Coming soon is the Writer’s Guild of America award for excellency in “Videogame Writing” and you know, actual movies. The nominees are:
- Assassin’s Creed 2 - Story by Corey May, Script Writers Corey May, Joshua Rubin, Jeffrey Yohalem Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - Written by Jesse Stern, Additional Writing Steve Fukuda, Story by Todd Alderman, Steve Fukuda, Mackey McCandlish, Zied Rieke, Jesse Stern, Jason West, Battlechatter Dialogue, Sean Slayback Uncharted 2: Among Thieves - Written by Amy Hennig Wet - Written by Duppy Demetrius X-Men Origins: Wolverine - Script Writer Marc Guggenheim
Everyone who’s seen this list have the same thing to say about it more or less, and that is, what exactly is Wet, X-Men, and Modern Warfare doing on that list when there were other games like Dragon Age: Origins that certainly had great stories and dialog. Now I’m not going to defend MW2’s cookie-cutter military story, but you cannot say that a lot of the things you did in that game weren’t cool, and yes, those scripted events count as writing.
I haven’t played Wet, but I did see X-Men when it came out and while I am a fan of comic books, I can’t say the actual writing was anything that dazzled me and I thought it was merely something that filled the gaps between the action sequences. MW2 is no different, but I felt it was a bit more compelling, and that made all the difference in the world to me.
And yes, I absolutely think Uncharted 2 will win. AC2’s story was incredible in both scope and content, but at times, I felt it was a bit difficult to follow. And if the WGA is judging the games on their cinematic merit and not just the actual dialog, Uncharted is going to be taking it away.
We’ll find out who the winner is come February 20, 2010 when the WGA announces the winners of their awards.
Who do you think should have been nominated? Not nominated? Predictions?
Source: Joystiq
