It’s that time of year when The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences announce the finalists for the upcoming 21st D.I.C.E. Awards. The event will be co-hosted by Greg Miller, who is the co-founder of internet video show and podcast Kinda Funny, and Jessica Chobot of Nerdist News. The winners of this year’s event will be announced during the D.I.C.E. Awards ceremony on Thursday, Feb. 22nd in Las Vegas. Here’s the finalists:
Outstanding Achievement in Animation
Cuphead
For Honor
Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice
Horizon Zero Dawn
Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction
Cuphead
Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice
Horizon Zero Dawn
Little Nightmares
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Outstanding Achievement in Character
Assassin’s Creed Origins – Bayek
Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice – Senua
Horizon Zero Dawn – Aloy
Star Wars Battlefront II – Iden Versio
Uncharted: The Lost Legacy – Chloe Fraiser
Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composition
Call of Duty: WWII
Cuphead
Horizon Zero Dawn
RiME
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus
Outstanding Achievement in Sound Design
Destiny 2
Injustice 2
Star Wars Battlefront II
Super Mario Odyssey
Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
Outstanding Achievement in Story
Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice
Horizon Zero Dawn
Night in the Woods
What Remains of Edith Finch
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus
Outstanding Technical Achievement
Assassin’s Creed Origins
Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice
Horizon Zero Dawn
Lone Echo/Echo Arena
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Action Game of the Year
Call of Duty: WWII
Cuphead
Destiny 2
PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus
Adventure Game of the Year
Assassin’s Creed Origins
Horizon Zero Dawn
Super Mario Odyssey
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
Family Game of the Year
DropMix
GNOG
Just Dance 2018
SingStar Celebration
Snipperclips
Fighting Game of the Year
ARMS
Injustice 2
Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite
Nidhogg 2
Tekken 7
Racing Game of the Year
DiRT 4
Forza Motorsport 7
Gran Turismo Sport
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
Project CARS 2
Role-Playing Game of the Year
Divinity: Original Sin 2
Middle-earth: Shadow of War
NieR:Automata
Persona 5
Torment: Tides of Numenera
Sports Game of the Year
Everybody’s Golf
FIFA 18
Golf Clash
Madden NFL 18
MLB The Show 17
Strategy/Simulation Game of the Year
Endless Space 2
Halo Wars 2
Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle
Total War: Warhammer II
XCOM 2: War of the Chosen
Immersive Reality Technical Achievement
Lone Echo/Echo Arena
Robo Recall
Star Trek Bridge Crew
The Invisible Hours
Wilson’s Heart
Immersive Reality Game of the Year
Lone Echo/Echo Arena
Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin
Robo Recall
Space Pirate Trainer
Wilson’s Heart
D.I.C.E. Sprite Award
Everything
Gorogoa
Night in the Woods
Pyre
Snipperclips
Handheld Game of the Year
Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King
Etrian Odyssey V: Beyond the Myth
Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia
Metroid: Samus Returns
Monster Hunter Stories
Mobile Game of the Year
Cat Quest
Fire Emblem Heroes
Gorogoa
Monument Valley 2
Splitter Critters
Outstanding Achievement in Online Gameplay
Call of Duty: WWII
Destiny 2
Fortnite
PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands
Outstanding Achievement in Game Design
Gorogoa
Horizon Zero Dawn
PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS
Super Mario Odyssey
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Outstanding Achievement in Game Direction
Gorogoa
Horizon Zero Dawn
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
What Remains of Edith Finch
Game of the Year
Cuphead
Horizon Zero Dawn
PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS
Super Mario Odyssey
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composition. No Mario Odyssey? I thought it’s soundtrack was great.
I particularly loved the tunes in this game especially the wooded kingdom and the snow kingdom
Maybe not as memorable as I once thought. I only remember and like a few out of dozens of them.
Cascade kingdom, ending credits theme, wooded kingdom, Jump up super star, escape honeylune ridge, Peach’s castle and bowers kingdom.
Nominations look pretty good to me. What a great year for gaming!
Aside from Mario+Rabbids the big budget western developed triple A games on that list are trash!
Destiny 2 and PUBG have no right to be in any of those lists.
They won’t win anyway. Watch.
Zelda will win. lol No contest.
Most Likely to be Cuphead Or ZeroDawn. I vote for ZeroDawn
If Zelda is there, it’ll win. Also, you sound like a Zelda hater for winning all over the place. No wonder you don’t acknowledge it but say to vote Horizon, a BotW copycat as a SJW nightmare. lol
Im Not. The fact are just written on the article that Zero Dawn and Cuphead have more vote in the all around than Zelda does. before making assumption and accusation read the article. I would have gone To vote Nier Automata as i find it was my best game of 2017 but he is onli present in 1 categori. Winning all over the place…. LOLL Just because i vote something else. Did you even played more than just zelda ? I think not.
Outstanding Achievement in Sound Design
Star Wars Battlefront II
It’s literally just a copy/paste from the movies. Hardly an achievement
And didn’t Iden Versio get a lot of flak?
is cuphead really deserving of a game of the year award i mean come on really!??!? (note i havent played the game before just looking at footage)
Brilliant.
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