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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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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tales From Space: About a Blob
    With a loveable art style and knockabout humour adding gloss to its warmly familiar gameplay, Tales From Space: About A Blob is the perfect platform snack.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Pepper Grinder
    Chug through the earth and navigate ingenious levels in this terrific platformer.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Karoshi
    But the respite of grisly death doesn't come easy in YoYo Games' latest 2D platformer. You have to plan his demise with military precision and careful timing if you're to make the pain end.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Iron Brigade
    This is a satisfying genre crossover that follows through on what Brutal Legend attempted. I'd chalk that up as a victory.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hector: Badge of Carnage - Episode 2: Senseless Acts of Justice
    Nit-picking aside, Senseless Acts Of Justice is another harrowingly accurate exploration of the eccentric, perverted, vomiting British psyche. This is less of a game, more of a documentary.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    UFO: Afterlight
    Yes, you'll find sleeker interfaces and more engaging gunfights in titles such as "Silent Storm," "Faces of War," and "Jagged Alliance 2," but none of those games come with anything half as involved or absorbing as Afterlight's amazing strategic layer.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    F1 2010
    The best F1 season in years deserves the best F1 game in years – thankfully, that's exactly what it's got.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Psychonauts
    What's unavoidable is the fact that almost all of the problems that weigh Psychonauts down are borne out of the legacy that the platform genre itself has, and Double Fine - like so many other developers - has largely been unable to avoid falling into the same pitfalls of inconsistent level design and unwise difficulty spikes. Dammit.
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    • 80 Critic Score
    Halo 4: Majestic Map Pack
    If you still pine for rigidly contained maps like Battle Creek, Turf or even the relatively recent Guardian, then the Majestic Map Pack lives up to its name.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Rune Factory Frontier
    This is arguably the most involving non-linear RPG available on Nintendo's flagship system.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
    Guns of the Patriots is a frustrating, fractured game that turns Metal Gear Solid's world upside down several times over, but never changes it.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Battlefield: Bad Company
    The single player portion, while never less than hugely entertaining, stops short of true greatness thanks to a few fundamental design shortcuts which offer easy health restoring concepts seemingly at the expense of balanced AI. Some of this is irrelevant in the online mode, and the profound implications of a massively destructible environment make it a unique proposition in online gaming right now - albeit a riotous chaotic one.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask
    Despite the shift in dimensions, this is a pretty standard Layton adventure. Luckily, since Layton adventures tend to be one of the more dependable highlights of the gaming calendar, that remains a ringing endorsement.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sensible World of Soccer
    All minor gripes aside though, SWOS remains a triumph of playability over tedium and proves the franchise is still a strong contender for the greatest football game of all time.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Patapon
    While Patapon has got the same quirky sense of style and visual charm as its predecessor ("LocoRoco"), it doesn't offer the same easy breezy gameplay. Instead, it offers an imposing amount of depth and a considerable amount of micromanagement. Which isn't necessarily a criticism - it's just that forewarned is forearmed.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Gears of War
    If you want to gorge on a next generation audio-visual feast then Gears of Wars is a king's banquet. But what of the gameplay pudding that Peter Moore so often reminds us that he likes? The proof, he says, is in the eating, and in this case Gears of War sticks to a well-worn recipe.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Jetpack Joyride
    Jetpack Joyride is further evidence of Halfbrick's unseemly knack for producing games designed to test both the battery life of handheld gaming platforms and the sanity of players. Needless to say, both run out eventually.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Wipeout Pulse
    WipEout Pulse is faster, better looking, tighter to control, full of new content and much better arranged than its predecessor. Its impact probably won't be as keenly felt as its launch title predecessor, but even if it can't replace Pure at the top of the Metacritic listings, it will certainly replace Pure in your PSP UMD slots - and there it shall stay.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This War of Mine
    This War of Mine is a game whose simple message - that war is hell, and that we're all capable of being sucked into its moral depths - might be slightly compromised by its strengths as a game, but at least it's a message carried with a great deal more conviction than other, more bombastic portrayals of conflict. That, for certain, is something to be thankful for.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Nintendogs: Dachshund & Friends
    The puppies are astonishingly realistic, and very easy to become attached to. This in itself makes for an incentive to keep on playing the game day after day, but there's also the fact that there are so many funky items (oh, how we long for the pirate hat) and different breeds (oh, how we long for the Shetland sheepdog) to collect.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    WWE SmackDown! vs. Raw 2006
    This is a rare PSP game that's not a poor translation of a PS2 flop from four years ago, or a disappointingly crippled version for the handheld. It's a spot-on, virtually perfect miniature version of the PS2 smash.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Medal of Honor: Airborne
    What's important, though, is to not get bogged down in the detail too much. It's a game that, when played under pressure, can be a real pain, but taken at your leisure is one to savour.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Chronicles of Spellborn
    From its fast-paced, exciting battles to the beautiful, haunting environments, it's an MMORPG like no other we've played - and what it lacks in expensive polish, it makes up for in enthusiasm, ambition and creativity.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team
    Whether you're a Warhammer 40K aficionado or not, this is just the right kind of uncomplicated stress relief to distract you from the BBC News 24 ticker.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Contre Jour
    With 60 levels offering hours of patient probing, it's another impossibly good-value offering.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Wasteland 2
    The story is pure pulp and the big picture is not that exciting, but as usual, the charm of Wasteland is in the stops along the way: location after location full of crazy characters and moral choices, and a writing team gleefully embracing the ability to do pretty much whatever they want.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Borderlands
    Borderlands is unusual, playable, and an artfully violent step in an interesting direction for Gearbox. The story aspect of the game could have been better - I'd love to have seen the role-playing influence extend beyond stats, levels and loot - and the ending is a disappointment. Even so, this should be a favourite game of the year for a huge number of people, since it plugs into gamer impulses at such a fundamental level.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Worms 3D
    Despite the criticisms, Team 17 has still managed to pull off an impressive evolution of a much-loved series. The core game has remained barely unchanged, but the 3D engine introduces a lot of unexpected elements to get used to, both good and bad.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    SoulCalibur V
    SoulCalibur has always excelled at offering an accessible style of combat with a level of single-player content that other fighting games have only recently begun to match. These qualities haven't changed - and now, after what seemed like an uncertain return, the historical fighter is staging its best performance since that fateful Christmas of 1999. High five!
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean
    While the story and characters are unfortunately very weak, Baten Kaitos is easy to recommend to anyone looking for an RPG that focuses strongly on gameplay rather than storytelling.
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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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