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For 4,019 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 15% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 81% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 9 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Game review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 Dreams
Lowest review score: 10 FlatOut 3: Chaos & Destruction
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,236 out of 4019
  2. Mixed: 2,352 out of 4019
  3. Negative: 431 out of 4019
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Wonderful 101
    The Wonderful 101 draws on ideas from Kamiya’s previous games – Viewtiful Joe’s cartoonish charm, Okami’s brushstroke mechanic, Bayonetta’s setpieces – but in concert they’re messy, hamstrung by cluttered visual design and a clumsy central mechanic. Stretched over a large frame, they wear thin quickly. There’s a good game in here, but it’s smothered by the need to conform to its host platform’s feature set, and a distorted concept of value for money.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Gone Home
    Perhaps Gone Home’s greatest surprise lies in the apparent ease with which The Fullbright Company has joined the game’s subject and its medium: it’s a domestic tale of girl-to-womanhood told with the tools of an action game. As a statement that games can express emotionally resonant stories, Gone Home is a triumph. But that’s not why you should play it. Engrossing, touching and rewarding, it’s well worth the experience on its own terms, too.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Ittle Dew
    That player-considerate attitude is offset by less reverential treatment of its inspiration, however. Ittle Dew isn’t really a parody, more a loving pastiche, but its gently sassy mockery of Zelda’s conventions ties with the beautiful, vibrant art to ensure that while this really is mostly block puzzles, they’re some of the best presented ones you’ve ever played.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist
    By the time you reach the end of Blacklist everything has grown so big and so explosive that you’re left exhausted but not entirely satisfied, and maybe after all that incoherent action you’ll recall the time when a single flashlight in Chaos Theory’s Panamanian bank made you hold your breath.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Spin the Bottle: Bumpie's Party
    If some activities are variants on familiar parlour games, they’re enlivened by creative twists and side objectives, while others are brimming with invention.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Saints Row IV
    One thing’s for sure: it’s the one we’ve been waiting to play.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Europa Universalis IV
    Europa Universalis IV is the game you graduate to when you’re tired of Civilization. That’s ultimately also why all those numbers are there, beneath the surface: because you never graduate away from Europa Universalis IV. It drops you in the deep end before you’re ready, but if you can swim back towards the shallows during those first five hours, you’ll unlock a game so rich, it’ll be helping you tell stories for years.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Disney DuckTales: Remastered
    It’s easy to admire the developer’s evident love for the NES game – it’s clearly been handled with the kind of care only a genuine fan would provide – but after a few repetitive hours bouncing around DuckTales’ pretty but unremarkable worlds you’ll begin to realise that some treasures aren’t worth the effort of unearthing.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Tales of Xillia
    What’s left is, while smartly streamlined, a thoroughly orthodox game within a well-established type, a niche within a niche that’s getting smaller all the time.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Divinity: Dragon Commander
    It hangs together because its distinct strands feed into one another just enough, even if that relationship is as crude as a dialogue tree leading to you gaining a stat-altering card that you can play during the campaign phase.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Prince of Persia: The Shadow and the Flame
    In-app purchases, however, are handled with more nuance and kept pleasingly out of sight.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Pivvot
    Compulsive and beautifully tuned, Pivvot is a tense, nervy challenge to relish.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Sky Tourist
    With its best ideas exhausted long before the developer tires of them, some moments of real ingenuity are swamped by busywork. At times, you’ll admire the craftsmanship, but Sky Tourist is often too busy trying to be clever to remember to be fun.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Dota 2
    You’ll never be able to play enough Dota 2 to totally master it, and although it’s an F2P game it can be too cruel and unusual for some. But persist through the tough start and accept the idiosyncrasies, and you’ll start to understand why so many have stuck with it for more than a decade. Why would they need something new when they’ve got this incredibly deep, rewarding multiplayer experience?
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Teleglitch: Die More Edition
    Atmospheric, tense, and sometimes unfairly hard, Test3′s roguelike is another welcome entry in a resurgent genre.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Raven: Legacy of a Master Thief
    While the logic-based puzzles are never too perplexing, they can require a little too much back-and-forth travel between adjacent rooms, occasionally wearing out the good impression made by each gorgeously rendered setting.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Deadpool
    While we’ll accept that Deadpool the character is an acquired taste, this is an indisputably poor game, one whose knowing winks and quips come off not as metacommentary but as tacit apologia for its litany of specific failings.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Shadowrun Returns
    That’s what Shadowrun Return provides, of course: it’s not just a single tale of murder and techno-conspiracy. It’s a ruleset and a tileset, and a promise of more to come.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Yawhg
    It only takes a couple of playthroughs for events to start recurring, and that severely diminishes The Yawhg’s spell, but it can’t take away the charm with which Carrol and Sommer’s game weaves together fairy tales.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Rogue Legacy
    Rogue Legacy offers the silly, slapstick cruelty of the best roguelikes, but twins it with something just as appealing: a tantalising hint of control over your fate.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Hexodius
    Hexodius’ dungeon sections aren’t involved enough to offer interesting choices or exploration, but last just long enough to qualify as clunky menu screens.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    DARK
    Realmforge is clearly a student of the genre, but budget is king here, and the studio lacks the financial clout to even pierce the flesh of a crowded market. Despite being crafted with noble intentions, Dark succeeds only in sucking the life out of itself.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Attack of the Friday Monsters! A Tokyo Tale
    A Toyko Tale is brief and entirely linear – in the main, you’re simply walking between numbered waypoints, though you can unlock certain dialogues by losing your servant status – but Ayabe transports you so utterly to an unfamiliar time and place that it matters little. By the outlandish and oddly touching final act showdown, you’ll be a rapt spectator, cheering on the heroes alongside Sohta and his newfound friends.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Pikmin 3
    Familiarity is both the worst and best thing about Pikmin 3. Twelve years after the original and nine after the sequel, little has changed – but little really needed to. It may not sell systems on its own, but it’s a fine addition to a sparse software library that brings one of Nintendo’s most vibrantly characterful series into the HD era and, critically, makes convincing use of the GamePad.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Deus Ex: The Fall
    There’s nothing here that wasn’t done bigger, in more detail, and with more options, in Eidos Montreal’s game, while the story so far fails to introduce new ideas or themes.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Plants vs Zombies 2: It's About Time
    This is a remarkable sequel, one that takes its predecessor not as a template, but a jumping-off point. And for all the justifiable concern about its chosen business model, its implementation of the free-to-play model prizes players’ hearts above the contents of their wallets.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Gun Monkeys
    Matches are brisk, varied and tense, but you might face a long wait to get one. An idle mode allows you to browse the internet or check emails until a challenge arrives, but alerts are sadly infrequent. Local play is a fine substitute if you have a willing partner, but Gun Monkeys is a two-player game too often lacking a player two.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Gentlemen!
    Coming from the studio behind Wave Trip and Bad Hotel, Gentlemen’s sharp, stylish menus and app icon were always a given, but a conceptual curveball like this was hardly guaranteed to hit its target. That it does so emphatically is convincing proof that this Edinburgh studio is no one-trick pony.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Marvel Heroes
    The game is also lumbered with a tragic split personality. On one hand, there’s a lot to do, and if you like the look of one of the initial five heroes you can do all of it for free with a little grinding. On the other hand, Marvel Heroes is so eager for you to spend – and so keen to extract the most out of your wallet when you do – that the price tag of the game in real-world terms can soon become astonishingly disproportionate to its quality.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Mario & Luigi: Dream Team
    Following the excellent Inside Story was always going to be a big ask, so it’s hardly a surprise AlphaDream never quite manages to conjure up anything better than being Bowser. Still, while the comparison to its predecessor does it few favours, rest assured that Dream Team Bros’ additions and curiously entertaining battles do enough to reawaken the desire to see this adventure through to the end.
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