gate 3, developed by Larian Studios, has been awarded the Game of the Year award at The Game Awards 2023 gala, also winning a total of six awards, such as game with the most community support and Best multiplayer, surpassing its main competitor in this edition Alan Wake 2, from Remedy Entertainment.

The awards event created and directed by businessman Geoff Keighley, which recognizes the best video games of the year, took place at the Peacock Theater in the city of Los Angeles (United States). Thus, up to 31 awards have been awarded, encompassing categories such as Best Narrative, Best VR/AR Game, or even Best Family Game.

LOOK: The Game Awards 2023: Baldur’s Gate 3 won the award for best video game of the year

In this sense, with the help of actor Timothée Chalamet, who was in charge of announcing this year’s winner, and preceded by a tribute to the soundtracks of the six nominated games, among them, Alan Wake 2, Baldur’s Gate 3, Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, Resident Evil 4, Super Mario Bros. Wonder and The Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, the CEO of the developer Larian Studios, Swen Vincke, collected the award for Best Game of the Year (GOTY) ) for Baldur’s Gate 3.

The GOTY award winner is a role-playing video game (RPG) set in the world of Dungeons and Dragonsin which players must return to the Forgotten Kingdoms to live a story of betrayal, sacrifice and survivalin which characters use mysterious abilities.

Likewise, Baldur’s Gate was the winner in five other categories, becoming the most awarded game: Best Performance, with actor Neil Newbon as the protagonist, Best Community Support, Best RPG, Best Multiplayer and Best Audience Game .

The best game of the year 2023 is Baldur’s Gate 3.

Another of the most awarded titles of the awards has been Alan Wake 2, which has been recognized as the video game with Best Direction, Best Art Direction, Best Narrative and Best Soundtrack. Thus, the horror and survival video game developed by Remedy Entertainment and published by Epic Games Publishing, has been one of the favorites of the 2023 gala.

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Continuing with the awards, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth has won the awards for Most Anticipated Game and Best Soundtrack. For its part, the Best Action Game has been allocated to Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon, and the Best Virtual Reality Game has been reserved for Resident Evil Village.

The award for Best Action Game has been awarded to The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Following this line, Street Fighter 6 has won the award for Best Fighting Game, Cyberpunk 2077 has been recognized as Best Continuing Game and Pikmin 4 has won the award for Best Strategy Game.

In addition to all this, Super Mario Bros. Wonder, from Nintendo, has been awarded as Best Family Game and, in terms of films and series based on video games, The Last of Us has won the award for Best Adaptation. Regarding the Best Mobile Game, Honkai:Star Rail has been awarded in this category.

Finally, in terms of indie games, Cocoon has won the award for Best Indie Debut, and Sea of ​​Stars has been awarded Best Independent Game. For its part, the remake of Resident Evil, developed by Capcom and the latest installment of the arachnid superhero Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, have not been awarded in any category.

As for sports, the best title in the sector has been Forza Motosport and the Best ‘eSports’ game has been Valorant for the second consecutive year. Likewise, continuing with the categories reserved for ‘eSports’, the best professional player was Lee ‘Faker’ Sang-Hyeok, with League of Legends and the Best team was JD Gaming. In fact, the most decorated event has been League of Legends World Championship 2023.

Source: Elcomercio