Maxim Online's Scores

  • Games
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 0.1 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. Negative: 62 out of 560
560 game reviews
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The wacky sensibility will give you a few chuckles, while the insane difficulty level takes you on a masochistic tour of your squandered youth.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    An embarrassment. When the players run bowlegged to field a ball, it’s hard to take this game seriously.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The ho-hum game play won’t wow you.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    But after nine innings, it's basically the same game, including easy to master controls that'll finally allow you to be big man on campus.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    We could have done without the ads for Toyota (what is this, a movie preview?), but the slamming soundtrack and retro touches-the 1995 version of EA's game is included-should help bring the league one step closer to atoning for the Charlotte Bobcats.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Luckily, the Cinemax-quality female brawls make up for the vaguely homoerotic aspects, since nobody should be exposed to that much man-on-man action.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Set up like Grand Theft Alien, there are tons of missions to complete, though you can also just roam around, killing filthy humans and destroying their stuff.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    A subversive parody that cleverly indicts our depraved culture? If it makes you feel better about having a shitload of sadistic fun, sure.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    With matches of five-on-five taking place on small fields with really basic controls, Strikers is classic arcade-style soccer, but the game gets an extra kick from power-ups, random Bowser attacks, and a Telemundo-style announcer.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The bizarre levels and challenging puzzles remain engrossing even when you start asking the never-answered question, “What’s the point?”
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Confused by the sometimes clunky camera angles? You can deliver your skull-smashing, thong-flashing high kicks in soothing slow motion.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    This build-your-own-robot game gives grease monkeys a 20-story garage, hundreds of parts, and plenty of time to tinker with and create the ultimate 40-ton rig.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sure, the action is pretty basic—it's still kill or be killed—but with more open spaces to run around and new foes to fight, Ties is like a weekend with Russell Crowe: disturbing, bloody, and a damn good time.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    But after nine innings, it's basically the same game, including easy to master controls that'll finally allow you to be big man on campus.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Splintered wooden furniture doubles as vampire vaporizing shivs to expand on your already wide variety of exterminating capabilities.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    An adventure game that looks and plays shamelessly like "Tomb Raider," only without the oversized breasts.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The first Unreal made its name on, well, its unreal visuals, but we had no idea how saucy a first-person shooter could look until we tried the sequel.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Most of the game consists of endless management, such as babysitting your kids, managing your dough, and constantly mailing postcards to your friends so they don’t resent your ignoring them.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It does have...a kung-fu penguin! And what's cooler than that?
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Guaranteed to raise the purple manga-style hairs on your neck.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Easy-to-master controls, new camera angles, customizable teams, legendary players like Babe Ruth and Jackie Robinson—don’t wait for Mother Nature’s lazy ass; spring starts now.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fighting an army of the undead with a six-shooter is rather challenging, but the game has smooth controls and sharp-edged firearms that allow you to get your gunsu on.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Confused by the sometimes clunky camera angles? You can deliver your skull-smashing, thong-flashing high kicks in soothing slow motion.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Can’t be beat for fun, mindless destruction.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    If you have an urge to knock some balls around during the winter, then Tiger Woods might be able to help you out.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Triple Play may not be the smartest or most realistic baseball video game, but it’s definitely the best-looking one.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Choose from over 179 field layouts across 19 tournaments to test out the game's hair-trigger controls in surprisingly fun online seven-on-seven team showdowns.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    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.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    During this age of sanitary smart-bomb warfare, this stunning first-person shooter gives you a taste of the good ol’ days of killing—you know, bamboo traps, bloody ambushes, villages under siege.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A history of hoops that lets you bring almost every star player (dating back to the 1950s) out of the mothballs.

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