The not too respected Writers Guild of America just announced the 2010 nominees for the best in video game writing, but to be honest, some of the nominees might alert you a bit.
Here are the nominees:
-Assassin’s Creed II, Story by Cory May, Script Writers Corey May, Joshua Robin, Jeffery Yohalem; Ubisoft Entertainment.
-Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Written by Jesse Stern, Additional Writing by Steve Fukuda, Story by Todd Alderman, Steve Fukuda, Mackey McCandlish, Zied Rieke, Jesse Stern, Jason West, Battlechatter Dialogue, Sean Slayback; Activision
-Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Written by Amy Hennig; Sony Computer Entertainment
-Wet, Written by Duppy Demetrius; Bethesda Softworks
-X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Script Writer Marc Guggenheim; Activision
Like I said, you might find it strange that some works are not mentioned, including excellent writing from Dragon Age: Origins, MMOs etc, that’s because the Guild collects nominees from a list of members.
Come January 20th, we’ll know who the winners are, however many in the gaming industry see this as nothing more than a show to recruit members for the Guild.
I’m only rooting for two games on this list, the rest imo don’t deserve to be there.
Mmm, the X-Men game? seriously? Well, as a fan of the early x-men comics the game made me sad instead of rejoicing in playing as one of my favorite x-men from way back, the cannuck’s game is one of the lamest stories ever along with the assassin creep, definitively will be between Uncharted and MW2.
Have never heard of this award
@tester4life:
I haven’t played Assassin’s Creed 2 yet, but I have played and completed the first one.
The story was way too crazy at the end of the game I thought.
the assassins creed 2 story is good its just a bit confusing
X-Men? lol how does X-Men get nominated altho I haven’t played game so can’t say much. I can see MW2 and Uncharted 2 battling for first altho imo Uncharted 2 should win hands down I loved playing through the game and the story is believable and it’s one of my fav games of all time rite up there next to the original medal of honor now thats a game that felt like the movie with the movie being Saving Private Ryan