GameStar's Scores

  • Games
For 2,410 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 61% higher than the average critic
  • 9% same as the average critic
  • 30% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.4 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Game review score: 76
Highest review score: 94 Crysis
Lowest review score: 10 Fast & Furious Crossroads
Score distribution:
2462 game reviews
    • 82 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    This adventure tells a fantastic story with exceptional characters, lots of humor and allusions to well-known fantasy stereotypes and logical puzzles. The 3D landscapes are beautiful and the world made us feel right at home. We had to smile at little details very often and when we finished the game after 20 hours it was actually was a melancholy moment - the hallmark of an excellent adventure.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Another adventure from Germany with a fascinating story and great atmosphere, both off the beaten track of the usual fantasy and historical backgrounds. It may even be the best modern crime and horror adventure, but why did the developers feel the need for lame mini-puzzles and an open end?
    • 61 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    It's fun from the first moment on. Venetica offers a great introduction, a fascinating story, great quests and a very charming heroine. If you don't have the time for complex role playing games, but want something more than just an adventure game, then Venetica is for you.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 49 Critic Score
    Scorpion: Disfigured uses some well-known features from other games, like weapon and character improvements (Deus EX) or psychic abilities (System Shock 2). But nothing really works well, not even shooting, which feels like throwing cotton balls. For a shooter, that's the final nail in the coffin and this game should be buried.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    A fresh and funny indie game. A real little gem, though not without flaws, but with lots of virtues missing from most blockbuster titles: charm, comedy and imagination- for a low price.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Quotation forthcoming.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Quotation forthcoming.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Alter Ego offers a thrilling story combined with simple puzzles. If you are willing to accept a lot of walking around and old-fashioned graphics you'll be rewarded with an entertaining game.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Quotation forthcoming.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty is as good as expected, but you'll need to be patient with it. The game takes some time to get going and behind all the upgraded technologies it's still the same StarCraft we've been knowing for 12 years. It's the best real-time strategy game of the last years and while not perfect, StarCraft 2 is a real masterpiece of PC gaming and even better as a multi-player game.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    This new installment adds a few new and fresh ideas as well as some annoyances, but for all of it little quirks, Disciples 3 is still a great game for fans of turn-based fantasy strategy games.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    If you haven't played this game when it first came out a long time ago , you should go and buy it right now. And if you have, you should go and buy it right now. It's the best adventure game of all time, period.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 59 Critic Score
    It's a sleeping pill disguised as an online action game with mediocre graphics, bad controls, frustrations and most of all: boredom.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 74 Critic Score
    Long live trash! Raven Software proves that even absurd stories can be entertaining, as long as there's a decent game to back it up. But there was a lot more potential.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    It's an improvement to ARMA 2, but it still includes some of the weaknesses. But now the game actually is what it should have been right from the start: a realistic military simulation that works most of the time.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    A great comeback for the Lego series with a great love for details and lots of comedy. But it's too easy for seasoned gamers and therefore targeted at a younger audience.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    A thrilling first person shooter with some flaws. If it wasn't for those unnecessary action interludes it would have been much better and probably even a great game.
    • GameStar
    • 73 Metascore
    • 62 Critic Score
    Toy Story 3 is obviously targeted at a younger audience or casual players and will keep fans of Pixar busy for some time. It's not a bad game at all, but older gamers may just be, well, too old to really enjoy it.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 74 Critic Score
    It looks like Ubisoft can't leave the prince alone. This game looks a bit rushed and it's the weakest of the series. Nonetheless it's a good game and more demanding than the last one.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    After 19 years Team 17 excavated its classic Amiga game and it still has some charm today. But it's a game to play for half an hour a day at most due to its lack of variation.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Are you good or evil? Or both? And should you buy this game? It may not be as good as Mass Effect 2, but it’s still a lot of fun to follow Mike through his adventures, despite some out of date graphics and the dumb AI, because as a role playing game, it just works fine.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The best job of all may be to cound the daily revenue for The Sims 3 at EA, but this add-on probably comes quite close. Even though it's a bit more of the same, it's hard to escape the typical Sims charm.
    • GameStar
    • 81 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    It’s like Mario Kart for adults and the best multi-player racing game so far. It’s easy to forget how long you are already playing and there’s enough fun in this game to last for months.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    It’s a lot of fun and it sounds like that, too. It’s great to race against friends again and again and there’s nothing better out there at the moment, even though it may not be a game to keep on playing in the long term.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Don't forget to read the small print or else you'll get in trouble like Shrek. What may be the last of the Shrek games is also the best, at least for younger gamers, because it's not a very demanding game.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This addon offers new challenges for veterans as well as improvements for beginners. Actually it's optimizing the whole game, not changing a lot, just making it better and more fun.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    Another clone of Defense of the Ancients and another good one. The huge team battles are very addictive and the game offers a lot of maps and heroes.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Funcom turned on the afterburner and if you don’t join now, you’ll miss a wild ride. If you didn’t know what to do after reaching level 80, you are in for a treat.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 62 Critic Score
    Old game, new graphics. Story? Who needs one? Mission targets? Nope. Just go and shoot everything until your hand hurts. The new graphics can't hide the fact that this game is hopelessly out of date.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Sam Fisher is back. Conviction is faster, harder and offers more action than the predecessors, but it’s still a Splinter Cell game at heart. And for the first time, Sam Fisher is a real human character.

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