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For 7,738 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 Hades II - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition
Lowest review score: 1 Legends of Wrestling II
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,810 out of 7738
  2. Mixed: 2,570 out of 7738
  3. Negative: 358 out of 7738
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Dinotopia: The Timestone Pirates
    Beautiful background details, dull play. [July 2002, p.87]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Crew 2
    Other than brief moments, no part of The Crew 2 is captivating enough, including the rubberband-based gameplay, the events themselves, and the overall setup of the open world.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    ATV: Quad Power Racing
    Whip donuts in the dirt with your ATV if you want to go in circles; just don't play this game. [Dec 2002, p.152]
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    • 47 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Battle Nexus
    There are even a few lame vehicular bonus stages thrown in for good measure, but none of the various stage types offer anything close to depth or originality. [Nov 2004, p.145]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Crew 2
    Other than brief moments, no part of The Crew 2 is captivating enough, including the rubberband-based gameplay, the events themselves, and the overall setup of the open world.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    ToeJam & Earl III: Mission to Earth
    It's almost embarrassing how behind the times this series has fallen. [Nov 2002, p.137]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Hitman - Intro Pack
    The short cutscenes that bookend the level do little to set up the overarching narrative, and would be forgettable even if you didn't have to wait a month for the next few minutes of story. This simply isn't enough, even for devoted fans like me. I'm still optimistic that Hitman will end up being a good game, but you very well may have to wait for the full bundle in January to play it.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Dynasty Warriors
    When a game is unpredictably rendered unplayable, spending even one minute with it is one minute too long. [May 2005, p.132]
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    • 51 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Rush'N Attack Ex-Patriot
    It comes up short. It's split into three uninspired levels of repetitive knife stabbing, sloppy platforming, and switch hitting to drain out toxic sludge. [Mar 2011, p.98]
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      • Posted Mar 6, 2011
    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Showdown: Legends of Wrestling
    It's a nice homage to wrestling's past, but just can't compete with the wrestling games of the present. [Aug 2004, p.96]
    • 47 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Rush'N Attack Ex-Patriot
    It comes up short. It's split into three uninspired levels of repetitive knife stabbing, sloppy platforming, and switch hitting to drain out toxic sludge. [Mar 2011, p.98]
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      • Posted Mar 6, 2011
    • 50 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Adventure Time: Pirates of the Enchiridion
    Not the open-world game I was hoping for, but it is on the right track. This is a genuine attempt to create the type of experience the Adventure Time license deserves. It comes up short in many ways, but I still did get to have an adventure in Ooo, even if it was flooded with both water and technical issues.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Godzilla: Save the Earth
    A monstrous letdown. [Dec 2004, p.165]
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    • 55 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Trinity: Souls of Zill O'll
    Repetitive quests that require taking down specific enemies or fetching items in areas you'll revisit multiple times over becomes dull quickly. [Mar 2011, p.98]
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      • Posted Mar 6, 2011
    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Saw
    Saw fails to deliver the suspenseful crescendos, surprising twists, and apprehensive atmosphere of the films. Instead, it’s padded with unremarkable gore, poor pacing, and uninspired level design.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Fairytale Fights
    Top off the list with repetitive and uninspired boss battles, an off-kilter depth of field and a one-dimensional economy, and Fairytale Fights is offensive, just not in the way Playlogic intended.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    World's End Club
    World’s End Club tells an uninteresting story full of obvious twists and turns that’s segmented by linear exploration and low-stakes action. On normal difficulty, you’re killed in one hit, which doesn’t mix well with the finnicky controls. Some character designs and their accompanying abilities are particularly inspired, but I didn’t fall in love with any of their static personalities. World’s End Club ultimately wound up feeling like an unimaginative afterschool activity.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    STRAFE
    Strafe succeeds at being a suitable homage of referential nostalgia-laden trinkets, but there’s no other real reason you should play it. If you want the feel of an old shooter, you should probably go play one of those instead of Strafe.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Hot Wheels World Race
    Here to demonstrate for us what happens when you take away good physics and the feeling of speed from a racing game. [Jan 2004, p.135]
    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Supercar Street Challenge
    In the end it's all about the racing and nothing here is that compelling. [Dec 2001, p.93]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Mad Dash Racing
    I guess not being interested in the game's rules themselves is a basic qualm. [Jan 2002, p.87]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Endless Boss Fight
    With a few tune-ups, Endless Boss Fight could be great. A more consistent and satisfying string of rewards would get me hooked, and better controls would alleviate my frequent frustration – all of which would give me even more reason to continue diving into the cool asynchronous multiplayer arena. Unfortunately, that’s not the game you get when you play Endless Boss Fight.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Hey! Pikmin
    Pikmin could work in 2D, but Hey Pikmin isn’t the game to make it happen. Nintendo’s low-impact blend of strategy and action flounders between relaxing and boring. I sometimes felt compelled to replay Hey Pikmin’s levels to find the treasures I’d missed the first time around, but I never found what I was hoping to: a richer strategy experience.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Crash Twinsanity
    While it pains me to say this, maybe Crash should make like the entire cast of "Blossom" and disappear. [Nov 2004, p.146]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates
    It’s a poor excuse to round up the gang. Presumably, the reason why your friends are your friends is because you share some common interests. Do some of those together instead.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Omerta: City of Gangsters
    Omerta fails to close the loop that XCOM managed so adroitly by having a strategic layer so simple as to be a pointless afterthought, with no simulation depth to make up for a game world that turns the other cheek to the most egregious of criminal offenses and a combat system that doesn't rise above basic adequacy.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Pirate Hunter
    This isn't a bad game; it's just a very, very dull one. The only action to be found anywhere is in the ship battles, but even these are tedious. [Jan 2004, p.157]
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Walking Dead: Michonne - Episode 2: Give No Shelter
    Compared to Telltale’s other work in this universe, Michonne’s mini-series lacks any discernible guiding philosophy outside of poorly articulated and uninteresting nihilism. I’m not attached to any of these new characters and I know that Michonne is not in harm’s way given that the series occurs between certain issues of the comic, so what impetus is there to care about anything that’s going on here? While the aimlessness of Give No Shelter might thematically match the hopeless wandering of its source material, it makes for a rather unpleasant and forgettable time.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Yu-Gi-Oh! The Dawn of Destiny
    The biggest problem is that Dawn of Destiny restricts your freedom like a galactic despot. [June 2004, p.132]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Bomb Rush Cyberfunk
    This is a shame because there's a fun game here – it's just trapped in a hollow shell. Its final sin is having a miserable story hardly even worth bringing up. It's boring and bad; we can leave it at that. There's room for games that want to recapture some old glory – to remind you how cool games used to be – but to do that, you have to add something new to the conversation. Neon White is a great example of a game that did this right. Bomb Rush isn't interested in adding anything new. It just wants to have the same conversations we've been having for years. Jet Set Radio was cool. Go play that instead.
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