GTA 6 wins the Most Needed Sport award on the Golden Joystick Awards 2024

Substantial Theft Auto 6 is the Most Needed Sport of 2025, consistent with voters on the Golden Joystick Awards 2024.

Whereas lots of the prizes on supply everywhere in the annual awards ceremony are taking a behold again on the 12 months that’s factual lengthy earlier, the Most Needed Sport award seems to be like forward as an totally different. This 12 months, or not it’s GTA 6 that avid players verbalize they’re taking a behold forward to better than any of the totally different recent video games of 2025.

Nearly positively that comes as puny shock – a 12 months on from that preliminary GTA 6 trailer current we’ve heard subsequent to nothing from Rockstar earlier assurances that the game is restful location to liberate in 2025. Nonetheless with GTA 5 restful recent as indubitably certainly one of many most effective-promoting video games in historic earlier, or not it’s apparent that a whole lot and a whole lot upon a whole lot and a whole lot of avid players are taking a behold forward to its long-awaited sequel. Or not it’s already been 11 years since GTA 5 first and well-known launched, and with solely Crimson Boring Redemption 2 filling the outlet between that Rockstar liberate and its subsequent one, the studio’s followers possess wanted to be very affected person.

Indifferent, claiming the title of Most Needed Sport was as quickly as no simple feat this 12 months. To safe, GTA 6 wanted to beat the likes of Murderer’s Creed Shadows, Loss of life Stranding 2, Monster Hunter Wilds, Mafia: The Frail Nation, Hole Knight Silksong, Doom: The Unhappy Ages, and a number of other different extra excessive-profile releases that we’re hoping to salvage our fingers on throughout the subsequent twelve months.

In claiming the prize, GTA 6 has set itself in superb firm. Closing 12 months, it was as quickly as Closing Delusion 7: Rebirth that took this award dwelling, and that sport has already had an aesthetic time at this 12 months’s Golden Joystick Awards, with a variety of wins from its pack-main seven nominations. Outdated winners include Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Elden Ring, and God of Conflict Ragnarok, all of which could per likelihood lunge on to assert a number of titles of their very possess. And naturally, return far ample, and GTA 5 took dwelling the One to Bear in mind award in 2012, ahead of its possess GOTY crown in 2013. As we behold forward to 2025, all indicators counsel GTA 6 goes to own a genuinely, very superb 12 months.

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