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For 4,098 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 37% higher than the average critic
  • 6% same as the average critic
  • 57% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 6.8 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Game review score: 68
Highest review score: 100 Citizen Sleeper
Lowest review score: 0 Mass Effect: Pinnacle Station
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,967 out of 4098
  2. Mixed: 1,535 out of 4098
  3. Negative: 596 out of 4098
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    • 51 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Koi
    I like the idea of taking a fish on an unconventional journey, but Koi isn't atmospheric or relaxing enough to be a chill game, and the gameplay isn't substantial or clever enough to make it a puzzler.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Generation Zero
    Coming from seasoned developers who’ve turned out great games like Just Cause and Mad Max, the quality of this brand-new IP is incredibly disappointing. I hope that it continues to be patched and improved, because the current state of affairs can’t possibly showcase the vision Avalanche must have originally intended.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Astral Traveler
    Controls are just too important to overlook in a game, and Astral Traveler’s result in frustrating play. Add in questionable level designs that slow down the ship too often, and the result is that any potential enjoyment is sucked away. My younger self would have been disappointed, but would have kept playing. My adult self knows better, and has moved on to more enjoyable endeavors.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Bionicle Heroes
    So once again, Traveler's Tales gets the Lego right, only this time they screw up everything but.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    She Sees Red
    I am thoroughly disappointed with She Sees Red. It’s an irrelevant, irritating adventure that is unlikely to please even serious fans of the FMV genre.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Milanoir
    While I found the subject matter and the characters to be off-putting and offensive, the real killer here is the sloppy, cumbersome gameplay that, even if one thinks the poor attempts at humor come off as amusing, will render the drive to play it obsolete. The five hours I spent playing Milanoir was a miserable, groan inducing slog that I don’t wish upon anybody. It may be an homage to films of the past, but what it is for me was truly, truly awful.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Party Hard
    Party Hard is not a game that rewards players who take chances or attempt to learn the layout of levels, since the developers randomize the stages after each failure. Trap elements, items, and victim gathering points change every time. There's no value in practicing techniques when there's no guarantee players will have a chance to use them.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Excessive Trim
    Excessive Trim has great concepts, but falls short in execution. Solid graphics and a buzzsaw spacecraft can’t save it from feeling more like an extended tech demo than a fully-realized experience.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The Mysterious Cities of Gold: Secret Paths
    For children who are fans of Mysterious Cities of Gold, it’s likely a serviceable companion piece. For everybody else out there, this game isn’t worth the time.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    King Arthur
    This is not the worst game ever made, but it's so inept at so many different points that it inspires more anger than a genuinely awful game.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Fight Club
    I mean, the game's already five years past being relevant, it would have killed them to take another six months to make it decent?
    • 56 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Syndrome
    Syndrome might offer a beautiful ship to look at, but it’s a buggy mess that fails to get the essentials right. This lovely ship can’t make up for an ugly everything else.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Jaws Unleashed
    If playing Jaws Unleashed has taught me one thing about game design, it's that if you're going to put a single fun thing in a game it's best to put it right up front where people can see it, and hopefully trick them into thinking that the entire game is fun.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Toby: The Secret Mine
    I can’t make too much of the annoyances of the poorly-tuned jumping or terrible collision model. Even if The Secret Mine had rock-solid code, that foundation would be supporting an edifice of sand. Toby: The Secret Mine adds nothing of value to Limbo’s formula and accomplishes far less artistically than its progenitor. Even if it were better to play, there would still be no reason to play it.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Wayward Manor
    Wayward Manor may be the worst game I've played this year.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Alien Rage
    In short, Alien Rage just isn't very good. If it had nailed the combat, all its other flaws could perhaps be forgiven—but it didn't, so they can't. It's a terrible thing to say, but in a game stuffed to the gills with Xenomorphs, the most alien thing in the entire package is any sense of enjoyment whatsoever.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Trulon: The Shadow Engine
    That was the end of Trulon for me, and I’d have to describe it, in total, as being the videogame equivalent of an ellipsis — it’s just an empty pause with no conclusion. Everything good about it is squandered by poor craftsmanship, and in its current state it should be avoided at all costs.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    WASTED: A Post-Apocalyptic Pub Crawler
    I did not like anything about Wasted. Neither its humor nor its gameplay are adequate to support the irritation of mastering the first dungeon or the tedium of blasting through the subsequent four. I spent many hours beating this game out of sheer spite and didn’t enjoy a single minute of it. Reader, do not repeat my error.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Call of Duty: Black Ops Declassified
    It's impossible to tell where the fault lies with Call of Duty: Black Ops Declassified. Did Activision force Nihilistic to rush it out the door? Did Nihilistic simply put out the bare minimum effort? Is this half-hearted experience exactly what Activision wanted? Regardless of the reasons behind it, what we've ended up with is a completely wasted opportunity to bring some heavy firepower to the Vita.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Castle of Heart
    I cannot overstate how pointless and infuriating Castle of Heart feels to play.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Hydrophobia
    Like any scientific breakthrough or new invention, Hydrophobia does represent a significant achievement in its own right. We're just going to have to wait until someone does anything worthwhile with it.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Aliens: Colonial Marines
    I'm not that witty, but I am pretty vulgar—as a result, all I can say is that if Aliens: Colonial Marines had been fished out of a Marine's colon during emergency surgery it wouldn't surprise me in the least.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    ShellShock: Nam '67
    It portrays the killing of specific, theoretically real (in that they're virtual stand-ins for the actual soldiers that fought in the war) people as nothing more than a gruesome shooting gallery...At some point everyone has to decide when enough is enough. And now I have.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    NeverDead
    NeverDead is garbage, and there is no good reason to ever play it.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Narco Terror
    The best twin-stick shooters made up for their lack of 3D by adding personality, gameplay variety, and over-the-top ludicrousness. Narco Terror decided to add the third dimension, but then left out anything that might make someone want to play. An interesting choice, but not a worthwhile one.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Otomedius Excellent
    Otomedius Excellent shouldn't be worth anyone's time. Beyond the overall badness of the gameplay, the whole thing just feels incredibly cynical.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Bloodforge
    I slogged onward in the hopes for some spark, but at no point does the game get better, more polished, or less uninteresting. Bloodforge is just one meaningless fight after another, listening to the lines of banal dialogue and post-mortem one-liners.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 15 Critic Score
    Valley of the Dead: MalnaZidos
    Malnazidos is awful in every way a game can be. I’ve played countless free titles with better controls and combat. The Unreal Engine offers tutorials on how to make games that play better than this in just a couple of hours. Literally the only good thing I can say about it is that when zombies are shot in the head a few times, their skulls explode in a decently disgusting manner. When that’s the only positive a game offers, it’s safe to bypass it entirely.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 15 Critic Score
    Extinction
    Even if Extinction had released as a ten or fifteen dollar digital download, I still wouldn’t recommend it to anyone – life’s too short and filled with genuinely great games to waste on terrible experiences like this one. Given that it released at full price, however, it almost feels like a deliberate and calculated insult towards any game that ever earned its price tag. It is an aggressively terrible game that should be avoided at all costs.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 15 Critic Score
    Immortal: Unchained
    Immortal’s pursuit of the hardcore label speaks to a certain presumptiveness in its design – that its impenetrable nature will be offset by a community looking for new challenges to overcome and new mysteries to unravel. Dark Souls got away with that approach because every aspect of it was so meticulously fine-tuned. Immortal’s extreme difficulty only highlights how fundamentally its ideas don’t run together. If there’s anything worse than a bad game, it’s a hostile bad game.
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