PC PowerPlay's Scores

  • Games
For 976 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 40% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 55% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Game review score: 70
Highest review score: 100 The Witcher: Enhanced Edition
Lowest review score: 0 Infestation: Survivor Stories (The War Z)
Score distribution:
  1. Negative: 74 out of 976
977 game reviews
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The unique setting, brilliant AI and palpable atmosphere, make Far Cry 2 a quintessential PC gaming experience. [Dec 2008, p.63]
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    • 93 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Not without a few issues, The Witcher 3 is still a towering achievement for CDPR and is one of the best RPGs in years. [July 2015, p.51]
    • PC PowerPlay
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Dark, ambiguous and deathly refined, Dishonored delivers a world as strikingly beautiful as the stacked simulations within. A masterpiece. [Nov 2012, p.58]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    A love story. A private story. A rare privilege. [Jan 2012, p.40]
    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The rarest of all expansions: the one that's better than its base game. [Aug 2012, p.58]
    • PC PowerPlay
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The pinnacle of full-scale multiplayer warfare, Armored Kill is Battlefield perfected. [Nov 2012, p.85]
    • PC PowerPlay
    • 94 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    A stunning example of cross-game persistence, genre-blending and adaptive narrative. [Mar 2010, p.62]
    • PC PowerPlay
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Fast, stupid and thoroughly enjoyable - Rocket League will eat your life five minutes at a time. [Sept 2015, p.55]
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    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    As good as open world action gets. [May 2011, p.58]
    • PC PowerPlay
    • 94 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Larian Studios has taken an already brilliant game and made it better. Original Sin Enhanced Edition is borderline perfect. [Dec 2015, p.59]
    • PC PowerPlay
    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    An incredibly powerful, emotionally engaging experience; a watershed moment for videogame narrative and storytelling. [Feb 2013, p.70]
    • PC PowerPlay
    • 93 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Old-school charm with modern mechanics makes for one of the best RPG experiences in ages.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    All in all, the Enhanced Edition is a triumph. Projekt Red took a great game and made it better. While the new content won’t take too much time to plough through for a veteran, it’s worth playing the original campaign again just to marvel at how much has been tweaked. [Nov 2008, p.54]
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    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    A warm, moving tale of alienation and redemption in the era of late stage capitalism.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    It's a masterpiece, guaranteed to have players flocking to forums to discuss the ending and try to unravel with it all means. [Issue#254, p.62]
    • PC PowerPlay
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Quite possibly as good as it gets when it comes to sci-fi horror. [Nov 2014, p.48]
    • PC PowerPlay
    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Delivers on every promise of the original, being an instant classic that proudly stands alongside the PC's finest shooters. [Oct 2012, p.62]
    • PC PowerPlay
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Nothing short of a stealth masterpiece, Mark of the Ninja highlights everything we love about the genre. [Nov 2012, p.77]
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Brilliant execution of a unique premise. A definite contender for game of the year so far. [Issue#262, p.61]
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    • 94 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Bethesda's finest hour and one of the greatest RPGs of all time. [Christmas 2011, p.47]
    • 93 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    This is about as good as an indie game can get. Treat yourself. [June 2011, p.60]
    • PC PowerPlay
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Beyond Earth is the finest thing that Firaxis has made and a game that we suspect we'll be playing for a long time to come. [Dec 2014, p.52]
    • PC PowerPlay
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Fez
    A masterpiece by any measure. [July 2013, p.89]
    • PC PowerPlay
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Once you get a hang of the numerous systems, Path of Exile becomes one of the best action-RPG experiences you can have. [December 2013, p.88]
    • PC PowerPlay
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    If this is what Ubisoft is capable of in ts "spare time", it deserves more time off. Inject this glorious blue neon goop into our veins. [June 2013, p.82]
    • 75 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    We urge you to try and understand Hitman's environment, take action within it and control it as much as you possibly can. [Issue#250, p.60]
    • PC PowerPlay
    • 89 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Not the best port, but not the worst either. The game, on the other hand, is one of the best you'll ever play. [Issue#250, p.65]
    • PC PowerPlay
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Weak story notwithstanding, Arkane Studios has again delivered a truly excellent stealth action game. [Issue#258, p.53]
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    • 90 Critic Score
    Simple controls and deep mechanics combine to make a seriously great puzzle experience. [Issue#258, p.58]
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    A clever and accessible combat system masks a brilliant meta commentary. [Issue#258, p.63]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • Critic Score
    They didn’t disappoint me. Is this the best adventure, full stop? Apart from a few red herring moments, I was delighted by how design exceeded every other one of my expectations.

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