GameShark's Scores

  • Games
For 2,620 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 47% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 50% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Game review score: 70
Highest review score: 100 Pushmo
Lowest review score: 0 Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil
Score distribution:
2620 game reviews
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    For better or worse, random battles pop up on the screen at a pretty high rate. While this will help in the quest to get stats and skills boosted, it becomes pretty tedious after awhile.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    While the game is not exactly polished when it comes to objects like cars, the dreadful cornfield, and the fire, most of the things look nice, but a little blocky.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    While I can’t recommend the game at $60 simply because it’s superior than previous EA attempts, I can say that it might lead to a better series down the road. You have to start somewhere, right?
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Again, I realize that some people will absolutely love the challenge that BloodRayne: Betrayal brings. It has an old school Castelvania flavor to it and the ability to search for powerups as well as the exhilaration one feels when making it out of a massive battle alive will no doubt thrill some of the hardcore among us.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Playing online is a lot of fun because you can remove the silly AI from the equation, but when you add up all of the game's problems you are left with a very sloppy effort on the part of 2K Sports and Kush Games.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Fans of the series might be delighted to have this game in their pocket, but I can't imagine anyone choosing it over the recently released Dynasty Warriors 7 or a favorite console entry in the Koei canon.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Despite having tons of potential and a few very bright ideas, it’s impossible to fully recommend this game. Go with the infinitely superior EA Sports Active for a real workout – or perhaps Wii Fit if you’d like to play with the kiddies.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    An average game experience with a number of small problems that result in mediocrity. On the plus side the gameplay is a lot of fun if you can forgive the AI's obvious deficiencies.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    It's fine entertainment for an hour at a time, but there are too many niggling problems to keep playing for long.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    I have nothing against casual edutainment titles that are fun for the whole family, but the marketing behind the game led me to believe I was getting into something more complex.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    As you play through the time trials, the main tournament mode, and the online multiplayer, it quickly becomes apparent that without the main allure of simple race modes, TNT Racers rapidly drives itself into a rut.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    A bad, bad game. It's a quiz show format that can't work as a game, but was made anyways.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    MX vs ATV Alive has decent gameplay going for it, and though the controls and rider reflex mode can cause some head scratching moments, they rarely detract from a race's enjoyment. However, the big problem with the game is that there isn't much of it, and what little there is of it at the start must be completed over and over again far beyond the point of entertainment. Until you get those small nibbles of new content, MX vs ATV Alive is a grindfest.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    While playable, True Crime: New York City really isn't worth buying, with clipping bugs and a bad story line and the game being somewhat too easy the game just isn't worth it.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    A disappointment. It’s still fun and new gamers who haven’t played the original will like it much more than players who were here from day one.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Enemies almost always react faster than your character, he turns as if he’s in a particularly unwieldy chariot. Jumping is a chore, thanks to the awkward mapping of the function to the nunchuk’s Z button.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    When you get down to it, SingStar Vol. 2 just doesn’t make sense as a purchase if you own the original SingStar PS3 and have a broadband connection.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    While I can’t recommend the game at $60 simply because it’s superior than previous EA attempts, I can say that it might lead to a better series down the road. You have to start somewhere, right?
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Identity issues aside Universe at War has a great concept, and is commendable for not only it’s control scheme but also in that it has three distinctly unique sides and not one of them is the human faction crutch that plagues the genre. At the same time the title has many technical flaws.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    As it stands, it's simply a mindless beat 'em up with a few unlockables and some formulaic gameplay.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Framerate dips everywhere (going into turns and lots of graphic assets on the screen at once).
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Aura is puzzle intensive. It's a difficult game even for hardcore adventure gamers and gamers that hate puzzles won't want to touch this title with a ten foot pole.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Another problem that is baffling is that there are fewer characters available for the versus and online play match types than there were in the last game.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    So the games tend toward stalemate. Action-packed stalemate, certainly, but that action grows tiresome as the armies take and retake the same contested territories over dozens and dozens of turns. Rise of Prussia becomes a game about attrition and endurance, on the part of the player as much as his troops.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    In other words, Uprising does nothing to lift Red Alert 3 or move it in any really interesting direction.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    At the end of the day Fusion Frenzy 2 is a fun game for the whole family, but the bland character design, non-existent plot and the overall obnoxious voice-overs really hurt this title more than they should.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Unfortunately being forced to play through the storyline mode is what really brings this game down.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    If I was forced to choose a version out of these three I'd go with the Xbox 360 version simply because it looks better and nearly matches the level of visual quality found in the film.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Has some great features on paper, but when played out, it underperforms and seems to be more gimmick than fun. The game excels as a multiplayer football game online or with a friend. As a simulation or for a stat gamer, the game fails miserably.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The good news is that the developers of the respective franchises are trying to regain the glory they once held. The bad news is there’s still a long way to go, especially for our purple dragon friend.

Top Trailers