Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle took home top honors from the 2017 Game Critics Awards: Best of E3, earning two wins for Best Original Game and Best Strategy Game. The Game Critics Awards – an independent organization of editors from 40 media outlets worldwide that cover video games – also nominated Assassin's Creed Origins, Skull & Bones, Transference, Far Cry 5, South Park: The Fractured But Whole, The Crew 2, and Just Dance 2018 for multiple awards, with 14 nominations in total.
The nominations included:
Best of Show
– Assassin's Creed: Origins (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft)
– Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle (Ubisoft Paris/Ubisoft Milan/Ubisoft)
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Best Original Game**
– Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle (Ubisoft Paris/Ubisoft Milan/Ubisoft)
– Skull & Bones (Ubisoft Singapore/Ubisoft)
Best Console Game
– Assassin's Creed: Origins (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft)
– Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle (Ubisoft Paris/Ubisoft Milan/Ubisoft)
Best VR Game
– Transference (SpectreVision/Ubisoft)
Best Action Game
– Far Cry 5 (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft)
Best Action/Adventure Game
– Assassin's Creed: Origins (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft)
Best RPG
– South Park: The Fractured But Whole (Ubisoft SF/South Park Digital Studios/Ubisoft)
Best Racing Game
– The Crew 2 (Ivory Tower/Ubisoft Reflections/Ubisoft)
Best Strategy Game
– Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle (Ubisoft)
Best Family/Social Game
– Just Dance 2018 (Ubisoft)
Best Online Multiplayer
– Skull & Bones (Ubisoft Singapore/Ubisoft)
For the full list of nominees and award winners, visit the Game Critics Awards. And for more on the award-winning Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle, check out UbiBlog's previous coverage.
