Frictionless Insight's Scores

  • Games
For 56 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 55% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 40% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Game review score: 74
Highest review score: 100 Total Extreme Wrestling 2004
Lowest review score: 40 Journey to the Center of the Earth
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 27 out of 56
  2. Negative: 1 out of 56
56 game reviews
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Given the variety of characters, you're bound to find at least one whose play style is entertaining enough to justify riding out the rough spots.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Pandora Tomorrow isn’t perfect, but it presents a great value – it includes two, top-quality games for the price of one. It’s also an improvement on the already brilliant original game. As such, Pandora Tomorrow deserves no less than the highest rating available.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A solid, though unspectacular, update in the series. While the FielderCam is unique and the Pick-up game is fun, these new additions alone don’t make it a must-have, especially if you’ve got last year’s edition.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Unreal Tournament 2004 is close to a master work, containing tons of new levels, new modes, and a great excuse for upgrading your video card... It's polished to a shine, it plays like a dream, it's gorgeous, and best of all, it is an absolute blast to play.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It’s a good game with tremendous ambition that often drags you out of an immersive experience and throws your focus on a few, flawed mechanisms of gameplay.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Wade Hixton is simple game, only flawed in that we would have liked to see so much more of it. However, for $20, it's hard to find a game that is as worthwhile as Wade Hixton. This truly is re-mastered classic gaming entertainment.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It’s particularly good as a two-player, casual contest. You’ll be hard pressed to find a better alternative for comic, 3D, turn-based combat on a console.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It also distinguishes itself among platformers by letting the player control the camera at all times.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    While Corvette may not be particularly innovative, the gameplay isn’t bad, though it lacks bells and whistles. Corvette fans are going to get a nice toy for their ten bucks.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    For some people, the story will be compelling enough to make it worth playing through the single-player missions once, but the same effect can be comparably achieved by renting "Goodfellas" again.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Ultimately, the game feels like a solid scaffolding around which a really amazing game could have been built. On its own merits, Gangland isn’t a failure. In fact, it’s a flawed, but solid, game. Gangland simply falls short of its potential and its promises. That’s the pity.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Drakengard is a lesson to game designers everywhere. Variety and color are not things to introduce gradually. Difficulty, sure, but we need fun throughout.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's a good thing the levels are as great as they are, because you're likely to do a lot of backtracking. The gameplay doesn't require it, but the absurd placement of save points does.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Given its bargain price, Carve is perfect for casual racing fans, budget-minded gamers and fans of other genres who just want a racing game to keep around in case a few friends drop by. Hard-core trick-racing gamers should look elsewhere.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It is neither the best RTS nor the best RPG out there. However, SpellForce offers enough of a quality experience in both genres, packaged in a pretty environment that you could spend dozens of hours exploring as a Warrior of the Rune.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    CoN offers so much enjoyable gameplay between different character combinations, items and difficulty levels that it is an exceptionally worthwhile purchase.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Fundamentally, the gameplay is just too linear. From the mission requirements to the layout of the levels, you don’t feel like there’s any freedom to explore. Constantly hitting buttons to fell enemy troops isn’t enough to draw you completely into the world.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The experience with different human players gives it an edge, but the edge is much needed to counterbalance the lack of moves and environmental interaction. This provides fun but superficial gameplay that succeeds in small doses.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    With all of the variables involved, racing is often quite frustrating, and you’re more likely to spend more time trying to get back on track than actually on it.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Ultimately, the game suffers from a simple lack of polish, but in areas that severely detract from the gameplay experience.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    As good as it is, a little bit more control over the game setup might make Crimson Skies even better. A button to auto-divide players into equal teams would save the ridiculous three-minute Dance of the Switching Flags that precedes each battle.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The major sense of Ghost Master is not one of powerlessness, but one of controlled possibility. Although you can’t throw together any old team and expect to beat every level, the number of ghosts, powers and potential solutions to most problems make it unlikely that any two players will experience Ghost Master in quite the same way.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Doesn’t feel interactive enough to be deeply involving. Much faster, higher level seasons or far more options are needed to make the Coliseum exciting.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    If you’re looking for a game that offers you absolute control over every aspect of your football league, Total Pro Football is just about perfect.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The other major drawback is the absence of specific plays that you could call in a given situation during a game. That said, Total Pro Basketball is a very solid offering, and, most importantly, fun to play.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The perfect game for gamers who are real fans of college basketball game, and want that feeling of complete control and realism that’s largely absent from other games in the genre. The concept is brilliant, and largely well-executed, but the bugs and glitches detract a great deal from the experience.

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