The clear crowd favorite of 2015 is The Witcher 3, which won in three categories: Best PS4 Game, Best Story, and Best Soundtrack - and its Hearts of Stone expansion also won Best Expansion.
Also, it’s interesting to see the ways the editors’ opinions compared to voters’ choices - in many cases, the editors’ picks didn’t even gather enough votes to warrant an honorable mention!
The winner of each category is accompanied by 3 runners-up, some honorable mentions, and a few favorite titles as chosen by the editors. All of them are listed below.
Best PS4 Game
Winner: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Runners-Up:
Bloodborne Fallout 4 Metal Gear Solid V
Honorable Mentions:
Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 Rocket League Star Wars Battlefront Until Dawn
Editor’s Choice:
Bloodborne N++ The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Fallout 4
Best PS3 Game
Winner: Metal Gear Solid V
Runners-Up:
Yakuza 5 Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 Tales from the Borderlands
Honorable Mentions:
Shovel Knight Tales of Zestiria Dragonball XenoVerse
Editor’s Choice:
Teslagrad Helldivers
Best PS Vita Game
Winner: Resident Evil Revelations 2
Runners-Up:
Shovel Knight Persona 4: Dancing All Night Super Meat Boy
Honorable Mentions:
Sword Art Online: Lost Song Hotline Miami 2 Bastion
Editor’s Choice:
Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number Shovel Knight
Best Story
Winner: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Runners-Up:
Life is Strange Until Dawn Metal Gear Solid V
Honorable Mentions:
Bloodborne Fallout 4 Batman: Arkham Knight
Editor’s Choice:
Bloodborne Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture SOMA Tales From The Borderlands
Best Soundtrack
Winner: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Runners-Up:
Metal Gear Solid V Bloodborne Life Is Strange
Honorable Mentions:
Fallout 4 Destiny: The Taken King Hotline Miami 2 Persona 4: Dancing All Night
Editor’s Choice:
Axiom Verge Fallout 4 N++
Best Digital Game
Winner: Rocket League
Runners-Up:
Life Is Strange Yakuza 5 Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture
Honorable Mentions:
Hotline Miami 2 SOMA Super Meat Boy
Editor’s Choice:
Wolfenstein: The Old Blood SOMA Nuclear Throne Axiom Verge
Best Multiplayer
Winner: Call of Duty: Black Ops 3
Runners-Up:
Rocket League Star Wars Battlefront Destiny: The Taken King
Honorable Mentions:
Rainbow Six Siege Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward The Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited
Editor’s Choice:
Rocket League Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 Destiny: The Taken King
Most Anticipated Game of 2016
Winner: Dark Souls III
Runners-Up:
Horizon: Zero Dawn No Man’s Sky Tom Clancy’s The Division
Honorable Mentions:
Mass Effect: Andromeda Final Fantasy XV The Last Guardian
Editor’s Choice:
Dark Souls III The Last Guardian Paragon Horizon: Zero Dawn The Witness
Best Free PS Plus Game
Winner: Rocket League
Runners-Up:
inFAMOUS First Light Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes The Walking Dead: Season Two
Honorable Mentions:
God of War Ascension Mass Effect 2 Dishonored
Editor’s Choice:
OlliOlli2: Welcome to Olliwood Gauntlet: Slayer Edition
Best Expansion
Winner: The Witcher 3: Hearts of Stone
Runners-Up:
Bloodborne: The Old Hunters GTA Online: Heists Destiny: The Taken King
Honorable Mentions:
Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward Star Wars Battlefront: The Battle of Jakku
Editor’s Choice:
Bloodborne: The Old Hunters Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward
Studio of the Year
Winner: CD Projekt Red
Runners-Up:
Bethesda Game Studios From Software Kojima Productions
Honorable Mentions:
Square Enix Treyarch
Editor’s Choice:
From Software Psyonix Kojima Productions
More details on the final picks, including the reasoning behind each Editor’s Choice decision, can be found here.
So, were you surprised by the results or not? Are there any other games you felt should have made it onto the list? Let us know in the comments!
