What is the most anticipated video game of all time?

Years of waiting sit behind every one of these. Only some of them paid it back.

1. 1
   Grand Theft Auto VI

   Thirteen years after GTA V, with a trailer release treated as a global television event.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Cyberpunk 2077

   Eight years of build-up, a Keanu Reeves reveal, and a launch that undid much of it.
   875pts
3. 3
   Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty

   Its 2000 trailer was so dissected that its opening twist felt like a betrayal.
   642pts
4. 4
   Duke Nukem Forever

   Announced in 1997 and released in 2011, the definition of development limbo.
   577pts
5. 5
   Final Fantasy VII Remake

   A rebuild of the most-requested remake in games, announced five years before release.
   500pts
6. 6
   Death Stranding

   Kojima's first game after leaving Konami, sold almost entirely on curiosity.
   500pts
7. 7
   No Man's Sky

   A quintillion-planet promise that arrived missing most of what was shown.
   409pts
8. 8
   The Elder Scrolls VI

   Teased in 2018 with a single landscape shot and still unreleased.
   409pts
9. 9
   Spore

   Will Wright's evolution simulator, demoed for years before a far simpler game shipped.
   409pts
10. 10
    Half-Life 2

    Delayed a year by a source-code leak while the internet counted the days.
    300pts
11. 11
    Diablo III

    Eleven years after Diablo II, with launch servers that collapsed under the demand.
    300pts
12. 12
    StarCraft II

    A twelve-year wait watched most closely by an entire national esports scene.
    300pts
13. 13
    The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

    Delayed repeatedly and finally used to launch the Switch in 2017.
    300pts
14. 14
    Elden Ring

    Won Most Anticipated Game at the 2020 Game Awards on the strength of almost no footage.
    167pts
15. 15
    The Last of Us Part II

    Seven years of waiting, plus a leak that spoiled the plot before launch.
    167pts