The Game Awards 2018 Nominations: 4 Ups & 6 Downs

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6. Forza Horizon 4 Snubbed For Game Of The Year

Forza Horizon 4
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Despite being one of the year's best-reviewed games, the brilliant Forza Horizon 4 was inexplicably snubbed for a Game of the Year nomination, ultimately landing just a paltry two nods for Best Sports/Racing Game and Best Audio Design.

This mostly speaks to the tradition of critics and awards shows demonstrating an odd bias against racing games, presumably due to it being a "niche" genre and far less popular than typical action-centric AAA titles.

Even so, it's a major failing of The Game Awards and its pool of jurors that they ignored arguably the best racing game of the generation and one that scored stronger reviews than half of the actual Game of the Year nominees. For shame.

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