Intrinsic on 25 December 2015
There could be a myriad of reasons for this anomaly..... one being that metacritic is basically a compilation of review "scores" and then the game of the year award is not necessarily even supposed to be given to the highest rated game.
Take for instance, Street Fighter. It may be a perfect game by all fighting game standards and based on the sum of all its parts score 10s across the board. It however will NEVER win game of the year, but could very well be the highest rated game of its particular year.
One is pure stats and the other is stats heavily guided by opinion and type.....
