Boomtown's Scores

  • Games
For 1,003 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 35% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 61% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4.9 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Game review score: 70
Highest review score: 100 Halo 2
Lowest review score: 0 Limbo of the Lost
Score distribution:
1003 game reviews
    • 57 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The bugs in the gameplay make it difficult to recommend and the graphics make it unpleasant to watch.
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    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Sufficient sums up Iridium Runners quite succinctly. It's surprisingly entertaining, especially with four of your friends in multiplayer, but it's by-the-book in every way and you simply need more to be able to compete with today's higher profile offerings.
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    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Ubersoldier has been made with some interesting ideas (although the choice of a WW2 setting seems strange considering the crowdedness of the genre and the nature of the story), but the execution of these ideas is far from perfect.
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    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    If games were right-angled triangles, Pythagoras would teach us that the value present on the 'quality' side would be directly related to the 'design' and 'execution' values on the other two and, without a particularly remarkable presence in either, Spartan is an also-ran.
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    • 56 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A rewarding endeavour for those who share a passion for this type of sport, though in all honesty will feel considerably flat to those who prefer to spend their time doing more than taking a hard left.
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    • 56 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It’s sad that the game doesn’t use Todd McFarlane’s artwork more effectively, because a Max Payne approach to the story telling would definitely have resulted in a better score.
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    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    There is fun to be had with this game, but only in certain events and it’s not worth spending your hard earned cash to own the game, as it won’t come out of the box too often.
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    • 56 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    This is an ambitious title that tries to be original but fails on almost every level due to poor design. An odds-on failure.
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    • 56 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Quests just involve killing a certain number of creatures. Nothing more. If that’s all you want, fine, but most folk are going to want more out of a game.
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    • 56 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    On the whole, the extremely variable difficulty level, the bugs, the graphical pop-up that makes the driving so infuriating and the overall poor standard of the on-foot missions mean that this is, unfortunately, Driv3l.
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    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Challenge and party modes are the redeeming features, but they’re only the side dishes- and the main course will leave you with a particularly bad taste in your mouth.
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    • 56 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A few bugs here and there as well as some obvious yet simple features that seem to be missing add frustration to playing the game.
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    • 56 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Wrestlemania 21's outrageously flawed A.I. and emphatically clunky control integration sully an otherwise outstanding display of wrestling prowess.
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    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Indeed, while it’s not an abomination by any means, and can provide some mild entertainment (more so on multiplayer mode), it’s by no means worth more than a rent.
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    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    It’s just average. It doesn’t push the bar in any way with nothing revolutionary appearing in it. The best way to describe this game is safe.
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    • 55 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    By the end of the game I ended up hating both sides, which was perhaps the intention, but I wanted to be able to play the game my way.
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    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    It’s attractive and zippy, and it’s also frustrating and unfriendly for those who just want to pick it up for fun.
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    • 55 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    It’s hard for me to think of anyone who would find Hot Pixel entertaining, even at its reduced RRP of £19.99. It would be too fast and frantic for young kids, too ridiculously camp at being street for young teenagers and too brain-numbingly dull for anybody with an IQ over 50 to play it for more than half an hour.
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    • 55 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It’s all so utterly forgettable so, I guess, just forget it.
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    • 55 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Broken, broken, broken.
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    • 55 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    There are some unique ideas concerning health replenishment and inventory management.
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    • 55 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The control issues will kill interest in all but the most determined casual gamer, however, and the graphics will cause even those with 20/20 vision to squint from time to time.
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    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    If you enjoyed the Conquest demo you'll no doubt like the full game. But I just found it a bit dull. Too dull even to get annoyed about.
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    • 55 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    By no means a complete disaster, but by no means worth spending money on.
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    • 54 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    If the developer doesn’t care to address the problems True Crime: New York City has, you shouldn’t care to buy it. It’s that simple.
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    • 54 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Pac-Man Rally is fundamentally Mario Kart in a different guise. Usually such blatant rip-offs are recipe for disaster, but Rally is apparently the one exception where it manages to pull off a half decent attempt.
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    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Some mildly entertaining but ultimately vacuous fluff.
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    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Sure, it's got a decent enough Ghostbusters style, but with a game that really lacks any polish at all, screams bugs at you, and has the most ridiculously long loading times, even from sleep mode, it's a terrible port of the PS2 and Wii versions of the game... and they were a poor man's version of the PS3/360 editions anyway.
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    • 54 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    There are elements of the game that are enjoyable, particularly when it comes to the puzzles, but often the Da Vinci Code is as flat as its voice actors.
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    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    But in the end the boxing action itself is not as fun as it should be, because it's all about being fastest, and the AI does tend to cheat.
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