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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:
  1. Positive: 5,399 out of 12659
  2. Mixed: 5,905 out of 12659
  3. Negative: 1,355 out of 12659
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Layers of Fear 2
    It's just a shame that Layers of Fear 2 frequently pays lip service to the films and games that clearly inspired it while struggling to find a voice of its own. The story is too hazy to latch onto until the latter stages, and then nothing about it is particularly engaging, with its central mystery building towards something we've seen numerous times before. It occasionally hints at interesting themes but fails to go anywhere with them, falling back on telegraphed jump scares rather than delving deeper into the psychological horror it can only tease at. For every piece of good work there's an analogous aspect that lacks focus and direction. Layers of Fear 2 feels lost at sea.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Disney TH!NK Fast
    This family-friendly trivia game is fun while it lasts, but its mostly easy questions are repeated far too frequently.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    WWE 2K15
    It is capable of delivering great in-ring action, and it has the flashy production values that none of Vince McMahon's competitors have ever been able to replicate, but it's hard to care about why any of it is happening beyond the moment-to-moment competition.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    WWE Legends of WrestleMania
    The gameplay can be fun for a little while, but it soon becomes an exercise in repetition and boredom.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Destruction AllStars
    The on-foot gameplay plays a large role in Destruction AllStars' true problem: It feels like there's a lot of downtime. Even though there's always a new car to find or an enemy to chase, there's only one thing that's really worth doing--crashing--which takes a lot of setup for a short-lived reward. Even with great looks and solid controls, you spend too much time spinning your wheels.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    WWE 2K15
    it leaves the sinking feeling that the wrestling you love lacks the spark to be special anymore. At no point does WWE 2K15 gel into something truly special.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Tropico 5: Waterborne
    Swiss Bank-building fun is provided for the truly dedicated, but there isn't anything here with lasting value or appeal.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Yar's Revenge
    Yar's Revenge's great art design is squandered on dull, painful-to-control rail shooter gameplay.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization
    Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization tries to do a lot of things, but it doesn't end up doing any of them terribly well. Every subtle good idea that it has is countered by a glaring shortfall. The open and flexible skill system is held back by its clumsy implementation, and the winding faux-virtual world by how little anything of interest actually occurs in it.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Weedcraft Inc
    It's the kind of game Ashton Kutcher would laugh at in Dude Where's My Car, which means it's not the kind of game that has anything of merit to say in 2019.
    • tbd Metascore
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    SBK Superbike World Championship
    The only way this drab PSP motorcycle racing game will get your pulse racing is through sheer frustration.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Charnel House Trilogy
    I am left puzzled by The Charnel House Trilogy, not because I don't understand it, but because its mishmash of themes and tones can't find a way to coexist.
    • tbd Metascore
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    Pong / Asteroids / Yar's Revenge
    Ultimately, while this compilation offers a marginally enjoyable trip down memory lane with three Atari classics, it's tough to recommend because the games are so ancient--not to mention that there's a total lack of any ancillary features. The inability to save high scores is particularly tragic.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3
    Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 feels like a B-tier, budget-priced game. Even the predictable, profanity-laden story is reminiscent of the type of gritty B-movies Steven Seagal is known for. There's certainly merit to its accomplished sniping mechanics, especially when missions hone in on the planning and precise execution that makes playing as a sharpshooter so thrilling. Yet it falters whenever it veers away from its strengths, and the plethora of nagging glitches and technical problems are a persistent nuisance that make Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 difficult to recommend.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Spitfire Heroes: Tales of the Royal Air Force
    Spitfire Heroes does little to distinguish itself among a myriad of middling flight combat games on the DS.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Layers of Fear
    For those who never played the original Layers of Fear games, this reimagined package is definitely a better first experience than the old versions, simply on account of looking better and adding the neat framing narrative of The Writer's Story. But for horror enthusiasts already well-versed in the series, its MO remains as smoke and mirrors. There are no real terrors lurking in the shadows just out of reach. There is only the suggestion of some, and like the many tortured artists at the center of its saga, they are left unfulfilled.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Mercenaries 2: World in Flames
    Mercenaries 2 is filled with bugs and glitches that are unacceptable in a retail release. Even if it were possible to overlook the broken elements, you're still left with abysmal AI, repetitive mission structure, unsatisfying weapons, and a huge world without much to do.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    I Am Bread
    The joke is in the premise, in the title, and it won't stop winking and snickering with you for hours on end. But all it takes is one moment of clarity, one second-guess "why was I laughing" for the whole thing to fall apart. And in this game's case, all it has to do is remind you of how irksome it can be and often is to go from being a goofy joke to a serious headache in a flash.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Silver Case
    The Silver Case's unusual take on human conversations, its indecision about whether it wants to be just a visual novel or an adventure game where the player is a full participant, and its lack of focus in tying up any sort of cohesive plot, all add up to a mess of a game.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Heroes Over Europe
    Heroes Over Europe offers some enjoyable arcade dogfighting, but it lacks the depth and excitement needed to keep you coming back for more.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Hoshigami: Ruining Blue Earth Remix
    Hoshigami is an overcooked hodgepodge that's too unwieldy for strategy RPG newcomers and too imbalanced for experts.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    A City Sleeps
    A City Sleeps leans on hardcore difficulty to compensate for its lack of content, and its use of music, while interesting, is a source of frustration, especially as the difficulty increases. It's disappointing, because at its core, there are a lot of good ideas, but they never truly shine in the presence of the game's issues.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Toren
    For all the problems, it's easy to recognize the flashes of something special in Toren. It's a loaf of homemade bread, proofed and kneaded, laid in a pan, and sprinkled tenderly with rosemary but unfortunately pulled from the oven a few minutes before it could pass the toothpick test. However complex the recipe, Toren just feels undercooked.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Heavy Rain Chronicles Episode 1: The Taxidermist
    There is little reason to play this disappointing prologue to Heavy Rain.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
    The video game version of Order of the Phoenix captures none of the magic of the Harry Potter books or films.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Vane
    It's all over very soon, too. This is a short game that constantly feels like it's still gearing up towards something better, a way to tie together all its mechanics. The last sections of the game are quite lackadaisical, simplifying the game's systems right down while relying on an investment in the game's thin lore. It's not just that the game doesn't give you easy answers--it also gives you little incentive to come up with your own.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Drag x Drive
    The fundamental problem with Drag X Drive: It's not very fun to play, because the controls are alternatively exhausting, imprecise, or both. Even pulling off the trick shots that give the game its personality and nuance requires getting up to top speed, which means navigating finicky tiring controls and avoiding bumping into other players. This is a great game for showing off what the Switch 2 can do conceptually, but it doesn't make a good case for why you'd actually want to do it for very long.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Dreamkiller
    Dreamkiller is, through and through, a budget game. The visuals are colorful but look decidedly old, the action is as shallow as it gets in a modern shooter, and the sound effects lack oomph. The premise is neat, and some of the enemy designs are legitimately awesome. But if you've been dreaming of some old-fashioned twitch shooting, you should return to the old standbys and let this sleeping dog lie.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Visions of Mana
    There is a game here for someone willing to lower their standards enough, but trust me when I say there are hundreds of better RPGs for you to spend your time on. You do not need to waste it searching for a few nuggets buried here.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    FlatOut 4: Total Insanity
    Flatout 4 doesn’t bring anything noteworthy to the series, and while the Flatout and party modes are good for some low stakes enjoyment, the grind of single-player progression is too much to bare. The challenge is borderline unfair at times, and that wrecks the partytime nature that the series used to do so well.
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