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
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    • 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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