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For 4,015 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: 1,234 out of 4015
  2. Mixed: 2,350 out of 4015
  3. Negative: 431 out of 4015
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    • 91 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds
    Nintendo’s nervousness around punishment, for fear of putting off newcomers, continues to undermine ALBW’s attempts at novelty.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Deadfall Adventures
    The cinematic videogame thriller depends on budget and craft. Remove these ingredients and the thinness of the underlying design is shown up. The Farm 51 has neither the money nor the talent to compete on this well-furrowed ground. Deadfall Adventures is a poor man’s imitation, a thoroughly bad videogame and one which, most frustratingly, is bad in uninteresting ways.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Blur Overdrive
    Despite its flaws, however, Overdrive captures the essence of its progenitor, though it also serves as a reminder that the much-missed Bizarre Creations isn’t coming back.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Star Wars: Tiny Death Star
    It resembles nothing more than a Skinner box, eventually rewarding your endless hours of button pressing with a short, amusing skit or a familiar face from the Star Wars universe. While some will no doubt be snared by its insidious little feedback loops, we can only reiterate Ackbar’s grave warning: it’s a trap.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Ratchet & Clank: Into the Nexus
    It’s a perfectly serviceable adventure that you’ll play through with few frustrations, but will likely have forgotten by the following morning. Ratchet and Clank’s story ends, then, not with a bang, but with a half-hearted shrug.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Rayman Fiesta Run
    This is still a fine – and visually opulent – auto-runner, but it’s bloated, too; a little restraint would have gone a long way.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Stanley Parable
    The Stanley Parable is brave. It’s brave because it offers the freedom to define the parameters of your experience. It’s brave because it’s willing to explore the ways in which games manipulate players, and to extrapolate that point into a discussion of the way we are all manipulated by the structures of real life. It’s brave because it’s willing to make fun of itself.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Battlefield 4
    Let all the vision-obscuring dust settle and it transpires that Battlefield 4 is a more conservative sequel than we were led to expect.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Call of Duty: Ghosts
    Many will be satisfied by the simple existence of a COD game on the day next-gen hardware launches, but this is a missed opportunity nonetheless. The studio that defined the console FPS in the current generation has declined to do the same here. By the time it gets another chance, it may be too late.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Sokobond
    Sokobond introduces complexity via level furniture that breaks bonds or lets you adjust the position of bonded atoms, but even the basic chambers provide ingenious challenges. Forget chemistry: it takes alchemy to produce a puzzle game as refined and smart as this.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Batman: Arkham Origins
    There’s a good game here, but that game was built and finished two years ago. Origins adds little to its mechanics and nothing to the mythology. The story of a raw and inelegant Batman in his early years is better told on the big screen and the printed page, rather than in a raw, inelegant game in a generation’s twilight years.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag
    Stealth games are only as good as the flexibility of their encounters, and in that regard Black Flag is the most generous Assassin’s Creed game to date.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies
    Dual Destinies is an Ace Attorney game, all right, and that’s perhaps the best result anyone could have hoped for.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Batman: Arkham Origins
    This Arkham Origins is a brawny, brainless offering, then, that takes one aspect of the series and remixes it for iOS in a way that should temporarily scratch that Batman itch ahead of the main event.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Wii Party U
    There’s a familiar, welcoming charm to Wii Party U, which offers an evening spent in the company of nice-but-quiet friends. We wouldn’t blame you, however, if you snuck out to visit the more vibrant party hosted by Wario or Bumpie next door.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Sonic: Lost World
    Sonic games, and platformers in general, have always been about memorising the lay of the land, but rarely have mistakes been so costly or heavily punished, and it says much that one retailer’s preorder bonus consists solely of 25 additional lives.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    DEVICE 6
    Simogo’s greatest triumph, perhaps, is to intensify the potency of the written word. In using its text both as narrative and as geography – and through its impressively restrained use of illustration and sound – it generates an almost unrivalled sense of place.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    140
    140 is a magnetically moreish experience: delicately balanced and well thought-out. If this is what the programmer can achieve during the downtime from his day job, Playdead’s enigmatic second project can’t come soon enough.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Wolf Among Us: Episode 1 - Faith
    And while The Walking Dead had its share of technical problems, here they’re even worse, with lengthy loading times on 360 fracturing the pace and some several-second freezes completely killing the tension during fight scenes.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    HOOKBALL
    It’s a game designed to intentionally test your stamina and patience, meaning that if you fail to prepare yourself for Hookball’s relentless pace and harsh difficulty, then prepare to fail.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Card Hunter (2013)
    This is a game that takes its fantasy as seriously as it needs to be, which is to say both lightly and with rigour in homage to the communal games that make up videogames’ heritage. But it’s also a real original.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Marvel Puzzle Quest
    It lacks the original’s elegance and surprise, but as F2P spin-offs go, this isn’t nearly as villainous as you might expect.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Beyond: Two Souls
    This is a far more systemically diverse game than Heavy Rain, and its story is certainly more believably told through Holmes, Dafoe and a fine supporting cast. Yet this is a game almost entirely bereft of tension, one in which failure goes largely unpunished and is almost always inconsequential. There is emotion here, but it’s felt passively, as spectator instead of player.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    rain
    Rain’s core ideas remain frustratingly underdeveloped throughout, and it comes off more like a watercolour sketch than the oil painting that was promised.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Pokemon Y
    Make no mistake: this is a pair of games that will lead to formative moments in young lives, moments of the kind that will inspire a lifelong passion for the medium.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Pokemon X
    In the games’ improved communication features, too, X and Y are truer to their narrative’s ethos: the joy of sharing moments of beauty and surprise with others. It’s a delightful message to send to a new generation of players, many of whom are just starting out on their own gaming journey.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Pocket Trains
    With no meaningful equivalent to the communal goals and tactical layovers that gave Planes a stay of execution, once the paywall stalls your progress like leaves on the line, there’s little reason to continue. Even for those who’ve ‘supported’ NimbleBit with regular IAP donations, you suspect the Bux stop here.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Shadow Warrior
    Flying Wild Hog has re-imagined a cult classic while maintaining Shadow Warrior’s unique personality in a shamelessly flawed and flimsy shooter concerned more with laughs and blood-letting than balance, and the team’s bold embrace of the game’s roots goes a long way to excuse the game’s problems.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Marlow Briggs and the Mask of Death
    There’s no sense of strength or weight to your actions despite how extravagant the carnage becomes.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Dragon's Crown
    The breasts get in the way. Dragon’s Crown’s 30GG bosoms have made any discussion of the game impossible without first acknowledging that, yes, those things are preposterous. While art director George Kamitani’s assertion that he exaggerates male characters’ masculine characteristics to the same extent holds water, the saucy fairy and spread-legged female monk don’t help combat the suggestion that Dragon’s Crown is wantonly objectifying women.
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