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For 1,045 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 28% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 69% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.8 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Game review score: 71
Highest review score: 100 Dragon Age: Origins
Lowest review score: 20 Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 594 out of 1045
  2. Mixed: 307 out of 1045
  3. Negative: 144 out of 1045
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    • 45 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Aliens: Colonial Marines
    Both functionally broken and creatively bankrupt, Aliens: Colonial Marines is an extinction-level disaster.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Mr. Driller Online
    Unfortunately, Mr. Driller Online is plagued by a meager selection of gameplay modes and bug-ridden online play that keep it from being worth the $10 price tag.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Ridge Racer
    It has a criminally low number of courses that have all appeared in previous Ridge Racer games, no interesting career structure whatsoever, a new car customizing feature that somehow manages to make the "machines" feel less unique, and a bunch of music that also appeared in the old games. You'd have to be extremely hard up for any form of ridge racing for this to add up to something worth purchasing.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Tony Hawk Ride
    The execution is such a miserable failure that it manages to splash even more mud on Tony Hawk's legacy. I'm left with a firm belief that whichever side of the Tony Hawk/Activision partnership has the out clause in the contract should just exercise it and part ways for good. Enough is enough.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
    Every little thing about it, from the bland presentation to the dead-simple gameplay, conspires to make the final product incredibly lame. It has the depth of a bad downloadable game with the price tag of a full-on retail release. It's the worst of both worlds. And now you know.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    NBA Live 14
    This game is not very much fun in any facet of its execution, and the supporting modes don't make the crappy basketball-playing any better.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
    Every little thing about it, from the bland presentation to the dead-simple gameplay, conspires to make the final product incredibly lame. It has the depth of a bad downloadable game with the price tag of a full-on retail release. It's the worst of both worlds. And now you know.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Bloodforge
    It can't even craft a halfway competent action game out of the myriad things it stole from much better action games.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Rock Revolution
    Instead of trying to wrap my mind around this troubling cash grab, I'm going to move on and do my best to forget about Rock Revolution. I recommend you do the same.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Family Guy: Back to the Multiverse
    If you're the sort of person who doesn't inherently find the concepts of greased-up deaf people, Amish people commenting on their sex lives, older women grotesquely demanding group sex from frat boys, people in wheelchairs falling over, or "the gays" completely hilarious, do not get angry at Family Guy: Back to the Multiverse.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5
    Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5 is a mess of half-cocked ideas, astoundingly poor execution, and technical woes that layer a little insult on top of injury.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Rock Revolution
    Instead of trying to wrap my mind around this troubling cash grab, I'm going to move on and do my best to forget about Rock Revolution. I recommend you do the same.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor
    It's designed in such a way that only pixel-perfect aiming and split-second responsiveness will get you through its missions unscathed, but your ability to react quickly and take in your surroundings is so severely compromised that you'll die, repeatedly, in each attempt.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Blackwater
    All of this misery for $50 a pop. An hour and a half of busted-ass light gun shooting that barely masks the deplorable PR message underneath. In effect, buyers of Blackwater are paying for propaganda. They're handing over money to a shady group of alleged killers for the privilege of being told that these guys aren't shady or killers or anything to that effect.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Rocky and Bullwinkle
    A game with no originality and not much excitement, either.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Lucha Fury
    I went and played Final Fight again, and was reassured that no, old beat-'em-ups are fine. It's just Lucha Fury that's miserable garbage.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    NBA Live 14
    Online play is straight-up garbage.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Power Gig: Rise of the SixString
    After some serious consideration, I cannot come up with a single good reason why someone would buy PowerGig: Rise of the SixString. Even morbid curiosity is hard to justify.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Expendables 2 Videogame
    This is most definitely a lazy, slapped together, overly expensive waste of time that nobody need bother play. And yet, for some bizarre reason, all I could think about while playing The Expendables 2 was that it didn't have to be this way.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct
    As awful as Survival Instinct is mechanically, the really depressing thing about it is that it offers no meaningful information or commentary on the characters it revolves around. Yes, Daryl and Merle's lives are a bit more fleshed out, but nothing you learn is anything you couldn't have gone the rest of your life not knowing.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Call of Duty: Black Ops Declassified
    A disjointed mess of meaningless missions played against a clock backed up with a multiplayer mode that occasionally approximates something that resembled proper Call of Duty combat. More often, though, the game feels too small to be entertaining, with maps so tiny that you'll literally spawn with an enemy in your crosshairs... or vice versa. This would be a questionable purchase at traditional downloadable pricing. But at $50? No way.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Target: Terror
    Here in our dimension, though, Target: Terror came out to today’s arcades: empty, lifeless places full of the damned and people who just don’t know any better.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5
    The only thing worth knowing is that no part of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5 is worth your time. It's bad. Real bad. And not the type of bad that makes for good comedy, either. It'd be bad at any price, but it's especially egregious that the publisher is charging a full $60 for this sucker. It'd be something you'd want to avoid for even a third of that price. Don't waste your time. You deserve better. Tony Hawk deserves better. Hell, even guest skater Lil Wayne deserves better.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Rogue Warrior
    You have to wonder how something like this makes its way onto shelves as a full-priced product. Though there's some sort of ironic fun to be had by cruising through the short campaign and listening to Mickey Rourke shout obscenities, it's practically impossible to wring $60 of excitement out of this disc.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Rogue Warrior
    You have to wonder how something like this makes its way onto shelves as a full-priced product. Though there's some sort of ironic fun to be had by cruising through the short campaign and listening to Mickey Rourke shout obscenities, it's practically impossible to wring $60 of excitement out of this disc.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Master of Illusion Express: Funny Face
    It's hard to complain too much about something that's only selling for two bucks, but Master of Illusion Express: Funny Face feels like the sort of thing that would normally be a free demo designed to entice people into picking up the full package.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag - Freedom Cry
    The add-on also gives hope for what's possible when blockbuster-driven creators take risks with material. There are missteps in Freedom Cry, more ethical than mechanical, but it hits as often as it misses. That's undeniably an important step forward.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    DOOM Eternal
    It may not reach the sublime heights of its predecessor, but Doom Eternal is bursting at the seams with hellacious action.
    • tbd Metascore
    • Critic Score
    Ship of Fools
    Ship of Fools is a neat little roguelite Overcooked at sea mashup. Things get chaotic real quick as you and a friend have to navigate the seven seas and make sure to not throw precious material overboard. [Quick look]
    • tbd Metascore
    • Critic Score
    Mirror Forge
    Mirror Forge is a little indie horror joint with a lot of heart and a lot of glitches... but that's not really a deal-breaker for me. It's one of those scrappy super-indie titles whose charm is actually kinda amplified by its rough edges. The developer's love for Silent Hill, Eternal Darkness, and Stranger Things is apparent as our trauma-laden protagonist wanders through bloody hallways with ancient secrets, told to us via somewhat goofy voice acting. Cliché stuff, yes, but I can't help but enjoy that this is a game that knows what it is - an ambitious, mishmashed, indulgent homage to some really great things. A solo developer stretching their legs and seeing what they can pull off. A janky, but entertaining time. [Quick Look]
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