PC Gamer UK's Scores

  • Games
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:
1036 game reviews
    • 47 Metascore
    • 51 Critic Score
    Psychonauts did brain-delving better. Serious Sam did campy horde-killing better. For this price, you could buy both. Twice. [Christmas 2009, p.111]
    • PC Gamer UK
    • 47 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    Forgivably unoriginal roleplaying. [Dec 2006, p.82]
    • PC Gamer UK
    • 47 Metascore
    • 56 Critic Score
    Frustrating for newcomers and disappointing for veterans, Stronghold 3 is a combat overhaul away from being any good.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 45 Critic Score
    Too much is crude or dysfunctional, and with no stellar ambition to justify it. [Christmas 2013, p.83]
    • PC Gamer UK
    • 47 Metascore
    • 62 Critic Score
    Vestigial mechanics wrapped around a dated tactical shooter. Play this for the VIP Car Escort mode. [July 2013, p.86]
    • PC Gamer UK
    • 46 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Get "Legion Arena" instead. [July 2007, p.88]
    • PC Gamer UK
    • 46 Metascore
    • 18 Critic Score
    Unfinished, unpolished. [May 2012, p.87]
    • PC Gamer UK
    • 45 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    An utterly atrocious mess. [Feb 2008, p.78]
    • PC Gamer UK
    • 45 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Extreme is ugly, clunky, and lacking in any defensible reason why you should want to waste money on it. [Aug 2008, p.74]
    • PC Gamer UK
    • 45 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Date, deserted, and drepressing. [Sept 2007, p.81]
    • PC Gamer UK
    • 45 Metascore
    • 22 Critic Score
    This cheap, tacky space combat sim is a stinking mess, insulting the name of the series merely by presuming to associate itself with it. [Mar 2008, p.83]
    • PC Gamer UK
    • 44 Metascore
    • 28 Critic Score
    Insultingly banal. [Nov 2009, p.100]
    • PC Gamer UK
    • 44 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    I feel only sorrow and embarrassment from having spent a bank holiday Monday wrestling with such garbage. [Aug 2007, p.92]
    • PC Gamer UK
    • 44 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    A cheap and soulless victim of its own lofty ambition. [Oct 2006, p.91]
    • PC Gamer UK
    • 44 Metascore
    • 17 Critic Score
    It made me tear my own arm off. [Jan 2008, p.84]
    • PC Gamer UK
    • 44 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Well and truly eclipsed by the passage of RTS history. [Feb 2008, p.79]
    • PC Gamer UK
    • 43 Metascore
    • 45 Critic Score
    A by-the-numbers cover shooter punctuated by mind-numbing hacking minigames and woeful space combat. [July 2013, p.92]
    • 43 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Sadly, this sequel is a lesser game in almost every way. [May 2009, p.68]
    • PC Gamer UK
    • 43 Metascore
    • 35 Critic Score
    Ghostbusting isn't a challenge. [June 2011, p.87]
    • PC Gamer UK
    • 43 Metascore
    • 56 Critic Score
    Glitchy and under-developed, it never ascends beyond ordinary. [Aug 2006, p.95]
    • PC Gamer UK
    • 43 Metascore
    • 47 Critic Score
    Badly ported and badly dated. Not a game for the PC at all. [Oct 2008, p.91]
    • PC Gamer UK
    • 42 Metascore
    • 35 Critic Score
    An awful vision of strategy's future. [May 2009, p.69]
    • PC Gamer UK
    • 42 Metascore
    • 46 Critic Score
    Another fine idea choked by the grind. [Christmas 2006, p.72]
    • PC Gamer UK
    • 42 Metascore
    • 35 Critic Score
    A startlingly awful interface. [June 2008, p.89]
    • PC Gamer UK
    • 42 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    It's great that it's varied, and the penguins are madly cute, but there's no sense of pacing. [Jan 2007, p.104]
    • PC Gamer UK
    • 41 Metascore
    • 46 Critic Score
    The big picture is impressive, but if the devil is in the details, this is his pitchfork jabbed right up your fundament. [Aug 2009, p.86]
    • PC Gamer UK
    • 40 Metascore
    • 45 Critic Score
    Just as frustrating is the shoddy timing and placement of enemies. [Dec 2006, p.74]
    • PC Gamer UK
    • 40 Metascore
    • 23 Critic Score
    No shock, just schlock. Almost impressively dreadful. [May 2009, p.67]
    • PC Gamer UK
    • 39 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Shoddy nonsense. [May 2008, p.74]
    • PC Gamer UK
    • 39 Metascore
    • 36 Critic Score
    Woefully dated and underwritten sub-"Diablo" hack-slashery. [June 2006, p.81]
    • PC Gamer UK

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