Official Xbox Magazine UK's Scores

  • Games
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:
2214 game reviews
    • 23 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    A shambolic demonstration of motion control you shouldn't allow within a hundred miles of your Xbox One.
    • 20 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Easily the worst sports game we've played. [March 2015, p.83]
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    • 19 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    A startling glimpse into true hell. [Sept 2013, p.86]
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    • 17 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Between getting stuck on invisible walls, being forced to watch awkward cut-scene transitions, and having to repeatedly restart at a checkpoint due to a horribly executed platform sequence I can honestly say I didn't enjoy a second of it. Everything about it feels cheap and hastily thrown together.
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    • 30 Critic Score
    That ambition is hamstrung by a development budget that would struggle to cover a six-pack of crisps and an engine that is best at simulating the mid-point of cataract formulation. [Apr 2010, p.109]
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    • 70 Critic Score
    As long as you're not expecting to have your plus-fours blown off, you'll find this to be a diverting downloadable game. [Issue#67, p.101]
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    • 70 Critic Score
    Not so easy to learn, even harder to master. [Mar 2011, p.107]
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    • 30 Critic Score
    Puts the "ass" in NASCAR. [June 2011, p.105]
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    • 70 Critic Score
    Pleasant as it is to run amock through four new studies in ruined concrete, scuffed glass and gouged bedrock, we doubt the content injection will rouse this stumbling titan.
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    • 60 Critic Score
    Ugly and complex, but still worth a flutter. [Nov 2011, p.110]
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    • 30 Critic Score
    More than being a sub-Flash compilation of insulting video games, this casts doubt on whether Hasbro understand what makes its non-digital games good. Or perhaps it just thinks people who play video games are so stupid they'll gladly lap up any old crap. Whatever the reasons behind FGN4 - this is reprehensible.
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    • 70 Critic Score
    It's the one that we want. [Feb 2012, p.101]
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    • 80 Critic Score
    Explodes your preconceptions. [Feb 2012, p.101]
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    • 50 Critic Score
    The Lost Archive will blast an evening from your life, and give you something minor to chew on until Assassin's Creed 3. But this udder sac is pretty much drained.
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    • 50 Critic Score
    Hardly the feel good hit of the summer. [Aug 2012, p.110]
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    • 70 Critic Score
    Fun and chap but largely inane, this stuff would have served better in the full game. [Aug 2012, p.117]
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    • 20 Critic Score
    Puts the 'limp' in olympic. [Aug 2012, p.109]
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    • 80 Critic Score
    Just enough to justify. [Sept 2012, p.115]
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    • 60 Critic Score
    An entirely adequate karaoke machine. [Feb 2013, p.87]
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    • 80 Critic Score
    Landfall holds up particularly well when you're contesting objectives, as the layout is relatively easy to read and form strategies around, without feeling unbalanced.
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    • 30 Critic Score
    Generic aerial warfare that fails to take off. [March 2013, p.87]
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    • 40 Critic Score
    Only for the youngest and least discerning. [March 2013, p.87]
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    • 60 Critic Score
    Classic IQ test with an animated overhaul. [March 2013, p.89]
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    • 50 Critic Score
    Beware the caustic pink mist of nostalgia. [Apr 2013, p.81]
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    • 20 Critic Score
    A masterclass in bad design. [Apr 2013, p.85]
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    • 50 Critic Score
    Existing fans feel free - newcomers, beware. [Apr 2013, p.89]
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    • 80 Critic Score
    Castle is another opportunity to celebrate how well Halo does vehicles without ruining things for pedestrians, then.
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    • 50 Critic Score
    Grimly coining it in, this feels wretched. [July 2013, p.79]
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    • 40 Critic Score
    Sadly, the one time we really enjoyed ourselves was watching a bullet sink into a camel's buttock. [Aug 2013, p.87]
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    • 70 Critic Score
    Good, but doomed by indifference. [Aug 2013, p.103]
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