DarkStation's Scores

  • Games
For 3,653 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 48% higher than the average critic
  • 7% same as the average critic
  • 45% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.8 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Game review score: 72
Highest review score: 100 Out of the Park Baseball 17
Lowest review score: 10 Another Dawn
Score distribution:
3656 game reviews
    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Koei tries to breathe new life into its declining hack and slasher, but find no such love on the 360. Prepare for more repetitive combat, poor Live support and washed out visuals.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Doctor Who: The Edge of Time has some fun ideas and offers fans a great opportunity to go on a time-hopping adventure with the greatest alien hero television has ever seen. Unfortunately, it doesn’t quite feel ready for prime time nor is it optimized well enough on the PlayStation 4.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Hidden Dragon Legend’s cover art should appear in any search engine’s results for mixed bag. The combat it offers is challenging and genuinely fun, but the traversal that comes between it is far too often broken and unfair. As you run through Imperial China, you’ll be enchanted by the mood, only to be brought right back out by stiff cutscenes and terribly compressed weapon sounds. Upon reflection, I truly believe that MegaFun Games put real passion into this project, though; even the elements that don't work are laid out in a way where they'd be very enjoyable if they did. It's just a shame that the finished project is so deeply flawed.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Krater offers an interesting take on post-apocalyptic games and utilizes strategic maneuvers while engaged in combat, but it felt a bit dragged out and of course, I went a little click happy. Although the story was okay, I felt that the gameplay was repetitive and the point-and-click tactic was getting tired.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    It's a crying shame that Uncanny Valley spends so much of its time crippling your play time with contrivances and strict time limits. Once you learn how to make progress, you'll enjoy a second half akin to what the entire game should have been, but then its endings get less memorable. Uncanny Valley wants to be an engaging survival horror romp, and sometimes it gets to be, but it's ultimately an experience that can be best described as mediocre.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Cashing in on the Jaws franchise may have been a brilliant idea on paper, but this game struggles to entertain with a poor storyline and frustrating controls.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City is an unfortunate addition to an otherwise great franchise. With this being the second of three Resident Evil games coming out this year it would probably be best to just skip this one entirely unless you are a diehard fan who wants to see every game in the series. This title had a lot of great potential but falls flat on almost every part of its delivery and while it may not do everything wrong what it does right is hardly enough to save this alternate take on a great franchise.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    SCEE London brings the whole Getaway British gangster feel to the handheld, with unfortunately the same dull plot and uneventful gameplay.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Better stick to the book as this game proves to be too simplistic and dull to be of any fun.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Spectra is an average, straightforward racer that’s easy enough to grasp. And yet, it comes off as half finished.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Flight sims should be great on the DS, but the touch screen feature was sadly underused here, and feels much too clunky and lackluster for today's gamers.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Mighty No. 9 has semblances of good ideas thrown into levels that are muddled with instant kill spikes and overly difficult platforming sequences, which when combined are just bad level design.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    There will be a small audience for this game I’m sure but most should just let this game pass them by.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    There just isn’t enough within R.B.I Baseball 16 to recommend buying it unless you’re an absolute diehard fan that needs to own every game in the series.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Tied Together is a fairly entertaining co-op multiplayer game at core but marred by the lack of variation. Although not a long-lasting experience, it does promise moments of family-friendly fun.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    If you have three friends who don't mind rustling through some awkward mechanics and just want to kill massive quantities of demons with no consequences then pick it up. Otherwise, if you're into deeper multiplayer experiences, there are countless other games that will be more suitable to your cravings.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    And that sums it up. Fuel Overdose is a game full of wrong turns. From art direction to gameplay, lacking story to lacking track design, it’s a game that never really finds its way to anything that even resembles mediocrity.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    It's about time the iconic Pac-Man gets his own cart racing game, but we're hard done by the game's generic racing action and bland tracks.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Oh... Sir! is mostly a delight, a fun little game about just insulting your opponents until you've humiliated them enough that they concede. Though some of the writing isn't to my tastes (and of course, more words would be appreciated), the actual back-and-forth insult trades are really enjoyable. It's fun to string together just the right words to take the opponents down. It's going to be one of my go-to games for when I just need to kill a little bit time, and I hope to see the developers improve on this concept.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    While poor performance often makes the repetition more of a chore than it needs to be, a truly interesting world, game design that understands its gameplay is repetitive and regularly finds new contexts for its loop, and fantastic atmosphere still kept me having a great time with Disaster Report 4. There were times when the game made me groan, but there was no point in its campaign where I didn't want to see what was coming next. Its a game I know I'll remember.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Joining the list of sequels that should not be, this racer prooves to be too simplistic and shallow to be any fun to anyone.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    With gangsta-themed games growing in popularity, this ride and gun actioner provides some decent arcade-style action, albeit with limited replay value.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    At the end of the day, G. I. Joe Operation Breakout is hurt by a campaign that is neither fun nor a fitting tribute to a classic pop culture license. There’s multiplayer - local only - but I strongly doubt people are going to stick around to try it out. What it all comes down to in the end is that $40 is far too great a price to ask for this limping tribute to G. I. Joe.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Unearthing Mars begins as a serious expedition to Mars only to transform into a laughably bad science fiction space opera about angry aliens and partying pig dog beasts. It won’t leave you with anything to remember it by, except for how laughably bad it is. The experience of Unearthing Mars is a lot like being EPCOT Center’s Spaceship Earth while riding high on bad weed.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Table Manners simply is ridiculous and fun, and it knows it. All it asks of you is that you be as lighthearted about the gameplay as it is. And if you can do that, and you don’t mind failing some levels in the process, I think you’ll love every second of it.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The game has the mechanics down in the flying and running, but the combat and the game's progression just isn't up to par with where it needs to be.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Koi
    Sadly, Koi is so easily forgettable and dull that I struggled with finding things to even say about it.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    While the original might have a following, this sequel fails miserably with drab story and pointless combat.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Monkeys can be quite a handful when they're at school, as this party game features a simplistic and frankly not fun assortment of mini games.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Bullet Witch is a like B-grade movie; it's far from perfect due to its modest production values but that's why you love it anyway. Who can I recommend the game as out of place and time than this to? At least not to tech-heads who find even 4K resolution insufficient. But anyone like me who enjoys curious games of the past, appreciates the Japanese penchant for drama, just loves pretty and moody female protagonists and is fed up with most of modern gaming fads can find plenty to like about Bullet Witch.

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