Q*bert: Rebooted

 PlayStation 4
Metascore
44

Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 10 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 10
  3. Negative: 4 out of 10
  1. PlayStation LifeStyle
    Feb 23, 2015
    70
    It’s easy to recommend Q*Bert: Rebooted to both returning fans and new ones alike. The PlayStation release allows for choice of play either in its classic mode or the more modern version for those who want something a little easier on the eyes.
  2. CGMagazine
    Feb 26, 2015
    60
    The game, despite its problems, can be fun in small doses and certainly provides plenty of old school challenge.
  3. Push Square
    Feb 23, 2015
    60
    It's a quaint little curio for fans of arcade games, then, but it's not exactly a must have.
  5. Gaming Age
    Feb 27, 2015
    50
    To be sure, I think it's neat that Q*Bert's developers decided to bring the classic game to a generation who've probably never seen it outside of being a side character in Wreck-It Ralph a few years ago. And I'm grateful that they didn't try and give it some insane makeover, a la Bomberman. But they also didn't demonstrate why the game had to be reborn — sorry, "Rebooted" — for the modern era, when everything about it makes it clear it probably should've stayed in the past.
  6. PlayStation Universe
    Feb 26, 2015
    50
    An effective if not particularly ambitious or polished reboot of an arcade classic, Q*Bert Rebooted is as accessible as the franchise has ever been but offers little in the way of significant new additions to keep players hooked in the long term and remains hobbled by a lack of leaderboards.
  7. Attack of the Fanboy
    Feb 25, 2015
    50
    Q*Bert Rebooted is definitely one character that deserved to be rebooted into today's gaming world, but while it does retain many of the classic Q*Bert elements, spotty controls and inexcusably bad load times make the game extremely mediocre.
  8. PSNStores
    Feb 23, 2015
    40
    It sucks to say it, but the frustrating controls flat out ruin any enjoyment I had with Q*Bert Rebooted. The path that you take throughout each stage is so important to Q*Bert and having controls that don’t cooperate in that respect really sucks.
  9. Gaming Nexus
    Apr 15, 2015
    35
    Not being able to reliably move in diagonal directions makes certain levels near impossible. Q*Bert deserves better.
  10. GameSpot
    Mar 4, 2015
    30
    Even if the game featured stable controls, the overall package is still mediocre at best. But with the bad controls, compounded by lackadaisical graphics and boring gameplay, Q*bert: Rebooted never had the potential to shine anyway. Q*bert, old friend, you deserve better.
  11. Digitally Downloaded
    Feb 20, 2015
    10
    Nothing redeems this game. It's ugly as sin, it fails to understand what made the original classic compelling and though it includes the original classic, it is a neutered version of it.

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User Score
4.8

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 30 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 30
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 30
  3. Negative: 17 out of 30
  1. Spoonman
    Jul 8, 2016
    1
    The Rebooted version is drab, with the graphics
    being uninspired, and ugly looking.
    They made one of the most colorful games in history    The Rebooted version is drab, with the graphics
    being uninspired, and ugly looking.

    They made one of the most colorful games in history
    look like it was left out in the sun to fade for 25 years.

    It's mostly the same pattern design with texture-less
    polygon cubes over and over again.
    They should have taken a clue from the excellent SNES
    Q*bert 3 and changed the blocks into something interesting
    (Hats, teeth, gift boxes, etc) which changes from round to round.

    The controls are the worst though. You can almost never
    count on moving Q*bert in the right direction.
    It's a miracle if you don't jump to your death 50%
    of the time. Just terrible!

    Then you have the same 2 annoyingly short looped
    song over and over again.
    They sound like cheap public domain music tunes, bought cheap!

    Then you have the classic version of Q*bert which they
    somehow managed to butcher. The graphics are
    actually both too sharp and too blurry at the same time
    it's quite a feat! The same terrible controls which apply
    to the Rebooted version are here as well.

    After dying over and over again I started to wonder if it was just me
    so I started up the Sony PSN release of Q*bert on the PS3
    and I was able to clear 4 boards in a row without dying.
    Why couldn't they build controls like this?!
    It's a shame they removed the better version from
    The PSN Store to make way for this.

    What else... Oh yeah. There is NO PAUSE! on the classic game. Maybe it's a feature to make it like games
    from before the Atari 5200 when a PAUSE button was such a new feature it was even mentioned in the commercials. Instead of pausing the game, if you press the circle button at any point during the game
    it instantly closes your game and brings you back to the game menu. I had a great game going and
    mistakenly hit the button? Tough @!?$&#! Start over!

    Hope you weren't expecting high score leader board
    support. In fact, there isn't even a way to enter your
    initials or show high scores like in the original version.
    They somehow just cut it right out of the emulated arcade
    original.

    Poor Q*bert deserves better than this!    … Full Review »
  2. drlowdon
    Jun 29, 2018
    4
    One of the 80’s arcade classics gets a reboot, and the results are uninspiring.

    The core gameplay remains largely the same as it ever was    One of the 80’s arcade classics gets a reboot, and the results are uninspiring.

    The core gameplay remains largely the same as it ever was (there is even the option to play the original games) but what was once new and exciting is now very simplistic and repetitive. The less than precise controls don’t help matters much either and resulted in more than a few frustrating leaps into the abyss.

    If you were a big fan of Q*bert back in the day you might get a good nostalgia kick from revisiting the game but gaming has moved on a long way since the early 80’s.    … Full Review »
  3. coasterguy65
    Jul 7, 2016
    0
    I usually don't bother writing reviews, but I had to for Qbert Rebooted. The game is essentially broken. The controls are that bad. Many timesI usually don't bother writing reviews, but I had to for Qbert Rebooted. The game is essentially broken. The controls are that bad. Many times I pushed the joystick just to see Qbert sit there. Other times I would push in a direction only for Qbert to jump off screen to his death. I even tried holding my controller diagonally and still had the same results. The controls are just bad. Save yourself the cash and avoid this stinker. Qbert deserved a better port than this.… Full Review »
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