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GDC Awards — Favorite Game of the Year

by BonaFideBOSS • Created 5 years ago • Modified 4 years ago
What is Your Favorite Game of the Year?

The Game Developers Choice Award for Game of the Year is announced during the Game Developers Choice Awards at the Game Developers Conference (GDC), the largest annual gathering of professional video game developers.

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  • The Sims (2000)

    1. The Sims

    2000TVideo Game
    7.9 (2.5K)
    "The Sims" is a close up look at a family of Will Wright's critically acclaimed "Sim City" series. In this game you create a family of "Sims" and build a house for them on the lot they are put on.
    DirectorWill WrightStarsGerri LawlorStephen KearinSean O'Connor
    Game of the Year: 2000
  • Grand Theft Auto III (2001)

    2. Grand Theft Auto III

    2001MVideo Game
    8.6 (19K)
    A young bank robber escapes from police custody and works his way up through the mafia ladder of Liberty City.
    StarsFrank VincentJoe PantolianoMichael Madsen
    Game of the Year: 2001
  • Metroid Prime (2002)

    3. Metroid Prime

    2002TVideo Game
    8.8 (2.4K)
    A Space Pirate distress signal draws bounty hunter Samus Aran to Tallon IV, a world she discovers is being consumed by a terrible poison.
    DirectorMark PaciniStarsJennifer HaleVanessa Marshall
    Game of the Year: 2002
  • Rafael Ferrer, Jennifer Hale, and Kristoffer Tabori in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (2003)

    4. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

    2003TVideo Game
    9.5 (9.9K)
    A republic soldier, training to become a Jedi Knight, is given the task of halting the conquest of Darth Malak by discovering the location of a weapon known as the Star Forge.
    DirectorCasey HudsonStarsJennifer HaleRaphael SbargeRafael Ferrer
    Game of the Year: 2003
  • Half-Life 2 (2004)

    5. Half-Life 2

    2004MVideo Game
    9.4 (19K)
    Dr. Freeman is taken out of stasis by his "employer" to help rid the planet of invading aliens forces known as the Combine that entered through the portals he helped create.
    DirectorDavid SpeyrerStarsRobert GuillaumeRobert CulpLouis Gossett Jr.
    Game of the Year: 2004
  • Shadow of the Colossus (2005)

    6. Shadow of the Colossus

    2005TVideo Game
    9.2 (4.9K)
    A young man brings a deceased woman to a forbidden land inhabited by colossal beings said to house the power to revive the dead.
    DirectorFumito UedaStarsKenji NojimaKazuhiro NakataKyôko Hikami
    Game of the Year: 2005
  • John DiMaggio and Carlos Ferro in Gears of War (2006)

    7. Gears of War

    2006MVideo Game
    8.5 (9.6K)
    Mankind's desperate struggle for survival against a the Locust Horde, a nightmarish race of creatures that surface from the planet's core.
    DirectorMo DavoudianStarsJohn DiMaggioCarlos FerroLester Speight
    Game of the Year: 2006
  • Portal (2007)

    8. Portal

    2007TVideo Game
    9.1 (16K)
    A test subject wakes up in a scientific facility controlled by a sadistic artificial intelligence and must escape with the help of the only instrument she has--a gun that makes portals.
    StarsEllen McLainMike PattonAlesia Glidewell
    Game of the Year: 2007
  • Fallout 3 (2008)

    9. Fallout 3

    2008MVideo Game
    9.0 (21K)
    Centuries following nuclear war, a teen leaves the safety of an underground vault in order to find their father, who left in hopes of creating a water purifier.
    DirectorTodd HowardStarsLiam NeesonMalcolm McDowellRon Perlman
    Game of the Year: 2008
  • Nolan North in Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (2009)

    10. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

    200918+Video Game
    9.3 (31K)
    After being tracked down by Harry Flynn, Nathan Drake goes on a quest for Marco Polo's lost fleet. However when things take an unexpected turn for the worst, Drake must rely on those closest to him in order to find the Cintomani Stone.
    DirectorsAmy HennigBruce StraleyStarsNolan NorthEmily RoseClaudia Black
    Game of the Year: 2009
  • Rob Wiethoff in Red Dead Redemption (2010)

    11. Red Dead Redemption

    2010MVideo Game
    9.4 (35K)
    Follows a former outlaw, John Marston, who is forced by the federal government to hunt down the members of his old gang during the decline of the American frontier in the year 1911.
    DirectorChristian CantamessaStarsRob WiethoffJosh BlaylockSophia Marzocchi
    Game of the Year: 2010
  • The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (2011)

    12. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

    2011MVideo Game
    9.3 (36K)
    After escaping execution, the last living Dragonborn must grow in strength and power to defeat the dragons that have once again begun to plague the land of Skyrim.
    DirectorTodd HowardStarsMax von SydowChristopher PlummerJoan Allen
    Game of the Year: 2011
  • Journey (2012)

    13. Journey

    2012EVideo Game
    8.4 (4.6K)
    A robed figure in a desolate world undertakes a journey towards a distant, glowing mountain.
    DirectorJenova Chen
    Game of the Year: 2012
  • Ashley Johnson and Troy Baker in The Last of Us (2013)

    14. The Last of Us

    2013MVideo Game
    9.7 (86K)
    In a hostile, post-pandemic world, Joel and Ellie, brought together by desperate circumstances, must rely on each other to survive a brutal journey across what remains of the United States.
    DirectorsNeil DruckmannBruce StraleyStarsTroy BakerAshley JohnsonHana Hayes
    Game of the Year: 2013
  • Troy Baker in Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor (2014)

    15. Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor

    2014MVideo Game
    8.2 (7.1K)
    The family of Talion, a ranger of Gondor responsible for guarding the Black Gate of Mordor, is killed by Saurons armies, but Talion is revived with wraith-like abilities and heads into Mordor to exact his revenge.
    DirectorsMatthew AllenChristian CantamessaNeil HuxleyStarsJack QuaidTroy BakerMatthew Mercer
    Game of the Year: 2014
  • Doug Cockle and Jacek Rozenek in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (2015)

    16. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

    2015MVideo Game
    9.6 (38K)
    The monster slayer Geralt of Rivia must find his adoptive daughter who is being pursued by the Wild Hunt, and prevent the White Frost from bringing about the end of the world.
    DirectorKonrad TomaszkiewiczStarsDoug CockleDenise GoughJo Wyatt
    Game of the Year: 2015
  • Cara Theobold in Overwatch (2016)

    17. Overwatch

    2016TVideo Game
    8.2 (6.2K)
    After a devastating war against a combat-ready team of intelligent machines known as Omnics, the former agents of the heroic team known as Overwatch must join forces once more to fight a new threat.
    DirectorsJeffrey KaplanAaron KellerStarsAaron PhillipsAnjali BhimaniCara Theobold
    Game of the Year: 2016
  • The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (2017)

    18. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

    2017E10+Video Game
    9.4 (11K)
    After a century of hibernation, Link reawakens to once again save a ruined Hyrule from a great evil.
    DirectorsHidemaro FujibayashiHiroki HiranoKentaro TominagaStarsKengo TakanashiYû ShimamuraKôji Takeda
    Game of the Year: 2017
  • Christopher Judge and Sunny Suljic in God of War (2018)

    19. God of War

    2018MVideo Game
    9.5 (43K)
    After wiping out the gods of Mount Olympus, Kratos moves on to the frigid lands of Scandinavia, where he and his son must embark on an odyssey across a dangerous world of gods and monsters.
    DirectorCory BarlogStarsChristopher JudgeSunny SuljicJeremy Davies
    Game of the Year: 2018
  • Untitled Goose Game (2019)

    20. Untitled Goose Game

    2019EVideo Game
    7.3 (968)
    It's a lovely morning in the village, and you're a horrible goose that causes havoc. That's it. You run around just ruining peoples days.
    StarMatina Steiner
    Game of the Year: 2019

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