* Games with 4 or more reviews in Metacritic's database released between Januand Decem(based on North American release dates, except in cases where a game has not been released in North America). Before that, here's a quick look at how the various game platforms compared this year: In a moment, we'll reveal this year's best-reviewed games for each major platform. (Either that, or we are looking at the new normal, where greatness is a bit more elusive.) So, consider this an exceptionally long transition period to the new hardware. The belated PC port of 2013's Grand Theft Auto V actually scored a point higher, but that game is ineligible for our official year-end honor since it isn't a new title. Of those, Phantom Pain received the highest individual score (for its XB1 version), making it our official game of the year for 2015. So the list of "new" great console titles this year is a short one: Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (on both PS4 and XB1), Bloodborne (PS4), and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (PS4/XB1). And two of those were expansion packs, while two more were ports from other platforms. In fact, just 9 console releases achieved a 90+ score. But that total matches last year's number, which represented the lowest number of great game releases in a single year over the past decade. That's not to say there weren't some great games in 2015-there were actually 14 releases scoring 90 or higher, listed a little further down this page. Once again, we are wrapping up a year in which many of the most-anticipated titles saw their releases pushed back to the following year, while others that did surface didn't quite live up to their advance promise. 7 reviews)įor the past several years, our year-end report on the year in games has contained a note stating that if the newest generation of console hardware was going to bring about an explosion of great new games, it hadn't happened yet.
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