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 1.3 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Game review score: 76
Highest review score: 100 The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds
Lowest review score: 10 C.O.R.E.
Score distribution:
2214 game reviews
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The presence of Scully and Campbell calling the game add a sense of realism to the game—if you could only hear the game, you’d think that the game might actually be on television.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 95 Critic Score
    A brilliant and highly polished RPG masterpiece.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Poor graphics, limited car selection, and arbitrary track design mar the experience greatly, which is quite frustrating when there are some very nice qualities present in the game as well.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The learning curve for Downforce is about 2 hours – within that time, most people should have figured out the nuances of the hairpin turns and how to contact other cars to spin them out.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    If you're good enough to play this game, you will quickly tire of its simplicity and repetitiveness.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    There’s a big list of spells, many details to track, loads of different units to recruit, train, and summon, a good level of challenge, an interface that doesn’t get in the way of playing the game, and a very intriguing end-game sequence.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 81 Critic Score
    Weak CPU AI through most of the game is what really holds Test Drive back from being a Ferrari amongst Xbox racing games.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    After "finishing" Morrowind, I'm left wordless to describe the experience...This game is about as linear as a bowl of spaghetti.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    If it had offered a more comprehensive and fun single player experience with a great storyline, it might be worth it for the legions of FPS fans.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    A solid title that will appeal to those looking for a more realistic fighting game.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    As good a version of Bomberman as there ever has been, complete with a fairly interesting single-player adventure and plenty of variations for the multiplayer side of things.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    What makes Le Mans so fun to play is the simplicity of the racing experience. This will no doubt cause the game to lose favour from serious racing sim fans, but I found the level of difficulty perfect.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The single-player game sticks closely to the tried and true Bomberman action we have come to know while not relying too much on the involvement of the Pokémonesque charabom characters (that were introduced in the original versions last year) to create a surprisingly good handheld title.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 81 Critic Score
    For short spurts Test Drive is pure racing joy. As you whiz your car in and out of traffic you feel like a god on his chariot, but unfortunately too often you come crashing back to earth after hitting something or having something hit you.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The good news is that there’s a lot of environmental interaction, which affects AI’s gameplay.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    The characters are visually and aurally generic (including the crowd), and overall the audio is bad. On the flip side, it’s pretty easy to pick up and play against a buddy with wrestlers built from the ground up.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Barely saved only by its sense of strategy, Lost Kingdoms is a lost cause if you’re not into card games.
    • 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.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 86 Critic Score
    A bloody good game...If its good single-player action doesn’t get you addicted, then the excellent multiplayer romp definitely will.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 98 Critic Score
    A stunning, involving experience that, though not for everyone, will appeal to both the gamer looking for a long, structured action/adventure game and the one looking for loosely organized chaos.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The overall presentation immerses you totally. The detailed graphics, and the sound complement each other to create living breathing levels.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    If you’re a fan of the original game, snatch it up because it adds lots more to Galactic Battlegrounds (including some user-made maps) and should bring you hours of gaming. (Trust me.)
    • 74 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    While Headhunter does well to borrow from games like "Metal Gear Solid 2" and the sort of comically futuristic world found in movies like Robocop, it falls short with it’s blandly typical story and constant cliché rip-offs that cheapen the experience.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 86 Critic Score
    Besides being fun and challenging (it’s not insane challenge all the time), it’s got a variety of different mission types, the solid controls are easy to learn and use, the graphics and sound are well done, and the two-player co-op mode makes for an entertaining experience.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    It’s been a long time since I played a fishing game that didn’t allow you to tool the boat around the lake to find a good fishing spot. Even free Shockwave fishing games tend to include this feature.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 94 Critic Score
    The best role-playing game I have played in years. It features wonderful graphics, a compelling main plot, an immense number of subplots, and all the micro-management a pen-and-paper role-playing game (RPG) geek could ever want.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Though Baseball Mogul 2003 features the same formula that made the series a hit in the first place, it suffers from a case of same-old, same-old and from the fact that there are better simulations on the market with much greater depth.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    The wave graphics are solid; the soundtrack is marvelous; and, most importantly, the game play is tight and intuitive.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    There's a surprising amount of strategy involved in fighting the zombies, especially when dealing with more than one.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Accessible is the key word when it comes to Burnout – the game's most notable feature is the butter-smooth, quick responsive control, especially with the perfect fit of the GameCube controller.

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