GTA 6 Score Watch: The Franchise Bar Is a 98, and the New Game Is Unrated
Ten days out from launch, the internet is already filling up with GTA 6 review scores. Every single one of them is fake. The game is not out. Reviews are not published. Metacritic and OpenCritic both carry GTA 6 as unrated, because there is nothing to rate yet.
So let us do this the right way: the score watch, with the real bar, checked on the scoreboards themselves on November 9, 2026.
THE BAR, GAME BY GAME
Grand Theft Auto IV: 98 on Metacritic. That is the highest score in series history, Universal Acclaim, from 86 critic reviews, and it has stood since 2008.
Grand Theft Auto V: 97 on Metacritic, and a 92 Top Critic Average on OpenCritic, Mighty tier. Two different scoreboards, same story: all time great.
Grand Theft Auto III: 97 on Metacritic. The game that invented the modern open world, scored like it.
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City: 95 on Metacritic. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas: 95 on Metacritic. Even the floor of this series is most studios' ceiling.
The first two games, from 1997 and 1999, predate the modern scoreboards and carry no Metascore at all. Unrated is not an insult. It is what honest looks like before the reviews land.
MOE'S NUMBER VS THE INDUSTRY'S NUMBER
This page keeps two scoreboards and never mixes them. The numbers above are the industry's: collective critic aggregates from Metacritic and OpenCritic. Moe's own scores live in the Moe Train Games reviews, argued out loud and signed. San Andreas is the famous one: the industry says 95, Moe says 15 out of 10, and his full case for that number is in his San Andreas classic review on this site.
When GTA 6 reviews publish, this watch gets its final entry. Until then, the game is unrated, the bar is 98, and the countdown is ten days.
GTA 6 SCORE WATCH: QUESTIONS EVERYBODY IS ASKING
What is GTA 6's Metacritic score? There is none yet. GTA 6 is unrated on Metacritic and OpenCritic until reviews publish around the November 19, 2026 launch.
What is the highest rated GTA game? Grand Theft Auto IV, at 98 on Metacritic, the series record since 2008.
What did GTA V score? 97 on Metacritic and a 92 Top Critic Average on OpenCritic.
