Witcher 3 Triumphant in GameSpot People's Choice GOTY Award
The Witcher 3 has emerged the emphatic winner of a GameSpot poll that asked readers to vote for their favourite game of 2015.
Fallout 4 took second place, while Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain was voted third-best game of the year. From Software's PS4-exclusive Bloodborne finished fourth, while indie breakthrough Rocket League took fifth.
However that list doesn't portray the extent of the Witcher 3's dominance in the poll. The open-world opus amassed 62 percent of all votes, which means it accumulated more endorsements than all the other 24 entrants combined. By the final count, its lead over second-placed Fallout 4 was an extraordinary 53 percent.
The top five finalists closely resemble GameSpot Editors' Game of The Year list, in which Witcher 3 took first place above Rocket League, MGS 5, Bloodborne, and Super Mario Maker (Fallout 4 finished in 6th).
Meanwhile, in the individual platform categories for People's Choice Game of the Year, The Witcher 3 took first on all platforms it shipped on (PC, PS4, Xbox One). Xenoblade Chronicles X won best Wii U game, while Fallout Shelter was voted best mobile game.
Upon release in May, GameSpot awarded The Witcher 3 a rare 10/10 review score, with critic Kevin VanOrd eulogising it as "one of the greatest games ever made."
GameSpot's People's Choice Top 25:
Proportion of popular vote in parenthesis. Games ranked by vote count.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (62%)
Fallout 4 (9%)
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (6%)
Bloodborne (5%)
Rocket League (3%)
Undertale (2%)
Rise of the Tomb Raider (2%)
Assassin's Creed Syndicate (1%)
Super Mario Maker (1%)
Xenoblade Chronicles X (1%)
Halo 5: Guardians (1%)
Dying Light (1%)
Until Dawn (1%)
Just Cause 3 (1%)
Ori and the Blind Forest (1%)
Splatoon (1%)
Tales From the Borderlands (1%)
Cities: Skylines (0%)
Kerbal Space Program (0%)
Rainbow Six Siege (0%)
Heroes of the Storm (0%)
SOMA (0%)
Project CARS (0%)
Evolve (0%)
Her Story (0%)
Individual People's Choice Categories
Winner in bold, second place in parenthesis.
Best PC Game
The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt
(Fallout 4)
Best PS4 Game
The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt
(Bloodborne)
Best Xbox One Game
The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt
(Rise of the Tomb Raider)
Best Wii U Game
Xenoblade Chronicles X
(Super Mario Maker)
Best PS Vita Game
Persona 4: Dancing All Night
(OlliOlli 2)
Best 3DS Game:
Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate
(The Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes)
Best Mobile Game
Fallout Shelter
(Lara Croft GO)
Best Reissued Game:
Grand Theft Auto 5
(Zelda Majora's Mask)
Best Game Expansion:
The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt - Hearts of Stone
(tied - Bloodborne: The Old Hunters; Destiny: The Taken King)
