Like every year, leaving us behind the E3 in Los Angeles we pull the sums on the immensity of the games that we were shown during this event: we come then to the nomination of the Game Critics Awards , awarded by a team of industry experts that journalists in the days before the fair American, were able to test every single game in order to give a final judgment.

Only the titles of which there was a playable demo can appear among the nominees: are not including that journalists were able to play.

The nominations see triumph games like Middle-Earth: the shadow of war , Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus and Mario + Rabbids Battle Kingdom , each with four nominations, followed by Assassin's Creed: Origins , Destiny 2 and Super Mario Odyssey with three nominations each. Here's the complete list:

Best of Show

• Assassin's Creed: Origins (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft)
• Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo)
• Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle (Ubisoft Ubisoft Paris/Milan/Ubisoft)
• Middle-Earth: the shadow of war (Monolith/Warner Bros Interactive Ent.)
• Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (Machine Games/Bethesda)

Best Original Game

• Detroit: Become Human (Quantic Dream/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
• Dragon Ball FighterZ (Arc System Works/Namco Bandai Entertainment)
• Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle (Ubisoft Ubisoft Paris/Milan/Ubisoft)
• Sea of Thieves (Rare/Microsoft)
• Skull & Bones (Ubisoft Singapore, Ubisoft)

Best Console game

• Assassin's Creed: Origins (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft)
• Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo)
• Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle (Ubisoft Ubisoft Paris/Milan/Ubisoft)
• Middle-Earth: the shadow of war (Monolith/Warner Bros Interactive Ent.)
• Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (Machine Games/Bethesda)

Best PC Game

• Destiny 2 (Bungie/Activision)
• Middle-Earth: the shadow of war (Monolith/Warner Bros. Interactive Ent)
• Mount & Blade II: Bannerlords (TaleWorlds Entertainment)
• Total War: Warhammer II (Creative Assembly/Sega)
• Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (Machine Games/Bethesda)

Best Game VR

• Doom VFR (id Software/Bethesda)
• Fallout 4 VR (Bethesda Game Studios/Bethesda)
• Lone Echo (Ready at Dawn/Oculus Studio)
• Moss (Polyarc)
• Transference (SpectreVision/Ubisoft)

Best Mobile Game/Portable

• Durango (What Studio/Nexon)
• Metroid: Samus Returns (MercurySteam/Nintendo)
• Hidden Agenda (Supermassive Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
• King's Knight: Wrath of the Dark Dragon (Square Enix)
• Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey Redux (Atlus)

Best Hardware

• Astro A10 Gaming Headset (Astro)
• Displaylink XR (DisplayLink)
• Razer Thresher Ultimate (Razer)
• Logitech PowerPlay Mat (Logitech)
• Xbox One X (Microsoft)

Best Game Action

• Call of Duty: WWII (Sledgehammer Games/Activision)
• Destiny 2 (Bungie/Activision)
• Far Cry 5 (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft)
• Star Wars Battlefront II (EA DICE/Motive/Criterion/Electronic Arts)
• Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (Machine Games/Bethesda)

Best Action/Adventure Game

• Assassin's Creed: Origins (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft)
• Detroit: Become Human (Quantic Dream/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
• Days Gone (SIE Bend Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
• Middle-Earth: the shadow of war (Monolith/Warner Bros. Interactive Ent).
• Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo)

Best RPG

• Battle Chasers: Nightwar (Airship Syndicate/THQ Nordic)
• Kingdom Come: Deliverance (Warhorse Studios/Deep Silver)
• Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlords (TaleWorlds Entertainment)
• NI No Kuni II: the fate of a Kingdom (Level 5/Namco Bandai Entertainment)
• South Park: Clashes-Recti (Ubisoft SF/South Park Digital Studios, Ubisoft)
• Vampyr (Dotnod Entertainment/Focus Home Interactive)

Best Brawler

• ARMS (Nintendo)
• Dragon Ball FighterZ (Arc System Works/Namco Bandai Entertainment)
• Marvel vs Capcom: Infinite (Capcom)
• Pokken Tournament DX (Bandai Namco Studios/The Pokemon Co.)

Best Racing Game

• Forza Motorsport 7 (Turn 10 Studios/Microsoft Studios)
• Gran Turismo (Polyphony Digital/Sony Interactive Ent)
• Need for Speed Payback (Ghost Games/Electronic Arts)
• Project CARS 2 (Slighty Mad Studios/Namco Bandai Entertainment)
• The Crew 2 (Ivory Tower/Ubisoft Reflections, Ubisoft)

Best Sports Game

• FIFA 18 (EA Canada/Ea)
• Madden NFL 18 (EA Tiburon/Electronic Arts)
• Pro Evolution Soccer 2018 (PES Productions/Konami)

Best Strategy Game

• Battletech (Harebrained Schemes/Paradox Interactive)
• Frostpunk (11 bit Studios)
• Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle (Ubisoft)
• Total War: Arena (Creative Assembly/Sega/Wargaming)
• Total War: Warhammer II (Creative Assembly/Sega)

Best family game/Social

• DropMix (Harmonix/Hasbro)
• Just Dance (Ubisoft) 2018
• LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2 (TT Games/Warner Bros Interactive Ent.)
• Hidden Agenda (Supermassive Games/Sony Interactive Ent.)
• That's You (Wish Studios/Sony Interactive Ent.)

Best Online Multiplayer

• Call of Duty: WWII (Sledgehammer Games/Activision)
• Destiny 2 (Bungie/Activision)
• Star Wars Battlefront II (EA DICE/Motive/Criterion/Electronic Arts)
• Sea of Thieves (Rare/Microsoft)
• Skull & Bones (Ubisoft Singapore, Ubisoft)

Best Independent Game

• Ashen (Aurora 44/Annapurna Interactive)
• Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night (Inti Creates/505 Games)
• Donut County (Ben Esposito/Annapurna Interactive)
• Laser League (Roll7/505 Games)
• The Artful Escape of Francis Vendetti (Beethoven & Dinosaur/Annapurna Interactive)

The winners will be announced tomorrow, on 28 June ; in the meantime, tell us what are the titles of E3 that you liked them more!