GameSpot's Scores

  • Games
For 12,659 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 42% higher than the average critic
  • 6% same as the average critic
  • 52% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 6.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Game review score: 69
Highest review score: 100 Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree
Lowest review score: 10 Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing
Score distribution:
12682 game reviews
    • 35 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    As Valhalla Knights moves to the Wii, any potential for fun is buried under tons of repetitive busywork and technical gaffs.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    This frustrating, broken mess is one of the worst strategy games in years.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Deplorable, miserable, and abominable indeed.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    So what reason is there to play Onechanbara: Bikini Samurai Squad? There is none, so suppress any morbid interest you may harbor and spend your money elsewhere, because neither acrobatic temptresses nor legions of the lurching undead can make this game worth playing.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    With a shallow single-player campaign and a broken online mode, Mr. Driller Online leaves little to recommend.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    A pitiful excuse for a cooperative shooter and a prime example of a disappointing movie tie-in.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    No matter how big of a fan of the UFC you may be, the game's poor control and graphics just simply ruin the game and make it totally unenjoyable.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    This frustrating, broken mess is one of the worst strategy games in years.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Battlezone is a relic that should have stayed in the past.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    While Hooters: Road Trip is quite bad graphically, its controls are even worse.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Hmm, a punch to the groin or one more round of this DS boxing game? Hang on, we're still thinking.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Incredibly buggy, packed with design flaws, seemingly a decade old... SunAge is a real-time strategy disaster.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Emergency Heroes is a lazy and repetitive open-world driving game that will bore even the younger audience that it's aimed at.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Five buggy hours of tunnels, booby traps, and laughably bad dialogue.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Ugly, boring, and brazenly priced, MIB: Alien Crisis is an absolute embarrassment.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    This creaky relic of the past retails for full price in the present, making it one of the most shamelessly exploitative games in recent memory.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    This game is terrible in every area, with unresponsive controls, choppy graphics, and uninteresting minigames that look and feel a lot like the free Java/Flash games available on the Web.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    This futuristic shooter is frustrating, flawed, and murderously difficult.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Anacapri has more in common with the ancient gameplay of early '90s adventures than anything modern, but even as a pseudo-nostalgia piece, it's no fun at all.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    On the Nintendo DS, Major League Baseball 2K7 is a cruddy-looking, vague approximation of baseball that lacks basic features every sports game should have.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Awful controls make MotionSports Adrenaline an extreme disappointment.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Terrible controls murder what little appeal exists in this archaic arcade driving game.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    In a genre that has withstood its share of inferior games over the years, it's true that Mayday probably isn't the worst real-time strategy game to date. But that's the best thing to be said for it.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Quite possibly one of the most confused games and most definitely one of the worst games to be released so far in 2002.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 24 Critic Score
    They had a good idea with Dino Master. Unfortunately, the development team didn't manage to bring that idea to life in a fun manner, or even a playable one.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 24 Critic Score
    Layers and layers of flaws completely negate any strong points the game could have had. If you absolutely must play Urban Chaos, do yourself a favor and play the PC version.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 24 Critic Score
    While the game isn't horrific looking, and there is a lot of shooting going on, all you do is stalk through linear levels sniping everything that moves. Retro shooter fans might enjoy this monotonous killing for an hour or so, then look for the uninstall icon.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 24 Critic Score
    This god-awful Grand Theft Auto clone looks, sounds, and plays like it cost even less to make than it will cost you to buy it.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 24 Critic Score
    A train wreck of a game... Falls short in every respect.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 24 Critic Score
    An insult to Harley fans and racing-game aficionados, this game should be avoided at all costs.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 24 Critic Score
    Even taking the lack of MX games into consideration, this game is bad for everybody, and it's our sincerest hope that potential players will take our advice and stay very, very far away from this game.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 24 Critic Score
    A miserable failure...Gamers are advised to avoid this game, period.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 24 Critic Score
    Unfortunately, Tetris Worlds also introduces one particular change to the gameplay that renders the classic game all but unplayable.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 24 Critic Score
    Derivative, homely, tedious, and buggy. It also has a useless character stat and leveling system, so RPG enthusiasts can hate it too.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 23 Critic Score
    Superman Returns for the DS is a terrible game for numerous reasons.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 23 Critic Score
    Even the most hard-core Aquaman devotees will likely find little use for this short, shallow, problematic ramshackle game.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 23 Critic Score
    In practice, however, the game's ugly textures, poor frame rate, and clunky gameplay combine to make MTV Skateboarding one of the worst PlayStation games released this year.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 23 Critic Score
    Even the most hard-core Aquaman devotees will likely find little use for this short, shallow, problematic ramshackle game.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 23 Critic Score
    A date with Kim Jong II would be more enjoyable than this shooter.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 23 Critic Score
    The gameplay takes you back in time to the days when RTS programmers had yet to figure out such intricacies as pathfinding, level design, and visual presentation.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 22 Critic Score
    If the developer was out to break the game of poker, then it succeeded masterfully... The last thing on Earth any poker player should do is pick up a copy of World Poker Championship.
    • 21 Metascore
    • 22 Critic Score
    It may be a great toy, but Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots is a lousy video game.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 22 Critic Score
    Terrible controls and paper-thin gameplay make Greg Hastings' Tournament Paintball Max'd a bad deal, even for a budget game.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 22 Critic Score
    Despite its lengthy production cycle, has a bevy of horrible problems that render the game practically unplayable.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 22 Critic Score
    An unplayable mess.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 22 Critic Score
    If you're looking for a horrifically bad game that takes less than two hours to finish--but arguably does follow the plot of the film--then, by all means, give Van Helsing a shot. Just remember to hold onto the receipt.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 21 Critic Score
    In a word, this game is ugly.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 21 Critic Score
    From top to bottom, there's absolutely nothing to like about Crime Life: Gang Wars. It isn't even bad in an interesting or funny way. It's just garbage.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 21 Critic Score
    There's really no need for this game to exist. For Activision Value to have essentially repackaged a bad old game as a bad new game is an obvious and despicable attempt to cash in on the recent military operations going on in the Middle East.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 21 Critic Score
    The entire game is so unpolished and full of bugs that it's unfathomable how it ever passed quality assurance in the first place.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 21 Critic Score
    In a word, MK: Special Forces is ugly.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 21 Critic Score
    Land of the Dead fails to deliver even the most garden-variety of zombie-killing thrills, due to its inept combat, awful visuals, and cripplingly stupid artificial intelligence.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 21 Critic Score
    A game that simply attempts to cash in on the success of "Counter-Strike" and the "Rainbow Six" series by copying their themes, but it ends up falling well short of the mark because of its terrible graphics engine, its ill-conceived design, and a campaign that takes only a few hours to (nearly) complete.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 21 Critic Score
    Tetris Worlds does what countless iterations of the game haven't managed to do in the past--it actually breaks Tetris.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 21 Critic Score
    Like a botched cloning experiment from a B movie, with developer Xpec Entertainment playing the mad scientist's role and Gauntlet playing the test subject. The beast that's emerged from the cloning chamber is just what you'd expect: a shambling, ugly, and dumb version of the source material.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 21 Critic Score
    Crime Life is just plain awful. Do yourself a favor and stay away from it.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    If America's participation in World War II was as frustratingly terrible as this game, all of Europe would be speaking German today.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    This truly horrible racing game could put you off M&M's for life.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    WWE 2K's annual release schedule has felt superfluous for a number of years now. This has never been more apparent than with WWE 2K20, a game that's not only riddled with frequent technical issues, but one that's notably worse than its predecessor in almost every area--whether it's the dull and unenjoyable combat, the fact half the roster look like terrifying goblin facsimiles of themselves, or MyCareer's obnoxious and tedious story. This is the moment the WWE 2K series hit Rock Bottom.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Hour of Victory is practically broken and has no business being on shelves in its current state.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Without character customization or any semblance of proper communication, the game has nothing to offer in place of its sacrifices. Like Sisyphus on a treadmill, I fruitlessly walked around in hopes of discovering something worthwhile. Unless this game can find its way, discovery will remain a lost cause.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The King of Monsters stars in the worst of DS games.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    A haphazard collection of obtuse puzzles strewn about an ill-lighted world that does nothing to call attention to them. While it might be easy to assume these frustrations echo the protagonist's apparent mental illness, PolyPusher Studios utterly fails to teach you about the limits and goals of its own work, and does little to illuminate how its puzzles relate to the real-world experience Montague's Mount tries to evoke.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    This is one of the most inept pieces of drek ever to be pawned off as a computer game.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    NBA Unrivaled is one of the worst basketball games ever made.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Remasters, ports, and remakes are nice because they make games more accessible to new audiences, and the ones that excel understand that some features from the game’s era are antiquated and should be updated or removed. SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom - Rehydrated flops like a fish out of water when it comes to this. It’s a game so focused on emulating and embellishing the original that it doesn’t know the parts of itself that are fun and the parts that aren’t. It lost sight of the basic elements that make a collectible platformer enjoyable. This game doesn’t promote curious or keen gameplay, the movement isn’t smooth, and gathering collectibles never feels rewarding. Ultimately, the game winds up being an unpleasant nostalgia trip that nobody should pack their bags for.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    World War II shooters simply don't get worse than Battle for the Pacific.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    From top to bottom World War II Combat: Iwo Jima is a terrible game with no redeeming qualities whatsoever.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    This port has a host of new problems that render the game virtually unplayable.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Horrid AI, broken physics, and terrible game design conspire to topple Jenga World Tour.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    If America's participation in World War II was as frustratingly terrible as this game, all of Europe would be speaking German today.
    • 20 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The only way to draw even the tiniest bit of entertainment from the game is by playing on nearly empty servers to avoid the player-killing cheaters and focus on the undead. Even then, you soon get fed up with the dreary zombie combat, or some hacker shows up and puts you out of your misery. Fighting zombie hordes in an apocalyptic wasteland has never been so depressing.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Without the ability to compete against human opponents, this version of Cyberball 2072 is a completely useless waste.
    • 17 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Poor technical performance joins mindless, repetitive gameplay and a truly atrocious sense of humor in the PlayStation 3 version of Box Office Bust.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Inexplicable design.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    From top to bottom World War II Combat: Iwo Jima is a terrible game with no redeeming qualities whatsoever.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Because of its ugly graphics, bad sound, faulty artificial intelligence, and extremely dull gameplay, it winds up crashing to the ground like some ill-fated hydrogen blimp.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    When Origin of the Species isn't breaking your mind with its completely insane storyline and bizarrely terrible gameplay mechanics, it's probably breaking itself with one of its many, many bugs.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    It is just an awful game through and through, and it won't be enjoyed by anyone. Simply put: Don't play this game.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Spy Games' abysmal gameplay is matched only by its flair for the generic.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    7 Days to Die on console is a terrible port of a game which otherwise shows real promise on PC, where it currently languishes in Early Access. In its current state on consoles, the game is technically playable, but that's the best that can be said of it.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    And as a Chinese player, I had come in expecting more from a studio called Just Add Oil Games--a name that's a cheeky reference and a literal translation of the Chinese phrase "jia you," an expression of encouragement and support. But its cast of Road to Guangdong is little more than an ensemble of lifeless, cardboard cutouts of a Chinese family, despite the best efforts of its writer Ooi (who is coincidentally the only member of Chinese descent on her team). In the end, Road to Guangdong doesn't quite live up to its modest ambitions as an intimate driving experience, as it shapes up to be a meandering road trip that simply can't end soon enough.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Its fantasy world is undercut by bland artistic direction and a lack of conviction.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Poor motion controls and unrewarding gameplay prevent you from having any fun at all with this terrible fighting game.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    This action RPG from Quotix Software hits new lows in mind-numbing combat and ridiculously confusing level design.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Any Defender of the Crown lovers from the '80s should leave their good memories intact and ignore this desecration.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Absolutely awful in every way.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Absolutely awful in every way.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Unfortunately, Dead Sky is just masquerading as a survival shooter. Instead, it is a fledgling tower defense game that never grows out of its daydreams of being anything more.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    This frustrating, broken mess is one of the worst strategy games in years.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The game's title may not provide justification for exploring the dungeon, but the much bigger I DON'T KNOW here is why anyone would play this game.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Buggy behavior and clunky locomotion make it a mechanical failure, leaving the story and themes to make good where gameplay could not. Alas, irredeemable characters and loathsome dialogue aren't appropriate pillars upon which to erect a substantial tale.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    This dreadfully boring, expletive-filled, extremely short shooter is an absolute rip-off.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Framed as a spiritual successor to Ultima Underworld, Underworld Ascendant misses the mark with almost every shot, much like my aforementioned hapless archer. At the same time, even freed from the expectations its historical baggage brings, it is a clear failure. The spirit of Ultima Underworld lives on elsewhere.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    No matter what your level of enthusiasm for the X series is, do your best to escape the pull of Rebirth's gravity. It's only bound to cause a fatal crash.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    After beating 17 races in less than two hours, you'll have seen everything that this miserable excuse for a racing game has to offer.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    It somehow even manages to make the Unreal engine look a pop-in-fest full of awful repetitive textures and jaggies worthy of the original PlayStation. There's no place in the world for a lemon of this magnitude.
    • 21 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    In the words of Revenge of Kuma: Confront the reality that everything you loved about the first Afro Samurai game is dead, and your memories are all you have.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    This is a totally flawed game that offers little more than a slow, barely competent combat system and a laughable storyline. And hey, if you're that desperate to experience Fighter Within, get a friend to repeatedly kick you in the shins. It's free, a nearly spot-on representation of the game, and far less painful.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    I don’t like being disrespected -- and I doubt you do, either. And yet it’s reasonable to feel that way when playing a buggy, bland game with some of the worst writing you’re likely to hear in some time.

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