Official Xbox Magazine's Scores
- Games
For 2,495 reviews, this publication has graded:
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58% higher than the average critic
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5% same as the average critic
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37% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Game review score: 70
| Highest review score: | Fallout 3 | |
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| Lowest review score: | Pulse Racer |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1,261 out of 2495
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Mixed: 940 out of 2495
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Negative: 294 out of 2495
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It's as maddening and absurdly designed as it sounds, and even the simple local co-op play — which allows four reticles onscreen at once — isn't enough to make Heavy Fire appealing.- Official Xbox Magazine
- Posted Feb 4, 2013
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Takedown: Red Sabre's slower pace is distinctive, but generic content means little else is--and single--player is miserable. [June 2014, p.81]- Official Xbox Magazine
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Baja 1000 sputters by with what just might be the worst vehicle handling of the decade. [Jan 2009, p.75]- Official Xbox Magazine
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Sadly, we can't even write this mess off as a movie tie-in rush job. It's just unforgivable. [June 2005, p.78]- Official Xbox Magazine
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I'm sure the folks behind this game would've been both pleased and amused to get a "6.9" score in this review. Sadly, this flaccid lump of code is barely worth a third of that. [Dec 2004, p.78]- Official Xbox Magazine
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RPM Tuning isn't even worth a dumb racing joke about flat tires and blown engines. Please, Kemco: Stop. [May 2005, p.86]- Official Xbox Magazine
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A clunky interface is your gateway to placeholder text, graphical glitches, and other telltale signs of simply not giving a crap.[March 2005, p.84]- Official Xbox Magazine
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At least there's an online-enabled multiplayer mode, but it sure isn't worth suffering through the dismal single-player campaign for. [Mar 2006, p.82]- Official Xbox Magazine
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Feels absolutely barren - which makes the $40 price point both baffling and ridiculous. [Feb 2012, p.74]- Official Xbox Magazine
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You still can't heal or even take enemies' weapons, although some minor gameplay improvements make this sequel better than "Berlin", so we are upping the score to a full 2.0 [Dec. 2006, p.84]- Official Xbox Magazine
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No quantity of vamires, werewolves, and undead zombies can salvage its dreadfully tedious gameplay. [July 2008, p.70]- Official Xbox Magazine
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Do yourself a favor: stay as far away from this wreck as possible. [May 2011, p.80]- Official Xbox Magazine
- Posted Apr 9, 2011
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In every respect, Fighter Within feels hacked together and devoid of interesting ideas or precise execution. The result is a game that would’ve been lousy at the launch of the original Kinect, but on Xbox One it’s just embarrassing.- Official Xbox Magazine
- Posted Dec 11, 2013
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No paint job can obscure the fact that connecting blows don't register more than half the time... Worse, basic movement is neither consistent nor natural. [Sept 2007, p.76]- Official Xbox Magazine
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You might be itching to try a new crab-fishing sim, but don't fall into Sea of Chaos' minigame-laden trap. [Feb 2011, p.81]- Official Xbox Magazine
- Posted Jan 10, 2011
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It's a joyless, grace-free slog dominated by repetitive stop-and-pop shootouts, lifeless linear environments, and inconsistent weapon physics, not to mention full-stop gameplay pauses during certain actions (like detonating a robot with an EMP grenade), obnoxiously tacky dialogue, missed audio cues, and overwrought enemy death screams that replay incessantly.- Official Xbox Magazine
- Posted Apr 26, 2012
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With incredibly poor visibility(apparently by design)and a thumping electronica soundtrack peppered with sophomoric sound effects, Space Giraffe offers a generous 100 levels of damn-near-unplayable technoslop. [Oct 2007, p.74]- Official Xbox Magazine
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It's like the game was born with cement shoes - destined to sink. [Feb 2005, p.80]- Official Xbox Magazine
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Outside of the core gameplay, the career mode is a bore, the cartoony visual style is ugly, and the voice implementation is super-sloppy. Even as a Live Arcade game, Main Event wouldn't rank high on the fight card. As a fully priced retail Kinect game, it's an embarrassment.- Official Xbox Magazine
- Posted Oct 24, 2011
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Sadly, that's not the case in this tremendously poor adaptation, which nauseates from the outset with obnoxious music and garish menus. [Dec 2011, p.73]- Official Xbox Magazine
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A formidable--and utterly indefensible--$10. Why, Konami!?! [Sept 2008, p.79]- Official Xbox Magazine
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How'd this even get through quality control? We haven't a clue, but you're better off playing Cabela's Outdoor Adventures...or pretty much any other hunting game. [Oct 2010, p.83]- Official Xbox Magazine
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An outrageously slight, unattractive, and ill-refined tribute to a franchise that deserves better.- Official Xbox Magazine
- Posted Dec 17, 2012
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You're better off slamming something in a car door....and that's free. [Holiday 2009, p.80]- Official Xbox Magazine
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Classified: The Sentinel Crisis couldn't flop much harder if it had gills and a hook in its chops. [July 2006, p.81]- Official Xbox Magazine
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The story is almost laughably bad, but a laugh would give it some value, and it really is value-less! [Feb 2006, p.79]- Official Xbox Magazine
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The Guy Game's trivia-based party-game core isn't fun or interesting enough to justify the ooze you'll feel covered with after watching one dumb, drunk, or disinterested girl after another reveal her chest to a horde of sweaty virgins. [Nov 2004, p.89]- Official Xbox Magazine
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Just a visually ugly game, through and through. [Jan 2006, p.68]- Official Xbox Magazine
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But the biggest bug of all came when Fireburst simply stopped working, and hard-froze our console any time we tried loading an event. Deleting and downloading the game anew didn’t help; we had to start over using another gamertag. Were we not reviewing this horrendous, bug-ridden racer, we would’ve taken that as a welcome sign to burn it from our memories and never look back.- Official Xbox Magazine
- Posted Jun 19, 2013
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