Please support Game Informer. Print magazine subscriptions are less than $2 per issue
Readers' Top 30 Characters Results Revealed
We gave our readers the chance to vote for their favorite characters of the decade. Did your favorites make the list?
Our readers' choice poll has been up for weeks with votes flying all the while. Readers voted for characters created in the year 2000 to the present day. Nearly 70,000 votes were cast, with voters weighing characters on a scale of 1 to 10 points. These points were totaled and distilled into the Top 30 Readers' Choice Characters of the Decade (okay, 11 years) that you see below.
30. Max Payne (Max Payne)
29. Clank (Ratchet & Clank)
28. Jak (Jak & Daxter)
27. The Illusive Man (Mass Effect 2)
26. Alan Wake (Alan Wake)
25. Dominic Santiago (Gears of War)
24. The Boss (Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater)
23. Alyx Vance (Half-Life 2)
22. Claptrap (Borderlands)
21. Auron (Final Fantasy X)
20. Desmond Miles (Assassin's Creed)
19. Cole MacGrath (Infamous)
18. HK-47 (Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic)
17. Starkiller (Star Wars: The Force Unleashed)
16. Ratchet (Ratchet & Clank)
15. Sora (Kingdom Hearts)
14. Niko Bellic (Grand Theft Auto IV)
13. Dante (Devil May Cry)
12. Sam Fisher (Splinter Cell)
11. Andrew Ryan (BioShock)
10. Marcus Fenix (Gears of War)
09. Altaïr ibn La-Ahad (Assassin's Creed)
08. Captain John Price (Call of Duty)
07. GlaDOS (Portal)
06. John Marston (Red Dead Redemption)
05. Kratos (God of War)
04. Nathan Drake (Uncharted)
03. Ezio Auditore da Firenze (Assassin's Creed)
02. Commander Shepard (Mass Effect)
01. Master Chief (Halo)
Congrats to Master Chief for earning the top character of the decade from GameInformer.com readers! To see how the numbers panned out, check out the chart below.
This chart displays the point totals for the top 30 characters. Click on it to see a bigger version.
Write-In Winner
Readers also had the option to write in their favorite character who was not on the list of preset candidates. Many write-ins fell outside the criteria of the vote, appearing before the year 2000 (Solid Snake, Mario, Link, Gordon Freeman, Prince of Persia, Batman, Lara Croft). Other people wrote in characters that were already in the poll (Master Chief, Sora, Starkiller). Below are the top three write-in candidates that were embarrassingly not included in the regular voting.
1) Isaac Clarke (Dead Space)
2) Sackboy (LittleBigPlanet)
3) Revan (Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic)
Thanks to everyone for voting!
I’d like to ask you to support Game Informer’s continued coverage of games with a subscription. For less than two dollars per issue, we mail you a full year of 10 print magazines, each with cover stories and preview features filled with exclusive details about the most exciting upcoming games. We profile and interview game creators. We look back on the rich history of gaming, and we celebrate what’s next.
Here on the website, we offer much of our content for free, including game reviews, daily news, videos, event coverage, and more – all with minimal ads.
We do so with a small editorial team, alongside contributing paid writers from around the world – over 65 individuals from 9 countries around the world, just in the last couple of years.
It’s not possible without support.
In a time when game makers and games coverage have faced hard struggles and layoffs, the future of this 30+ year magazine and community is at risk. Our new standalone magazine subscription is the number one way you can keep us alive – and we believe you’ll get a pretty fantastic gaming magazine in your mailbox every few weeks for your trouble.
Thank you.
