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For 560 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 53% higher than the average critic
  • 1% same as the average critic
  • 46% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Game review score: 75
Highest review score: 100 Madden NFL 06
Lowest review score: 20 Mike Tyson Heavyweight Boxing
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 367 out of 560
  2. Mixed: 131 out of 560
  3. Negative: 62 out of 560
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Jungle Storm
    The game play has been streamlined for less fussy PS2 players. Plus there’s a single-player mode, where AI teammates respond to 160 voice commands. And the online levels—with up to 16 players barking through headsets simultaneously—is enough to make you postpone your pee break for hours.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Battlefield Vietnam
    What sets Battlefield apart is that you can pilot choppers and tanks to a cool ’60s soundtrack. And you can even cue up “Ride of the Valkyries” for that air cavalry attack. Sure smells like victory to us.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Suffering
    Told in fragments along the way, the story resolves differently, depending on whether you torture and kill other humans or help them survive. Either way, the eerie atmosphere will scare you straighter than an "Oz" box set.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Mafia
    The play and story will ring familiar to anyone who’s played the "Grand Theft Auto" series—which is good—but the guy responsible for the crummy graphics should slip on a pair of cement galoshes and take a long walk off a short pier.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Suffering
    Told in fragments along the way, the story resolves differently, depending on whether you torture and kill other humans or help them survive. Either way, the eerie atmosphere will scare you straighter than an "Oz" box set.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Gangland
    But this isn’t just car bombs and cement shoes; characters can marry into families, sire their own shifty progeny, and watch them assume seats of power. It ain’t pretty, but it’s business.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Colin McRae Rally 04
    Set the damage mode to high and tires explode, windshields shatter, and fenders crumple, all dependent on your lousy maneuvering.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Dead Man's Hand
    The concept and play consistently deal a royal flush, just ignore the choppy visuals, which can irritate like a pesky infection picked up at Miss Kitty’s Cat House.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Steel Battalion: Line of Contact
    You'll add valuable mech piloting skills to your résumé in punishing combat situations that are as close as you'll ever get to the real thing...were these machines not totally fictional.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing
    In online, single player, or cooperative play, perform slick maneuvers like rooftop bike jumps, and earn “Bond Moment” points for unlockable weapons and levels.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing
    You can also race through a shitstorm of artillery fire in a Porsche Cayenne Turbo (complete with “Q-cloak” invisibility feature) or missile-firing Triumph Daytona 600.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing
    You can also race through a shitstorm of artillery fire in a Porsche Cayenne Turbo (complete with “Q-cloak” invisibility feature) or missile-firing Triumph Daytona 600.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Mafia
    The play and story will ring familiar to anyone who’s played the "Grand Theft Auto" series—which is good—but the guy responsible for the crummy graphics should slip on a pair of cement galoshes and take a long walk off a short pier.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II
    Ignore the nonsensical story—centered on Mordoc, the vampire king, and his Onyx Tower of Eldritch—and stay on course with your barbarian, dwarf, cleric, or elf, traversing time and eerie environments.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Maximo vs Army of Zin
    It ain’t groundbreaking, but who cares?
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II
    Ignore the nonsensical story-centered on Mordoc, the vampire king, and his Onyx Tower of Eldritch-and stay on course with your barbarian, dwarf, cleric, or elf, traversing time and eerie environments.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel
    The deadly combination of shopping for new murder gear and completing missions of mass destruction make this game more addictive than caramel-coated OxyContin.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel
    The deadly combination of shopping for new murder gear and completing missions of mass destruction make this game more addictive than caramel-coated OxyContin.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    NFL Street
    Dispense with kicking and doodle-heavy playbooks, and deploy between-the-leg laterals and double reverses, plus a mess of excellent unsportsmanlike, showboating taunts.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    NFL Street
    Dispense with kicking and doodle-heavy playbooks, and deploy between-the-leg laterals and double reverses, plus a mess of excellent unsportsmanlike, showboating taunts.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    NFL Street
    Dispense with kicking and doodle-heavy playbooks, and deploy between-the-leg laterals and double reverses, plus a mess of excellent unsportsmanlike, showboating taunts.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly
    Before you get your first set of prints back, you’ll find clues in maps and diaries—even encounter the phantasmagoric—to unravel a plot with more slimy twists than a barrel of Udon noodles.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
    Like the movie, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is quite an ambitious undertaking. Unlike the movie, it doesn’t consistently deliver the goods.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Mission: Impossible: Operation Surma
    While the tough, stealthy game play won’t grip you in a chokehold of novelty and surprise, it flashes a lethal look and feel.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
    But don’t take our word for it, because Prince won Best Action-Adventure Game at this year’s E3 expo. So it’s got that going for it…which is nice.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Mission: Impossible: Operation Surma
    While the tough, stealthy game play won’t grip you in a chokehold of novelty and surprise, it flashes a lethal look and feel.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    XIII
    And with the engaging story, plus the graphic-novel presentation (boxes of action and text are constantly popping up on-screen), this truth is worth uncovering.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    XIII
    And with the engaging story, plus the graphic-novel presentation (boxes of action and text are constantly popping up on-screen), this truth is worth uncovering.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    XIII
    And with the engaging story, plus the graphic-novel presentation (boxes of action and text are constantly popping up on-screen), this truth is worth uncovering.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Gladiator: Sword of Vengeance
    The game takes hits for its often crappy camera angles. Still, it’ll satisfy your raging blood lust.
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