Seventeen percent of the public vote was enough, and it came with three more trophies. Resident Evil Requiem was named Ultimate Game of the Year at the 44th Golden Joystick Awards in London on Wednesday night, and it also took Console Game of the Year, Best Game Trailer and Best Lead Performer.
Phantom Blade Zero finished second on 16 percent and Crimson Desert third on 15, so the top prize came down to two points on a public ballot that has been running since 1983.
Best Game Trailer went to “Evil Has Always Had A Name,” the live-action short Capcom put out ahead of the game. Rich Lee directed it, and Maika Monroe plays a mother caught in the original Raccoon City outbreak. Monroe does not appear in the game itself.
Monroe told Entertainment Weekly that the look book Lee sent her was “very nostalgic. The big point was going back to the ’90s, the original location of Raccoon City.” Putting a horror lead at the center of a promo for a game she is not in is a strange call on paper, and it is the one that won the category.
Capcom Took Seven Awards in One Night
Capcom was named Studio of the Year, Onimusha: Way of the Sword won Best Audio Design, and Grace Saif won Best Supporting Performer as Diana in PRAGMATA. Counted with the four for Requiem, that is seven of the night’s 25 categories going to one publisher.
Best Lead Performer went to Angela Sant’Albano for Grace Ashcroft, the lead Capcom built the first mainline entry since Resident Evil Village around. Resident Evil Requiem arrived February 27 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 2 and PC.
Horror Took a Second Category
Iron Lung won Best Game Adaptation and DOOM: The Dark Ages took Best Game Expansion. Alix Wilton Regan hosted the ceremony, with Requiem voice actor Nick Apostolides among the presenters.
The run is not confined to the game. Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil crossed $400 million worldwide earlier this month, the first entry in the 24-year-old movie series to get there.