NZGamer's Scores

  • Games
For 2,085 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 62% higher than the average critic
  • 6% same as the average critic
  • 32% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.9 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Game review score: 77
Highest review score: 100 Gears of War 4
Lowest review score: 20 Smash 'N' Survive
Score distribution:
2085 game reviews
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    No real innovation to speak of, but well worth the purchase price.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    If you're looking for a classic JRPG experience and many hours of fantasy fun, Tales of Graces f ticks all the boxes.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A solid strategic effort, but no Triumph.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This is a game for anyone looking for some light, easy fun either by themselves or with friends.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This is a game with a number of mediocre elements, being released in a season already crowded with other shooters. However, the main thing it does well – capture the spirit and fun of the Bond movies – is enough to draw in a number of people.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    All up Dimensions is a solid remake of an all-time classic, and is much more convenient than plugging in old systems to give the game a blasting. If you like R-Type, or shooters, then this game is a must.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The stunning production values in the cut-scenes are worth the price of admission and it is all wrapped up with a comprehensive multiplayer component too. Just be prepared for some brutally tough single-player gameplay.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    In its fully-evolved form, Pokémon Rumble World works much better here than as a freemium game.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Someone needs to make the arcade machine version of this.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    While my iPad 1 struggled with some of the more demanding scenarios (more than two players usually crashed me out of the game), the iPad platform, generally speaking, is perfect for this sort of game.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The new story elements, while brief, are still welcome, and features like the new dog types and the Colosseum will keep people coming back.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Everyone should try this game, even if you hate cars or football.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Yakuza 3 has more depth to it than the Titanic and although this strange combination of gameplay elements might deter a lot gamers, you just can't help but admire it at the same time.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's fun, serious and silly by turns, and, dare I doom it by saying... possibly educational?
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The combat itself is fun, with most of the enjoyment on offer during team-based modes when you're working together to assault (or defend) objectives.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 does not struggle. It's a great game with just the one perennial problem. If you bought last year's version, or any from the last three or four years, you don't need this.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    F1 2016 is a real upgrade on its predecessors, and hints at a promising future.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Crappy punk music, breweries, tattoos, and exploding heads - can’t get much more party than that.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's a clever concept, and the game offers surprising depth once you get past the repetitive 'weak enemy' battles of the first half hour.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    When the last zombie limbs fall, the additional multiplayer modes are passable in the face of cooperative play in the story mode – dual wielding is great too. The only thing letting this down are the frame rate dips. This is a great single and multiplayer title, worth a rent at the very least.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Perfectly rendered cutscenes play out like extravagant soap operas with more over-the-top personalities than an episode of America’s Next Top Model.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The games are probably a bit too young to be considered retro or nostalgic, (Infinite is only three years old), but they do bring with them a lot of fond memories. If you’ve never played them before, the series feels fresh and new.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Colourful characters, and enough adult humour to keep you wondering how this is a G rated game.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Wii U exclusive controls aside, FIFA 13 is proof that the series can and will work great on the new console - it just needs a bigger community right now.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A daring idea that is pulled off brilliantly and beautifully for hours of prison breaking fun.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    We liked this game a lot. It is not going to break any new ground in the genre but it is a very well designed game that is challenging and rewarding to play. Well worth getting from Steam and great value at less than $10.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It has been a fantastic experience to re-appraise one of my all time favorite games and, despite the game looking a bit long in the tooth, it still has the wonderful level of depth and challenge as it did when I first played it way back when.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    So if you like boxing games in general and enjoy iPhone games that you can use to kill some time on the bus with, then you really cannot go too wrong with Fight Night Champion.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The control fiddling has worked, so hats off to the new Pikmin team, and I can recommend this one to any Wii owners, of any age.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The real star of the game is the action, which becomes an explosion-filled thrill ride by the end that never gets old – thanks in part, no doubt, to its relatively short running time.

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