With the award received at DICE 2019, God of War has finally managed to pass The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild in terms of game of the year awards.
As shared on ResetEra, Santa Monica Studio’s action adventure has obtained 190 GOTY awards around the world.
It’s just one more than Nintendo’s Breath of the Wild, that has stopped at the crazy amount of 189 in its long run.
For what matters the chart including games since 2009, God of War is the fourth game with the highest game of the year awards count.
2015 – The Witcher 3 – 257
2013 – The Last of Us – 249
2011 – Skyrim – 227
2018 – God of War -190
2017 – Breath of the Wild – 189
2016 – Uncharted 4 – 165
2013 – GTA V – 160
2014 – Dragon Age Inquisition -134
2018 – Red Dead Redemption 2 – 130
2010 – Red Dead Redemption – 111
2009 – Uncharted 2 – 111
2010 – Mass Effect 2 -101
2016 – Overwatch – 102
As you can see, The Witcher 3 is still unbeaten, and is the sole current-gen game to be feature in the first three spots of this special ranking.
Red Dead Redemption 2, to many the “true” game of the year in 2018, has only reached the 9th spot, which let’s you comprehend how tough the competion was.
Source: ResetEra