At The Game Awards 2025 ceremony on Thursday night, Grand Theft Auto 6 claimed an honor that probably surprised exactly nobody. For the second consecutive year, Rockstar Games' long-awaited sequel took home the Most Anticipated Game award, just weeks after winning a similar award for the second year in a row at The Golden Joysticks.
The award itself is a given for GTA 6. Instead, it's winning it for two years in a row that places the upcoming sixthquel in an extremely exclusive club.
Since The Game Awards introduced the Most Anticipated category in 2020, only one other title has managed to capture the honor in back-to-back years, and that game is Elden Ring.
The collaboration between FromSoftware and Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin took home Most Anticipated Game awards in both 2020 and 2021 before finally launching in February 2022 to massive critical and commercial success, winning Game of the Year at The Game Awards 2022.
Given the company, GTA 6 could end up bagging the same award that Elden Ring did at this point next year, albeit we can't really discount the possibility of another delay just yet.
The Game Awards determines winners through a combination of fan voting and jury evaluation. The jury consists of over one hundred leading media outlets and influencers from around the world. This means winning requires both public approval and recognition from industry experts.
For a game to dominate this category two years running suggests that each delay hasn't affected the hype at all. If anything, Google's recent stat reveals shows there's still so much room to grow for GTA 6's hype.
It's safe to say that the repeated delays and the internal labor disputes, which Rockstar continues to refute despite the issue reaching the UK government, haven't dampened fan interest at all.
