Official Nintendo Magazine UK's Scores

  • Games
For 1,511 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 66% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 29% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Game review score: 70
Highest review score: 98 The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D
Lowest review score: 8 Enjoy your massage!
Score distribution:
1511 game reviews
    • 36 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Hastily constructed, poorly thought out and deeply unsatisfying: an endless runner you'll want to end. [Christmas 2012, p.111]
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    • 38 Critic Score
    It's so generic that minutes after playing it we'd completely forgotten about it. [Mar 2010, p.94]
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    • 41 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Dull and barely related to footie. [Feb 2011, p.93]
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    • tbd Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Three rubbish card games for just under a fiver. [Oct 2010, p.95]
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    • 47 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    A shadow of its siblings on other platforms. [Christmas 2010, p.87]
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    • 52 Metascore
    • 37 Critic Score
    The other Rabbids mini-game compilations may have been light on longevity, but at least they provided a laugh. Rabbids Land doesn't even manage this.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 37 Critic Score
    Much like a real sandcastle, it's fun for an hour or so then becomes a washout. [Oct 2010, p.97]
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    • 51 Metascore
    • 37 Critic Score
    The increased precision of Wii MotionPlus is wasted and the result is a game you should steer clear of. [May 2010, p.85]
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    • 43 Metascore
    • 37 Critic Score
    A soulless title with poor mini-games, this is a party that needs no pooping.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 36 Critic Score
    Impressive for 10 minutes or so, but it lacks any replay value whatsoever. [Mar 2011, p.104]
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    • 39 Metascore
    • 36 Critic Score
    Cheap, dreary gameplay and awful controls. What less could you want? [Christmas 2008, p.78]
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    • 49 Metascore
    • 36 Critic Score
    Only two of the remixes are any good, but even these aren't worth your time. [June 2008, p.84]
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    • 34 Metascore
    • 36 Critic Score
    It shows glimmers of fun, but a short story mode and lack of replay factor stifle it. [Sept 2011, p.98]
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    • 30 Metascore
    • 36 Critic Score
    Five dull offerings ranging from racing to shooting games, none of which are worth discussing in any real depth. [July 2010, p.95]
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    • 44 Metascore
    • 36 Critic Score
    What a stinker. [Aug 2008, p.101]
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    • tbd Metascore
    • 36 Critic Score
    Great fun - if you find the idea of rolling ten-foot boulders up a hill fun. [Aug 2010, p.99]
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    • tbd Metascore
    • 35 Critic Score
    A really tough game to pick up and play. [Dec 2008, p.98]
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    • 30 Metascore
    • 35 Critic Score
    The only thing it has going for it is the controls. [Sept 2011, p.92]
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    • 42 Metascore
    • 35 Critic Score
    It takes a genuinely profound kind of idiocy to turn such a romping good series into something so leaden. [Feb 2014, p.91]
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    • 41 Metascore
    • 35 Critic Score
    A very unpleasant experience. [June 2013, p.84]
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    • tbd Metascore
    • 34 Critic Score
    It's about as much fun as getting chatted up by a serial killer in a dark alleyway. [Mar 2010, p.93]
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    • 40 Metascore
    • 34 Critic Score
    Horrible stuff. [Apr 2013, p.85]
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    • 33 Metascore
    • 34 Critic Score
    An extremely primitive quad bike racer with some predictable tracks and dismal presentation. [Nov 2009, p.99]
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    • 53 Metascore
    • 34 Critic Score
    Awful, just awful. It's a dirty, cheap, slapped-together cash-in title that's not woth the round plastic disc it comes on. [Apr 2008, p.92]
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    • 41 Metascore
    • 33 Critic Score
    Tyranna-bore-us Rex. Triceraplops.Velocicraptor. You get the picture.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 33 Critic Score
    Bearly enjoyable, bearly funny...[Sept 2014, p.90]
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    • 52 Metascore
    • 32 Critic Score
    It's fantastically dull. [Dec 2008, p.97]
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    • 35 Metascore
    • 32 Critic Score
    Ugly, unplayable and not even close to being fun. [Nov 2007, p.92]
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    • tbd Metascore
    • 32 Critic Score
    Extremely basic stuff, this is one WiiWare game that'll have kids bored fairly quickly. [Jan 2010, p.87]
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    • tbd Metascore
    • 32 Critic Score
    You'll chuck your controller around in frustration. [Christmas 2010, p.94]
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    • 43 Metascore
    • 32 Critic Score
    An old PC game ported to the DS to cash in on people waning to bash their heads in. [May 2010, p.85]
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    • 41 Metascore
    • 32 Critic Score
    Stupid design decisions. [Dec 2009, p.94]
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    • 49 Metascore
    • 32 Critic Score
    Rank puddle of bilgewater. [Oct 2012, p.95]
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    • tbd Metascore
    • 32 Critic Score
    A tired, old game genre stretched out to within an inch of its life. Dull, dull, dull. [Feb 2011, p.97]
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    • 38 Metascore
    • 32 Critic Score
    A bad conversion of an almost year-old Xbox game. Vengeance is playable but it's a massively disappointing Wii debut for the Far Cry series, and the worst FPS on the console so far. [Mar 2007, p.84]
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    • tbd Metascore
    • 31 Critic Score
    It's amazing that it's so far from finished. We're not sure if it's the developer, the publisher or both, but someone should be ashamed of themselves. Awful.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 31 Critic Score
    Quite simply a rotten game with woefully little variation in gameplay and turgid mechanics. There's very little fun here an dit's cetainly a long way from 'cowabunga', dude. [May 2007, p.78]
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    • 37 Metascore
    • 31 Critic Score
    While you can teach an old dog new tricks, it's still a dog. [Nov 2011, p.95]
    • tbd Metascore
    • 31 Critic Score
    A very basic point-and-click crippled by non-interaction and a rather weak script. [Apr 2012, p.103]
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    • 47 Metascore
    • 31 Critic Score
    Had so much potential, but this is ultimately a waste of Points. There are countless better games out there.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 31 Critic Score
    Ten rubbish blink-and-you'll miss them microgames. A waste of money. [Nov 2009, p.104]
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    • 42 Metascore
    • 31 Critic Score
    Just feels like an unfinished mess that's been rushed to the shops in time for the release of the movie it's based on. [Aug 2011, p.99]
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    • 39 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    It's not even a very good example of what's already a tired and lazy genre. [Mar 2011, p.100]
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    • 37 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    A botched excuse for a stealth game whose only achievement is bringing a decent series' name into disrepute. This game should have been so much better. [Jan 2007, p.72]
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    • 46 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Avoid. [Apr 2010, p.95]
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    It's 30 pounds. THIRTY! The equivalent package is under 2 quid on a phone. Need we say more? [Dec 2012, p.102]
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    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    A shamefully cynical 'update' that brings absolutely nothing new to the table and asks £30 for it. Stick with FIFA 12, it's only a tenner these days. Or save your money for FIFA 13 Wii U.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Liked bowling in "Wii Sports"? Well, if you want some decent bowling action on Wii you'll just have to stick with it because Brunswick has no style, character or spirit. Dreadful. [Dec 2007, p.88]
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    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    A blatant cash-in on Rabbids Go Home. [Jan 2010, p.87]
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    • 35 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Simply garbage. [May 2013, p.87]
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    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    An ugly game. [Oct 2010, p.97]
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    • 49 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Visually, it's a horrid mess of jagged polygons and smeared textures. [Apr 2008, p.76]
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    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The graphics are some of the worst seen on WiiU...[and] many of the controls are flawed and unresponsive. [June 2013, p.84]
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    • 18 Metascore
    • 29 Critic Score
    A mindless, repetitive shell of a game, it's an insult to World War 2's tactical combat. [Jan 2011, p.92]
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    • 29 Metascore
    • 29 Critic Score
    Shoddily made, uglier than Ugly McUglyson and an incredibly frustrating game. [June 2011, p.102]
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    • tbd Metascore
    • 28 Critic Score
    Here's a crazy idea for you: just buy a pen and some paper instead. [Mar 2011, p.105]
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    • 56 Metascore
    • 28 Critic Score
    It had potential but at the end of the day it just doesn't work. This really needs Wii MotionPlus.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 28 Critic Score
    Half-baked rubbish. [Dec 2011, p.98]
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    • tbd Metascore
    • 28 Critic Score
    Gordon. We like you. But please don't attach your likeness to a game ever again. [Feb 2010, p.89]
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    • tbd Metascore
    • 28 Critic Score
    This could be the most accurate simulation ever made. By no means should that be taken as a compliment. [July 2013, p.86]
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    • 56 Metascore
    • 28 Critic Score
    A prime example of how to disrespect the fans of something as big as Transformers: a £50 game that can be finished on a single GamePad charge. Yuck.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 27 Critic Score
    Quotation forthcoming. [Sept 2010]
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    • 21 Metascore
    • 26 Critic Score
    The controls are hideous. [July 2010, p.95]
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    • 32 Metascore
    • 26 Critic Score
    Awful.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    The doodads don't even make a noise, for pity's sake. [Dec 2013, p.88]
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    • tbd Metascore
    • 23 Critic Score
    The dragon is impossible to control. [Jan 2010, p.87]
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    • tbd Metascore
    • 23 Critic Score
    The other 3D classics are great. This is not. [Feb 2014, p.91]
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    • tbd Metascore
    • 23 Critic Score
    A disaster. [June 2013, p.84]
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    • 41 Metascore
    • 22 Critic Score
    No ambition, love or visible original thought has gone into this miserable shell of a game. [Aug 2014, p.86]
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    • 48 Metascore
    • 22 Critic Score
    It's dull, it's repetitive and it's as much fun as being cuddled by a cactus. [Nov 2007, p.87]
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    • 23 Metascore
    • 22 Critic Score
    A true classic gone horribly to seed. It'd be funny if it wasn't heartbreakingly sad. [Nov 2012, p.99]
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    • 50 Metascore
    • 22 Critic Score
    It's utterly boring. [Aug 2008, p.101]
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    • 48 Metascore
    • 21 Critic Score
    Granted, we quite like the animated Gordon Ramsay but the rest really is a shambles. [Dec 2008, p.100]
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    • tbd Metascore
    • 21 Critic Score
    A horrible, cheap, nasty game that could have been put together in an afternoon. [Sept 2010, p.97]
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    • 46 Metascore
    • 21 Critic Score
    Endless Ocean, we get - it has a point. This, on the one hand, is ridiculous. [Nov 2008, p.104]
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    • tbd Metascore
    • 21 Critic Score
    The alarming thing is that this was ever made. [Christmas 2013, p.88]
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    • 20 Critic Score
    A poor collection of rubbish Flash games. [Jan 2011, p.86]
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    • tbd Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    A horrible platformer. [Sept 2010, p.96]
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    • 46 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    There's always one dreadful launch game (remember the GameCube's "Universal Tour"?) and Rampage: World Destruction is the Wii's. Even if you once enjoyed "Rampage" you won't like this. [Jan 2007, p.82]
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    • 52 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    A shambles of a port that is an embarrassment to anyone who decided it was ready to be released.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    It's like a compilation of gaming's worst moments, wrapped up in a film license. [Feb 2008, p.20]
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    • 53 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Straight to the top of this month's Avoid At All Costs pile. Hugely repulsive. [Oct 2009, p.88]
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    • tbd Metascore
    • 18 Critic Score
    Thanks to some lazy localisation and poor design choices, this is nearly unplayable. [Apr 2010, p.95]
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    • 31 Metascore
    • 18 Critic Score
    Absolute dross: a joyless, inept, tedious, ugly, lazy, messy waste of your time and money. We hoped games this bad might die out with the Wii.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 16 Critic Score
    It's completely broken. [Aug 2009, p.99]
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    • 27 Metascore
    • 15 Critic Score
    It's a dire shooter with an unwieldy new controls system. [Christmas 2012, p.110]
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    • 44 Metascore
    • 15 Critic Score
    How Sega thinks it can get away with this utter detritus is beyond us. [July 2008, p.101]
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    • tbd Metascore
    • 15 Critic Score
    Honestly, if you buy this game, you are harming the industry. A truly horrible title. [Oct 2012, p.99]
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    • tbd Metascore
    • 15 Critic Score
    Incredibly buggy, prone to crashing and makes it difficult to aim at times. [Feb 2011, p.97]
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    • 16 Metascore
    • 14 Critic Score
    You'll find it tough to unlock all 101 games. Not that you'd want to bother because they're so abysmal, not even of the standard of your average Flash game.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 14 Critic Score
    Mind-bogglingly pointless. [Sept 2010, p.97]
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    • tbd Metascore
    • 12 Critic Score
    A complete howler. [Mar 2009, p.87]
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    • 24 Metascore
    • 12 Critic Score
    As welcome as an ingrown toenail and twice as ugly. [Jan 2013, p.100]
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    • 28 Metascore
    • 12 Critic Score
    About as funny as a flu epidemic. [Sept 2010, p.97]
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    • 11 Metascore
    • 11 Critic Score
    ONM Coroner's Report: Patient suffered a psychotic breakdown while playing this game. No treatment possible.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 11 Critic Score
    This is just rubbish...Cheap, tacky and completely untitillating, this has no place on WiiWare. [Dec 2009, p.99]
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    • tbd Metascore
    • 11 Critic Score
    Awful script, atrocious music. [Feb 2011, p.91]
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    • 37 Metascore
    • 11 Critic Score
    You might as well chuck your money down the drain instead. At least you'll be able to control where it's going.
    • 21 Metascore
    • 8 Critic Score
    It'll take you mere minutes to complete, but the dark, oily stain that it leaves on your conscience will take years to fully cleanse. [Feb 2011, p.97]
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