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2004

Halo 2: 13 Game of the Year awards

No: Halo 2 collected 13 Game of the Year awards in 2004 and finished No. 2; the season went to Half-Life 2 with 26. Spike Video Game Awards named Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas its Game of the Year.

Halo 2 is a 2004 first-person shooter game developed by Bungie and published by Microsoft Game Studios. The player controls the supersoldier Master Chief and the disgraced alien commander Arbiter in a 26th-century conflict between the United Nations Space Command, the genocidal Covenant, and the parasitic Flood.

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Halo 2 finished #2 in the 2004 race, with 13 GOTY awards from media outlets and reader votes worldwide.

  • 13Total awards
  • 10Media outlets
  • 3Readers' choice
  • 3Countries

Also in the 2004 season: Half-Life 2 (26), Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (9), Katamari Damacy (3), World of Warcraft (3) · full results

Quick answers

How many Game of the Year awards did Halo 2 win?

Halo 2 won 13 Game of the Year awards in the 2004 season — 20.0% of every award tracked that season. 10 came from editorial picks and 3 from readers' polls, across 3 countries.

Did Halo 2 win Game of the Year?

No. It finished No. 2 in 2004, behind Half-Life 2, which collected 26 Game of the Year awards.

Game facts Hand-verified

How the co-op works. Two-player campaign co-op in split screen, and the first Halo with online multiplayer.

  • Single-playerYes
  • Co-opYes
  • Couch co-opYes
  • Split screenYes
  • Online co-opYes
  • Players on one console2
  • Players online2
  • MultiplayerYes
  • Online multiplayerYes
  • Released9 November 2004
  • DeveloperBungie
  • PublisherXbox Game Studios
  • first-person shooter
  • science fiction video game
  • Xbox (console)
  • Microsoft Windows
  • Xbox One
  • Xbox Series X and Series S

Where the awards came from

CountryAwards
United States10
United Kingdom2
Canada1

Every outlet that named it Game of the Year

OutletCountry Year
1UP / EGMUnited States2004
DarkZeroUnited Kingdom2004
Electronic Gaming Monthly (EGM)United States2004
ExtremegamerCanada2004
Game InformerUnited States2004
GameFly Q AwardsUnited States2004
GameSpot Reader's Choice GOTY ReadersUnited States2004
GamespyUnited States2004
IGN Reader's Choice GOTY ReadersUnited States2004
NTSC-uk Reader's Choice GOTY ReadersUnited Kingdom2004
Punch JumpUnited States2004
X-PlayUnited States2004
G4TV G-phoria 2005United States2005

← Full 2004 results

Updated 2 October 2026 · Source: the Meta Awards database, where every award row cites where it was published.