This is it, the big one. The grand winner. TheSixthAxis’ Overall Game of the Year 2011. For this award, we took a separate poll of our staff, asking which was their overall game of the year for 2011. Every staff member got to pick a top three and the results were charted and used to generate the graph below.
It’s always great to see the less mainstream games getting some attention in these votes. So, the inclusion of the excellent iOS game, Jetpack Joyride, alongside some of the year’s best downloadable games on PSN and XBLA, is lovely.
Of course, the big multi platform games are always going to be hard to beat and this proved to be the case again with the top three all being games which are available on both HD home consoles as well as the PC. It’s not until fourth place and Uncharted 3 (in itself an indication of how strong this year’s field is) that we get a console exclusive.
Microsoft’s limited exclusive range is represented in sixth by the fantastic Gears of War 3 too, although it only received just over half the votes of Sony’s best performing platform exclusive.
So the top three, then, took us to Gotham for third place, the northernmost reaches of Tamriel for second and for first place we made a return to he inimitable testing chambers of Aperture Science.
TheSixthAxis’ Overall Game of the Year 2011 is Portal 2.
colmshan1990
Hang on- how did Skyrim come 2nd overall but 3rd multiplatform?
That said, I reckon it should be number 1, although Portal 2 is a fine game. However, it’s in no way the equal of Portal 1, and quite frankly it ranks behind Skyrim, Uncharted, LA Noire, Little Big Planet 2 and Resident Evil 4 HD for me this year.
Still a 9/10 game for me, and I’m happy to have it on my shelf.
Origami Killer
Must play Portal 2. Skyrim has been GOTY for me, closely followed by Little Big Planet 2 and Uncharted 3. The PS3 exclusives this year have been fantastic.
Origami Killer
Also no love for LA Noire or Dark Souls
Kennykazey
All games on that poll are great titles. Really nice to see Stacking getting some love, but no mention of L.A. Noire? That’s sad. Not so sure about Portal 2 as GOTY though, it’s a great game, but Game of The Year? In my honest opinion, no. Congrats to Valve though.
MICKY17
Well deserving game. Great choice TSA.
hol
A good choice, a lot of mates who’ve play portal 2 have been gushing over it, picked it up myself yesterday for £7 from morrisons so I’ll see what the fuss is about ;)
Sympozium
How could Dark Souls miss the list?
Shocking
Jim Hargreaves
A lot of games did. Each writer got three nominations so naturally some were left out. A lot of games also managed to just scrape their way onto the list too.
Foxhound_Solid
Tsa ftw…great articles these. Happy new year :-)
Michael
Deserving winner, I think.
JBoo
No the winner is – Uncharted 3 :P Portal 2? LOL
Sympozium
You really are so funny.
*rolls eyes*
gaffers101
I must really be missing something with Portal 2. I must add it to my Lovefilm list for 2012.