GamePen's Scores

  • Games
For 248 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 36% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 60% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Game review score: 70
Highest review score: 100 Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
Lowest review score: 10 Star Trek: Voyager Elite Force
Score distribution:
  1. Negative: 33 out of 248
248 game reviews
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    ICO
    A game that just does everything right. Story, pacing, graphics, gameplay—all of these combine artfully to make a gaming experience that supercedes any other game I’ve come across this year.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Simply amazing.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Replay value and game length should not and can not be interpreted from how many times it takes you to get through a mission because of the insane difficulty level. By the last few missions you are literally ready to tear your hair out.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    This is also a rare case where a console-to-PC port actually turned out for the better.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The single player campaign alone makes it worth buying, and the powerful fanbase that already existed before the game was even released is a definite plus.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It pains me to give Jedi Knight II such a low rating but I don’t think I’ve ever been this bored with a game in my entire life.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Solving the challenges was rewarding enough, but the steps one needs to take to achieve these goals become far too tedious.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    To put it simply, Morrowind is truly a game of epic proportions and will most likely only be finished by the most hardcore of gamers.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Gameplay is fast and furious-as it should be in a hockey game. If anything the gameplay is almost too fast.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    In the style of PC Gamer's David Manningesque vocabulary, Max Payne is the most forgettable action game in history. (I exaggerate, of course. It's only the most forgettable action game of the year.)
    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Graphically it is almost impossible to notice any difference between the PC and the XBox version. While the PC can obviously run at higher (and prettier) resolutions, the XBox version seems to move along at a much more constant frame-rate and with a lot less stuttering.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    As I allowed the game to grow on me I began to realize just how completely awesome this game is.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Control is very easy and intuitive. For the coolest dunk you’ll have to press no less than five buttons at one time plus the d-pad, but it is definitely worth it.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    What makes this game look and feel so different from the competition is its amazing ability to render realistic looking environments.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    You’ll be glad to know that the flamethrower isn’t the only great weapon at your disposal. The venom, which is a devastatingly powerful chain-gun, is one of the most amazing guns I’ve ever had the pleasure to handle in a video game.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The best F1 sim to date. Featuring true to life physics and tight gripping gameplay, it’s only weakness lies in the insanely astronomical system requirements.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The expansion really adds nothing more to the game's mechanics, which isn't a bad thing. It's sole purpose is to conclude the series.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Taking advantage of the space on that the DVD allows you to have, there’s a lot of information that can be viewed in terms of the making of the game. You’ll see some famous stars such as Oliver Platt and David Arquette talk about lending their voices to the game.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A great game for those in the market for a solid dungeon crawl. What the game lacks in plot, it makes up for in good old-fashioned hack-n-slash fun.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    A cool expansion, offering some great additions and gameplay tweaks.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This ain't no Final Fantasy where you are told who to be and where to go, this is real role playing.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    "NASCAR Heat" and "Project Gotham Racing" had their graphical moments, but they can't hold a candle to RalliSport Challenge. This game is incredible in how gorgeous it is.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    I personally believe all of these problems stem from the fact that there is no "save anywhere", because the single player campaign is more or less easy.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    One big issue I have with the game is that when I’m on defense on any level, ball carriers seem to be Teflon gods that have an amazing ability to repel 2 defenders gang tackling them.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The email system is the new way that an owner is given important breaking information, trade requests. The system is absolutely dynamite...The premiere text baseball sim on the market. Check it out.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    If you don’t mind unique ideas and simple game play, then you can’t go wrong with Super Monkey Ball.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The best Sonic game in years.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Diablo games don't have the weird imbalances and ambiguities Dungeon Siege does, where you're stuck trying to figure out if you want to keep an item or not. In Diablo, it was always easy to tell which items were the best and its class system, if more restrictive, is also more focused.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    AoW2 has the “just one more turn” quality common to many great turn-based games like "Civilization" and "Master of Orion."
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Even the early missions start out fairly difficult, and it only gets harder from there. These campaigns are not written for the novice player.

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