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
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Improves on the original. Unfortunately, that means the game is now merely a competent production, as opposed to anything really attention getting.
    • 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.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It may not be the best Trek game out there, but it really manages to capture the feel of commanding one of the most powerful vessels in the Federation, and it’s a blast to boot.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The epitomy of a game whose long development period has caused it to be already dated on release. It's at once very new <I>and</I> very old.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The gameplay bugs are so bad at times it almost makes up for all the great things about the game.
    • 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.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    One of those games which can drive a gamer nuts. It tantalizes with a couple of neat ideas, but botches every else so completely it makes the player say, "Arrrrgh."
    • 44 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    With Real Pool 2&#146;s timed shots, choppy graphics, obtuse camera control and bland technology upgrades the game feels like Kinda Real But Not Really Pool.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Simply put, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2002 does so many things right that it&#146;s hard to imagine any golf game that existed before it, "Links" included.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The gameplay of WTS however, is superb. Never have I felt so close to real soccer action than with this game. It&#146;s that good.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Pirates is an excellent game in one regard; it allows you a great deal of freedom to explore and to complete the game at your own pace.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The AI of your friends is completely laughable as you will witness them stuck behind doors and other obstacles in non-stop walking animation, jump off cliffs and bridges for no reason, and fall out of the sky beside you.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    It’s like on your 16th birthday where you’re expecting a set of keys that will unlock a brand new car but instead you get an all-season bus pass. Except multiply that disappointment by about fifty times and you have what it feels like to play State of Emergency.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    While there are plenty of game modes, the brain dead AI and the lack of an auto save, especially in King of The Ring, really bring this game down.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Believe me, if you play baseball or enjoy watching it, you&#146;ll love this game&#151;it has that certain something that makes you play &#145;just one more&#146; time and time again.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    I really don’t think I’ve been this disappointed with a game since the day I first laid eyes on "Black and White." I’ve been looking forward to this one for a very long time and I feel it in my heart that it should have been so much more.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    This game is just so horrifically bad that I cannot recommend it to anyone without feeling guilty inside.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    This is one of those games that perhaps should have stayed on the Dreamcast. The main problem is that the game wasn&#146;t all that fun to begin with.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The graphics in Trainz are top notch. I was blown away with the detail of the engines and carriages, not to mention the environment. Everything looks gorgeous.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    One of the best 2D side scrolling games on any portable. It will have you searching its 96 levels for quite a while, and even past the end.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    If I could give a guilty pleasure award, I&#146;d definitely place Blitz as one of the frontrunners.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    This game kicks ass, some SERIOUS ASS!!...A perfect game for the gamer who really don&#146;t care too much about solving a bunch of puzzles and would rather mow down literally hundreds of enemies per level.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    If you&#146;ve played "Metropolis Street Racer" or "Project Gotham Racing," or even "Grand Theft Auto 3," you still haven&#146;t seen anything yet with the detail of Wreckless.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    If you enjoyed the tourism aspect of the original game then this add-on is a definite must for you.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The best Sonic game in years.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It all works pretty well, but there are a few hitches here and there that prevent it from being truly great.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This game is so simple and easy to play that you&#146;ll have a great golf course up and running in no time. In fact, crafting holes is the easy part; making them challenging and entertaining is where the difficulty arises.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    No worse than the original, in some ways it&#146;s even better than. But where "Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3" or "Metal Gear Solid 2" improved the engine, graphics, feel, and design, Sony seems content in only making PaRappa 2 look better.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    You won't hear complaints about the graphics, which are absolutely gorgeous. For one, there is a certain style to the artwork; it's not quite anime, but it does have a hint of it.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    I&#146;d compare the enjoyment once can get from Creature Isle to that of sitting on a cross Atlantic flight for 14 hours in a seat next to a crying baby. It&#146;ll have you raving to your friends for hours, but for all the wrong reasons.

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