Grand Theft Auto V Wins Game Of The Year

[Jazzy]

Grand Theft Auto V has taken top prize at the annual Golden Joystick Awards.

Rock Star North's record-breaking title won Game of the Year at the annual awards, held this year in central London.

A key date in the gaming industry's calendar, the Golden Joystick Awards celebrate the best video-gaming creations of the past 12 months.

GTA V is the fastest selling video game title of all time and is predicted to sell 25 million copies in the coming year.

Games website IGN called it a "masterpiece", and one of the greatest video games ever made.

Set in the fictional city of San Andreas, GTA V's mission-led gameplay has garnered rave reviews from fans worldwide, but critics claim the game glorifies violence, torture and crime.

Costing an estimated £170m to make and market, GTA V's release last month saw chaotic scenes across the UK as avid fans queued up to get a copy of the fifth instalment of the series.

A 23-year-old man in north London was stabbed and robbed of his copy minutes after it went on sale.

Three teenagers have been charged over the incident.

The GTA series has shifted around 150 million copies since it started in 1997.

However, the makers of GTA V were forced to apologise at the start of October after the launch of the game's online multiplayer mode was beset with problems.

Many complained of the game failing to load, while others were repeatedly disconnected once they managed to log on to the online platform. The issues were later fixed.

Other winners on the night included cult shooter Call Of Duty picking up a Hall of Fame award, Naughty Dog's The Last Of Us winning Best Newcomer and Best Storytelling and BioShock creator Kevin Levine taking home the inaugural Lifetime Achievement award.

Full list of winners at the Golden Joystick Awards

In your opinion, do you think Theft Auto V should have won Game of the Year? If not, which video game do you think should have won?

 

[Tyler]

Well its a pretty awesome game.

 

[Kirito]

I'm not into GTA games so I'm not particularly excited about it, but it's been a pretty shitty year for me game-wise anyway. I'm still playing the stuff that came out in 2012 or earlier.

 

[Bea Sunny (:]

I don't really like that game my bf loves it.