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For 2,214 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 40% higher than the average critic
  • 6% same as the average critic
  • 54% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 7.5 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Game review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 Forza Horizon 4
Lowest review score: 10 Double Dragon II: Wander of the Dragons
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 863 out of 2214
  2. Mixed: 1,077 out of 2214
  3. Negative: 274 out of 2214
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    GRID
    While GRID's a nice game, it's ultimately a new selection of cars and tracks for Colin McRae DiRT. You might want to bear that in mind when it comes to buying it.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Elder Scrolls IV: Shivering Isles
    It’s definitely a worthwhile Live Arcade download for Oblivion fans, rejuvenating it and giving your character some wonderful new tricks. Frankly, you’d have to be mad to miss it.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    DiRT Rally
    Without question the best rally sim ever made. Reality without the whiplash.
    • Official Xbox Magazine UK
      • Posted Apr 6, 2016
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Fight Night Round 4
    Ironically, Fight Night Round 4 may be the best argument for banning boxing yet. After all, when a game can get this close to the fluid, organic technicality of the real thing, why does anyone need to get hit in the face?... Solid, satisfying and totally revolutionary. [July 2009, p.81]
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Sid Meier's Civilization VI
    Intuitively designed and thrilling, Civilization makes a brilliant move over to console. [Issue#186, p.78]
    • Official Xbox Magazine UK
      • Posted Jan 28, 2020
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Killer Instinct Season 3
    Killer Instinct has grown into a real contender. An essential part of any Xbox library. [June 2016, p.80]
    • Official Xbox Magazine UK
      • Posted May 29, 2016
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Shovel Knight
    A gripping platformer that cajoles you into platforming amazing feats of dexterity. [July 2015, p.76]
    • Official Xbox Magazine UK
      • Posted Jun 16, 2015
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    NBA 2K14
    An unexpected Xbox One knockout and a year-on-year improvement in every respect - but its spectacular visuals make the clunkier elements painfully obvious.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger
    For those who fancy something different. [Apr 2010, p.102]
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    DmC: Devil May Cry Definitive Edition
    This is how re-releases should be done – Ninja Theory has put a lot of love into emphasising what was great about DmC, and fixing all the niggles that could realistically be fixed. Thoroughly recommended.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dragon Age: Origins
    It's difficult to describe a game with so many choices and different paths, but making them all feel meaningful is what Dragon's Age excels at. Complex it may be, but it's more focused than Fable II, better in combat than Mass Effect, and richer than The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. If you've got the patience, it's a cracker.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    NBA 2K16
    Incremental changes in all the right places on the court, coupled with a comprehensive dynasty mode, make this the sports game to beat for the foreseeable future. [Dec 2015, p.82]
    • Official Xbox Magazine UK
      • Posted Nov 9, 2015
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Titanfall
    An imperfect but utterly unmissable tour de force of multiplayer design, bustling with so many new ideas that it's a wonder it doesn't fly apart in mid-air.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tomb Raider
    An excellent game that, while paying tribute to Lara Croft's heritage, certainly feels like a new beginning - mechanically as well as thematically. It's visually dazzling, narratively affecting, dangerously near best-in-class when it comes to solid shooting, vertiginous platforming and ballsy set plays... and bodes fantastically for any future instalments.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Borderlands 2: Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep
    It all works together to make this the funniest and most thoughtful expansion of the Season Pass. Whether you've got the energy to go back and blow the cobwebs off your old gun hoard is up to you. We'd definitely recommend it.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Trials HD
    With such layered and near-endless challenges, not to mention the addition of a remarkably powerful level creator, you'll be firing this up for a quick blast for years to come. We don't say this often, deeply cynical as we are, but if for some ludicrous self-abusing reason you only buy one XBLA game this year, make it Trials HD. [R. King]
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Diablo III: Ultimate Evil Edition
    Technically superior in every way to plain Diablo III and still as ruinous to your everyday life as ever before. The hearty challenge remains beyond the credits, making it definitely worth your time.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Resident Evil 7: biohazard
    A leaner, meaner breed of Resi that, despite flaws, puts the series back on track...Resi VII has carved itself a seedy, resolutely icky place in our cold, blackened hearts. [March 2017, p.73]
    • Official Xbox Magazine UK
      • Posted Feb 21, 2017
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mortal Kombat
    It's a blood-soaked love letter to the original series but hauls everything else up to date, making it a tasty treat for newcomers and a nine-course medieval banquet for fans.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
    Despite some slight technical let downs, and a few underwhelming aesthetics, Brothers is a rather beautiful tale of love and loss, of fables and fairy tales, and of family most of all. [July 2013, p.78]
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Street Fighter III: Third Strike Online Edition
    Street Fighter nuts will already have bought this without a second thought; if you remember the good old days of 2D fighters, this is the pinnacle.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    DmC: Devil May Cry
    The combat system is deep, satisfying, and just welcoming enough to let you in, before losing the smile, slapping your face and making you pay attention. Ninja Theory has bottled Danté's soul, and given him an excellent new life.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Dragon Ball FighterZ
    A stupidly fun fighter: fast, aggressive and oozing with love. [March 2018, p.74]
    • Official Xbox Magazine UK
      • Posted Feb 26, 2018
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag
    Where Assassin's Creed 3 kept players at arm's length for hours, refusing to let you make your own way, Assassin's Creed 4 spreads those arms wide. We don't miss Connor, so much, but somebody should get this new guy a trilogy.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Dance Central 2
    A clear improvement on its already-excellent predecessor and is now absolutely the dance game that Kinect deserves. Those who can't stomach the more narrow selection of musical genres will be upset, but this is still the slickest, sexiest dance game around.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Fight Night Round 3
    But if you want a staggering multiplayer fight game that looks better than anything else on Xbox 360, get this.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Bastion
    Beneath the visuals and the voice-over, Bastion is actually a fairly standard action RPG, but the abundance of different challenges and puzzles, combined with that beguiling narration, makes it something rather special.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee - New 'n' Tasty
    The oddest thing about Oddworld is that nobody's managed to do this kind of game better. An accomplished update of a grotesquely sophisticated platformer that'll turn the stomach of any carnivore.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition
    Once you've turned off the gesture and voice control, you've got a product that's a simple facelift to a game that scarcely needed it. It's the better of the two, but the game doesn't really stand up to a full replay this soon.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Mortal Kombat 11
    In some ways there are only marginal and cosmetic differences from Mortal Kombat XL. That’s no bad thing, as fans of the series as well as fans of NetherRealm’s last fighter, Injustice 2, will be comfortable with the feel and mechanics, but those tweaks and enhancements, as well as the excellent story mode, mean that with MK11, Mortal Kombat has pretty much now been perfected. [Issue#178, p.75]
    • Official Xbox Magazine UK
      • Posted Jun 5, 2019
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