Guitar Hero World Tour: 1 Game of the Year award

No: Guitar Hero World Tour collected 1 Game of the Year award in 2008 and finished No. 14; the season went to Fallout 3 with 69. Spike Video Game Awards named Grand Theft Auto IV its Game of the Year.

Guitar Hero World Tour is a 2008 rhythm game developed by Neversoft and published by Activision. It is the fourth main installment and the sixth overall installment in the Guitar Hero series.

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Guitar Hero World Tour finished #14 in the 2008 race, with 1 GOTY award from media outlets and reader votes worldwide.

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

Also in the 2008 season: Fallout 3 (69), Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (41), Grand Theft Auto IV (40), Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (1), Dead Space (1), Halo 3 (1), Spore (1) · full results

Quick answers

How many Game of the Year awards did Guitar Hero World Tour win?

Guitar Hero World Tour won 1 Game of the Year award in the 2008 season — 0.5% of every award tracked that season. 1 came from editorial picks and 0 from readers' polls, across 1 country.

Did Guitar Hero World Tour win Game of the Year?

No. It finished No. 14 in 2008, behind Fallout 3, which collected 69 Game of the Year awards.

Game facts

Single-playerYes
Co-opNo
Split screenNo
MultiplayerYes
Online multiplayerNo
Released26 October 2008
DeveloperNeversoft
PublisherActivision

rhythm game
Wii
X-BOX 360
PlayStation 2
PlayStation 3
Microsoft Windows
macOS

Where the awards came from

Country	Awards
Spain	1

Every outlet that named it Game of the Year

Outlet	Country	Year
Clipset	Spain	2008

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