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For 4,118 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 Shadow of the Colossus
Lowest review score: 0 Mass Effect: Pinnacle Station
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,978 out of 4118
  2. Mixed: 1,542 out of 4118
  3. Negative: 598 out of 4118
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    • 43 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Rengoku: The Tower of Purgatory
    With its minimalist aesthetic and focus on customization and combat at the expense of all else, Rengoku might leave a lot of curious PSP owners cold. But, for those gamers looking for something a little further afield than the latest racing or sports update, this niche experience is most definitely worth looking at.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    Area 51
    Incredibly high production values can't mask a central lack of compelling gameplay.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Unreal Championship 2: The Liandri Conflict
    A fine package, full of screaming weaponry and loads of options for players who live for this sort of thing, but I doubt that anyone who's not already into the big-caliber/big tits run-and-gun culture will find much to bring them into the fold.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 35 Critic Score
    Dead to Rights II
    It's not especially big, but the tedium of the action makes it feel overlong. The lack of variety in enemies and gameplay make it feel almost like a budget title.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Obscure
    The main problem is that there is nothing new to see. After a certain point, Obscure shows that there are two sides to maintaining interest in a successful horror game: the lack of early action must be balanced in other areas, and when the action starts it must not dull too soon.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Archer Maclean's Mercury
    Excepting its peach-perfect fit on the young platform, Mercury is hardly mind-blowing—how many puzzle games are?—and can't match Lumines for sensation and impact. This is simply a very good puzzle game conceit that's been unassailably well implemented into a sensibly balanced and handsome title.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga
    This title has it all—engrossing and challenging gameplay, a plot that rises above the usual clichés of the genre, loads of depth and customization, great graphics, and some excellent audio. This is, hands down, the best RPG I've played in 2005.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Lego Star Wars
    It's not the longest game, and it's not the most complex game, but it succeeds at almost everything it sets out to do-which puts it head and shoulders above most other games out there, Star Wars-related or not.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dynasty Warriors 5
    The critic in me tells me this series needs to innovate, but as a gamer I'm once again completely satisfied by the experience. Defying conventional wisdom, Dynasty Warriors is unique in that the gameplay achieves a near perfect harmonious balanced and change would only upset that.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Myst IV: Revelation
    Despite some improvements, the navigation is simply too clunky and unnatural for Revelation to appeal to anyone but fans of the series.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Chaos Theory
    It's not too often when a series can challenge me to think of the endless possibilities for future installments all because of a sound formula established by its flawed first installment.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    God of War
    I can't help but think that a little more depth and soul underneath Kratos' untouchable repertoire of fatalities would have lifted the game into true super-stardom.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    NARC
    Even if its opinion is a little simplistic ("Drugs have short-term benefits and long-term consequences") and awkwardly included in the game, at least there's an attempt at a message, which is more than most games manage.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 35 Critic Score
    World Tour Soccer 2006
    My advice to Team Soho would be brief: raze the series to the ground and start anew. This engine is long past its better days.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Metal Gear Acid
    It's extremely unfortunate that the Ac!d team couldn't reshape the opening hours into something more welcoming and tolerable.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 35 Critic Score
    Untold Legends: Brotherhood of the Blade
    Sony Online is really out of touch with what makes this kind of game good. It adds nothing to the genre that hasn't already been done before—and actually gets a lot of it wrong. I'm never leaving my copy of "Lumines" at home again.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    TMNT: Mutant Melee
    It's not going to be winning any awards, but it's an entertaining gameplay experience packaged alongside a virtual vault of nostalgia, and worth at least a glance for fans of the genre or the characters.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 45 Critic Score
    Musashi: Samurai Legend
    What is disappointing about Musashi is that I expect more from Square-Enix. The company seems to be mired in a bit of a rut as of late, and churning out average, if uninspired, games like this one doesn't seem to be a good way to get back on course.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 45 Critic Score
    Cold Fear
    All of the elements that make up a decent survival horror game are on display here. The monsters, the violence, the simplistic, action-oriented storytelling... They're just so shoddily rendered and assembled that all they add up to is a mediocre experience.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Donkey Kong Jungle Beat
    Fun, but has only whetted my appetite for more bongo-compatible games. With time and resources, the bongo controllers can be used in better and cleverer ways as time goes on.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Rave Master: Special Attack Force
    While my attention span is getting short and Rave Master: Special Attack Force! never really amazed me, I had fun playing it. I liked the button-mashing.. I liked experimenting with new moves.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Rave Master
    The game is perfectly, almost proverbially, meh.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening
    There's one hell of a third-person action game to be found here—quite possibly the best in its class—for anyone willing to look beyond the game's off-putting exterior.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    The Moment of Silence
    With a little more thought put into the interface, Moment of Silence could have been a graphic adventure classic, but as it stands now, it's a really good story, cleverly locked away inside a series of rooms that need to be clicked through.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30
    A pretty tough game. It's not a long experience, but players will no doubt add a few hours to the final tally from being killed and having to replay missions.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Psychotoxic
    Oh, and in a final note to developers: please don't put pictures of your children in the end credits of your video games. It's not like it kept me from giving Psychotoxic a bad review—I just feel kind of guilty about it.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Tekken 5
    A totally lush and vibrant experience.There's a palpable sense of energy in the game, and it shines so brightly it's impossible not to see.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Gran Turismo 4
    Unfortunately, the developers were so focused on reaching their goal they forgot that while accuracy is a noble goal to strive for, it doesn't hurt for games to be a little fun as well.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ys: The Ark of Napishtim
    While it may not do anything new or anything spectacularly well, there's no denying that it's a hell of a lot of fun.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    NanoBreaker
    Between NanoBreaker and "Lament of Innocence," I remain absolutely unconvinced that there is any hope for the KCET studio to develop a playable, enjoyable 3-D action game.
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