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For 1,036 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 44% higher than the average critic
  • 7% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 6.9 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Game review score: 68
Highest review score: 95 Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut
Lowest review score: 9 Day Watch
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 431 out of 1036
  2. Mixed: 448 out of 1036
  3. Negative: 157 out of 1036
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 74 Critic Score
    Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword
    The new elements it adds feel more like a patch than a genuine expansion whilst the mods are hit and miss - and you can already get the best ones for nothing. Would I want to go back to playing Civ IV without what Beyond the Sword adds? No. But should I have to pay this much for the privilege of balancing a game that, by the very intent of this expansion, its developers clearly feel needs it? Again, no.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Sims 3
    Improved but basically the same, The Sims remains a joyful simulation, and celebration, of life and all its dramas.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Rayman Origins
    A beautifully animated, brilliantly scored, exquisitely judged platformer, equally modern and classic. [May 2012, p.92]
    • 86 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy
    There's some superb gaming here, no sci-fi indulgence, no grim Star Wars fanboyism, no recourse to statistics or tedious switch. This is an action-puzzle game for all brains great and small. [Oct 2006, p.94]
    • PC Gamer UK
    • 86 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Mass Effect 2: Lair of the Shadow Broker
    Takes a dangling plot thread and ties it up, but unsatisfyingly and with a lot of repetitious combat.
    • PC Gamer UK
      • Posted Dec 30, 2010
    • 86 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Crysis 2
    Played correctly, it's still fun, but never feels as important as its older brother did. [May 2011, p.79]
    • PC Gamer UK
      • Posted Apr 23, 2011
    • 86 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition
    An oddly clumsy reprise of a much loved game. Beautifully hand-pained, wonderfully acted, but strange design choices. [Sept 2009, p.70]
    • PC Gamer UK
    • 86 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords
    It might sound trivial to criticise the lack of a good in-game tutorial, but when each game takes hours to play out, discovering which technologies are most useful by trial and error can be a painful and tedious process. [Apr 2006, p.76]
    • PC Gamer UK
    • 86 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Worldwide Soccer Manager 2008
    Without doubt, it is the most realistic, rewarding and compelling football title around, so we can only hope that this prosaic update is a blip, rather than a sign of serious stagnation.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    DiRT 3
    Leaks fun like a cracked sump leaks Castrol. Thoughtful additions ensure it's as irresistible as its predecessor.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar
    This is a game which takes absolutely no risks, as much Middle-of-the-Road as Middle-Earth...You won't be surprised. You will, almost certainly, be entertained. [June 2007, p.70]
    • PC Gamer UK
    • 86 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning
    Whether your preference is for PvP or PvE, the frustrations of aimless wandering and vague directions are gone.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 86 Critic Score
    Dead Space (2008)
    Dead Space is solid, but it's not entirely smooth. [Dec 2008, p.74]
    • PC Gamer UK
    • 86 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    Bionic Commando: Rearmed
    BCR is at once beautifully reminiscent of its era, and polished enough to be palatable to a modern audience. The core grappling and swinging mechanic is satisfying, the weapons a joy to wield and the levels are imaginatively designed.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946
    This is the biggest and best combat flight sim money can buy, but it's by no means flawless. [Jan 2007, p.70]
    • PC Gamer UK
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnam
    How DLC should be done. A chunk of game almost as substantial as the full release for a third of the price. [Feb 2011, p.94]
    • PC Gamer UK
      • Posted Dec 30, 2010
    • 86 Metascore
    • 86 Critic Score
    Assassin's Creed II
    Tactile, bloody and substantial. One of gaming's most exciting open worlds - but only when you're online. [Apr 2010, p.96]
    • PC Gamer UK
    • 86 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Elder Scrolls IV: Shivering Isles
    This odd land is worth exploring, and its meaty questline worth bashing through. Whether it's worth £18 for the privilege comes down to your appetite for Oblivion's combat.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Sam & Max Episode 205: What's New, Beelzebub?
    The artists are on form, even if the writers are coasting. [June 2008, p.89]
    • PC Gamer UK
    • 85 Metascore
    • 86 Critic Score
    Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas
    It might well be more twitch than tactics, but Vegas is the fun, modernised version of its own predecessors and FPS cousin "Brothers in Arms." I reckon that right now you're itching for a shooter with a brain at the top of that jittery reptilian nervous system, and this is it - if you have God's own PC. [Feb 2007, p.84]
    • PC Gamer UK
    • 85 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II
    We don't give marks for effort, so the game they've ended up with is all that matters. It's a great and truly new one, just not varied or exciting enough to live up to this particular name. [Feb 2009, p.54]
    • PC Gamer UK
    • 85 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars
    It's deeply hilarious - as aracde-feeling as strategy games can get...It does everything it can, bar a song and dance routine, to entertain you. And it succeeds. [Apr 2007, p.62]
    • 85 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    Out of the Park Baseball 13
    OotP's baseball smarts may be undisputed, but it struggles to capture the passion and sporting flair of the infield. [Sept 2012, p.106]
    • 85 Metascore
    • 86 Critic Score
    The Lord of the Rings Online: Mines of Moria
    One expansion to rule them all. [Jan 2009, p.72]
    • PC Gamer UK
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Amnesia: The Dark Descent
    Rich in atmosphere and big on scares, Amnesia: The Dark Descent goes where survival-horror fears to tread.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Football Manager 2011
    Demands more work than its predecessors. Get it right and there's little as satisfying, but it's easier than ever to get it wrong.
    • PC Gamer UK
      • Posted Dec 30, 2010
    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Medieval II: Total War Kingdoms
    There's almost no reason not to mount your horse and charge through the doors of PC World, beheading the security guard with a Zweihander and screaming blood-oaths as you enter your pin number, to get hold of a copy of Kingdoms. Only the weak will not be buying this expansion pack, and frankly, the weak are there to be trampled. [Sept 2007, p.82]
    • PC Gamer UK
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Peggle Deluxe
    Chaotic but magnificent bouncy fun. [June 2007, p.76]
    • PC Gamer UK
    • 85 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    Sam & Max Episode 204: Chariots of the Dogs
    By far one of the funniest S&M episodes for dialogue. [June 2008, p.89]
    • PC Gamer UK
    • 85 Metascore
    • 73 Critic Score
    Machinarium
    Gloriously beautiful, infuriatingly fiddly. [Christmas 2009, p.98]
    • PC Gamer UK
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