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 Tomb Raider
Lowest review score: 20 Smash 'N' Survive
Score distribution:
2085 game reviews
    • 74 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris is an enjoyable action-puzzler. It effortlessly presents combat and puzzle encounters to the player, without inundating or starving them of one or the other. Just make sure you bring some friends along for the ride.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Maybe the most enjoyable typing game ever, but it’s clichéd story elements hold it back.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Droplitz doesn't have any multiplayer modes, which is a slight shame. Luckily, then, the single player is fantastic.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Arkham VR is an amazing, adrenaline filled first person experience for anyone who’s wanted to be the Caped Crusader. It would be a discredit to pass this off as a tech demo, but it’s not exactly a game as such either. It’s an experience. And despite it being a short-lived one, it’s certainly one you won’t forget in a hurry.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    As a zombie twin-stick shooter it gets the job done, but its qualities are lessened by lost potential. Nothing jumps out at you, and everything seems to have been done better in other games.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    It may sound like a bit of a mish-mash, but in many ways Late Night feels more 'together' than Ambitions (though not as all-encompassingly new as World Adventures), with the expansion gently prodding us back to more open-ended gameplay.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The graphics are really lovely, the greens are green, the blues are blue, and my elephantitis-afflicted hero is a sort of mottled grey. Career mode is a pretty good simulation of what actual golfers must go through, and is one of the best career modes in a sports game I’ve played in a long time.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Technically the title is extremely impressive too, so if you're looking for a title to sell PSPs to your friends, this might do it.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Slightly watered down version from PC, but still a good game to enjoy both with friends or alone.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    While it hasn’t lit my world on fire, Reflex is solid fun.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    For someone under time constraints and with little patience for having to repeat a long, slow, tough, scenario multiple times, I have to confess that although I wanted to like it, Blackguards 2 hasn't been one of my top gaming experiences.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 77 Critic Score
    If you enjoyed the Monkey Island series you will probably feel right at home dumpster diving on Deponia.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    The Escapists is a wonderfully deep and complex puzzle game that reels you in further and further as you make progress from one prison to the next.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Arkham Origins has a lot to live up to. I think it gets close but sadly not close enough. You still feel like Batman, but it’s missing... something. Perhaps Batman isn’t just a man with a bunch of extraordinary gadgets, maybe he needs that creepy weirdness as well.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    As a driving game, it actually handles pretty nicely.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Def Jam does include a token Career mode but it offers very little difference in the gameplay.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    The multiplayer likewise suffers a bit from a lack of variety.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    It's not hugely long, offering only a couple of hours or so worth of unique content, but that's really not the point.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    I've been playing Supernatural for the better part of a week now, and it's still surprising and delighting me with its cheery take on magic, horror and gothic. It's an expansion in the very best sense, and now up at the top of my list of Sims 3 must-haves.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A worthy successor to the main Borderlands series, if a bit rough around the edges. Enemies and boss fights are bland, but this is more than made up for by excellent level design, hilarious dialogue, loveable characters, and an expertly realised, brilliantly Australian world.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Although not long by Dark Souls’ standards, The Surge’s sci-fi setting is a refreshing change from its contemporaries, and the developers have made their mark on the genre. The combat system is unique, and very rewarding. It might fly below most people's radar due to the slew of quality games in 2017, but don't overlook The Surge. It will surprise a lot of people.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    It melts my brain to think how much money people could throw at this game. So this is a caution to anyone who obsessively collects things. Disney Infinity is a good game, and one that caresses your cranium in a creative and imaginative way. But you will need to throw money at it. Lots of money.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    For those who’ve already played Capsized on PC, the console version comes with four extra levels, but I don’t know if that’s enough to justify buying the whole game again unless you really liked it and are desperate for more content. If you haven’t played it yet, and are on the hunt for a cheap and charming, if at times frustrating, indie platformer, then a journey with Capsized’s crew is a good way to go.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    A game so twitchy, it may just ruin your controller.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    Gatling Gears is most definitely an entertaining arcade title. It's polished, action-packed and fun. But it is a limited experience, one unfortunately let down by a lack of narrative and variety.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 77 Critic Score
    Still – there is a lot to be said for the ability to sling on a proton pack and stand shoulder to shoulder with the four members of the Ghostbusters, to catch a ghost in your beam and drag it down towards a trap.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It was a good adventure while it lasted but once I was out of Arkham City, I had no desire to go back there and this DLC does not change that.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The dungeon crawl aspect of it can be a little repetitive at times, but for the most part it’s a fun, engaging game with plenty of humour, action, and randomly inserted titty jokes.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Zen Pinball and their latest Star Wars offering is a fascinating blend of old-school gaming with the level of interactivity that can be obtained on a console. Despite the repetitive nature of only needing to hit two buttons, there is definitely room to hone your skills and maximise your high scores as you understand the table layout and improve your reflexes. If you remember the good old days of tilting and yelling at an old pinball table in an arcade parlour, Zen are definitely keeping the spirit alive here.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    In the end, though, Kinectimals gets more things right than wrong.

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