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For 3,050 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 79% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 17% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Game review score: 77
Highest review score: 100 The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Lowest review score: 10 X-Men: Destiny
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,960 out of 3050
  2. Mixed: 930 out of 3050
  3. Negative: 160 out of 3050
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    • 47 Critic Score
    Dracula The Last Sanctuary
    I'm a big Dracula fan, but I'm not a fan of Dracula: The Last Sanctuary HD. The iPad is capable of so much more than delivering a game I could have played 20 years ago on my PC. And when your gameplay is restricted by preset movement coordinates and spin-and-search gameplay mechanics I can't help but feel like I'm being led around an interactive storybook, and sadly, the story just isn't worth the effort. There are dozens of games out there just like this any most are better.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Streetbike: Full Blast
    There is a lot of appealing content buried in this title; I just wish there was a better game experience to drive me to want to play it. I appreciate the $1 entry fee, but sadly there are better racers out there for the same money or even free. This Superbike has crashed and burned before the race even starts. Perhaps some more time in the garage and a patch or two can fix things up but for now…avoid.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Confrontation
    At the end of the day, Confrontation just isn't a very good game.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 41 Critic Score
    Nickelodeon Nicktoons MLB 3D
    Just avoid this title and go outside and play some real baseball.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Island - Castaway
    I beat this in about five hours, so at $4.99 you're looking at about a $1 per hour in value. As a rate of return that's good (as a gut calculation I think the average console game gives you about 40 hours of content for $60), though to be honest I think I would rather take that $5 and go pay a bum to poke me in the eye for ten minutes. Save your $5 for a coffee or a deserving bum with thick fingers. These developers don't warrant the encouragement.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Law & Order: Legacies
    Ordinarily I like what Telltale Games puts together, but this just looks like a slap-dash excuse to cash in on a television property.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 35 Critic Score
    Blackwater
    Blackwater is a definite step in the right direction to providing the motion-based FPS like the one promised when Microsoft announced their Kinect camera peripheral. But between the controversial backstory, the dicey subject matter, the terrible presentation, and the sketchy controls, it is a game that is better left on the shelf. If you want a better Kinect shooter experience, check out Gunstringer.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 29 Critic Score
    AMY
    AMY is choked full of interesting concepts, clever puzzles, and a truly terrifying gameplay atmosphere, but whatever potential this game has to be great, or even good, is torpedoed by the unforgiving checkpoint and save system.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 48 Critic Score
    Jimmie Johnson's Anything With an Engine
    Jimmie Johnson's Anything With An Engine is the complete definition of a lackluster experience.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Puzzler Mind Gym 3D
    This would make for an okay budget title, but at a $40 price tag, it's a complete rip-off. Unless you're a die-hard puzzle fan who happens to spot this in a bargain bin, Mind Gym 3D isn't worth it.
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    • 40 Critic Score
    Family Game Night 4: The Game Show
    As a fan of the original Family Game Night fare, I found myself utterly disappointed with Family Game Night 4: The Game Show. The short-format gameplay is too brief to to warrant a full release (at any price), and the lackluster presentation and horrid controls only make it worse. Over the many decades of its existence, Hasbro has done a lot of things right, Family Game Night 4: The Game Show is not one of them.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Stronghold 3
    Ultimately, Stronghold 3 is a promising game that really could have used another year or two of development time.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 28 Critic Score
    Afterfall: InSanity
    I feel sort of bad ripping this game so badly, but I went into it really hoping to be blown away, and came away feeling like I, and anyone else unfortunate enough to have fallen for their ruse, had been duped.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 39 Critic Score
    The War of the Worlds
    If you favor frustration over fun then you might enjoy this game, but bring along lots of lube because this game is going to screw you more than an alien anal probe.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Cubixx HD
    Cubixx HD is probably a great game for people who like a challenge because as you get closer to the 50th level you have many more enemies on screen and tons of laser chasers following you so you really have to think on your toes or fingers, whatever the case may be. At the low price of 9.99 on PSN it's not at all expensive, but just not the sort of game I would pay that much for.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Camping Mama: Outdoor Adventures
    Camping Mama's not a terrible game, and might make for a fun distraction for kids on the road, but the lack of replay value, simplistic minigames, and the animals dragging down the exploration make it hard to recommend.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 45 Critic Score
    X-Men: Destiny
    X-Men: Destiny is a budget-priced offering wrapped in a full-priced package. By no means is it worth the $49.99 MSRP – which is a real shame given the excellent source material Silicon Nights had to work with.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    X-Men: Destiny
    All told, X-Men Destiny is both a damn shame and a massive waste of potential.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 45 Critic Score
    Rotastic
    Rotastic is simply not worth the 800 Microsoft points it'd take you to buy it. With graphics, presentation, and gameplay comparable to a $1 game on a mobile phone, and with some of the most amazing, creative, beautiful games ever to grace the Xbox Live Marketplace available for 1200 points, there's no way this game is possibly worth what they're charging.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 35 Critic Score
    Transformers: Dark of the Moon - Stealth Force Edition
    Transformers: Dark of the Moon: Stealth Force Edition should be avoided entirely.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2
    This is not a game worth buying for anything other than the amusing oddity of having a Harry Potter-themed cover shooter. It's a short game, but it still doesn't have the variety in environments that a shooter needs to avoid becoming unacceptably repetitive.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 33 Critic Score
    Garshasp: The Monster Slayer
    Dead Mage Studios have said they are going to put out an update to fix these issues but for the time being we will just have to make do. Garshasp shows potential but it needs some fixes to make it worth that $19.99. At only three and a half hours of gameplay and with all the constant bugs and glitches, I can't condone the pricing when you are going to be regretting it more and more as you play through.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Asphalt 3D
    The worst part is that Asphalt 6 on the iPhone costs $5 and looks and probably plays better than this $40 installment of the series. If you want a racing experience on the 3DS, I hear Ridge Racer is a lot better. Don't waste your time or money with Asphalt 3D.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Brunswick Pro Bowling
    f this is the future of the Kinect, then the future is looking bad. Like post-apocalyptic bad. A bowling game could have been a must-buy for the Kinect. If Wii bowling has proven anything, it is that people of all ages and genders love virtual bowling, and pretending to do it can be a total blast. This is not the bowling game that the Kinect deserves, and I would advise waiting until somebody crafts one worthy of the Kinect's impressive abilities.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 48 Critic Score
    Time Crisis: Razing Storm
    Time Crisis: Razing Storm is pretty lame, which is sad because this franchise is the cornerstone of light-gun gaming and Sony really has the tech available to make it work. Namco really dropped the ball on this release.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Vampire Moon: The Mystery of the Hidden Sun
    While Vampire Moon ends up with good presentation and some clever min-games, the puzzles and length of the game weigh it down.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Top Gun
    I can sum up Top Gun with a single word. "Embarrassing". "Unnecessary" also works. We don't need this game.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 35 Critic Score
    Transformers: Cybertron Adventures
    Earlier this year, I was pleasantly surprised by NERF: N-Strike Elite – a far better on-rails shooter than Cybertron Adventures is. And given that the Wii has so many other on-rails shooters like Dead Space Extraction and Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles, that there is no reason to waste your time and money on Transformers: Cybertron Adventures.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 41 Critic Score
    Again: Interactive Crime Novel
    The Nintendo DS is home to many great games, and its dual screen would seem a perfect fit for an interactive novel. Sadly, Again swings and misses at every opportunity with a poor story, laughable dialogue, clumsy puzzles, and pacing so slow you'll doze off in the middle of a conversation.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 35 Critic Score
    Just Dance
    After a decade of jumping on arrows, shaking maracas, and pointing out grooves onscreen, I think I am finally burned out on dance games. I had hopes that Just Dance might help revive my interest in the genre, but sadly it only made things worse. Just Dance just isn’t that great of a game, period.
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