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For 5,043 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 31% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 65% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 7.4 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Game review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
Lowest review score: 10 New World Order
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,007 out of 5043
  2. Mixed: 2,425 out of 5043
  3. Negative: 611 out of 5043
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box
    Professor Layton and Pandora's Box is superbly charming (aside from its creepy moments), and Layton's constant reprimanding of Luke for not being gentlemanly enough is hilarious.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Giant Boulder of Death
    Giant Boulder of Death is a quintessential Adult Swim game. It's strange and silly, but also incredibly well balanced and designed underneath its anarchic surface. Most importantly, the feel of it is just right.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
    While there's a thrill in returning to locations you're familiar with ten years on in game terms, it can't overwhelm the realisation that these are just the original levels stripped bare and re-fabricated according to Obsidians whims.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance
    If you're a SupCom player, think of this as pretty much your dream patch for the game, but with the unfortunate but understandable addition of a price-tag.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Children of the Sun
    Gory and exacting, Children of the Sun mixes the highs of tactical precision and cracking a killer puzzle.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
    If you're on a budget, or just don't have access to a DS, then this is a fine way to sample its abundant charms, provided you don't expect anything special in the presentation department.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Art of Fighting Anthology
    Weighing in at little over the price of an XBLA download (about a tenner from the right shops), Art of Fighting Anthology is a rare bargain - especially from new.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Brutal Legend
    Schafer, Double Fine, and Black haven't just created a story about roadies: they've become them, scuttling about energetically, heads down and minds focused, as they pull a handful of simple props together in order to put on an amazing show.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D
    Donkey Kong Country Returns is a game about falling off things, goring yourself on things, squashing yourself under things and occasionally being eaten by things. So it was in 2010, and so it is now. There are worse ways to spend a weekend.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tomb Raider
    Beneath the noise there is an engaging story clamouring to be heard, and there are moments of true beauty, serenity and pathos fighting for attention. The game does get better as it goes on, and despite the distractions the last few hours are a pleasure to play. At the centre of it all is a brilliant character, still iconic but more human and believable than she's ever been before.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    LocoRoco 2
    Ostensibly the same again, then, LocoRoco 2 nevertheless pulls its charm tight and burrows deeper into the mechanics, level layouts and set-pieces, presenting more elaborate rewards in visuals and gameplay, and doing a better job of sharing them with you so that you don't always feel as though you're searching for cuddly needles in a Teletubbies haystack. It comes across as a refined, more elaborately constructed sequel that remembers why it was good in the first place.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fieldrunners
    With a clean, pleasing visual style and gameplay that reveals its nuances through natural play, Fieldrunners is a wonderfully crafted casual nugget. It's a shame that more hasn't been added for this version, but that's no reason not to surrender to its charm.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Overlord
    More than the script (generally witty and sharp, if occasionally undercut by an iffy voice-actor) or the graphic design (a brother to Fable's faux-fantasy charm), the constant capering of your charges is what gives the game its personality. That is, they have a lot of personality and so does the game.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    SIREN: Blood Curse
    Not quite unparalleled excellence, then, but more than enough chills to keep horror adventure fans gibbering.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    MotoGP 13
    Look beyond the tattered edges, though, and there's enough to ensure that the monopoly on two-wheel racing Milestone now enjoys doesn't mean this wins out by default. MotoGP 13's a lean, scrappy racer that's not just the best motorbike game around at the moment - it's one of the best pure motorsport experiences on console for years.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Boulder Dash-XL
    Despite the initial audio-visual horror, Boulder Dash XL ends up being far greater than the sum of its parts. This is one ugly ducking you won't be ashamed to spend time with.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Bravely Default
    The core conceit adds new capacity for strategy; it's a genuine and interesting invention. And despite the now completely lifeless use of mystical crystals as a plot device, as the game progresses, scriptwriter Nataka Hayashi begins to subvert the clichés in unexpected ways. What's easy to dismiss as by-the-numbers plotting will delight and surprise you in time.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Skies of Arcadia Legends
    If you're looking for an enjoyable but fairly traditional RPG with a cracking storyline and likeable characters, Skies of Arcadia Legends comes about as highly recommended as any game can.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
    Does all the boring, difficult parts of RPG game design very well, and marries them to exceptionally slick combat and a towering stack of stuff to do. This well-oiled machine keeps you motoring through all the sludgy fantasy cliché and through a sluggish first act. Then - just as the world opens out and the story picks up traction - that motor really starts to sing. That's when a solid, workmanlike game becomes one that's virtually impossible to put down.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    BALL x PIT
    Kenny Sun's new game is a voguish spin on an Atari classic - and it rules.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Bookworm Adventures: Volume 2
    Adorable, not only for kids as the presentation may immediately suggest, and very silly, it's another big success for PopCap. If only it would get properly challenging it would be a giant classic. As it is, it's a thing of loveliness you should buy this instant.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    30 Birds
    Instantly captivating and perpetually playful, this whimsical romp across a world of paper lanterns is utterly enchanting.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Broken Sword: Director's Cut
    Nice work, Revolution. With BASS and now Broken Sword, the developer has proved that the iPhone can handily support some of the best classic adventure games.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Every Extend Extra
    Another triumph of fast-paced puzzle gameplay from Q - and is a solid enough update of the freeware original to make it interesting even to those who played the PC version to death.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Jamestown: Legend of the Lost Colony
    Jamestown certainly isn't the biggest shooter you'll ever see, but given the amount of replayability built into the structure, you'll play it far more than you might imagine.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Pokemon Conquest
    Conquest isn't just that rare Pokémon off-shoot that isn't a limping abomination - it's a reminder that the best consoles don't slip into the night very quietly. They stick around, defiantly showing up the machines that have replaced them.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Zone of the Enders HD Collection
    The 2nd Runner also helps make up for a regrettable lack of extras in this set with the EX modes and additional content created for its special edition release.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Aero Porter
    One of those weird little video games that stalks around in your memory far longer than you might expect it to.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Gears of War 3: RAAM's Shadow
    Sustained by the strength of the moment-to-moment play, this add-on packs a punch. While Raam's abilities are arguably too straightforward to sustain a full game, they fit a shorter DLC mission perfectly. Meanwhile, the structure that has you switching between two warring sides as they close in on one another is interesting and well executed, resulting in a strong, worthwhile expansion.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Asheron's Call
    Asheron's Call is also very addictive - I sat down and told myself that I was only going to play for an hour, but after I finished playing I noticed that I had been playing for over four hours, which pretty much explains that I'm hooked.
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    • 72 Metascore
    • Critic Score
    Battletoads
    Battletoads is short. Really short. TOO short.
    • 78 Metascore
    • Critic Score
    Everybody's Golf
    A vibrant interpretation of golf that expands on the series' distinguished lineage without compromising, or distracting from, its strengths. [Recommended]
    • 73 Metascore
    • Critic Score
    Dead Island 2
    If you've somehow yet to play an undead-themed action-RPG or you have an appropriately on-brand mindless hunger for the subgenre, Dead Island 2 might be worth your while. It's certainly got the zombie disassembly part down pat. If you are neither of those things, all the sturdy design and flying organs in the world can't hide the shortage of lingering excitement here. Dead Island 2 isn't a bad game, but it does feel superfluous, which is a sad thing to conclude about a project that's been in development for almost a decade. Still, at least they spared us the zombie booby merchandise this time.
    • 82 Metascore
    • Critic Score
    Little Nightmares II
    Tarsier returns with another slice of horror that's just about glorious enough to make up for the frustrations. [Eurogamer Recommended]
    • 70 Metascore
    • Critic Score
    Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Wildlands
    Wildlands is an environment worth lingering over, but the mechanics and themes it propagates are wearing extremely thin.
    • 89 Metascore
    • Critic Score
    NORCO
    Norco is a beautiful, surprising, human, and utterly magnetic debut. [Eurogamer Recommended]
    • 76 Metascore
    • Critic Score
    We Are OFK
    The biggest success of the game, though, is its sense of authenticity. The LGBT+ representation is excellent, with diverse characters normalising queer relationships. The developer's devotion to authentic twentysomething reference points is commendable. And where so many music stories push songwriting and acoustic instruments as more "authentic" than manufactured pop, here the secret to success is simple: just be yourself.
    • 72 Metascore
    • Critic Score
    The Wonderful 101: Remastered
    It's too anarchic, too messy and too unreadable in its combat, as well as too erratic in its execution. But then it's that anarchy that's key to The Wonderful 101's charm, and that runs through so much of the work of Hideki Kamiya. The Wonderful 101 is Platinum at its most imperfect, but I don't necessarily mean that as a slight. There's a real thrill to be found in all that chaos. [Eurogamer Recommended]
    • 86 Metascore
    • Critic Score
    Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age
    A sumptuous, generous and absolutely gorgeous RPG that isn't quite the measure of Dragon Quest's illustrious past.
    • 80 Metascore
    • Critic Score
    Pokemon: Let's Go, Eevee!
    Pokémon's Switch debut deftly toes the line between returning fans and all-new ones, with a few small wobbles along the way. [Eurogamer Recommended]
    • 85 Metascore
    • Critic Score
    Kirby and the Forgotten Land
    Kirby's long anticipated move to 3D platforming sees the series step up to a new level of invention and wonder. [Eurogamer Recommended]
    • 67 Metascore
    • Critic Score
    TT Isle of Man: Ride On The Edge
    A middling racer in a dreary package that contains one of the finest achievements in the racing genre in years. [Recommended]
    • 83 Metascore
    • Critic Score
    Roadwarden
    A beautifully structured, rich and thoughtful adventure with gentle but decisive RPG elements. [Eurogamer Essential]
    • 79 Metascore
    • Critic Score
    Pokemon: Let's Go, Pikachu!
    Pokémon's Switch debut deftly toes the line between returning fans and all-new ones, with a few small wobbles along the way. [Eurogamer Recommended]
    • 82 Metascore
    • Critic Score
    Forza Motorsport 7
    Another handsome, well built and entertaining Forza rolls off the production line - though there are controversial changes under the hood. [Recommended]
    • 84 Metascore
    • Critic Score
    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge
    So yes, Turtles single-player has been an absolute delight. I can't wait for my first six-player match.
    • 60 Metascore
    • Critic Score
    Metal Gear Survive
    Metal Gear's first post-Kojima outing plays fast and loose with the formula, with results that are equal parts brilliant and baffling.
    • 64 Metascore
    • Critic Score
    Gotham Knights
    This is a slight muddle of a game, but it has its pleasures.
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    A Monster's Expedition
    Draknek masters a genre with a game of little touches, big challenge, and giant heart. [Eurogamer Essential]
    • 80 Metascore
    • Critic Score
    Fire Emblem Engage
    Nintendo's long-running fantasy series looks to its rich history for this smart, satisfying turn-based strategy game. [Eurogamer Recommended]
    • 72 Metascore
    • Critic Score
    All Walls Must Fall
    Witty and wonderfully scrappy, turn-based combat has never looked quite like this before. [Recommended]

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