Spike VGA 2011 Roundup- Winners, Trailers, More!

The Spike VGA 2011 awards aired last night. The show is almost always hit or miss, usually with a lame host cracking lame jokes, but this year there were a solid amount of world premiere game trailers (and Felicia Day! Playing Fruit Ninja with real fruit and real swords!) that made it worth watching. So without further ado, let’s get to it!

Winners:

Game of the Year: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Best Action Adventure Game: Batman: Arkham City

Best Xbox 360 Game: Batman: Arkham City
Best Adapted Videogame: Batman: Arkham City
Best PS3 Game: Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception

Best Graphics: Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception
Best Wii Game: The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword

Best Motion Game: The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
Best Fighting Game: Mortal Kombat

Best Independent Game:Minecraft
Best Handheld/Mobile Game: Super Mario 3D Land
Best Song in a Game: Bastion
Best Original Score: Bastion
Best Downloadable Game: Bastion
Best Individual Sports Game: Fight Night Champion
Best PC Game: Portal 2

Best Multiplayer: Portal 2
Best DLC: Portal 2
Best Performance by a Human Male: Portal 2
Best Performance by a Human Female: Portal 2
Best Driving Game: Forza Motorsport 4
Best Shooter: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
Character of the Year: the Joker
Best RPG: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Studio of the Year: Bethesda Game Studios

As for premiere trailers, here’s the ones you need to see:

The Last Of Us

This trailer from Naughty Dog, makers of the critically lauded Uncharted series, totally caught me off guard. The graphics are utterly insane, and it says right at the beginning that it’s all rendered on a Playstation 3. There’s no denying that Naughty Dog are the masters of the PS3’s architecture. Just look at the screen below. That’s real time graphics, not CG, people.

Metal Gear Solid Rising: Revengeance

This looks awesome, gameplay wise. Once again we have a cool-looking Metal Gear game with a weird ass title. I’m a bit worried about the story, though. The big news is that now the game is being developed by Platinum Games, from the guy who made the original Devil May Cry and Bayonetta. If you played those games, you came away with two major opinions: awesome gameplay, ridiculous story. From what dialogue we get in this trailer, it doesn’t look very promising; it drips with B-movie cheese. But who can deny that slicing up enemy soldiers into a hundred pieces will be a great stress reliever?