Game Critics Awards Best of E3 2019 winners: Here are the victors and nominees for every category

(Image credit: Square Enix)

The list of E3 2019 games was long and good, and now the Game Critics Awards have narrowed down their picks for the Best of E3 2019 to 17 winners. More than 50 media and influencer outlets from around the world (including 12DOVE) cast their votes for 48 products across multiple categories, and the Game Critics Awards are finally ready to share the results.

Before you start wondering where games like Marvel's Avengers and Halo Infinite are, part of the criteria for voting was that each game must have been playable for at least five minutes at the show. That also ruled out Cyberpunk 2077, though it still didn't leave empty-handed from the awards. Here are the nominees and winners for each category.

Best of Show

Final Fantasy 7 Remake (Winner)

Borderlands 3
Doom Eternal
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
The Outer Worlds
Watch Dogs: Legion

Best Original Game

The Outer Worlds (Winner)

12 Minutes
Bleeding Edge
Control
John Wick Hex

Best Console Game

Final Fantasy 7 Remake (Winner)

Luigi’s Mansion 3
The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
Watch Dogs: Legion

Best PC Game

Doom Eternal (Winner)

Borderlands 3
Control
The Outer Worlds
Wolfenstein: Youngblood

Best VR/AR Game

Phantom: Covert Ops (Winner)

Asgard’s Wrath
Lone Echo II
Minecraft Earth
Sniper Elite VR

Best Hardware/Peripheral

Xbox Elite Wireless Controller Series 2 (Winner)

Sega Genesis Mini
Smach Z

Best Action Game

Doom Eternal (Winner)

Borderlands 3
Call of Duty Modern Warfare
Gears 5
Wolfenstein: Youngblood

Best Action/Adventure

Watch Dogs: Legion (Winner)

Control
Luigi’s Mansion 3
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening

Best RPG

Final Fantasy 7 Remake (Winner)

Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot
Monster Hunter: World Iceborne
Pokemon Sword and Shield
The Outer Worlds

Best Racing Game

Crash Team Racing (Winner)

F1 2019
Forza Horizon 4: LEGO Speed Champions
GRID

Best Sports Game

eFootball Pro Evolution Soccer 2020 (Winner)

Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020
Madden NFL 20
Roller Champions

Best Strategy Game

John Wick Hex (Winner)

Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition
Desperados 3
Fire Emblem: Three Houses
Phoenix Point

Best Family/Social Game

Luigi's Mansion 3 (Winner)

Fall Guys
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020
Minecraft Dungeons
Pokemon Sword and Shield

Best Online Multiplayer

Call of Duty Modern Warfare (Winner)

Bleeding Edge
Gears 5
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Breakpoint
Wolfenstein: Youngblood

Best Independent Game

12 Minutes (Winner)

Carrion
Fall Guys
John Wick Hex
Sayonara Wild Hearts

Best Ongoing Game

Destiny 2 (Winner)

Final Fantasy 14
Fortnite
Monster Hunter: World
Tom Clancy’s The Division 2

Special Commendations for Graphics

Cyberpunk 2077

Start saving money for these big games now with some preview picks from the best Amazon Prime Day deals, or watch our video preview of Watch Dogs: Legion, one of the biggest games at E3.

Connor Sheridan

I got a BA in journalism from Central Michigan University - though the best education I received there was from CM Life, its student-run newspaper. Long before that, I started pursuing my degree in video games by bugging my older brother to let me play Zelda on the Super Nintendo. I've previously been a news intern for GameSpot, a news writer for CVG, and now I'm a staff writer here at GamesRadar.

Latest in Final Fantasy
Final Fantasy 14 Dawntrail Futures Unwritten Ultimate raid
As Final Fantasy 14 raiders tear through the MMO's hardest duty with no healers and then no tanks, the community can only see this going one way: "Now it's time to clear without DPS"
Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail cinematic screenshot showing Alphinaud Leveilleur, an Elezen boy with short white hair
Final Fantasy 14's funniest speedrunning beef continues as runner who lost a world record to its original champ in just 1 day returns, beats record, is promptly dethroned again
Final Fantasy 7
Sony finally managed to pry Final Fantasy 7 away from Nintendo thanks to a "schmoozer" of a former employee who hung out with Square Enix executives at his parties, according to one former PlayStation boss
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Remastered Edition
Square Enix kills Final Fantasy game's mobile version after being unable to "completely fix" a bug stopping fans from accessing their additional paid content
Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster
Final Fantasy creator says the original JRPG's programmer was "like a god" to him: "I still strongly feel that the core program itself is the ‘life’ of a game"
Final Fantasy 14 producer Yoshi-P interview's the series' founding father Hironobu Sakaguchi
After 3 years of playing Final Fantasy 14 "almost every single day," series creator Hironobu Sakaguchi reckons the MMO "might be the game that I've played the most in my life"
Latest in News
inZOI Character Studio screenshot showing a young woman with short black/pink hair, black cat-like ears, and a black blouse with a bowtie
The creator of upcoming life sim Inzoi says he was "recklessly brave to even think about creating a game of this scale"
Rise of the Ronin
A year after its PS5 launch, Rise of the Ronin debuts on PC to "Mixed" reviews and performance complaints: "Stuttering on a 4090 is just... no"
Rise of the Ronin's photo mode offers some wonderful shots
On the heels of Rise of the Ronin's PC launch, its director says there's a "significant" amount of Japanese Switch gamers: "I am closely watching how this will change with the release of Switch 2"
Stardew Valley Castle Village mod
Stardew Valley Expanded creator is building an "even more ambitious" mod with a whole new city and "dungeons inspired by The Legend of Zelda"
Dino Crisis 2 art showing a young woman and man back-to-back amid tall green grass, both with their weapons drawn
Dino Crisis gets a fresh trademark filing by Capcom, but it might not mean the 26-year-old survival horror franchise will get a new installment like fans expect
Cujo
Netflix is making a brand new adaptation of Cujo, the infamous Stephen King book about a killer dog