PC Gamer's Scores

  • Games
For 3,862 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 50% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 45% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Game review score: 72
Highest review score: 98 Crysis
Lowest review score: 7 NRA Varmint Hunter
Score distribution:
3876 game reviews
    • 46 Metascore
    • 22 Critic Score
    A bug-ridden quagmire that rivals the 'Nam itself. [Aug 2005, p.57]
    • PC Gamer
    • 26 Metascore
    • 22 Critic Score
    With little satisfying gameplay to back it up, Charlie's $30 price tag borders on insult. [Nov 2005, p.80]
    • PC Gamer
    • 61 Metascore
    • 21 Critic Score
    Unless it receives some extreme patching, don't bother with this game. [Sept 2005, p.64]
    • PC Gamer
    • 37 Metascore
    • 21 Critic Score
    Chances are, you'll have more fun reading a medical textbook. [August 2002, p.69]
    • PC Gamer
    • 25 Metascore
    • 21 Critic Score
    Playing alone with bots is unbearable - the AI players run into walls and can't aim for squat. [Apr 2004, p.74]
    • PC Gamer
    • 19 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    This shooter's imbecilic AI and laughable weapons-modelling all scream "rush job," through each of its nine sleep-inducing missions. [July 2003, p.75]
    • PC Gamer
    • 28 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    This is a Red Alert on the Bad Game Threat Advisory meter, a third-rate ripoff of "Postal" so tasteless that I wanted to scrub myself with Lysol after getting up from the computer. [Dec. 2006, p.56]
    • PC Gamer
    • 31 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Developer Dartmoor Studios seemingly cranked this one out for the sole purpose of filling the space between "Airport Tycoon" and "Coffee Tycoon" on the budget game shelf at Wal-Mart. [Nov. 2006, p.76]
    • PC Gamer
    • 42 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Unbearable drek like Jazz and Faust is the reason some people keep saying that the adventure genre is dead and buried. [Oct 2002, p.102]
    • PC Gamer
    • 56 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    A Festival of Crap. [July 2002, p.63]
    • PC Gamer
    • 42 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Family Guy: Back to the Multiverse hates you. It's poorly made, nasty, expensive and exploitative. I hate it right back.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    More regrettably, the sexual content is as limp as a pre-Viagra Bob Dole. [Apr 2005, p.67]
    • PC Gamer
    • 44 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    In the future, everyone holds their pistols sideways "gangsta-style," which I find hilarious. [May 2005, p.69]
    • PC Gamer
    • 34 Metascore
    • 19 Critic Score
    The features that aren't missing are bugged beyond use. Takedown is a bare-bones wreck in need of substantial patching. [Holiday 2013, p.56]
    • PC Gamer
    • 18 Metascore
    • 18 Critic Score
    As you're chucking the box, notice how wonderful it feels to be able to aim properly; and as it hits the trash can with a satisfying clunk, you can be assured that you've just experienced the height of its realism. [Nov 2003, p.117]
    • PC Gamer
    • 22 Metascore
    • 18 Critic Score
    Even Skeeter and Zeke don't much like this pid'ful excuse for a racer. [August 2002, p.68]
    • PC Gamer
    • 26 Metascore
    • 18 Critic Score
    If the miserable gameplay doesn't turn you off, the underwhelming visuals will do the trick. [Nov. 2006, p.60]
    • PC Gamer
    • tbd Metascore
    • 18 Critic Score
    All told, BDB took less than 30 minutes to beat, and there's no point in playing it again. [Oct 2002, p.98]
    • PC Gamer
    • tbd Metascore
    • 18 Critic Score
    Whatever you do, don't waste your time or hard-earned dough with BYSB2007. [Jan. 2007, p.83]
    • PC Gamer
    • 33 Metascore
    • 17 Critic Score
    What really condemns Demonworld, though, are its atrocious graphics and horrific AI and pathfinding. [Apr 2002, p.73]
    • PC Gamer
    • 30 Metascore
    • 17 Critic Score
    Worst of all, this is a fighting game in which the fighting is neither exciting nor funny. The controls are a wreck, whether you're playing using a keyboard or a gamepad. [Jan 2004, p.119]
    • PC Gamer
    • 63 Metascore
    • 17 Critic Score
    It's one of the most inaccessible games I've ever played. [Oct 2004, p.90]
    • PC Gamer
    • 26 Metascore
    • 16 Critic Score
    Legends, you're the worst. [Feb 2013, p.79]
    • PC Gamer
    • 50 Metascore
    • 15 Critic Score
    All you get here is abysmal action, miserable controls, and a story ripped piecemeal from the cartoon. [March 2005, p.75]
    • PC Gamer
    • 43 Metascore
    • 15 Critic Score
    Now that it's saddled with a price tag, a bare minimum of polish, and one new course, I'm not even sure just telling you to avoid it is enough. [Holiday 2011, p.81]
    • 51 Metascore
    • 15 Critic Score
    Say hello to another cheap bottom-feeder from Europe. [Nov 2005, p.76]
    • PC Gamer
    • 54 Metascore
    • 15 Critic Score
    Suitable only for the most forgiving, or perhaps younger, Star Wars fans. [May 2001, p.62]
    • PC Gamer
    • 56 Metascore
    • 15 Critic Score
    Someone, please think of the children and put an end to this crap. [Mar 2002, p.72]
    • PC Gamer
    • 50 Metascore
    • 15 Critic Score
    A turd of a third-person shooter that so revels in senseless violence and horrible design, I needed a shower every time I stopped playing. [Holiday 2004, p.100]
    • PC Gamer
    • tbd Metascore
    • 15 Critic Score
    For a mind-boggling $59.99, you get slow, sloppy fighting (punches and kicks pass through opponents), miserable controls, and feather-light physics that make it seem as though the game's 35-plus tin combatants are battling on the moon. [Holiday 2006, p.114]
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