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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:
  1. Positive: 4,808 out of 7736
  2. Mixed: 2,570 out of 7736
  3. Negative: 358 out of 7736
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    • 32 Metascore
    • 28 Critic Score
    MTV's Celebrity Deathmatch
    Sarcasm aside, I wouldn't burn this game for warmth if a vat of dry ice got dumped on my head. [Jan 2004, p.135]
    • 32 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Escape Dead Island
    While playing through Escape Dead Island, I was continually offended that anyone would be asked to pay for this experience. Any number of developmental issues could have caused this train wreck, from budgetary problems or creative crises, and we'll likely never know the whole truth. But as it stands, Escape Dead Island is worth nobody's time.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric
    I was initially excited when Sega first announced that Big Red Button would be developing Sonic Boom. I thought Sega handing the iconic license over to a new developer might shake Sonic loose of the slump he's endured via a string of rough Sonic Team titles. Unfortunately for fans and the Hedgehog himself, Sonic Boom is a blemished bore.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct
    Outside of these interesting narrative nuggets, Survival Instinct sinks its infected teeth into monotony and carelessly chews away at it to deliver a repetitious experience that lets a few cool ideas go to waste. This is an apocalypse you don’t want to survive.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 5 Critic Score
    Kabuki Warriors
    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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    • 32 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5
    The gaming landscape has changed a lot since the series heyday, but this title is stuck in a no-man's-land between not being good enough to replicate the past nor ambitious enough to move the franchise forward.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 35 Critic Score
    Robocop
    It pretty much fails on every conceivable front and can't hold a candle to 99 percent of the games currently in the Xbox library. To serve, protect, but more realistically, to suck. [May 2003, p.91]
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    • 30 Metascore
    • 45 Critic Score
    Fighters Uncaged
    "Quotation Forthcoming"
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    • 30 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Ghostbusters
    Ghostbusters is a slog from start to finish.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Ten Pin Alley 2
    If you spent months bowling in Wii Sports, then this will be an upgrade. Otherwise, it isn't worth your time. [Jan 2009, p.76]
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    • 30 Metascore
    • 15 Critic Score
    The Powerpuff Girls: Chemical X-Traction
    An arena fighter shallow enough to make "Ooga Booga" look like "Final Fantasy Tactics." [Nov 2001, p.123]
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    • 30 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Fear Factor: Unleashed
    If you play Fear Factor: Unleashed, you deserve to find forgiveness in the heart of no man. [Feb 2005, p.125]
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    • 29 Metascore
    • 18 Critic Score
    Jumper: Griffin's Story
    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.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 8 Critic Score
    Batman: Dark Tomorrow
    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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    • 28 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The Quiet Man
    I want to call The Quiet Man a farce, but farces are funny. This game is just a conceptual catastrophe that does everything wrong and nothing interesting.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 15 Critic Score
    Rogue Warrior
    It’s short, repetitive, and crappy all the way through.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 18 Critic Score
    Jumper: Griffin's Story
    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
    Looney Tunes: Acme Arsenal
    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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    • 27 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Aquaman: Battle for Atlantis
    Call me crazy, but punching an enemy while doing the doggy paddle doesn't exactly generate a whole lot of excitement. [Oct 2003, p.131]
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    • 27 Metascore
    • 15 Critic Score
    Rogue Warrior
    It’s short, repetitive, and crappy all the way through.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Aquaman: Battle for Atlantis
    I'd say it was as horrible as the N64 "Superman" atrocity, but since Aquaman has always been a lame character, having a crappy game is at least conceptually sound, given the subject matter. [Oct 2003, p.139]
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    • 26 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Hulk Hogan's Main Event
    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.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Jenga World Tour
    Whatever strange, mirror universe insanity might lead you to play a video game version of Jenga rather than the real thing, you are unlikely to advance past the first few games.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    AMY
    As a downloadable title, I wasn't expecting Amy to measure up against the triple-A juggernauts of the survival horror genre. However, I was expecting a game that was at least playable and contained some kind of entertainment. Make no mistake: Whether Amy is delivered to you via download, retail SKU, direct brain wave, or retinal implant, it is terrible and should be avoided.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Battle 22
    The control is stiff and imprecise; and the number of gameplay modes is pathetic. [June 2003, p.105]
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    • 24 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Gravity Games Bike: Street Vert Dirt
    I'd say the physics were bad, but I'm afraid that Albert Einstein would rise from his grave and stab me with a protractor for using the word "physics" in the same sentence as Gravity Games. [Sept 2002, p.81]
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    • 24 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Postal III
    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.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 1 Critic Score
    Legends of Wrestling II
    Avoid this like a used King Kong Bundy jockstrap. [Mar 2003, p.92]
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    • 24 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Pulse Racer
    Officially the worst Xbox game I've ever played... Play this title only if you don't have Dr. Kevorkian's number handy. [Feb 2003, p.105]
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    • 23 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Fighter Within
    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.
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