Meristation's Scores

  • Games
For 3,632 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 62% higher than the average critic
  • 7% same as the average critic
  • 31% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.6 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Game review score: 76
Highest review score: 100 BioShock
Lowest review score: 5 Rambo: The Video Game
Score distribution:
3633 game reviews
    • 84 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    2K Sports carefully crafted the best basketball game in recent times. It was difficult to improve last year's entry, but they worked hard and launched an even better game. Gameplay-wise, it's quite similar to 2K8, but now it's more fluid, more complex and with the new DNA feature, that lets you customize your players. Let the new season begin!
    • 83 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Madden 17 is a great Football game with deep and solid mechanics. It maintains a good balance between offense and defense systems, dozens of tactic options and powerful graphics.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    UFC Undisputed 3 has an improved career mode, submission system and more realistic animations for the biggest roster in the genre. The Pride mode is also good stuff. Better than its predecessors.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Type-0 on the PSP was the best Final Fantasy game since, maybe, Final Fantasy XII. Nothing changes that in this case: Type-0 HD is fun to play, hard to master and offers a lot of content to explore. Also, here we have the access to Episode Duscae, the first chance to play Final Fantasy XV and to discover where the series is right now. It's a convincing package.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    One of the most sensible experiences of the year, RAIN is pure feelings in a simple tale of boy meets girl and scape from monsters. The shadow of ICO is undoubtedly planning over SCE Japan Studio's new creature, but the makers of Puppeteer manage to give its creature an unique personality. Beautiful, lyrical, and extraordinary deep in feelings, RAIN makes itself Debussy's Claire de Lune to touch us and make us part of its own rain.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Dancing is one of the most fun exercises and Just Dance 2018 knows it. The popular dancing series is back with lots of amusing game mods and makes dancing a rewarding experience for oneself and for sharing with friends.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Dragon Ball Origins is one of the most interesting videogames based on the story created by Akira Toriyama, with a valuable amount of characters and a gameplay that reminds of the latest Legend of Zelda. Its a game worth buying, with some minor graphical glitches that basically offers everything that a DB fan is hoping to play with.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    A logical evolution from Dance Central and certainly one of the best Kinect games avaliable for it by far. It's serious enough to offer an entertaining challenge and easy enough to welcome everyone, making it a superior dancing game over much goofier offerings.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    DC Universe Online is not only the best MMO build on a superhero theme, but one of the most innovative MMO appeared in the last few years. The combat system is a blast, and there is plenty of content to keep you busy for weeks. Is it worth it the monthly fee though? Only SOE and their regular updates to the game can answer that.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Reaper of Souls is the final point of the restoration of Diablo III and it does a really fine work on it. The Act V included in the expansion is the best of the game, and the Adventure mode will transform the way we play for the better.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    It's not a revolution, but Assassin's Creed Shadows delivers a great Assassin's Creed RPG experience in feudal Japan.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail starts a new saga that is the beginning of what will be enormous adventures in Eorzea. A continent full of life, new playable classes that provide greater dynamism, as well as more challenges than ever. All this, along with the graphical improvements received and a sublime soundtrack.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    A great adventure game, with humour, logical and illogical puzzles, and a charismatic bunch of characters. The remake is great, and the classic game is still a solid game. At a good price point, it's the ideal game for Monkey Island and point and click adventure lovers.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Gears of War Ultimate Edition improves one of the most important Xbox 360 games. Great visuals and strong multiplayer experience, now with 4K resolution and 60 FPS.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Dead Space 2 is a great game thanks to its story, character development and over the top situations. It's quite similar to the original game, but it improves in several key areas that make it, overall, a game as good as the first one. Multiplayer is completely forgettable.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Football Manager 2018 is not a great revolution compared to its previous deliveries, but it offers very interesting news in terms of professional and personal information about players, tactics and signings that makes it better than ever.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    The ultimate menu on the funniest cooking game ever.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Capcom delivers a terrific new IP for fans of action, puzzles, and science fiction. Pragmata is a father’s love letter to his daughter and features a gameplay proposal that no one will forget.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    F1 2010 is a great game, one of the best racing games this year. It recreates faithfully such a technical competition, both gameplay-wise and visually-wise. If the AI was harder, this would be one of the best games in the genre. Online modes could be much more interesting.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    A deserved tribute to one of the most special SNES games. A classic that returns in the best possible way.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    The latest Wii Sports makes the original seem lacking in every department. With plenty of new gameplay modes, the inclusion of WMP and a bunch of new additions, 'Resort' is set to be one of the most important videogames of this summer. It's a shame that there's no online features, but still it has everything of what it takes to become a blockbuster in no time.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Rust goes where no other survival game has and provides an incredibly threatening experience that, like a car accident, is equal parts horrifying and mystifying.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    One of the best Wii Ware games we've tried so far, that's basically everything that we can say about Swords and Soldiers. If you're looking for a funny, strange and interesting Real Time Strategy game, don't think it twice, just go and buy it. If you don't, give it a try, it's a very good game despite not having an online feature. Still, it's worth to play against any friend. You won't regret it.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Fast, smooth, clever and furious, FuturLab delivers a great shoot'em up that is actually improved thanks to the platform sections on foot.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    A wonderful new vision of the Game Boy Advance classic. This game combines a great variety of genres inside a wonderful and fresh JRPG, updated with a correct new adventure that is not as fun as the main plot.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    It is a delightful indie game. They have known how to choose each tool to create an adventure of exploration, mystery and with a variety of puzzles that will undoubtedly leave you hooked.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Layton comes back for another year, as always, but he doesn't fail. 170 new puzzles, dozens of extras, mystery, crazy characters and mind challenges. It's the same game, but bigger. Although, regrettably, in Europe version isn't London Life mode.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    The Astral World is one of the best Nintendo Switch 2 Editions released to date. It comes with a 4 hours expansion featuring some truly eye-catching levels and a boost in smoothness and resolution that we now can't live without. It's still one of the character's best titles and a must-play platformer.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    The best game in the genre, absolutely recommendable for lovers and beginners to this kind of game. It doesn't hve complex gameplay, and it’s not actually hard, but lets you leave your mind fly and create what you could imagine with an endless set of options.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    It's a great chance of discover a truly special JRPG. A GamesCube gem with a prequel that many people don't know yet.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    The story is not the best and its difficulty is very high, but Prey gets the job done. Despite its shortcomings, it's an interesting game that appeals to a very specific audience and delivers an experience that should be played.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    A remarkable game but also a little bit below its predecessor. However it has its own merits that makes it an interesting option to those who likes the genre or just this game series.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    With some small gameplay changes and an improved My Team Mode, NBA 2K21 offers enough to still be considered one of the best sports videogames on the market. Still, it takes a more powerful hardware to show the great change the franchise really needs.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Valfaris is incredibly polished visually, but the best news come from the core gameplay and the shining variety of its level design. Something pretty much needed for Steel Mantis to become a new promise among indie developers, we must say.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Those who missed the PS360 old times, when third person shooters didn't complicate everything, should have an eye on Warhammer 40K: Space Marine. You'll kill thousands of enemies, and anything else, but it's easy to miss some variety in them.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Returnal is one of the surprises of this 2021. Housemarque creates a strong shooter that demonstrates the capabilities of PS5.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    A good example to show there are not too-old formulas, just wrong approaches to reignite them. Taking the base of D&D Arcade and introducing plenty of RPG and Hack'n Slash elements, Vanillaware has made its finest game.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Using the same control scheme, the same mechanics, the same concept, and even the same engine as Killzone 3, Guerrilla gives the PS Vita one of its best titles to date. A powerful experience from the single player - maybe too short, buy replayability is on its side-, to the fun and robust multiplayer to the amazing graphics, Killzone: Mercenary is a must have for Helghast's fans, and for everybody who still believes in what the powerful Sony's handheld is capable of, which is a lot.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Two Point Museum is a fun management game, full of options and depth, yet very accessible and player-friendly. It challenges you to manage a museum from a humorous perspective, offering an absorbing and highly entertaining experience. Museum confirms the Two Point saga as one of the most important in the management genre in modern times.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    An English Haunting is a superb point and click adventure game about the paranormal, with a captivating plot and very satisfying puzzles. A modern essential of the genre, that invites us to demonstrate that the truth is out there.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Third time's a charm they say. And indeed it is this time. Disney Infinity 3.0 brings not only the most complete version up to date of the series in the Toy Box mode, but a great campaign with Twilight of the Republic. Maybe it's short and easy, but its good combat system and its space travel to open hubs like Tatooine or Naboo join to bring one of the best Star Wars games we've seen in the last years
    • 81 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    A convincing dynamic campaign sustain a game that follows the quality path set by the series.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    San Diego Studios brings with MLB The Show 25 what is nothing less than the best sports game of the moment, at all levels: gameplay and content. A shame, since if it is a PS5 and Xbox Series exclusive development it lacks of a great visual improvement, but still... the best proposal for the virtual sports fan.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    FIFA 15 is not a revolution. It's not the future, but it moves toward realism in football games, step by step. The Ignite engine works and the online modes are complete. Pro Clubs is a great idea. But traditional players will wish for much more.
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    • 84 Critic Score
    Kharon's Crypt is a pleasant surprise from start to finish, and it just keeps getting better and better as we progress in our adventure.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Take an idea you implemented in another game, and extend it to make a new IP. That's the premise behind Captain Toad, but in this case it's taking something so good as the levels of Toad in Mario 3D World, and making a whole game with them. It's funny, smart, so adorable and screams Nintendo in every part of its code. Sure, perhaps the camera needs polish, and maybe it's easy and short, but try to get all the treasures on every level and we'll see if it's still so easy and short. A little gem in the Wii U catalog, certainly not for everybody -at least if they don't like puzzles games, or the platformers without a jump button- and it's one of those titles whose only purpose is to have fun with.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Lego Marvel Super Heroes is the best Lego game Traveller's Tales has ever made. Great characters, good visuals and tons of content to play. Great choice for Marvel fans and casual audience.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    A good improvement over the original, nothing dramatic but a better finished game after all and a great chance for console players to experience a fantastic cRPG made in a classical way.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Quotation forthcoming.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    If you liked the first one, you will love Subnautica: Below Zero. It improves everything previously played and adds necessary novelties to this sequel. Everyone who loves underwater world and survival genre will be delighted with this video game.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Oblivion Remastered is a gift for fans, a new way to discover one of the biggest RPG in video game history.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Battlefield 6 overall is a good comeback. The multiplayer side reminds us of the good old days, besides its missing a few elements from the big ones, like levolution. Beyond that, the campaign feels a barebones experience.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Accurate, funny and with a classical scent that will remind us of the best 3D platform moments from this early century. Blue Fire is a serious candidate to be one of the best indies of the year.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Power changes everything. Jetpack changes Call of Duty. The Sledgehammer team has made Advanced Warfare fresh and new. It's a frantic game with spectacular fire in the air. Kevin Spacey can be happy about his appearance, it's brilliant. Activision has rewritten the formula.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Pokémon Pokopia is a great spin-off, full of content. It's a very interesting twist to the Pokémon formula, now in the 'Builders' side.
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    • 84 Critic Score
    Super Woden GP 2 is a magnificent driving game in isometric perspective that mixes a Gran Turismo campaign mode with a very fun and challenging arcade rally mode. Its populated and competitive community of players makes trying to climb positions in the online leaderboards an inexhaustible source of fun.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Pro Evolution Soccer 2015 is an improvement step in Konami's saga. This football simulator returns as a great competitor of FIFA and is the best PES in the sixth installment.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Project X Zone 2 is a great crossover, full of iconic characters and good and accessible combat system. Great dialogues, funny moments and convincing graphics for a game that's, although, too easy in many moments.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Easily targeted as a Monster Hunter clone for the PS Vita, the new creation of Keiji Inafune emerges with a defined personality that shines throughout the whole experience. With a deep combat, customization and even crafting system, and one of the best artistic styles of the entire Vita library, Soul Sacrifice challenges us to a series of close, Arena-style fights against nightmarish creatures, which we can liberate or sacrifice, that advances in terms of its epic nature and visual scale. Maybe it feels repetitive playing solo, but to the fun multiplayer, the narrative piece of the Librom diary and the depth of the weapons ans Skills make it a one of a kind. One that will take us more than hours merely in its offline Campaign mode.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Black Ops 7 is indeed the biggest Black Ops entry so far, but its sheer scope keeps it just shy of true excellence.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Pokémon Sword and Shield are arguably the best 3D entries so far, but the game lacks in content and it makes the game just remarkable and not excellent. However, the adventure is really fun, beautiful and surprising, with some of the best designs ever made. Wild Area is a blast, and the soundtrack just amazing. This game makes your time valuable, and the result is close to what everyone expected.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Stunning in its audiovisual presentation and satisfying in its gameplay, MIO: Memories in Orbit is the first great metroidvania of 2026.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Pokémon Sword and Shield are arguably the best 3D entries so far, but the game lacks in content and it makes the game just remarkable and not excellent. However, the adventure is really fun, beautiful and surprising, with some of the best designs ever made. Wild Area is a blast, and the soundtrack just amazing. This game makes your time valuable, and the result is close to what everyone expected.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Pokémon Sword and Shield are arguably the best 3D entries so far, but the game lacks in content and it makes the game just remarkable and not excellent. However, the adventure is really fun, beautiful and surprising, with some of the best designs ever made. Wild Area is a blast, and the soundtrack just amazing. This game makes your time valuable, and the result is close to what everyone expected.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    The new South Park game is amazing. It's story is one step behind The Stick of Truth, but overall, the game is fun, entertaining, with a lot of things to do and with a great sense of humour. A must-have for South Park lovers in general.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Tekken 7 is not the best entry in the series and lacks some single-player content, but when it comes to offering gorgeous combat against friends and other people online, here it is: the King is back with outstanding battle mechanics and plenty of characters to learn. If you don't prefer Injustice 2, here you have your new main fighting game of the season.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Beyond: Two Souls is the evolution of Heavy Rain formula. Quantic Dream gets thrilled and tells a story about love and desperation following Jodie's life. A cinematic experience with stunning PS3 graphics and David Cage's signature narrative to show what lies beyond death.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Dawn of Ragnarök is one of the best Assassin's Creed expansion yet, a mythological journey with new powers and challenges.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Quotation forthcoming.
    • Meristation
    • 81 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Injustice: Gods Among Us is a good fighting game and better tribute to DC Universe. Features a varied cast with unique abilities, frantic gameplay, great artistic design and too many offline modes.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    A superb game with excellent touches, great art and a confident execution. But its attempts to reintroduce classic design ideas from the saga are a bit lacking compared to the original ones.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Elden Ring Nightreign is a game focused to the most hardcore fans of From Software. It has a great combination of new final bosses but lacks a solid progression system that keeps you playing after beating them all.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Ratchet and Clank is an exemplary reboot for a Playstation 2 icon. Great visuals, better sound and polished gameplay mechanics for a classic that adds new narrative events and some new planets to explore.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Monster Hunter Wilds has good foundations, but lacks proper endgame content and challenge.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Short but sweet, Boomerang X is a perfect distillation of everything that is making the latest old school FPS renaissance happen. Fast, hard and sweet all we want is more.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    The return of Crash Bandicoot is a celebration for platform videogames lovers. Toys for Bob has managed to understand the classical essence to perfection and has been completely right by incorporating Quantum Masks and the design of some phases; However, the difficulty is not as high as it used to be, nor is the design of some levels as excellent. Despite its flaws, it's a great starting point for a new trilogy.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Dead Space 3 has lost some of the typical horror but it's a spectacular blockbuster. The co-op mode is a gift, nicely finished and inviting.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Firewatch is a new adventure similar to Journey or Dear Esther. Campo Santo has done a great job with the visual style and with every sound in the game. Firewatch is a beautiful journey with an engaging narrative.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    The Walking Dead: Season Two - In Harm's Way is one of the best episodes of Telltale Games. Great plot, amazing villain and classic hard decisions to take.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate is the same frantic and funny game that appears last year, but has some interesting improvements like new modes, better Tag mode and a solid new netcode.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Hell Let Loose is a great alternative for those looking for hardcore shooters set in WWII.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Although you can live an alternate life in Hinterberg, what makes this game really different is those beautiful and extremely fun dungeons. Its artistic design completes one of the best indies of the summer season.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    A journey to the pinball world. Mythical tables, awesome graphics and physics for the ball, in a great free to play game. Its Season Pass is expensive in PS4.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Unicorn Overlord is a deep tactical RPG ideal for strategic fans, besides his weak story.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    If you are looking for a turn-based strategy game with RPG touches and roguelite, look no further because this is the yours.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    As fun as it is, the gameplay core is the same, but introduces adjustments and a new progression system. Great world and nice use of the jet packs. However, the AI still lacks of consistency.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Splatoon is, simply, a shooter made by Nintendo. Fresh and original, this is a great multiplayer experience with strong mechanics and a addictive proposal. It's the TPS that Wii U was waiting for.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Although certainly not technically impressive, the amount of fresh ideas, innovative mechanics and interwoven systems make this a survival RPG experience like no other. A punishingly difficult game that will reward those who put in patience and disparage fast play. Heartily recommended.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    D4 is Swery65 after all. Great and insane characters, intriguing plot and good Kinect gameplay. However, the game has some graphical issues.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Metro Redux has a great remastered version of Metro 2033 and the most complete Metro Last Light pack. Improved mechanics and great visuals make for a solid pack of two old-school shooters.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Tunic has more than fulfilled our expectations. We had placed high hopes on Andrew Shouldice's work for its proposal and artistic display; luckily, everything we had seen in the demo and trailers was actually the tip of the iceberg. Finji scores another unique title of the independent scene, an action adventure, puzzles and exploration with its own personality. It never ceases to surprise from start to finish and strings together secrets one after another. A worthy exercise of confidence and perseverance: the wait was worth it.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Lost Judgment does justice — never better said — to the original title.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Playing Tales of Xillia 2 is like go to the movies and watching a sequel that has all you want one more time on screen. If you enjoyed the first journey through Rieze Maxia, you'll love to find out what happened with Jude, with Milla and the rest of the crew. An improved combat system, more side-quests and a better story, its a shame the Debt system ruins this a little, but in general, a great way of closing the whole journey we begun just one year ago.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Deathtrap has the potential to be one of the indie titles of the year. Neocore Games knows how to mix the Tower Defense genre with the A-RPG to make a unique an fantastic game that will be charmed with the lovers of this two genres.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Quotation forthcoming.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Housemarque, creators of Super Stardust, do the cylindrical vessels battle with addictive, challenging and fun gameplay.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name is a great game dedicated to fans who love wearing the Kiryu’s jacksuit again.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Not astonishing, but the solid remastered that one of the most underrated games in last times deserves. It lacks of new narrative content, but its new arcade mode can satisfy every fan.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    For those who really missed the Metroidvania concept of Koji Igarashi in Lords of Shadow, MercurySteam has created in Mirror of Fate an petit homage with the style and gameplay of the reboot's series, adding those elements of pure exploration, platforms and astonishing 3D's visual stereoscopic levels that truly take us into the castle, dungeons and caves of the new & tragic Dracula, always cursed by the revenge of the Belmont Clan.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Watch Dogs: Legion has accomplished its promises. Ubisoft Toronto has focused its efforts on making the Play as Anyone mechanic work properly. And yes, they have.

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