How cool is this map of the highest rated video games developed in each country?!

Guide Strats has released a map of the highest rated video games developed in each country, with The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (developed by Nintendo in Japan) ranking at no.1.

In order to get the findings, the video game guide company analysed the Metacritic scores of 20,000 titles, before looking at each game’s country of origin to reveal which games rated the highest.

Then they made this cool map infographic with the results!

So, apart from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time being the world’s highest-rated video game – achieving a score of 99 on Metacritic – let’s take a look at some of the other key stats:

• The title of Europe’s highest rated game – with a score of 98 – goes to Grand Theft Auto IV developed here in Scotland (UK) by Rockstar North! (We’re proud of that ‘un)
• Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2, from Neversoft Entertainment, takes the no.1 spot in the United States with a Metacritic score of 98.
• For Canada, developed by BioWare and with a score of 96, it’s Mass Effect 2!
• As for Australia, is anyone really surprised it’s BioShock? It has a score of 96, and was developed by 2K Australia.

It’s also nice to see Estonian-made Disco Elysium on the map (despite its very public dramas, which we wrote about recently)!

Some of these games are of a vintage now – The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time was developed in the late ’90s, for example.

Speaking of it, the game’s producer, Shigeru Miyamoto said:

“At that time I found it interesting to make things that no one understood, that didn’t exist before.”

Arguably, that’s still a thing happening these days, thanks to the likes of Hideo Kojima (Death Stranding, anyone?!).

Interestingly, the four countries with the top-scoring games are actually in four separate continents: Asia, Europe, North America and Oceania. It’s also good to know that every continent is represented in this map.

You can buy The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for 3DS on Amazon.