A child’s recreation simply received Sport of the Yr

The Sport Awards of 2024 have come to an in depth, with Astro Bot taking residence the coveted Sport of the Yr award.

The PlayStation-exclusive platformer emerged victorious regardless of a various area of nominees for the perfect Sport of the Yr 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, Workforce Asobi’s Astro Bot is a completely fleshed-out 3D platformer with over 80 levels. All through the marketing campaign, Astro will get entry to greater than 15 skills.

Techniques

OpenCritic

High Critic Score:95/100

Developer(s)

Workforce 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 Yr

It isn’t widespread for a recreation that wins Greatest Household Sport to additionally take residence the award for Sport of the Yr 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 tough job 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 full of PlayStation historical past

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

Astro Bot is a platformer recreation paying homage to the unique Nintendo Mario video games. As a substitute of Mario, nonetheless, gamers tackle the position of Astro Bot, guiding him via difficult ranges and puzzles that always reference traditional video games from the PlayStation library, reminiscent of God of Struggle, Steel Gear Stable, Yakuza, and lots 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 option to train new players the right way to use the controls wanted to grasp video video games. This makes it an important choice for folks of younger youngsters searching for one thing to play alongside their youngsters.

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Extra The Sport Awards 2024 winners

An entire breakdown of the winners

This is an entire breakdown of all of the winners from the largest evening in video video games. Astro Bot was one of many greatest winners of the evening, taking residence three awards — Greatest Sport Path, Greatest Household Sport, and Greatest Motion Sport — along with the Sport of the Yr award.