Resident Evil Requiem was the biggest winner at the 44th Golden Joystick Awards in London yesterday, taking home 4 trophies including Ultimate Game of the Year, the show's top prize. Capcom's survival horror game also won Console Game of the Year, Best Game Trailer and Best Lead Performer for Angela Sant'Albano, who plays Grace Ashcroft. The Resident Evil account shared the results shortly before 1 PM MST, and the post has since passed 26,000 likes. Check out the official posts down below:
Ultimate Game of the Year was the last award of the night. The Golden Joysticks announced it at 1:09 PM MST, and Requiem beat a 12-game shortlist that included 007 First Light, Big Walk, CONTROL Resonant, Crimson Desert, Dispatch, Forza Horizon 6, Phantom Blade Zero, Pokémon Pokopia, PRAGMATA, STAR WARS: Galactic Racer and The Blood of Dawnwalker.
Every Award Resident Evil Requiem Won
- Ultimate Game of the Year
- Console Game of the Year
- Best Game Trailer: "Evil Has Always Had A Name"
- Best Lead Performer: Angela Sant'Albano as Grace Ashcroft
In Console Game of the Year, Requiem finished ahead of PRAGMATA, Pokémon Pokopia, 007 First Light, Forza Horizon 6, Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave, Onimusha: Way of the Sword, LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight, Saros and Nioh 3. Sant'Albano's Best Lead Performer field included Liam McIntyre as Wolverine in Marvel's Wolverine, Patrick Gibson as James Bond in 007 First Light, Aaron Paul as Robert Robertson III in Dispatch, Will de Renzy-Martin as Coen in The Blood of Dawnwalker and Anna Demetriou as Sophia in Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy.
The Best Game Trailer winner, "Evil Has Always Had A Name," is a live-action short film. The Golden Joysticks' own post called it "a live action short film which gave us chills back in February." Capcom's official upload of the short is below:
Capcom's Night Beyond Requiem
According to the official results, Capcom and its games won 7 awards in total. The publisher won Studio of the Year, Onimusha: Way of the Sword took Best Audio Design, and Grace Saif won Best Supporting Performer for playing Diana in PRAGMATA. All 3 of those categories, along with Requiem's 4 wins, were decided by public vote.
Requiem finished the night with 4 awards, the same total as MECCHA CHAMELEON, which won Best Multiplayer Game, Best Indie Game - Self Published, Streamers' Choice and the new Developers' Choice Award. Dispatch won 2, for Best Storytelling and Best Soundtrack.
Actor Alix Wilton Regan, who voices Lara Croft in Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis, hosted the ceremony, and the guest presenters included Nick Apostolides from the Resident Evil Requiem cast. The show streamed on YouTube, Twitch, Steam, TikTok and X. The Golden Joystick Awards were first held in 1983 and are the longest-running publicly voted gaming awards. This year's show had 25 categories, 22 of them decided by public vote and 3 chosen by critics.
What Resident Evil Requiem Is
Resident Evil Requiem is the 9th mainline Resident Evil game. It launched on February 27 for PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch 2, Xbox Series X|S, Steam, Epic Games Store and GeForce NOW. The story is set 30 years after the Raccoon City Incident and follows FBI intelligence analyst Grace Ashcroft, who is assigned to investigate a string of mysterious deaths at the same hotel where her mother was murdered 8 years earlier. When a police officer goes missing at the hotel, DSO agent Leon S. Kennedy is sent to the scene as well.
For the first time in the series, players can switch between first-person and third-person perspectives at any time. The Standard (Classic) difficulty brings back Ink Ribbons, which Grace needs every time she saves. The lower Casual difficulty adds aim assist and makes both the player and enemies easier to deal with. Capcom's launch trailer is below:
The game had already been picking up nominations ahead of the Golden Joysticks, as covered in Resident Evil Requiem And Pragmata Pick Up Several Nominations At The First Fandom Awards.
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