Although Bioware reports showed that most players preferred male Shepard, sometimes referred to as "BroShep", at 82% of the time and only 18% of players chose to play as a female Shepard in "Mass Effect 2", vocal support for her was high. The female Shepard was nicknamed "FemShep". "PC Gamers Tom Francis listed an appearance of FemShep on the box as one of 15 things he wished to see from "3". Hale was nominated for "Best Performance By A Human Female" at the 2010 Spike Video Game Awards, though lost to fellow "Mass Effect" voice actor Tricia Helfer (playing Sarah Kerrigan in ').