His three lead actors all deliver superbly etched character performances.
Mr. Caine, who performed a similar service for Julie Walters in the melodrama "Educating Rita" some years ago, gives one of his brisk, understated character performances.
Around them, the rest of the cast are mixed: with fine character performances from Bennet Gartside and Gary Avis, but with some of the dancers still to find their swagger and snap.
In it, Peter Sellers gave one of his most finely-judged character performances, as a mild Scottish accountant whose position is threatened in a long-established Edinburgh textile firm by the arrival of an American efficiency expert.
All of the cutscenes were storyboarded by Rocksteady artists, being visualized in the game engine before the character performances were motion-captured.
I can't tell you a single other time I've experienced something like this: a real display of the feelings and themes these games are trying to evoke, channelled through live character performance.
I don't have to use any old tricks for the fans, it's a straightforward character performance".
There is, of course, another reason Serkis knew what he was in for: he's the king of the non-human character performance.
And Mr. Gaines, best known as a leading man ("Contact," "She Loves Me"), turns in a lovely character performance that hints at the vulnerability beneath the bluff dignity.
In addition to the overall game award, LittleBigPlanet took honors for console game of the year, game direction, family game of the year, art direction, visual engineering, character performance and outstanding innovation.
Dynamic shared narrative achieved with procedurarlly generated character performance.
