BioShock 2: 1 Game of the Year award

No: BioShock 2 collected 1 Game of the Year award in 2010 and finished No. 18; the season went to Red Dead Redemption with 112. Spike Video Game Awards named Red Dead Redemption its Game of the Year.

BioShock 2 is a first-person shooter video game developed by 2K Marin and published by 2K Games. It was released worldwide for PlayStation 3, Windows, and Xbox 360 on February 9, 2010; Feral Interactive released an OS X version on March 30, 2012.

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BioShock 2 finished #18 in the 2010 race, with 1 GOTY award from media outlets and reader votes worldwide.

1Total awards
1Media outlets
0Readers' choice
1Countries

Also in the 2010 season: Red Dead Redemption (112), Mass Effect 2 (104), Super Mario Galaxy 2 (22), Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (1), Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (1), Darksiders (1), Enslaved: Odyssey to the West (1) · full results

Quick answers

How many Game of the Year awards did BioShock 2 win?

BioShock 2 won 1 Game of the Year award in the 2010 season — 0.3% of every award tracked that season. 1 came from editorial picks and 0 from readers' polls, across 1 country.

Did BioShock 2 win Game of the Year?

No. It finished No. 18 in 2010, behind Red Dead Redemption, which collected 112 Game of the Year awards.

Game facts

Single-playerYes
Co-opNo
Split screenNo
MultiplayerYes
Online multiplayerNo
Released9 February 2010
Developer2K Marin
Publisher2K

first-person shooter
X-BOX 360
PlayStation 3
Microsoft Windows
macOS

Where the awards came from

Country	Awards
United States	1

Every outlet that named it Game of the Year

Outlet	Country	Year
Gameshark	United States	2010

← Full 2010 results

Updated 2 October 2026 · Source: the Meta Awards database, where every award row cites where it was published.