Cheat Code Central's Scores

  • Games
For 6,324 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 63% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 33% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Game review score: 72
Highest review score: 100 Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars
Lowest review score: 0 High Rollers Casino
Score distribution:
6324 game reviews
    • 35 Metascore
    • 34 Critic Score
    A real clunker.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 34 Critic Score
    Virtua Tennis 4, however, seems to take about a dozen steps backward, with few redeeming features able to keep your interest. Hopefully, they take a long hard look at their flaws and serve up a better product the next time around. Until then, where's my Wii Sports?
    • 36 Metascore
    • 34 Critic Score
    A sad story. The game had an interesting concept and a good amount of potential but it just never came together.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 34 Critic Score
    Myst DS is a game you have to avoid like eating Fritos before a first date.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 34 Critic Score
    To recap: The price is too high, the content is lacking, the game's fighting framework is the very definition of shallow, and its violence manages to come across as both puerile and dull.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 34 Critic Score
    A sad story. The game had an interesting concept and a good amount of potential but it just never came together.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 34 Critic Score
    The most that can be said in support of Onechanbara: Bikini Samurai Squad is that it's mildly amusing, at first, to slice through countless zombies in quick succession, while watching the blood fly. From there it's all downhill: the sex and blood represent a dedication to offense, not art; there's no technique required in the hardest immediately available difficulty; the game was poorly executed on a technical level.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 34 Critic Score
    A sad story. The game had an interesting concept and a good amount of potential but it just never came together.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 34 Critic Score
    When your game makes you want to skip the egregiously tedious gameplay so you can see what happens in the utterly forgettable story, you know you're doing something wrong.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 34 Critic Score
    When your game makes you want to skip the egregiously tedious gameplay so you can see what happens in the utterly forgettable story, you know you're doing something wrong.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 34 Critic Score
    This game is clearly a rushed mess, and perhaps should have taken a nod from the Superman Returns video game and not been released until The Golden Compass inevitable DVD release.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 34 Critic Score
    With extremely dated graphics, poor sound, archaic mechanics, and a loser of a plot, this game just doesn't measure up to any standard. This dummy just needs to crash and be done with it.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 32 Critic Score
    As awful as repeating any of these single-player mission sounds, it's something that you're going to have to get used to. Due to the unfair advantages of the enemy, including the fog of war that prevents you from seeing what lies ahead, you will constantly be surprised by waves of enemies as you push forward without the ability to obtain any intelligence or reconnaissance.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 32 Critic Score
    As awful as repeating any of these single-player mission sounds, it’s something that you’re going to have to get used to. Due to the unfair advantages of the enemy, including the fog of war that prevents you from seeing what lies ahead, you will constantly be surprised by waves of enemies as you push forward without the ability to obtain any intelligence or reconnaissance.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 32 Critic Score
    While the graphics and hole designs are inviting, the frustrations caused by the controls and Barker himself successfully put a damper on the entire experience.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 32 Critic Score
    While the Wii version is an oddly enjoyable experience, the DS version is a complete disappointment.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 32 Critic Score
    Unfortunately, if the Wii version of AITD is any indication as to where this series is headed, then nostalgia may be all that is left for its many fans.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Dragon Ball: Evolution is probably a terrible movie, but I can say with all certainty that it is a terrible game. Poor graphics, a non-existent soundtrack, long loading times, and sparse play value make this title one that you should definitely skip.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The only thing of any value here is the story, and even then you're mostly just reading it in the menu screen. This game has nothing to offer anyone in terms of gameplay.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Kids beware THQ has made a crumby product in hopes of gaining a quick buck.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    AMY
    2012 may just be getting started, but AMY is already a contender for the worst game of the year. The game has no point, is extremely disorganized, and controls like three blind mice on Mars. Pretty much everything available on the Xbox LIVE Arcade and PlayStation Network is better than this.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The only thing of any value here is the story, and even then you're mostly just reading it in the menu screen. This game has nothing to offer anyone in terms of gameplay.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Gamers DO NOT GIVE A %$#@ about concept art. I understand that it's an easy extra to toss in, but does anyone in their right mind actually look forward to unlocking this useless nonsense? Do they just sit there and stare at it? Who cares?
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    • 32 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    A text-based, gladiator management sim, Coliseum asks the question, "How long can you last?" The correct answer is: Long enough to get a real, wicked, #%*!-ing headache.
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    • 60 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    This is a rushed job and one of Nintedo's worst in several years. Are these games filled with broken tilt mechanisms? You decide.
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    • 20 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Of the worst games you could ever have the misfortune of playing.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    A barely functional fighting game that flubs even the basics of control, introducing no depth or complexity to its haggard and unresponsive control scheme.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Stay far away from this game as even a rental would be grounds for a lawsuit against TDK for "cruel and unusual punishment".
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    • 54 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Forty stages feel more like four hundred due to slogging painfully from one to another.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The biggest problem with BUM:ZoD (actually BumZod is kind of a cool word…ya bumzod!) is directly related to the narrow track design that awaits you on every track. Crashing, smashing and bashing into the sides is something you'll have to get used to because there is no discernible way of NOT doing it.
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    • 32 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Avoid this one like the Black Plague.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Seriously, even if you are a fan of the original game, you will be hard-pressed to find the appeal of this title and will be disappointed in the end. Play the original, it’ll be cheaper and more entertaining in the long run.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    I would have had more fun gluing spray-painted macaroni to my ass than playing Mission Impossible: Operation Surma on the GBA.
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    • 28 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    There is no reason in the world to own this product when "Pictochat" basically does everything at least, equally as well.
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    • 39 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    This is the style of arcade game that was around in mechanical form since the early 50s. It's just an on-rails shooter that never lets up. You never move from your position while shooting down swarms of Japanese aircraft with your AA gun. It's so easy to play it's ridiculous.
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    • 48 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Most of Lux-Pain's gameplay is derived from wading through innumerable dialogue boxes by tapping the stylus or pressing a single button. If this sounds like fun to you, save yourself some money by buying a book and arbitrarily clicking your mouse 1,000 times while reading it.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Shrek Super Party should be called Shrek Super $#itty. It lives up to the rep that we gave it in advance.
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    • 39 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Atrocious. And not "atrociously good fun" either. Simply atrocious. It's like biting into an Oh Henry and discovering that it is indeed, a big fat solid chunk of stanky human dung and undigested peanuts.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    You will get bored with this game incredibly quickly. Good luck trying to find people who will play this with you.
    • 19 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The game falls apart at the multi-player mode, the very mode of which this entire party concept rides on.
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    • 37 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The first rule of Fight Club has now been changed to "Don't buy Fight Club".
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    • 58 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    I had to look twice to see if perhaps this copy of the game was actually a PSX game accidentally packaged in a PS2 wrapper. Frankly, this game plays so poorly I'm surprised that it's not on a cartridge.
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    • 46 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    It might be better than watching the film (and it doesn't help that you can probably finish the game in the same time it takes to watch its theatrical counterpart), but Yogi Bear still won't hold your attention for more than a few minutes, if you even bother to play it.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    In order to keep processing to a minimum, the camera is locked in a fixed position that keeps either of the two playable characters front and center at all times. When you come to levels that require jumping you can't look around to see where the next platform is.
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    • 27 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The lack of realism, physics, graphics and good level designs would make any gamer pine for the Super Nintendo just to play a decent game for a while.
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    • 39 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    While everything basically works as it should, steering is still made difficult by a mixture of poor camera angles and claustrophobic tracks.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Fails on so many levels. It looks bad, the control system suffers from lag and ineffective weapon designs, the AI is incredibly unbalanced and the missions are a repetitive mix of elements.
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    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The ESRB rating for this game should be changed to N for nobody, and the number of players should be changed from 1 to 0. Can we call another developer to come and Pimp My Game?
    • 29 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Stay away from Batman: Dark Tomorrow like it was a greatest hits CD of Christina Aguilera songs performed on an water-swollen oboe.
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    • 58 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    You would be better off spending a few extra bucks and getting the "Zero Mission" game if you don't already have it. Otherwise I would be very hesitant to spend the twenty bucks on this old clunker.
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    • 16 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Throwing rocks at cars would be a more fun than shooting rats in NRA Varmint Hunter. Playing this game made me feel like a hobo at a garbage dump with a metal detector.
    • Cheat Code Central
    • 41 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    What you may not know is that this game already died a horrible death on the PC two years ago. Releasing it now onto an unsuspecting public is like having a sex offender move in next door without having your wits about you.
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    • 35 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    One of the most boring games to be released on the GBA this year. Sitting Ducks isn't a horrible game, it's just so darn boring.
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    • 49 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    If you're not bored with it in half-an-hour then you can come over to my place and watch the paint dry on the side of my garage. You will spend endless fascinating hours as the sun causes the underlying layers of latex to expand and bubble, eventually making the top coat flake off into little peel-able chips.
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    • 39 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    With crappy animation, slow speed, generic gameplay all topped off with a password save, Cartoon Network Speedway could, in the future, be used in place of coal as the universally accepted bad Christmas gift for naughty, disrespectful children.
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    • 36 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    This game borders on blasphemy... What you get is a slow paced game of hide and seek where it seems no one even cares to come looking for you.
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    • 23 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Thunder Alley could have been released for the GBC in the mid 90s and it still would have been considered a piece of junk.
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    • 35 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Atrocious. And not "atrociously good fun" either. Simply atrocious. It's like biting into an Oh Henry and discovering that it is indeed, a big fat solid chunk of stanky human dung and undigested peanuts.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    It lacks features and control. All you really do is make a few choices and let the game play it all out for you. It's like the battle system in an old-school RPG.
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    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    It looks bad, it plays bad, it's unoriginal, it has no replay value and it's too short. Maybe it's a good thing it's not that long of a game. You can play it through in an afternoon.
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    • 35 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The dialogue in this game has to be heard to be believed, although I don't recommend you even spend a nickel renting it. Although the actual actors didn't voice the characters, the developers found a couple of morons that are equally as bad.
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    • 26 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Atrocious. And not "atrociously good fun" either. Simply atrocious. It's like biting into an Oh Henry and discovering that it is indeed, a big fat solid chunk of stanky human dung and undigested peanuts.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The problem with Prison Escape is that it's just a buggy little piece of crap. If I were playing this game for my own enjoyment instead of reviewing it I would take this back to the store so fast I would be able catch myself coming out of the door withit.
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    • 47 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Instead of a Superhero game this one is more of a go here and punch this guy, repeat and move on. Not even die-hard fans like Vaughn would have many nice things to say of this version.
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    • 37 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    With terrible graphics, boring game objectives, frustrating, at best, controls, and mind-numbing character interaction, Escape from Bug Island sets a new low point for Wii games and video games in general.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Everything surrounding that core that makes it unbearable.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Not only have no changes been made to the gameplay since its release nearly two years ago, but the newly reformatted control scheme just feels unnecessary. Controlling your clunker with the Wii-mote feels overly loose and unresponsive and any other use for the controller just involves shaking the Wii-mote up and down throughout the title's tediously boring mini-games.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    I doubt anyone will play this game more than once.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The PSP version has so many things against it: the gameplay is terrible, the story is non-existent, and the entire game experience ranges from boring to enraging, depending on how long you've been playing. I feel almost guilty giving ANY game this bad of a review. But trust me, this one earned it.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    This title is amateurish all the way around, and I would have been more forgiving if the game were just a mistake, but it seems like these people are determined to create low-quality games to sell for a low price and fool the minds of those who can't or don't want to pay much for their games. This is the kind of game that brings the Wii down to embarrassing levels, and everyone should be against that.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    This game is not worth playing for free. Don't ask for it and don't buy it for anyone except a little bastard that deserves it.
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    • 38 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    I would like to say to all of the vampire enthusiasts out there, if you have ever wanted to see if you would survive a vampire attack, here's your chance to find out. For everyone else that doesn't desire to know that a vampire would end their life in two hits, stay away from it.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Atrocious. And not "atrociously good fun" either. Simply atrocious. It's like biting into an Oh Henry and discovering that it is indeed, a big fat solid chunk of stanky human dung and undigested peanuts.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The story is lame, the gameplay is repetitive and the entire control system is compromised in one way or another. Let the developers fix their mistakes before you throw any money in their direction. Don't even rent this one.
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    • 37 Metascore
    • 28 Critic Score
    Double Sequence: The Q-Virus Invasion lacks a multitude of components. This game is the type you play out of sheer boredom and last resort.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 28 Critic Score
    The developers have simply thrown together a handful of boring, mini-games onto a game disc and called it a game. I never ever thought I'd say this about a game, but MLB Superstars really feels like an abuse of the MLB license. And if that's not an insult, I don't know what is.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 28 Critic Score
    If the fate of most badly designed games is to suffer an excruciatingly slow end by falling on their own swords, Mytran Wars is so awful it doesn't have a sword with which to end it all, and it is instead forced to starve to death.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 28 Critic Score
    When an entire game is made as an advertisement for a certain company or product it comes off feeling like you are paying for a piece of shameless marketing.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 28 Critic Score
    With boring mechanics, a very short 100-challenge main mode, and lousy production values, I can't recommend Ant Nation to anyone. It's not broken, but it is far from enjoyable.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 28 Critic Score
    It serves as nothing more than a throwaway PC port-over with the intent of taking advantage of the Wii's controls. The problem is that it wasn't built as a Wii game from the ground up, thus the awkward feel of aiming and positioning with the Wii-mote. Aside from that, the visuals are lackluster, the audio is virtually non-existent, and the gameplay is shallow.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 28 Critic Score
    This game is just a complete mess. It appears that it was just hastily ported to the Wii to try and cash in on the lack of good shooters for the system. I can't stress this enough, stay far away from this game.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 26 Critic Score
    From beginning to end, Igor is a perfect example of poor presentation, lousy execution, and what can happen when video games based on movies get rushed to the market to match their film’s release date.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 26 Critic Score
    The Apprentice has some of the worst production values I've seen in a game in a long time. I've seen free games that would kick this game's ass.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 26 Critic Score
    Avoid this title like a 12th century leper. It’s easily the worst game of the launch, the worst giant robot game ever, and front runner for worst anime-inspired game in history.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 26 Critic Score
    There really isn't much fun to be had here. Not even in a masochistic way.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 26 Critic Score
    There really isn't much fun to be had here. Not even in a masochistic way.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 26 Critic Score
    There's only a single-player mode, and honestly, I can't see why anyone would want to play this game for more than a few minutes. It really is that bad.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 26 Critic Score
    There's only a single-player mode, and honestly, I can't see why anyone would want to play this game for more than a few minutes. It really is that bad.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 26 Critic Score
    There's only a single-player mode, and honestly, I can't see why anyone would want to play this game for more than a few minutes. It really is that bad.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 26 Critic Score
    It is yet another cynical attempt to trick gamers into buying a sloppy, uninspired game because they liked the movie. Don't fall for that trick again.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 26 Critic Score
    As I mentioned above, the camera is just plain terrible and is a major drawback to the controls because they give you the ability to steer it. Only it does not do what it is told; most times it will not do anything at all leaving you unable to see where you are supposed to jump.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 26 Critic Score
    A stupid game that's designed to trick parents into picking this up for their young children. Even if you're one such parent buyer, please do not buy this for your kids.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 26 Critic Score
    All told, George of the Jungle is a stupid game that's designed to trick parents into picking this up for their young children. Even if you're one such parent buyer, please do not buy this for your kids.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 26 Critic Score
    Voltron: Defender of the Universe is a poorly designed cash-in on a franchise that hasn't been relevant in years. It's particularly telling when the announcer is your absolute best feature, stating "Voltron will return after these messages" when you pause, then "And now back to Voltron" when you resume play. That's right: the best part of the game only appears when you stop playing. I rest my case.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 26 Critic Score
    Voltron: Defender of the Universe is a poorly designed cash-in on a franchise that hasn't been relevant in years. It's particularly telling when the announcer is your absolute best feature, stating "Voltron will return after these messages" when you pause, then "And now back to Voltron" when you resume play. That's right: the best part of the game only appears when you stop playing. I rest my case.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 24 Critic Score
    Here lays just another sad tale of movie-turned-game that is underdeveloped and bad beyond belief. It has truly gotten to the point where I can not tell if the movie industry is just trying to play a cruel trick on us gamers by giving the go ahead on these projects.
    • 18 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The enemy AI just stands around and lets you pick them off as though you were choosing teams for dodge ball.
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    • 29 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The main problem with WPC is that it's a piece of $#!+. Not only can you read the AI like a teleprompter but there's no online play should you (and believe me you will) crave some human interaction.
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    • 23 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Visually the game just plain blows. The fighting animations are right out of Fighter Maker Light - with stiff looking movement and only a couple of different punches and kicks - although it's widely advertised that each Angel has her own distinct "fighting style". They don't.
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    • 25 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The worst offense Box Office Bust makes is giving Larry something resembling a plot other than trying to get in the pants of the opposite sex. Instead of the simplest plots devices, we get a convoluted story with weak gameplay that never truly delivers on the funny.

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