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Game of the Year 2006 country by country
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion won 2006 with 40 of 115 tracked Game of the Year awards — 34.8%, and the top spot in 5 of 13 countries. But a global majority is not a global consensus: 8 countries handed their most awards to something else, and 6 different games won at least one country outright.
- 35%The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion worldwide
- 13Countries with data
- 8Backed someone else
- 6Games that won a country
Where the winner was strong, and where it was not
Grouped by region, sorted by how much of each region's vote The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion took. The spread is the story: the same game can be near-unanimous in one region and absent in another.
Awards for The Elder Scrolls IV: OblivionAwards for everything else
| Region | Awards | Countries | Regional winner | The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion share | Different games |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eastern Europe | 2 | 1 | The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion | 100% | 1 |
| Middle East | 1 | 1 | The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion | 100% | 1 |
| North America | 71 | 2 | The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion | 37% | 7 |
| Western Europe | 23 | 2 | The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion | 35% | 7 |
| Northern Europe | 4 | 3 | Company of Heroes | 25% | 4 |
| Southern Europe | 6 | 1 | Gears of War | 17% | 3 |
| Oceania | 7 | 2 | The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess | 14% | 4 |
| Asia | 1 | 1 | Company of Heroes | 0% | 1 |
The countries that picked something else
8 of 13 countries gave their most awards to a game other than The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion: Italy, Australia, Canada. Below, each of those with at least 3 tracked outlets gets its full breakdown — every game and every outlet that named it.
Italy: Gears of War
6 tracked outlets, 3 different games awarded. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion took 1 of them (17%).
- 3× Gears of War
Gamemag Readers' Choice GOTY (readers), Multiplayer.it, Multiplayer.it Reader's Choice GOTY (readers) - 2× The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
EVERYEYE.IT, EVERYEYE.IT Reader's Choice GOTY (readers) - 1× The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
Hydra Awards
Australia: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
5 tracked outlets, 4 different games awarded. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion took 1 of them (20%).
- 2× The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
PALGN, PALGN Reader's Choice (readers) - 1× Destroy All Humans! 2
GDAA - 1× Gears of War
MyGEN - 1× The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
PC Authority Reliability and Service Awards
Canada: Gears of War
3 tracked outlets, 2 different games awarded. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion took 1 of them (33%).
- 2× Gears of War
Gauntlet Entertainment, PCWorld.ca - 1× The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
Extremegamer
Every game that won at least one country
| Game | Countries won | Awards worldwide |
|---|---|---|
| The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion | 5 | 40 |
| The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess | 4 | 26 |
| Gears of War | 2 | 32 |
| Company of Heroes | 2 | 2 |
| Shadow of the Colossus | 1 | 2 |
| Guitar Hero | 1 | 2 |
All 13 countries
| Country | Region | Awards | Its winner | The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion share | Different games |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | North America | 68 | The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion | 37% | 7 |
| United Kingdom | Western Europe | 21 | The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion | 38% | 7 |
| Italy | Southern Europe | 6 | Gears of War | 17% | 3 |
| Australia | Oceania | 5 | The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess | 20% | 4 |
| Canada | North America | 3 | Gears of War | 33% | 2 |
| Germany | Western Europe | 2 | Shadow of the Colossus / The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess | 0% | 2 |
| Sweden | Northern Europe | 2 | The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion / The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess | 50% | 2 |
| New Zealand | Oceania | 2 | The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess | 0% | 1 |
| Russia | Eastern Europe | 2 | The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion | 100% | 1 |
| South Korea | Asia | 1 | Company of Heroes | 0% | 1 |
| Latvia | Northern Europe | 1 | Company of Heroes | 0% | 1 |
| Saudi Arabia | Middle East | 1 | The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion | 100% | 1 |
| Finland | Northern Europe | 1 | Guitar Hero | 0% | 1 |
Read the small countries carefully.
A country with two tracked outlets that split their vote shows a 50% "winner" that means nothing. The archive is also heavily weighted towards Western outlets — the United States alone accounts for a fifth of all 2006 awards — so a thin row is a gap in our coverage, not evidence about that country's taste. Entries the source recorded as a language or a multi-country region rather than a country (Arab, Benelux, CA/FR, EUS …) are counted in the worldwide total but left out of the country ranking.