for Wii U if a completely original release is necessary) and Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain, respectively. If one considers Grand Theft Auto 5 ineligible for 20, then the highest-rated games would have been The Last of Us Remastered (or Super Smash Bros. And now that as well as the single player Grand Theft Auto 5 are being re-released yet again, making their way to both the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X later in 2021. Rockstar Games itself has also kept fans engaged with Grand Theft Auto 5, largely through its GTA Online multiplayer experience. Best 2017 Nintendo Games on Metacritic In a year already packed with prominent releases, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild still manages to stand at the top. Then Rockstar Games released the long-awaited Grand Theft Auto 5 PC port in 2015, opening the door for the modding community to keep interest in the game alive for years to come. Rockstar's GTA 5 was the highest-rated game of the year for three years running, with massive praise given to its original 2013 release on PS3 and Xbox 360 that continued when the game was ported to PS4 and Xbox One in 2014 with a variety of enhancements.

Until Grand Theft Auto 5, no game had managed to win Game of the Year multiple years in a row.

Best games of 2017 metacritic