Destructoid's Scores

  • Games
For 4,836 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 47% higher than the average critic
  • 6% same as the average critic
  • 47% 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 Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors
Lowest review score: 10 Afro Samurai 2: Revenge of Kuma Volume One
Score distribution:
4910 game reviews
    • 35 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    There's a cute little story about rewriting the past at the heart of Tyler: Model 005. It's a shame those robots can't revise history and trim this game's excess so that it can focus on what's important.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    It's disappointing to see this sold on Xbox One and PS4 (with a retail release!) as if it is completed game. It clearly is not. After some substantial updates, I'd potentially want to give it another chance, but as is I wouldn't want to spend another minute with it.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    This is the kind of game you can easily give to an elder family member if they are a fan of the show, without ever having to explain how it works. It offers a couple of casual evenings worth of extra NCIS entertainment with your favorite characters, and for some fans that might be just what they want.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Crucially, the driving itself just isn't fun, resulting in a bland experience interchangeable with any other street racing franchise.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Super Seducer: How to Talk to Women is too stupid to be sexist. It’s a relic from the Entourage era we’re all better off having moved on from and absolutely nothing to get worked up over.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 15 Critic Score
    In the buffet of 3DS RPGs, Langrisser Re:Incarnation Tensei is the day old, slimy tilapia Golden Corral employees forgot to take out. Other than the fact the game didn't crash on me, there isn't an iota of quality to be found. I knew I was going to have a rough go at it when I booted up the game and realized the developer switched the traditional roles of the "A" and "B" buttons for no goddamn reason. But that was only the tip of the poor execution iceberg that is Langrisser Re:Incarnation Tensei; a game I have no qualms calling the worst RPG I've ever played.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    The fact that Rambo: The Video Game is being sold for almost full retail price is insulting, not to mention the fact that it feels mostly unfinished and uninspired.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 35 Critic Score
    One of the worst games I've played in a long time. And it's not necessarily because of the clunky controls, vapid shooting, or myriad of other issues that are at play here. The Expendables 2 Videogame just isn't fun. It's a long and tedious slog through the mud and a thousand enemy corpses, where time is the only thing that separates you from the end credits.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Destroy All Humans is, at best, a mediocre exercise in boredom and at worst, a glitchy mess of incompetent design. It's lazy, it's dull and it's hideous to look at. Clearly rushed out in time for the holidays, you will effectively be abusing a loved one if you give them this as a holiday gift.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Past Cure wants to be something great, and that ambition is the only thing it has on its side. This is a game that is flawed to its core. The mangled story and shoddy design prevent any single aspect from ever sticking out as something special. Don't even risk taking a bargain bin flier on this one. You'll only end up frustrating yourself.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Whereas Regular Show 3DS was a flawed love letter to retro fans, Explore the Dungeon is a sheet of paper with chicken scratch scrawled on it. It's the worst game WayForward has put out in years, and yet another example of a wasted licensed game opportunity.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The game never really takes off, relying on very few tricks to support itself from beginning to end.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    X Rebirth might be worth grabbing in a Steam sale in a couple of years, after 100 patches and with a dozens of mods that create an entirely different game. That game could be fun if you are into modding. As it is right now at launch, X Rebirth is simply a broken, flawed, and almost unplayable mess.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 15 Critic Score
    Low on content, high on rookie mistakes and amateurish design, Black Ops: Declassified is an insult to pretty much everybody and everything in the videogame industry.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The game could have used a few more months in the hopper and taken many more risks.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Survival Instinct clearly isn't finished, and has no business expecting money from any paying customer. It's the kind of hurried, jury-rigged game that risks dealing damage to a property -- an especially sour note considering all the excellent work achieved by Telltale's The Walking Dead.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Ghostbusters does the bare minimum required, and it's apparent that this is a project that nobody cared about. It's ironic that a game so entrenched in specters and spooks is so completely lacking in spirit.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Does little to elevate itself over the antiquated genre it spawned from. The hand-drawn 2D art is nice, and the real-world caricatures that act as bosses after each stage might elicit a smirk, but the game is short, shallow, and unable to properly execute the simple, tried-and-true beat 'em up gameplay style, let alone advance it.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Rekoil: Liberator is as generic as they come. Basic maps, uninspired character models, the "same-old, same-old" game modes we're all used to. What it tries to do to make itself stand out it fails at, and what does make it stand out is nothing to be proud of.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 35 Critic Score
    As for the base game in Soda Drinker Pro, just don't.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Even as a tech demo it's pretty unimpressive, though the actual environments do catch the eye. It's certainly not worth the price. If you do feel like being annoyed for an hour, you'll have to grab it on Origin. It's an exclusive.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    As you might have gleaned I'm totally into this eccentric insanity more often than not, but there's a limit.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    A truly disgusting DS game.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Basement Crawl is not only a broken, unfinished game -- it's also a poor one.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Do not, under any circumstances, play Troll and I. Don't buy it on sale. Don't pirate it. Don't rent it from your local A-Z Video. Just. Say. No. The only benefit Troll and I may bring to the world is when your favorite YouTuber plays through it and provides you with many funny moments as they struggle.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    I have played some truly awful drek on the Wii over the last few years, but Calvin Tucker ranks among the worst gaming experiences I have ever had. It is sloppily designed, has largely uninspired gameplay, a terrible interface and hideous graphics. I would not sell a copy of it to my worst enemy and, if I saw someone attempting to purchase it for themselves, I would have to seriously consider setting the store clerk on fire because they are obviously a terrorist.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 15 Critic Score
    AMY
    A disgusting joke of a videogame...There is no justification for releasing a game this unapologetically loathsome.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Final Fantasy All the Bravest is not really a game. It's a cash delivery system, with you playing as the courier, your money the cargo, and Square Enix the unpaying recipient. After years of trying to monetize videogames, Square Enix has now moved on to monetizing customers themselves. It's cut out the irritating middle man that is the videogame, and found a way to simply get people to hand over money in exchange for nothing. That is what All the Bravest is. It's nothing. It's air. It's a thought.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 15 Critic Score
    Overlord: Fellowship of Evil is an experience I'll be glad to forget: a mindless, tedious, boring excuse for a game that tortures the player throughout, much like the characters in the game torturing the poor souls of the innocent. Maybe that is the point and Codemasters has done an amazing piece of art...As if.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Fighter Within is a lazy tech demo with a poor story, unimpressive fighting engine, and a forgettable cast.

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