Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood leads BAFTA noms with seven

Somebody alert the world, a Brotherhood of assassins has infiltrated the British Academy Video Games Awards. Ubisoft’s stealthy sequel, Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, garnered seven nominations, more than any other game, including one for Best Game.

Other big honorees from this year’s Video Games Awards include Call of Duty: Black Ops, Heavy Rain (six nominations apiece) and Mass Effect 2 (four nominations).

Awarded annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), the winners of this year’s Video Games Awards will announced in a ceremony on March 16.

The full list of every nominee and every award up for grabs can be found after the break.

Best Game

• Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood
• FIFA 11
• Heavy Rain
• Limbo
• Mass Effect 2
• Super Mario Galaxy 2

Action

• Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood
• Battlefield: Bad Company 2
• BioShock 2
• Call of Duty: Black Ops
• God of War III
• Halo: Reach

Artistic Achievement

• Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood
• Call of Duty: Black Ops
• God of War III
• Heavy Rain
• Limbo
• Mass Effect 2

Family

• Dance Central
• Kinect Adventures
• Kinect Sports
• Kinectimals
• Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4
• Toy Story 3

Gameplay