Gaming Age's Scores

  • Games
For 7,163 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 51% higher than the average critic
  • 7% same as the average critic
  • 42% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Game review score: 72
Highest review score: 100 Devil May Cry 4
Lowest review score: 0 CART Fury Championship Racing
Score distribution:
7176 game reviews
    • tbd Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Play it once, and you've basically gotten a taste of everything the game has to offer. Yes, there are a couple of different modes available — one makes the coconuts fall in a maze pattern, another asks you to keep a bouncing ball in the air — but none of them alter the basic formula all that much.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Capsized is a really well balanced run and gun game that can be fun and challenging for many players.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Magic: The Gathering is a fantastic card game, long standing and one of the best. But these games are little more than a enjoyable advertisement for the paper game or Magic Online. So much so that there are obtrusive ads in the game about buying boxes of paper cards and joining the local Magic community.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Apathy is also the only emotion I feel towards R.I.P.D. It’s a rushed, lazy, poorly developed game that barely stands up on its own. Somehow it gets even worse with the license, bringing it into a bad licensed game pantheon alongside E.T.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Fist Puncher is really a standout example of how to do retro right, and is something that certainly deserves more attention.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Unless you're a pool devotee that's been waiting for a chance to play the game on your PS3 or 360, you'll probably only find Pool Nation to be a light trifle of a game, fun for a couple of games here and there — but sometimes, that's really all you want.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    What it does is present a complete package that lacks very little for football fans and NCAA Football fans alike, and for many that may just be enough to satisfy the hungry crowd.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    It looks great, it sounds great and it plays great. It is, quite simply, just a great game, and a must-have for Vita owners.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    All of which leads to the last definitive statement I can make about Farming Simulator: it's perfect for the Vita. Even if the game has its roots on PCs, its structure — the lack of a story or difficult controls to remember, the ability to save your game at any point in time — lends itself extremely well to handheld, on-the-go gaming. Other games obviously make better use of the system's features, but I can't think of many that seem like they were so tailor-made to be played on the Vita.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    If you rush to the goal for each level you’ll be done with this in a few hours, give or take a couple hours for your level of skill. But if you’re a big fan of Mario platformers, and have been looking for some amped up difficulty, New Super Luigi U certainly does the trick.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    If you see this game on the shelf, don’t touch it, don’t even look at it. You would have much more fun spending your money on a dentist appointment.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    All in all, I think Urban Trial Freestyle is worth a look. It won’t top something like Trials HD, but if you keep your expectations in check you’ll have some fun with it.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Storm isn't a game that is going to knock your socks off, but what it does do is provide a nice puzzle game for the fans who like their brand of puzzles a little more laid back and thought-oriented versus time and speed oriented. If you enjoyed games like Braid, there is plenty to love about Storm as it is original, thought provoking, and most of all fun.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Despite not being overjoyed with the cast of the game, there’s little else to complain about with SMT IV. The gameplay mechanics borrow enough from previous entries to feel familiar, but at the same time there’s enough new about the mechanics to make them feel fresh.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Muramasa: Rebirth seems to find itself much more at home on the Vita, and can be called an essential title in anyone's collection. It's not without faults, however, as the new localization brings an unwanted focus to the dull story, and the lengthy campaigns can leave the title feeling overall long in the tooth. Despite this, it's more aptly considered Muramasa+; a port that's slightly more recommended than whatever people had to say about the Wii release.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    I played through 400 Days on the XBLA release of the game, and it’s worth mentioning that there are a few technical hiccups that persist from the original content. Some slight stuttering and loading hesitation when saving or transitioning from one scene that could clearly go in another direction is often noticeable throughout, and it’s something that I really hope gets ironed out for consoles before Season Two starts.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    If you’re still playing Black Ops 2, and let’s face it, you probably are, Vengeance is worth picking up for the multiplayer maps. If you’re primarily a fan of the Zombies mode I’d say you could save your points/money, but this is the strongest collection of multiplayer maps the game has seen since it launched.
    • 17 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    I have absolutely nothing positive to say about my experience with Motorbike on PSN, and highly urge everyone to avoid this at all costs. It’s not even worth the time of the download, much less the purchase price.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    It’s certainly not an awful experience, but it feels very mindless and prolonged, not offering up enough depth to keep you engaged, which makes the experience suffer considering each battle can take upwards of 30 minutes to complete. It’s better consumed in smaller chunks, and I’d definitely suggest trying before you buy, whether you’re a big fan of the three publishers or not.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Love him or hate him, Deadpool is here, and his video game debut is almost exactly what fans were expecting.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    It's far from being a definitive Vita experience, to be sure, but if you're looking for some mostly enjoyable platforming on the go (or if you've just got a nostalgic itch to be scratched), the Jak & Daxter Collection is certainly worth picking up.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    It might not be leaps and bounds over the original, but it’s enough of an improvement that I can’t see myself going back to the original Company of Heroes any time soon.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 16 Critic Score
    You might think that I'm overreacting, that I should just look at Bugs vs Tanks as some silly little downloadable oddity, that I should put politics aside and just focus on the game play. I mean, inherent ideology aside, what you've got here is essentially Earth Defense Force-lite, but shrunk down to its basic components so that it fits on the 3DS — and God knows I love EDF.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    If a top down hack ‘n’ slash action RPG is something you’re into and you’ve got a few extra bucks this is definitely you should look into.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    All of the glitches, random crashes and lock ups found here make me wonder how something like this gets approved for release. Don't buy, don't try, just stay away.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    I don’t know that I’d put it above other established franchises in the genre just yet, but if you have some affinity for Marvel and its characters along with Diablo clones, there’s certainly worse ways to pass the time than this.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    All that said, the game does come with one other serious flaw: its $15 price tag. Considering the game can be had for $3 on PC, you'll have to be a truly dedicated trophy hunter to spring for the game on PS3. That, or a big fan of hidden object games, which has always been an underrepresented genre when it comes to the platform.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    On one hand, it's an okay action game with some welcome twists in the combat, but can be dragged down by the monotony of navigating the line-shaped path of the environment. If the rest of the game could find the same identity as the memory remixes, and even some of the Combo Lab ideas, then we wouldn't be left with a lopsided future sleeper hit on our hands.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Quell Memento lures you in with a welcoming face, and stays likable enough (for lack of a better adjective) that you can never get too enraged at it.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    While both titles will be a short experience if you’re just looking to blow past the initial playthrough, there’s enough content packed in here via replays to make you feel that this is $15 well spent.

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