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For 3,527 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 42% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 55% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Game review score: 69
Highest review score: 100 Pushmo
Lowest review score: 0 Duke Nukem Forever
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,788 out of 3527
  2. Mixed: 1,231 out of 3527
  3. Negative: 508 out of 3527
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 33 Critic Score
    Ace Combat: Assault Horizon
    Really the only thing Ace Combat has to offer that its predecessors don't is a couple of new flight modes and real world locations. This would be enough to recommend the game to die-hard fans, but the camera cut aways make the game a worse experience than its predecessors. If you want a good Ace Combat experience, you should play an earlier game in the series.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 33 Critic Score
    Ace Combat: Assault Horizon
    Really the only thing Ace Combat has to offer that its predecessors don't is a couple of new flight modes and real world locations. This would be enough to recommend the game to die-hard fans, but the camera cut aways make the game a worse experience than its predecessors. If you want a good Ace Combat experience, you should play an earlier game in the series.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 33 Critic Score
    NBA Ballers: Chosen One
    The real shock is that, nearly 14 months later, Chosen One doesn't live up to the tech, the style, or the ambition of EA's "Homecourt." The game has far too many flaws -- and far too little polish and juice to make it worth playing.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    25 to Life
    Pandering to every college student and aspiring rap artist's deep-seated "Scarface" fantasies, 25 to Life is a 3D action-shooter that not only fails to innovate on any level, but rolls back design and technological advancements to the early PSone era.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    NFL Tour
    Budget buyers, beware: This half-assed rebranding and rethinking of the NFL Street series is one of the limpest sports experiences I've played in years. NFL Tour is shockingly inorganic, severely underdeveloped, and thoroughly limited.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem
    The game offers painfully little in the way of options. Most annoying is the complete lack of straight-up deathmatch -- Predator-vs.-Predator -- or an option to play as an alien. Instead, you choose from a handful of environments where two Predators compete to kill the most aliens under a time limit. Yawn.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    BloodRayne 2
    As it is, it feels like a one-night brainstorming session came up with a whole bunch of random ideas thrown in a pot and clumsily stirred. There might be a good game in here somewhere, but it needs to cook a lot longer.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Dark Fall: Lights Out
    Lights Out more resembles a student project for a gaming college than a finished retail product (and not necessarily a passing one either).
    • 62 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Lords of EverQuest
    One of the most standard, bland, monotonous, poorly done, and "easy money on paper" titles I've seen in quite some time.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Dance Dance Revolution Universe
    DDR Universe is the gaming equivalent of an alien fetus belching out "The Star-Spangled Banner" -- a disaster of a title that digests any good DDR has given us into one of its many stomachs, producing something so foul that it could power Earth for centuries.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    McFarlane's Evil Prophecy
    With its drab backgrounds, poor animations, one-note gameplay, and clunky control, it would have fit right in with games like "7 Blades" or "X Squad."
    • 36 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Fight Club
    For a fighting game to work the action on screen must be in sync with each tap of the controller. In Fight Club, the response is so sluggish pressing the attack buttons feels more like pushing M&M's into a bowl of pudding.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Silverfall
    How do you get "Diablo" wrong? It's like screwing up tic-tac-toe or something. But that's just what Monte Cristo's done with Silverfall, an epically crummy action-RPG with gimpy controls and bugs that'd make a flophouse mattress blush.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    NFL Tour
    Budget buyers, beware: This half-assed rebranding and rethinking of the NFL Street series is one of the limpest sports experiences I've played in years. NFL Tour is shockingly inorganic, severely underdeveloped, and thoroughly limited.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Sprung
    But given the quality of the game, the title could also denote a certain level of unpleasant surprise. (Example: "Please avoid this horrible wreck of a game that Ubisoft has Sprung upon unsuspecting DS owners.")
    • 47 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Wing Island
    Wing Island's missions -- set on serene-but-sterile-looking islands -- are often as boring as they are bizarre. Dumping water on fires? Eh, kinda fun. Delivering fruit crates to hard-to-hit drop zones? Sure. I'll try that. Bombing blah-looking rock formations? Uh, someone wake me up when we land.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    BloodRayne 2
    It feels like a one-night brainstorming session came up with a whole bunch of random ideas thrown in a pot and clumsily stirred. There might be a good game in here somewhere, but it needs to cook a lot longer.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    GoldenEye: Rogue Agent
    The amount of recycling involved in the level design here is abominable -- some areas repeat the same pair of linked rooms as many as three times in rapid succession, and the problem gets distinctly worse as the game progresses into its later levels. There's rarely an organic, realistic feel to most of the interior stages.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Diplomacy
    The A.I. will almost never actually honor deals and will backstab potential allies willy-nilly. This means that A.I. nations can never actually cooperate effectively. The A.I. also has no real tactical or strategic sense.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    GoldenEye: Rogue Agent
    The amount of recycling involved in the level design here is abominable -- some areas repeat the same pair of linked rooms as many as three times in rapid succession, and the problem gets distinctly worse as the game progresses into its later levels.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Dave Mirra BMX Challenge
    The problem is that it plays like Tony Hawk's 1999 debut. Worse yet, it's not even on par with that.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Beowulf: The Game
    But the worst part? Beowulf features a minigame that rewards players for not having sex with Grendel's mother, played by a near-nude Angelina Jolie in the movie, for as long as humanly possible. That's just wrong.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Vanguard: Saga of Heroes
    A game that desperately needed another six months of beta-testing.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Brain Boost: Gamma Wave
    In short, the Brain Boost games are curt, emotionless, audacious, and as a tool for self-improvement, a little bit pointless.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    DreamWorks Shrek the Third
    Even without the technical issues, Shrek would have been average at best. But when an already mediocre game comes complete with the types of problems plaguing this product, it's impossible to recommend it at all.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Jaws Unleashed
    Just add impenetrably obtuse missions, ugly models, low visibility, a sluggish camera, and a fish that steers like a truck full of fat kids. Congratulations, Jaws Unleashed, you just killed our (sadistic) inner child.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    DOOM
    Online play -- including both co-op and the deathmatches that made Doom such a phenomenon in the first place -- can hardly even be considered "play." The lag is unbearable, the framerate excruciating. Aiming is nearly impossible.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The Da Vinci Code
    Playing as Robert Langdon and Sophie Neveu, unraveling the mysteries that mirror and expand upon the book and movie's stories, you'll be forced to solve a mystery called "find the fun."
    • 52 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The Da Vinci Code
    It earns disdain on its own merits. The videogame of the movie of the book -- it's not a surprise that this ended badly, it's just disappointing.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Zoo Tycoon 2: African Adventure
    Unlike the previous expansion, "Endangered Species," African Adventure serves up no new gameplay options and no new mission types -- not even a new hut to build.
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