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Game of the Year 2009 country by country
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves won 2009 with 116 of 226 tracked Game of the Year awards — 51.3%, and the top spot in 19 of 30 countries. But a global majority is not a global consensus: 11 countries handed their most awards to something else, and 8 different games won at least one country outright. In Russia, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves did not receive a single award.
- 51%Uncharted 2: Among Thieves worldwide
- 30Countries with data
- 11Backed someone else
- 8Games 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 Uncharted 2: Among Thieves took. The spread is the story: the same game can be near-unanimous in one region and absent in another.
Awards for Uncharted 2: Among ThievesAwards for everything else
| Region | Awards | Countries | Regional winner | Uncharted 2: Among Thieves share | Different games |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Africa | 3 | 1 | Uncharted 2: Among Thieves | 67% | 2 |
| Asia | 6 | 4 | Uncharted 2: Among Thieves | 67% | 3 |
| Middle East | 6 | 3 | Uncharted 2: Among Thieves | 67% | 3 |
| Southern Europe | 17 | 4 | Uncharted 2: Among Thieves | 65% | 5 |
| Western Europe | 59 | 5 | Uncharted 2: Among Thieves | 56% | 10 |
| North America | 101 | 2 | Uncharted 2: Among Thieves | 53% | 10 |
| Oceania | 10 | 2 | Uncharted 2: Among Thieves | 40% | 6 |
| Northern Europe | 15 | 4 | Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 | 20% | 6 |
| Eastern Europe | 7 | 5 | Assassin's Creed II | 14% | 5 |
The countries that picked something else
11 of 30 countries gave their most awards to a game other than Uncharted 2: Among Thieves: Sweden, Russia. Below, each of those with at least 3 tracked outlets gets its full breakdown — every game and every outlet that named it.
Sweden: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 / Dragon Age: Origins
7 tracked outlets, 5 different games awarded. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves took 1 of them (14%).
- 2× Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Dataspelsgalan People's Choice GOTY (readers), Gamereactor Reader's Choice GOTY (readers) - 2× Dragon Age: Origins
FZ, Gameplayer.se - 1× Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
Dataspelsgalan 2010 - 1× Batman: Arkham Asylum
GAMEcore.se - 1× Killzone 2
GameReactor
Russia: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 / Demon's Souls / Dragon Age: Origins
3 tracked outlets, 3 different games awarded. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves took 0 of them (0%).
Every game that won at least one country
| Game | Countries won | Awards worldwide |
|---|---|---|
| Uncharted 2: Among Thieves | 19 | 116 |
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 | 5 | 26 |
| Dragon Age: Origins | 5 | 22 |
| Assassin's Creed II | 4 | 14 |
| Demon's Souls | 1 | 5 |
| Batman: Arkham Asylum | 1 | 30 |
| Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies | 1 | 1 |
| Dead Space Extraction | 1 | 1 |
All 30 countries
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 2009 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.