Research company Nielsen has released the results of its annual survey of the `most anticipated` games of the holiday season, and as you might have guessed, Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 tops overall most-anticipated chart for multiplatform games.Rounding out the top five were, in order, Red Dead Redemption 2, Battlefield V, Fallout 76, and Assassin`s Creed Odyssey. No surprises here.Nielsen gets its data from an internal metric called Game Rank, which is described as the `overall anticipation level among gamers on each platform` based on measurements like awareness, purchase intent, and user rating, among other things. `The values reflect how strong the overall anticipation level is for the title, relative to the pre-release anticipation levels of all previous titles that released on the platform(s). In other words, an upcoming release with a Game Rank of 90 indicates that after considering a combination of various consumer measures, and taking into account how far the game is from releasing, the current overall anticipation for the game is higher than 90% of previous games on the same platform(s), when at that same point in the pre-release cycle,` Nielsen said.Nielsen looked at 82 games releasing in the September 1-December 31 window. For multiplatform games, the values are averages of each title`s rating on a single platform. To make the list, the game had to rank 70 or higher. Nielsen polled 6,000 `active` gamers aged 7-54 for this survey. With all of that methodology explanation out of the way, here are Nielsen`s `Most Anticipated Holiday Games 2018` lists.What are your most anticipated games of the holiday season? Let us know in the comments below!MultiplatformCall of Duty: Black Ops 4 -- 99Red Dead Redemption 2 -- 97Battlefield V -- 94Fallout 76 -- 92Assassin`s Creed: Odyssey -- 91FIFA 19 -- 87NBA 2K19 -- 84NBA Live 19 -- 72Shadow of the Tomb Raider -- 71Hitman 2 -- 71WWE 2K19 -- 70PlayStation 4 Spider-Man -- 100Xbox One Forza Horizon 4 -- 84Nintendo Switch S ...
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