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 Joe Danger: Special Edition
Lowest review score: 10 Double Dragon II: Wander of the Dragons
Score distribution:
2214 game reviews
    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    One of the best family games out there. [June 2008, p.78]
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    • 45 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    For all its promise, this is another entirely superfluous superhero game. [June 2008, p.70]
    • 98 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    It's got a world you believe in, a cast you care about and a script stuffed with brilliant moments... Utterly stunning in every resepct. [May 2008, p.79]
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Challenging, but rather dull presentation. [June 2008, p.78]
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    • 55 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A treat for fans and better than "NBA Street." [June 2008, p.66]
    • 37 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Zany, but this price is just ridiculous. [June 2008, p.79]
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    • 50 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Battlezone is fun, it's enjoyable and it works, which is far better than you would expect from a rusty tank after 27 years of inactivity. [Feb 2008, p.102]
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    An amazing sight to behold. [Apr 2008, p.99]
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    • 45 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sugary, sweet and addictive puzzle fun. [May 2008, p.93]
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    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Passable, but there are better alternatives. [May 2008, p.92]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Dark Sector's ultimate error is that it still can't quite shake off its tag of "just another generic action shooter." But it sure as hell gives it a try. [Apr 2008, p.82]
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's a solid attempt at bringing this sort of game genre to the 360, but it still appears that, much like sleeping with a robot behind your partner's back, controlling an RTS with a joypad will always be a clunky affair.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A quintessentially average 'alright for a one-night stand but don't even think of proposing' game that your Xbox 360 has had the pleasure of experiencing at least a couple of hundred times before.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The ultimate Sega party game. [Apr 2008, p.90]
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Ubisoft has taken a huge gamble by not making wholesale changes to Rainbow Six Vegas 2, but it's come up smelling liike roses. It's still one of the very best-value, high-quality FPS packages available on the 360. [Apr 2008, p.72]
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Easy to play, but not a whole lot of fun. [June 2008, p.79]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An all-out assault on the brain, a gruesome spectacle to behold. A horrific beauty has once again been born by Monolith. [Mar 2008, p.87]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    More than any other Pro Evo, this one spits in your face and laughs at your pathetically predictable attempts to play it, again and again, until your old ways are eventually stamped into the dust...It still plays a beautiful game. [Dec 2007, p.80]
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It has the feel and production values of a blockbuster game, but lacks any big-budget thrills. If you can get over the inane storyline, there's enjoyment to be had from the solid game play and co-op moves, but don't expect the fun to live much longer than those Iraqis you're shooting at.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Contender for the dullest game ever made. [May 2008, p.93]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    But the thing which pulls this down to a seven is actually its technical aspect - while diving in and out of the subgames would amuse, the constant loading pauses before most fracture its atmosphere.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The game's ultimate wrong turning is that it looks and plays like something released several years ago. [May 2008, p.88]
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    • 55 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    While Lost tries to encapsulate the spirit of the series, it ends up smothered by it, restricted from being anything more than a shiny tourist guide to the set and characters. [Apr 2008, p.84]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Frontlines feels like an unfinished testing ground for excellent ideas that would have shone in a superb FPS game. Unfortunately, as there's not enough game modes, not enough maps and a weak single-player campaign, this is not a superb FPS game. [Mar 2008, p.88]
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    N+
    Simple, elegant and hopelessly addictive. [Feb 2008, p.103]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's a one-trick pony, true. Yet does that even matter when the trick is this damn good? Of course it doesn't. Just buckle up, enjoy the ride and hang on for your life. [Feb 2008, p.92]
    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It's the most accessible entry to date, but not the most compelling. [Apr 2008, p.80]
    • 63 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It's a good job the multiplayer's so enjoyable because, if we're being honest, the single-player mode is pretty shallow.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Without even a two-player mode, this won't last you ten minutes. [Aug 2007, p.103]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Annoying rather than quirky and appealing. [Apr 2008, p.99]
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