Armchair Empire's Scores

  • Games
For 2,214 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 64% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 31% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Game review score: 76
Highest review score: 100 Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
Lowest review score: 10 Fear Factor: Unleashed
Score distribution:
2214 game reviews
    • 36 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    For playability, this game is ridiculously short.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    There is only one word to describe MR’s graphics and the word is ugly! The game looks like an old Nintendo 64 game. The character models are ugly and the cut scenes are horrendous.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Unfortunately sometimes when an older game duplicates its own spin-offs the final product is a blatant but poor copy of the worst and the best of the offspring. Such is the case with Blood Omen 2.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    All the splashy, light-blooming graphics in the world and a “sexy” anime-lite protagonist can’t save X-Blades.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    It’ll bore you to tears in about 20 minutes.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Collectors of classic games could probably feel no remorse picking it up, but all others can safely give it a miss.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    This game has some of the worst driving physics I’ve ever seen in a racing game.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Diluted, saucy graphics, aggravating camera angles, a crappy combat system and questionable controls make LoAD not a whole lot more than its acronym suggests.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Greatest of the game's faults is the failure to capture the personality of such an exciting era of wrestling.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The original release of the game was an interesting (but not great) concept hobbled by atrocious execution, and it seems like the people who went in trying to rescue it have managed to make things worse in an overall sense. There was little to recommend the original game. There's even less to recommend it's second act.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    One of the biggest flaws is that Blade & Sword lacks a multiplayer.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    In a vacuous bubble, the prospect of combining creatures would create all sorts of wacky experimental fun. But in the context of real-time strategy, it becomes an unnecessary chore.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    All in all, playing Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix was a painful and tedious experience. I would not recommend it except to those with a collection fetish or for the young fans who don’t know any better.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Had a lot of potential – graphics are great and the sound is just as good; however, the terrible controls and camera ruin any real fun that could be experienced.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The upshot of all this, is that there’s only way for NBA Live to go on Wii and that’s up. They can’t go much lower than 08.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    As with any game of this strife, the two-player mode elevates the experience. Arguing over who should get the machine gun, flame thrower, freeze gun, or extra health makes Target: Terror feel okay -- not mind-blowing, merely tolerable.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Simply a bad racing game. The only good thing about it is the price but you can find many more quality games in the same price range.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    For fans of the book and movie, Eragon might be one of those games that you pick up mainly because you've already got the book and have pre-ordered the movie on DVD, but don't expect much from this game once you actually fire it up.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    I know this is a bargain title, but I can’t come close to recommending Bold Moves to anyone other than the die hard Ford car fan.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Pity the living ships that make up Genesis Rising. There was such a wonderful collection of ideas that were utilized in such an atrocious fashion that you almost want to put the ships down like a lamed horse. It's kinder that way.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    It works in small doses in providing some carnage and distraction from reality.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Atomic Ninjas is just missing so much it is unplayable in this current format. Without a better multiplayer system or community it's DOA. Without a single player mode, you effectively have a really shiny time waste. Hopefully a patch can save the core concept of this title, but right now, I'd say spend your money elsewhere.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The shame is that the lousy and simplistic gameplay takes away from the fact that this is actually a nice-looking Xbox title.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    If you're good enough to play this game, you will quickly tire of its simplicity and repetitiveness.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The fighting sequences had little snap in the punches, the storyline had few surprises, and the world of the Matrix didn’t leave enough to the imagination.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The grungy rock music that plays in the background pales in comparison to Grand Theft Auto’s playlist. The cars sound like garden tractors.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    If Driv3r were a car, it would be recalled for crippling performance issues.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    At the end of the day, Samurai Western is one of those games where it’s hard not to wonder why someone bothered to make the game in the first place.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    With plenty of other tower defense titles and strategy games out there, Defenders of Ardania is a poor choice on which to spend your money.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    In resurrecting Duke in this way, dropping him from 1996 into 2011, with uninteresting levels tethered together in a loose way, middling gunplay, and offensiveness trying to hide behind parody and satire, even the thickest rose-colored glasses of nostalgia won't hide the fact the game's not good or even fun to play.

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