Game Informer's Scores

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For 7,736 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 62% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 34% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.3 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Game review score: 75
Highest review score: 100 The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Lowest review score: 1 Legends of Wrestling II
Score distribution:
7751 game reviews
    • 38 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    I’ve played a lot of bad Xbox 360 games for achievements, but hardly any are as unpolished and poorly executed as Dark. It’s easily one of this generation’s worst titles. Even when the stealth is working moderately well, the slow pacing is a killer, and no amount of blood sucking brings satisfaction. Most levels were completed through trial and error, failure after failure, and then success coming from exploiting an AI bug or an odd design decision.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Okay, what we're dealing with here is a racing game that doesn't let you steer. DO YOU UNDERSTAND THIS?! You can't steer... It's kind of like making a platforming game where you can't walk. [Sept 2003, p.121]
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    • 20 Critic Score
    R.B.I. Baseball 14 is one of the most baffling new releases I’ve come across. The visuals are somewhat modern, and the rosters are current, but everything that happens after the pitch is thrown harks back to the ‘80s – a time when developers were just starting to figure out how to make baseball games.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 18 Critic Score
    Jumper fails on all fronts; animation, sound, level design, control, combat, storytelling, balancing, item management...all of it. It can also be completed in approximately two hours.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 18 Critic Score
    Next to sharing the screen with Michael Jordan, this game has to be the low point in Bugs Bunny's career. [Dec 2007, p.140]
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    • 28 Metascore
    • 18 Critic Score
    Jumper fails on all fronts; animation, sound, level design, control, combat, storytelling, balancing, item management...all of it. It can also be completed in approximately two hours. [Apr 2008, p.88]
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    • 27 Metascore
    • 18 Critic Score
    Next to sharing the screen with Michael Jordan, this game has to be the low point in Bugs Bunny's career. [Dec 2007, p.140]
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    • 40 Metascore
    • 18 Critic Score
    Next to sharing the screen with Michael Jordan, this game has to be the low point in Bugs Bunny's career. [Dec 2007, p.140]
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    • 30 Metascore
    • 15 Critic Score
    An arena fighter shallow enough to make "Ooga Booga" look like "Final Fantasy Tactics." [Nov 2001, p.123]
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    • 37 Metascore
    • 15 Critic Score
    The graphics are horrendous, and the gameplay is so painfully slow that I contemplated defenestraing this cartridge from the fourth story window of our building in hopes that I would never have to see it again. [Mar 2003, p.92]
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    • 28 Metascore
    • 15 Critic Score
    It’s short, repetitive, and crappy all the way through.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 15 Critic Score
    It’s short, repetitive, and crappy all the way through.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 13 Critic Score
    You cannot fathom just how putrid Jam is. [May 2002, p.89]
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    • 22 Metascore
    • 13 Critic Score
    Just close your eyes and focus on the most wretched, mangled mess of ugliness that your brain can conceive and you've pretty much nailed Drake on the head. [Jan 2004, p.151]
    • 57 Metascore
    • 13 Critic Score
    The only thing that could make this worse would be if the game was broken, but then you'd at least be spared the agony of playing it. [Jan 2003, p.96]
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    • 56 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Congratulations, you just spent $20 on 10 minutes of gameplay! [Aug 2008, p.91]
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    • 32 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    I hate this clear exploitation of Bruce Lee's name so much that I am considering going out to buy this game just to bust it into a hundred little pieces. [Sept 2002, p.89]
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    • 33 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Absolutely horrible. It looks worse than Pam's new boyfriend, Kid Rock, after a bottle of Jack Daniel's. [Jan 2002, p.88]
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    • 24 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    At one point Postal III tasks you with collecting HIV-infected cats; I'd rather do that in real life than play this awful game again.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Hulk Hogan's Main Event is a baffling product, and I have no idea who its intended audience is. I guess it could be for fans of wrestling and crappy Punch-Out clones, but even that doesn't make sense.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Never in my wildest dreams did I think I’d encounter a game so thoroughly terrible. Where do I even start? The racial stereotypes? The positively broken controls? The revolting art design? Ready 2 Rumble sucks in every conceivable way.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    This may very well be the worst PS2 game on the market... The outcome is nothing short of a resounding d'oh! [Dec 2002, p.123]
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    • 23 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    From its unreliable (or non-functional) mechanics to its doofy character designs and hilariously bad writing, Fighter Within is garbage. It fails to operate on any level, and the content isn’t deep enough to be fun even if everything worked. If you were hoping for an Xbox One launch title that shows off the technological leaps made by the new Kinect, you certainly won’t find it with Fighter Within.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    The graphics have a certain flair to them, the likes of which you'd see oozing out of a defective bar toilet. [July 2002, p.92]
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    • 29 Metascore
    • 8 Critic Score
    The action that unfolds is so incomprehensible and littered with bugs tht you can't help but wonder if your GameCube or television is on the fritz. [May 2003, p.87]
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    • 32 Metascore
    • 5 Critic Score
    A joke. The fighters you face early on are so easy to beat, I literally won a match just bashing the controller against my ass. [Dec 2001, p.109]
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    • 24 Metascore
    • 1 Critic Score
    Avoid this like a used King Kong Bundy jockstrap. [Mar 2003, p.92]
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