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  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 25% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Game review score: 78
Highest review score: 100 The Last of Us
Lowest review score: 10 The Apprentice
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,108 out of 3102
  2. Mixed: 918 out of 3102
  3. Negative: 76 out of 3102
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    WWE Legends of WrestleMania
    In the end, Legends of WrestleMania fails to completely live up to its potential, but does provide a fun experience for a short time.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Street Racing Syndicate
    A lack of tactile speed, a complicated upgrade system and a number of useless features makes SRS much more of a rental for hardcore driving fans only than a must have.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    EyeToy: Groove
    An interesting attempt to integrate videogames, music, dance, and you into a single package, but ultimately fails to leave much of an impression after the first few hours of play.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Dungeons & Dragons: Dragonshard
    Its mechanics are simple and its missions are boring, and so there’s just nothing to recommend about it.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Wildlife Park
    If the subject matter sounds intriguing, then "Zoo Tycoon" is a much better bet, especially since you can get it all bundled together now for a cheap price.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    A Vampyre Story
    And so my guess is, if you play A Vampyre Story exactly the way the developer intended, and if you don’t encounter any bugs or sloppiness, then you’ll have a lot of fun. But if you keep having problems, and if you keep struggling with puzzles, not because you can’t figure them out, but because the engine isn’t working properly, then each bug / mistake / badly designed puzzle will drain a little bit of fun from the game, until, perhaps, there isn’t any left. It’s just a question of whether you want to take the risk or not.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy
    For what the game is trying to do, it is reasonably good – it just lacks content. As a result, it is technically okay, but falls short in major ways. The combat doesn’t feel satisfying, and there’s no thrill of victory since everything has to end in the same kind of attack every single time. The game looks good-ish at times, but also has some parts that look slapped together and not quite fully-formed just yet. The whole game feels like a bad rough draft that is being showcased as a final product – and it’s a shame. The concept of an all-female SNK fighter has potential – but Gals Fighter remains the best overall to enjoy that core concept.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Spawn: Armageddon
    The disappointing part of Armageddon is its length and its lack of variety. You won't get too much playing time to see the visuals and there is no compelling reason, apart from aesthetic appreciation, to revisit some of the locales.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Spawn: Armageddon
    The disappointing part of Armageddon is its length and its lack of variety. You won't get too much playing time to see the visuals and there is no compelling reason, apart from aesthetic appreciation, to revisit some of the locales.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series - Season Pass
    Telltale is always good with their production values, so Story Mode looks like Minecraft and sounds excellent (with Patton Oswalt among others doing a nice job with their lines), but the story and gameplay elements are iffy at best.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Street Racing Syndicate
    A lack of tactile speed, a complicated upgrade system and a number of useless features makes SRS much more of a rental for hardcore driving fans only than a must have.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Kane & Lynch: Dead Men
    In a season of really great shooters, Kane & Lynch is pretty much a dud. It’s sort of a style over substance kind of game, except the style isn’t even terribly impressive. The substance, what there is of it, amounts to a fairly so-so action game that’s kind of short.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Spider-Man 3
    If you’re looking to recapture the fun you had with the previous generation’s titles (which were FAR better), then please keep waiting.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Test Drive Unlimited 2
    A patch is due out in early March to rectify many issues, and we'll take a look at the game after that to see just how many issues are fixed. However, in the state the game is presently in, I can't recommend a purchase. $60 is simply too much to pay for the game as it is now.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Ar tonelico Qoga: Knell of Ar Ciel
    Ar Tonelico Qoga is a game with much potential that is overshadowed by its sexualized themes and excessive fan service. Much of the appeal is lost with its stereotypical cast of characters, bland visuals and repetitive random battles that quickly outwears its welcome. I couldn't help but feel very underwhelmed by what could have been a promising and satisfying game. A lot of high hopes and expectations were riding on this latest Ar Tonelico installment with its best moments being marred horribly by its flaws and shortcomings.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Test Drive Unlimited 2
    A patch is due out in early March to rectify many issues, and we'll take a look at the game after that to see just how many issues are fixed. However, in the state the game is presently in, I can't recommend a purchase. $60 is simply too much to pay for the game as it is now.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 66 Critic Score
    The Little Acre
    As I was playing The Little Acre, I kept thinking that I should be liking it more than I was. It seems like it’s well-intentioned, but I found it more dull than charming, and more by-the-numbers than thought-provoking. Really, it’s like a shorter, less polished version of Anna’s Quest, and I didn’t even like Anna’s Quest that much. But on the brighter side, The Little Acre is cheap, and it might work well with children, and so for some people it might be worthwhile.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 66 Critic Score
    NFL Tour
    Unfortunately for fans of EA's NFL Street series, your option this year is a relatively thinned out, shallow arcade football game.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 66 Critic Score
    Oni
    Oni brings to the table an explosive and refreshing hand-to-hand combat system. Despite its presence though, Oni falls victim to a variety of issues including repetitive level design, an awkward control scheme, numerous visual glitches and a lack of multi-player.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 66 Critic Score
    NFL Tour
    Unfortunately for fans of EA's NFL Street series, your option this year is a relatively thinned out, shallow arcade football game.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 66 Critic Score
    Spider-Man 2
    If it were a little longer or if it encompassed some of the traits of it's console cousins then maybe.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 66 Critic Score
    Micro Commandos
    Scavenging resources is pretty much all you do, and there’s just not enough going on there to carry the title, especially when everything else about the game is bargain bin quality.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 66 Critic Score
    SimCoaster
    When the night comes to a close and the vomit is all cleaned up, SimCoaster is simply not fun enough. The emphasis on micro-management and objective oriented gameplay really takes away from the overall enjoyment of designing and running an amusement park.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 66 Critic Score
    The Walking Dead: The Telltale Series - A New Frontier
    Since Telltale’s games don’t have much to rely on other than the story, a “filler” script like the one A New Frontier has just kills the game. There isn’t anything to get excited about, you can probably spot most of the twists and plot elements coming a mile away, and your control over what happens is minimal at best. Really, instead of buying the game, you could just watch posted videos of the episodes and get the same experience. So it’s safe to skip A New Frontier unless you’re a dedicated fan of the franchise, and even then you should wait for a sale (which seems to happen to Telltale’s games with regularity). Hopefully Telltale can get their act together in time for Season 4, which has already been announced.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 66 Critic Score
    Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow
    This title is not as groundbreaking as it is to other platforms simply because the audio-visuals haven’t taken a jump on Nintendo’s handheld.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 66 Critic Score
    Manhunt
    It’s for the most part far too easy, and that tends to dilute any tension that builds up.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 66 Critic Score
    Asura's Wrath
    If you're looking for something different, then Asura's Wrath is unique enough that it's worth a rental, but I can't justify spending full price for a game that's literally as long as the movie it's so desperately trying to be.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 66 Critic Score
    Minecraft: Story Mode - Episode 1: The Order of the Stone
    But overall, the first episode of Minecraft: Story Mode felt like a disaster to me, which is why I’m hoping that it’s because I don’t know anything about the game it’s based on.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 66 Critic Score
    Celtic Kings: Rage of War
    The campaign in Celtic Kings isn’t especially different than campaigns in any other real-time strategy game, and, in fact, nothing about Celtic Kings is especially different than what you’ll find in other games.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 66 Critic Score
    Tycoon City: New York
    Tycoon City might be fun enough if you’re more familiar with New York City (and if you want to, say, place a comedy club where your house is) but otherwise there’s just not enough to it to be any fun.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 66 Critic Score
    CSI: Miami
    The five cases that you solve are pretty ordinary, and you spend way more time chasing down false leads than figuring out what happened and why.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Choplifter HD
    Choplifter HD is a tough game to recommend if you aren't familiar with the series because enjoying it relies on liking its slower-paced gameplay.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Death Jr.
    Simply put, the control of DJ should’ve been left to the directional pad, the camera should’ve been centered to the nub, and the weapon select should’ve been placed on a subscreen accessed by the start or select buttons.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Test Drive: Eve of Destruction
    The gameplay is incredibly slow, with weak controls and very sloppy technical facets that harms the enjoyment and eventual replayability of the title.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Hans Christian Andersen: The Ugly Prince Duckling
    The game looks nice, the story is easy to follow, and most of the puzzles are easy to solve. But for me, the interface sinks whatever potential the game has, and I’d have to think that it would infuriate anyone playing an adventure game for the first time.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Mars: War Logs
    I had been hoping (and kind of expecting from the trailer) for a sort of Arkham City combat structure in the form of a more classical RPG. This is not that game. The melee combat engine, while interesting, doesn’t actually balance well, and it results in combat that feels ridiculous and clunky where Arkham was fluid and dynamic.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    NIER
    In the time spent playing this, I really wanted to enjoy NIER as an intricate game but it suffers largely from an identity crisis.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Off-Road Redneck Racing
    Off-Road Redneck Racing is available at a budget price, but with all the bumps in the road, it's simply a mediocre ride.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    MindHabits
    So at least in theory MindHabits can help you out. But here’s the problem I had -- none of the games are any fun to play.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Arx Fatalis
    "Master of Orion 3: had better save me from all this crap, that’s all I’ve got to say.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    FIFA Street 3
    FIFA Street 3 single player lacks the depth that is needed to have players coming back for more.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    The Banner Saga
    While I applaud their artists and music, The Banner Saga has very little else to cheer about.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Fuse
    It’s a solid game that looks good and plays well, and its cooperative Echelon mode ripped straight out of Gears of War, Halo, Left 4 Dead, etc. is genuinely fun. The only problem is it’s not particularly memorable. Fuse can provide a weekend’s worth of entertainment, but I guarantee you’ll soon forget it.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Echo Night Beyond
    I like it more than I really should. It'd be a great survival horror game, and it's not a bad adventure game, but it's intensely frustrating. It's long periods of searching eerie, near-empty environments punctuated by fifteen-second death scenes, and I can't recommend that to anyone.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    MotoGP 10/11
    The problematic handling and lackluster nature of many of the game's features makes it impossible to recommend for most players. Unless you're a series die-hard, you're probably fine sticking with last year's entry, or just renting this one. The developers succeeded at delivering a rock-solid online experience, but the core racing gameplay still needs a lot of work before this can become a must-have series.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Rumble Roses
    While there's something to be said about the upfront nature of Rumble Roses as a jigglefest, you'd almost hope there was more behind it to make it more of a guilty pleasure than a gimmicky title.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    White Knight Chronicles International Edition
    While Level 5 certainly has some must-have games in their dossier, White Knight Chronicles isn’t one of them. Its blend of JRPG and MMORPG mechanics may be innovative, but it isn’t very fun, and its plot isn’t good enough to outweigh the many glaring problems with its gameplay.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Blacklight: Tango Down
    A good game with some lofty goals. For sheer amount of content it gets gold stars, and ideas like the Digi Grenade, which explodes into a brilliant array of blinding pixels, are admirable ones. Unfortunately, the game also likes to reward shady practices like spawn camping, and the health bar is pretty much useless.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Secrets of the Ark: A Broken Sword Game
    I was a little annoyed when the ancient mysteries ended up revolving around the Knights Templar and the Ark of the Covenant. Haven’t those two things been involved in enough ancient mysteries without trotting them out for yet another?
    • 61 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
    A very short game. You're best off making it a weekend rental and saving the rest of your money to go see the actual movie, if you haven't already.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Dungeons
    So, if I had to pick a single word from the roughly 1000 that I have written above, it would have to be disappointed. I was completely primed for Dungeon Keeper, and what I got instead was kind of Diablo meets Rollercoaster Tycoon. Not good. Worse than not good.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Beyond Divinity
    The problem with the story in Beyond Divinity -- advertised as “deep and detailed” on the game’s web site -- is that there isn’t really one.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    The Getaway: Black Monday
    The concept of the game itself (and of the series) is a decent one that’s hampered by a lot of AI and gameplay issues. What’s more, the inclusion of stealth play that is weakly implemented compared to other titles further sheds light on the problems of Black Monday.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Street Hoops
    Control of the players, and the actual balance of the game, is abysmal. The first indicator of this is with the control scheme for the game, which is automatically set.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    NARC
    The key phrase with NARC would seem to be "wasted potential."
    • 63 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    FIFA Street 3
    FIFA Street 3 single player lacks the depth that is needed to have players coming back for more.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Frogger Advance: The Great Quest
    As a platform title, aside from the name and homage it pays (or rather, doesn't pay), it's an average, almost mediocre title in its own right.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
    This isn’t the game you’re looking for unless you are Vampire: The Masquerade obsessed or just completely strung out on buggy RPGs. There’s a lot of nice elements hiding under the hideously overwrought surface, but it’s hard to say that they’re worth digging for.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Lost Planet: Extreme Condition
    Lost Planet brings to the table an awkward shooter with no story to speak of and whose general gameplay mechanics are somewhat flawed or incomplete. However, there are players out there who may just want to shoot some bugs out in the cold.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
    In A:aMfP the balance is off. There’s too much wandering around admiring the scenery and not enough stuff to do or scares to go around. But the plot is so good I almost wish they had released it as a movie instead of a game.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Crusader Kings II
    Perhaps this game would have been a blockbuster back in the days when all games required you to use your imagination to fill in the gaps where graphics and processing power weren't up to the task yet. And indeed, for those "gamers" who still pine for their Commodore 64's, Crusader Kings 2 may provide everything they would ever need. For those of us gaming in the year 2012, however, there just isn't enough here.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Test Drive: Eve of Destruction
    The gameplay is incredibly slow, with weak controls and very sloppy technical facets that harms the enjoyment and eventual replayability of the title.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Touch My Katamari
    I'm torn by Touch My Katamari because I liked the game, I'm sure I'll get a lot of use out of it in the future, and yet I still feel disappointed by it due to the lack of content, relatively poor music given the series' usual high standard, and the comedy simply not being funny this time around. It gets the basic idea of a katamari game right and does deliver fun, but not as much as prior installments. I'd recommend it as a rental or a heavily-discounted purchase, but there's no way I can recommend it as a full-priced purchase for anyone.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    GripShift
    One of those opportunities that sadly didn't pay off. So much work was put into this title that it's a shame to see it killed by unresponsive controls.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Midway Arcade Treasures 3
    You're not really going to find the arcade experience here, nor are you going to find the full presentation that you may remember putting quarters in so many years ago.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Joint Task Force
    They’ve built a good RTS engine with several noteworthy features, and then ruined the single-player game with a lackluster control scheme, pathfinding issues, and a positively moronic enemy AI. But if you go multiplayer, get away from most of that, and find yourself a competent adversary, then I’m pretty happy with JTF.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Star Wars Battlefront II
    Beyond the somewhat short, very linear, and probably not replayable single player campaign, most people coming to Battlefront 2 are going to be interested in the multiplayer. This has proven to be very difficult to review, because there have been so many game updates to multiplayer since the release that I feel like I’m trying to review a moving target, though the core of multiplayer has not changed all that much through the updates. Long story short, the multiplayer gaming is staggeringly unbalanced because of the way the whole game is structured, and I doubt even another dozen updates is going to change that.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Fallout 3: Mothership Zeta
    The bottom line here is that Mothership Zeta is about as much of a miss as Bethesda has ever been responsible for. A few hours of linear romp through boring corridors fighting boring enemies is frankly a shocking disappointment from such a successful development group.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Legend of Grimrock
    I found the first hour of LoG nostalgic, and the next hour tolerable, and the hours after that aggravating. The dungeon is bland and the enemies are flat and the combat interface is cumbersome – in others words, just like every RPG dungeon crawl in the 80's.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Farscape: The Game
    Short and simple and repetitive, and it has really awful graphics, but for some reason I sort of liked it anyway, maybe because I also liked the television series it’s based on the one season I watched it.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Afro Samurai
    It brings some interesting graphical style, some cool hip-hop beats, and some top-notch voice work by Sam Jackson to the party, but it’s too short, too repetitive, and too flawed design-wise to be anything but a mediocre game.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Battlefield 2042
    I can say that the decision to switch classes for specialists has met with a metric crapton of criticism on the interwebs, and in that I’m in agreement with the masses – thus far, about 20 hours in, all the specialists play the same to me, though I think most people will gravitate towards either the wingsuit or the grappling hook as being the most fun to play with. I suspect more content is coming – at least more maps, but hopefully more modes, and maybe some AI opponents for single player opportunities – in which case this game may grow into something good (but you’ll have to buy the year one pass to get it). But as it stands, at the price it stands at, I can’t recommend it.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    NARC
    The key phrase with NARC would seem to be "wasted potential."
    • 50 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Spyro: Shadow Legacy
    What do you get when you have a story that's pretty by-the-book, lackluster gameplay, and a gimmick that's really just a smokescreen? I'll give you three guesses, and if the first one isn't "Spyro: Shadow Legacy" you're dead wrong.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Sword Coast Legends
    In some sense, though Sword Coast Legends is no Baldur’s Gate or NWN or Icewind Dale, I appreciate what they’ve tried to do here, even if the outcome could use some help. To their credit, they say in interviews they’re going to stick with it and try and fix issues as they hear about them.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Blacklight: Tango Down
    In the end, Blacklight: Tango Down is a good game with some lofty goals. For sheer amount of content it gets gold stars, and ideas like the Digi Grenade, which explodes into a brilliant array of blinding pixels, are admirable ones. Unfortunately, the game also likes to reward shady practices like spawn camping, and the health bar is pretty much useless.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Conflict: Desert Storm
    Though the game does have its high points, a fair collection of flaws and technical shortcomings hold the game back from being anything but a second rate game for only diehards of the genre.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Fallout 3: Mothership Zeta
    The bottom line here is that Mothership Zeta is about as much of a miss as Bethesda has ever been responsible for. A few hours of linear romp through boring corridors fighting boring enemies is frankly a shocking disappointment from such a successful development group.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Rockstar Games presents Table Tennis
    The controls are functional, but they don’t nearly take full advantage of the Wii’s motion sensing technology, and without online multiplayer the shortcomings of the single player game are that much more evident.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Defenders of Ardania
    So I'm (perhaps disappointed isn't the word because I come into tower defense games expecting so little) confused as to how the designers saw these elements coming together and didn't comprehend the problems they would cause in actual game play. I also have to confess a long-held desire to see a game that is like tower defense only reversed, where you get to be the invader. DoA has that, and I'm left contemplating that old axiom about getting what you wish for.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Far Cry Primal
    Far Cry has gone the way of Assassin’s Creed, another source of income that’s been left to stagnate so everything that worked can be borrowed by the inevitable sequel.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    The Council
    I didn’t enjoy The Council particularly much. It has some good stuff to it — the premise is great, and it’s fun sparring with (sometimes fictional) historical characters — but for me there were too many design issues, there was too much potion hunting, and the twist at the midway point just ruined everything.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Crackdown 3
    Crackdown 3 is technically the best entry in the series to date – but doesn’t feel like a 2019 reincarnation of the franchise. It feels like a soft reboot of the 2007 game with 2009-era gameplay and graphics that are impressive due to their lack of slowdown and crisp appearance, but little else.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Disney's PK: Out of the Shadows
    It’s not that bad at all actually, tastes like chicken. It isn’t that great, mind you, but it is a definite step up from the last Disney game to feature Donald Duck as the central character.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Samurai Shodown Sen
    While Samurai Shodown Sen delivers a fun experience at times, it doesn’t deliver a very polished one. The broken jumping mechanics and unbalanced gameplay make for a frustrating experience overall.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Magna Carta: Tears of Blood
    If Magna Carta had a less frustrating combat system, it'd be a perfectly good, if slightly self-parodying, RPG.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle
    Overall, I find JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure very hard to recommend for most people. If you’re buying it because you loved the Capcom classic and don’t really like the license, then avoid this game.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel
    The result is a game that I think will appeal to little more than the Borderlands diehards.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Bejeweled Blitz Live
    Don't get me wrong, I love Bejeweled Blitz, but it's hard for me to recommend spending $10 on the Xbox Live Arcade version when there's a superior, free version available on Facebook.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    King Arthur II: The Role-Playing Wargame
    It's sad that I've come away from King Arthur 2 with such a negative impression. Almost universally, I crave more and better storytelling in my games. Here we have a game that's oozing with story, but that's about it. I wish the writing was enough to carry it into positive territory, but truth be told, the gameplay bored me to tears and I couldn't wait to put it down after even a half-hour session. Maybe King Arthur 3, if it's made, will find the right balance.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    World Series of Poker: Tournament of Champions
    It’s great that the developers were able to secure the all-star poker talent they did, but for the most part they squander the opportunity.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Dig Dug
    Surprisingly absent from this version of Dig Dug is the alternating two-player mode found in the original arcade version.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Hard Reset
    Hard Reset puts you on the streets of a splashy cyberpunk city, atmospherically lying somewhere between the Matrix and Blade Runner, a world of crumbling glass skyscrapers, and unleashes the enemy hoards.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Viking: Battle for Asgard
    For a game that promised so much, Viking really doesn't do much in the way of delivering.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    J-Stars Victory Vs+
    Unfortunately, J-Stars Victory VS+ isn’t quite good enough to warrant a buy for most people. If you are a big fan of the anime/manga franchises contained within it, check it out.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Blacklight: Tango Down
    In the end, Blacklight: Tango Down is a good game with some lofty goals.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    NIER
    In the time spent playing this, I really wanted to enjoy NIER as an intricate game but it suffers largely from an identity crisis
    • 69 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Magna Carta 2
    MagnaCarta 2 is a game with potential that is regrettably marred by its cliché storyline and characters.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Afro Samurai
    It brings some interesting graphical style, some cool hip-hop beats, and some top-notch voice work by Sam Jackson to the party, but it’s too short, too repetitive, and too flawed design-wise to be anything but a mediocre game.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Fable III
    In Fable III you can purchase houses, buy businesses, get married, and have kids. Like B&W you have a pet, a dog in this case, but he's more useful and less idiosyncratic, and you can train him to help you in combat and he sniffs out treasure for you. By and large good stuff. Those things work. And in general dealing with the leaders of the various towns to get them to ally with you is good RPG fodder (and deciding later whether or not to keep the promises you make is an interesting wrinkle). But the dreary nature of performing menial tasks repeatedly with individual people to scrape experience? Not so much. In fact as an activity it likely ranks down there with gold farming. And while it was ludicrous as a god to be expected to find every lost child, as a prince trying to stabilize an entire kingdom it's only slightly less asinine. And in Fable III it's all been linked together, inextricably.
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