A child’s recreation simply gained Sport of the 12 months

The Sport Awards of 2024 have come to a detailed, with Astro Bot taking residence the coveted Sport of the 12 months award.

The PlayStation-exclusive platformer emerged victorious regardless of a various discipline of nominees for the most effective Sport of the 12 months title. The lineup featured a uncommon cell recreation, Balatro, in addition to the first-ever DLC nomination within the class with Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree. Astro Bot’s victory is fairly shocking contemplating the historical past of TGAs.

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Astro Bot

The follow-up to the PS5 pack-in recreation Astro’s Playroom, Staff Asobi’s Astro Bot is a totally fleshed-out 3D platformer with over 80 levels. All through the marketing campaign, Astro will get entry to greater than 15 talents.

Methods

OpenCritic

High Critic Score:95/100

Developer(s)

Staff Asobi

Writer(s)

Sony Interactive Leisure

ESRB

E10+ For Everybody 10+ Due To Crude Humor, Fantasy Violence

A win for a household recreation

Astro Bot’s win is rarity for Sport of the 12 months

It is not frequent for a recreation that wins Greatest Household Sport to additionally take residence the award for Sport of the 12 months on the finish of the evening, however Astro Bot managed to do it. This marks solely the second time within the final 20 years of The Sport Awards that the winner of Greatest Household Sport went on to win the highest prize, becoming a member of 2021’s It Takes Two.

Astro Bot director Nicolas Doucet remarked on the problem of making the sport whereas accepting the award, highlighting the troublesome process of designing a recreation that serves as an introduction to gaming for kids whereas additionally paying tribute to PlayStation’s 30-year gaming legacy.

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An enormous win for PlayStation

A PS-exclusive stuffed with PlayStation historical past

Astro Bot’s win is a feather in PlayStation’s cap because it continues to outpace its major competitors, Microsoft and Xbox.

Astro Bot is a platformer recreation harking back to the unique Nintendo Mario video games. As a substitute of Mario, nevertheless, gamers tackle the function of Astro Bot, guiding him via difficult ranges and puzzles that always reference traditional video games from the PlayStation library, equivalent to God of Conflict, Metallic Gear Stable, Yakuza, and plenty of extra. Director Nicolas Doucet touched on this in his acceptance speech, saying, “Astro Bot is stuffed with PlayStation historical past. And lots of people on this room tonight gave their characters with out asking something in return, simply because they cared about celebrating 30 years of historical past.”

The sport is enjoyable for each adults and youngsters, however like its predecessor, Astro’s Playroom, it serves as each an homage to previous video games and a solution to educate new players the best way to use the controls wanted to grasp video video games. This makes it an ideal possibility for folks of younger youngsters searching for one thing to play alongside their kids.

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Extra The Sport Awards 2024 winners

A whole breakdown of the winners

Here is a whole breakdown of all of the winners from the most important evening in video video games. Astro Bot was one of many greatest winners of the evening, taking residence three awards — Greatest Sport Route, Greatest Household Sport, and Greatest Motion Sport — along with the Sport of the 12 months award.