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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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    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Medal of Honor: Warfighter
    The whole time you're playing Warfighter, just behind the sofa, there's a camouflaged Call of Duty-sized elephant sitting in the room - busying itself by practicing scope kills with its trunk. To go up against that beast Warfighter needed to impress on its own terms, and really deliver something new and exhilarating. Instead we got a cloning experiment that went badly awry.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Top Gun: Hard Lock
    Linear. [May 2012, p.97]
    • Official Xbox Magazine UK
      • Posted Apr 23, 2012
    • 54 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Boogie Bunnies
    Compared to the heavyweights on the scene like Puzzle Quest and Zuma, Boogie Bunnies is nothing more a crisp packet fluttering past in the breeze, temporarily catching your attention as it twists past your face with its trumpet blasts of cute noise and Haribo colour before it disappears forever, lost down the back of the Xbox Live Arcade sofa to hang out with Word Puzzle.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Spyglass Board Games
    Advanced video chat...and same old games. [Oct 2007, p.96]
    • Official Xbox Magazine UK
    • 54 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Hexodius
    Unexpectedly gratifying. [Christmas 2013, p.107]
    • Official Xbox Magazine UK
      • Posted Dec 18, 2013
    • 54 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Rise of Nightmares
    The lobotomised, slash-block combat is the final straw. Rise of Nightmares offers nothing in the way of action, puzzles, intelligence, or maturity. It's a heartbreakingly lame way to kickstart the adult Kinect genre.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Farming Simulator 15
    Fertile with good ideas, but most of them fail to bloom to their full potential thanks to a wonky money system that slows the pace of progression down to that of a clapped-out tractor.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    FaceBreaker
    Our advice: fix the career, add in some quirky new modes other than the Gamer Face, and widen the character's fighting styles beyond one special attack, and we'll be queuing up for Round 2.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Planet 51 The Game
    Better than expected, worse than it should be. [Feb 2010, p.111]
    • Official Xbox Magazine UK
    • 53 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Goat Simulator
    If you want to waste your money on a broken game that barely inspired a smile from us, buy Goat Simulator. Presumably, if Coffee Stain Studios tried making Hilarity Simulator it'd be set in a morgue.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Tetris Splash
    It's the 'fin' end of the wedge for Tetris fans. [Christmas 2007, p.106]
    • Official Xbox Magazine UK
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Fable II Pub Games
    This is dull. So very, very dull.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    Warpath
    A generic shooter at best. [Oct 2006, p.76]
    • Official Xbox Magazine UK
    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Family Guy
    As a game Family Guy is average at best. If you've never seen the cartoon, you won't get it. If you love the show then your patience will be tried by the mediocre gameplay. Either way, be prepared to have your willpower tested. [Jan 2007, p.124]
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Z
    Still feels as shallow and monotonous as ever. [Apr 2014, p.89]
    • Official Xbox Magazine UK
      • Posted Mar 26, 2014
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Painkiller: Hell & Damnation
    Spills more brains than it actually has. [Aug 2013, p.89]
    • Official Xbox Magazine UK
      • Posted Jul 23, 2013
    • 53 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Dead or Alive Xtreme 2
    The most frustrating thing about Xtreme 2 is thinking about all the time super-developer Team Ninja wasted making it. Every day it pissed away creating this nonsense is an extra day we have to wait for it to release its next proper game like "Ninja Gaiden 2." For that, we curse DoA Xtreme 2 to HELL.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Samurai Warriors 2 Empires
    This is something we expect to see available on Xbox Live Marketplace as a pricey download, not a full retail release. Disappointing. [Apr 2007, p.89]
    • Official Xbox Magazine UK
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Ecco the Dolphin
    The controls are easy to manage, but the game has too many hangovers of the past - enemies that respawn as soon as they go off screen, an irritating lack of direction and largely repetitious segments. [Nov 2007, p.106]
    • Official Xbox Magazine UK
    • 53 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Friday the 13th: The Game
    Bugs aside, this trip to Camp Crystal Lake is a bloody irresistible delight. [Sept 2017, p.73]
    • Official Xbox Magazine UK
      • Posted Jul 25, 2017
    • 53 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Dungeon Fighter Live: Fall of Hendon Myre
    Like the goblins - it swings and misses. [Oct 2012, p.101]
    • Official Xbox Magazine UK
      • Posted Sep 15, 2012
    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Disney Sing It
    Happy, sunny, cheesy singing fun. [Feb 2009, p.89]
    • Official Xbox Magazine UK
    • 53 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Tony Hawk: Shred
    Clunky, frustrating and irrelevant.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    X-Men: The Official Game
    It's flawed, sure, but it doesn't stop the game from being fun, and it's certainly above the typical standards of movie-licence games nowadays. The game challenges your finger-mashing skills, not your puzzle-solving ability, though, so as long as you don't expect a deep, involving cranium workout, you won't be at all disappointed.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Rabbids Invasion
    A poor attempt at a kids' party game and one that's just as unfunny, repetitive and dull as the Rabbid 'stars' are. [Feb 2015, p.79]
    • Official Xbox Magazine UK
      • Posted Jan 24, 2015
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Dash of Destruction
    Proof that in life, you get what you pay for. [Feb 2009, p.91]
    • Official Xbox Magazine UK
    • 53 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Bodycount
    If you can [ignore the storyline], Bodycount offers a six hour burst of relentless explosions. It's short, but the big levels bear replaying, and a co-op survival mode and deathmatch arenas make good use of those sizey maps. For lovers of spectacle over nuance, Bodycount is a great way to build bad virtual karma.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Halo: Spartan Assault
    A decent twin-stick shooter that uses the touchstones of Halo combat effectively, but lacks the longevity or depth to warrant the price tag - and especially the microtransactions.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Warriors Orochi
    A substatial no-frills package. [Dec 2007, p.82]
    • Official Xbox Magazine UK
    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    NBA Live 15
    While its core modes are shallower than the competition, NBA Live 15 is breezy and fun to play on the court. [Jan 2015, p.82]
    • Official Xbox Magazine UK
      • Posted Jan 6, 2015
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