Computer Games Magazine's Scores

  • Games
For 1,338 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 29% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 68% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 11.4 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Game review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 Command & Conquer
Lowest review score: 0 Drake of the 99 Dragons
Score distribution:
1338 game reviews
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Quotation forthcoming. [Nov 2005]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Quotation forthcoming. [Nov 2005]
    • Computer Games Magazine
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Everything about BloodRayne 2 - save some of the snazzy 3D effects - screams "1998." [Nov 2005, p.72]
    • Computer Games Magazine
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    One of the most user-unfriendly sims ever committed to ones and zeros. [Apr 2004, p.67]
    • Computer Games Magazine
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's all just another example of how well Nippon Ichi's strategy role-playing games are continuing to evolve. [Sept 2005, p.87]
    • Computer Games Magazine
    • 70 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Rip-off. [Oct 2005, p.92]
    • Computer Games Magazine
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    There isn't anything revolutionary in Phase Two, but everything is top quality. [Nov 2005, p.76]
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    • 56 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Thanks to dreary daily training and eating sequences, this might be the dullest game ever made about vicious duels to the death. Morituri te salutant, indeed. [Oct 2005, p.90]
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    • 26 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Like Veruca Salt, this game should be dumped down the garbage chute. [Nov 2005, p.79]
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    When EA Sports decides to fix what's broken, specifically the dropped passes and deep passing game, it'll have another A-list football game on its hands. [Oct 2005, p.89]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    An excellent game. For your PC. [Oct 2005, p.90]
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    When EA Sports decides to fix what's broken, specifically the dropped passes and deep passing game, it'll have another A-list football game on its hands. [Oct 2005, p.89]
    • Computer Games Magazine
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's brilliant and obscure and like all the best satire, you probably don't even know that it's laughing at you. [Oct 2005, p.88]
    • Computer Games Magazine
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's brilliant and obscure and like all the best satire, you probably don't even know that it's laughing at you. [Oct 2005, p.88]
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    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    This will do just fine until the real first-person shooters come out. [Oct 2005, p.90]
    • Computer Games Magazine
    • 58 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    A fair game that is almost completely undone by an interface as archaic as the warfare it presents. [Nov 2005, p.79]
    • Computer Games Magazine
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    If directing your armies around Napoleonic Europe with somewhat abstract Quick Combat resolution gets you excited, you can pretty much overlook all the other problems. [Oct 2005, p.70]
    • Computer Games Magazine
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mizuguchi is known for deftly combining action and music, from the classic "Rez" to other faves "SpaceChannel 5" and the recent "Lumines" for the PSP. And now he's done it again with Meteos. [Oct 2005, p.90]
    • Computer Games Magazine
    • 74 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The dullness of the story, the combat, and the character development ultimately overshadow the game's main draw. [Sept 2005, p.88]
    • Computer Games Magazine
    • 90 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The full PDF manual for Allied Force clocks in at 716 pages. [Jan 2006, p.58]
    • Computer Games Magazine
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Ultimately, incisive humor and caustic personality win out over dicey combat and console-itis. [Oct 2005, p.66]
    • Computer Games Magazine
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Like most entertaining beat-em-ups, Fantastic 4 develops a rhythmic monotony that easily carries you through the eight or nine hours that it lasts. [Oct 2005, p.67]
    • Computer Games Magazine
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    All these new visuals may not change or improve RCT3, but they certainly take it further. [Sept 2005, p.56]
    • Computer Games Magazine
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The armored Task Force engine is one of the most complete, and completely baffling, systems in modern computer wargaming[sic]. [Dec p.63]
    • Computer Games Magazine
    • 74 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Unfortunately, unless Crypto's race is looking to harvest tedium and repetition from our earthly minds, he's better off just harassing than destroying them. [Sept 2005, p.90]
    • Computer Games Magazine
    • 91 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Perhaps the single most thrilling instance of how far shooters have come. [Sept 2005, p.44]
    • Computer Games Magazine
    • 71 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Remarkable design. [Sept 2005, p.86]
    • Computer Games Magazine
    • 78 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The problem with Conker: Live and Reloaded isn't so much that it's bad as that it's superfluous. [Sept 2005, p.89]
    • Computer Games Magazine
    • 76 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Unfortunately, unless Crypto's race is looking to harvest tedium and repetition from our earthly minds, he's better off just harassing than destroying them. [Sept 2005, p.90]
    • Computer Games Magazine
    • 50 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Individual combats are fast-paced but extremely repetitive, resulting in a truly brutal leveling grind. [Sept 2005, p.70]
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