Best of E3 2018 Winners Selected by Game Critics Awards

e3Every year, the Game Critics Awards, a collection of editors from more than 50 major publications that cover the video game industry, get together to choose the best games at the E3 Expo.

While all of these titles are still in development, you should keep them in mind when you add games to your collection this Fall and into 2019.

Capcom’s Resident Evil 2 remake was named “Best of Show,” and the full list of winners and nominees can be found below.

Best of Show

  • Anthem (BioWare/EA)
  • Marvel’s Spider-Man (Insomniac Games/SIE)
  • WINNER: Resident Evil 2 (Capcom)
  • Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (FromSoftware/Activision)
  • Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Bandai Namco Studios/Sora/Nintendo)

Best Original Game

  • Anthem (BioWare/EA)
  • Days Gone (SIE Bend Studio/SIE)
  • WINNER: Dreams (Media Molecule/SIE)
  • Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (FromSoftware/Activision)
  • Skull & Bones (Ubisoft Singapore/Ubisoft)

Best Console Game

  • Assassin’s Creed Odyssey (Ubisoft Quebec/Ubisoft)
  • Dreams (Media Molecule/SIE)
  • WINNER: Marvel’s Spider-Man (Insomniac Games/SIE)
  • Resident Evil 2 (Capcom)
  • Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (FromSoftware/Activision)
  • Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Bandai Namco Studios/Sora/Nintendo)

Best PC Game

  • WINNER: Anthem (BioWare/EA)
  • Battlefield V (EA DICE/EA)
  • Metro: Exodus (4A Games/Deep Silver)
  • Rage 2 (Avalanche/id/Bethesda)
  • Total War: Three Kingdoms (Creative Assembly/Sega)

Best AR/VR Game

  • Astro Bot: Rescue Mission (SIE Japan Studio/SIE)
  • Deracine (FromSoftware/SIE Japan Studio/SIE)
  • Echo Combat (Ready at Dawn/Oculus Studios)
  • WINNER: Tetris Effect (Resonair/Enhance Inc)
  • Trover Saves the Universe (Squanch Games)

Best Action Game

  • WINNER: Anthem (BioWare/EA)
  • Battlefield V (EA DICE/EA)
  • Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 (Treyarch/Activision)
  • Metro: Exodus (4A Games/Deep Silver)
  • Rage 2 (Avalanche/id/Bethesda)

Best Action/Adventure Game

  • Assassin’s Creed Odyssey (Ubisoft Quebec/Ubisoft)
  • WINNER: Marvel’s Spider-Man (Insomniac Games/SIE)
  • Resident Evil 2 (Capcom)
  • Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (FromSoftware/Activision)
  • Shadow of the Tomb Raider (Eidos Montreal/Square Enix)
  • Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 (Massive Entetainment/Ubisoft)

Best RPG

  • Divinity: Original Sin II (Larian Studios/Bandai Namco)
  • Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age (Square Enix)
  • WINNER: Kingdom Hearts III (Square Enix)
  • Octopath Traveler (Square Enix/Acquire/Nintendo)
  • Pokemon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! and Eevee! (Game Freak/Nintendo)

Best Fighting Game

  • Dead or Alive 6 (Team Ninja/Koei Tecmo)
  • Jump Force (Spike Chunsoft/Bandai Namco)
  • Soul Calibur VI (Bandi Namco)
  • WINNER: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Bandai Namco Studios/Sora/Nintendo)

Best Racing Game

  • F1 2018 (Codemasters)
  • WINNER: Forza Horizon 4 (Playground Games/Turn 10/Microsoft Studios)
  • Team Sonic Racing (Sumo Digital/Sega)
  • The Crew 2 (Ivory Tower/Ubisoft)
  • Trials Rising (Red Lynx/Ubisoft)

Best Sports Game

  • WINNER: FIFA 19 (EA Vancouver/EA)
  • Mario Tennis Aces (Camelot Software Planning/Nintendo)
  • Pro Evolution Soccer 2019 (PES Productions/Konami)

Best Strategy Game

  • Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden (The Bearded Ladies/Funcom)
  • WINNER: Total War: Three Kingdoms (Creative Assembly/Sega)
  • Two Point Hospital (Two Point Studios/Sega)
  • Wargroove (Chuckle Fish)

Best Family/Social Game

  • Dreams (Media Molecule/SIE)
  • Lego DC Super-Villains (Traveler’s Tales/WBIE)
  • Pokemon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! and Eevee! (Game Freak/Nintendo)
  • WINNER: Overcooked 2 (Ghost Town Games/Team 17)
  • Mario Tennis Aces (Camelot Software Planning/Nintendo)

Best Online Multiplayer

  • Anthem (BioWare/EA)
  • WINNER: Battlefield V (EA DICE/EA)
  • Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 (Treyarch/Activision)
  • Destiny 2: Forsaken (Bungie/Activision)
  • Skull & Bones (Ubisoft Singapore/Ubisoft)
  • Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 (Massive Entertainment/Ubisoft)

Best Independent Game

  • WINNER: Ori and the Will of Wisps (Moon Studios/Microsoft)
  • Outer Wilds (Mobius Digital/Annapurna Interactive)
  • Overcooked 2 (Ghost Town Games/Team 17)
  • Sable (Shedworks/Raw Fury)
  • Tunic (Andrew Shouldice/Finji)

Best Ongoing Game

  • Destiny 2: Forsaken (Bungie/Activision)
  • For Honor (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft)
  • WINNER: Fortnite (Epic)
  • PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG Corp)
  • Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Siege (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft)

Best Hardware/Peripheral

  • NeoGeo Mini (SNK)
  • Poke Ball Plus (Nintendo)
  • Starlink: Battle for Atlas (Ubisoft Toronto/Ubisoft)
  • Vantage Controller for PS4 (SCUF Gaming)
  • WINNER: Xbox Adaptive Controller (Microsoft)

Special Commendation for Graphics

  • WINNER: Cyberpunk 2077 (CD Projekt Red)
  • WINNER: The Last of Us Part II (Naughty Dog/SIE)
  • WINNER: Ghost of Tsushima (Sucker Punch/SIE)

Special Commendation for Sound

  • WINNER: The Last of Us Part II (Naughty Dog/SIE)

Special Commendation for Innovation

  • WINNER: Cyberpunk 2077 (CD Projekt Red)