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For 638 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 41% higher than the average critic
  • 6% same as the average critic
  • 53% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Game review score: 75
Highest review score: 100 Dishonored 2
Lowest review score: 20 CastleMiner Z
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 352 out of 638
  2. Mixed: 258 out of 638
  3. Negative: 28 out of 638
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Wolfenstein: The New Order
    Wolfenstein is a masterpiece of its genre. It does good shooting men. But it's more than that, it's an effortlessly melancholy adventure that doesn't drown in its own bombast. It's like finding out that a superstar footballer is a poet, or finding your dog pressing flowers. It's a game with hidden depths that you're invited to explore, but ones that never overshadow the thing it's best at...Which is shooting all the men so that all their blood comes out.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Wolf Among Us: Episode 4 - In Sheep's Clothing
    In Sheep’s Clothing is a bit short and not as shocking as previous episodes, but it is darkly unsettling and deftly sets the scene for the closing of this horrific case. And we’re left with one final cliffhanger. Standing in a room, surrounded by enemies. The question is: who’s getting out?
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Tropico 5
    At number 5, we’re still seeing iteration rather than revolution. Everything that’s great about Tropico 5 is built on the same foundation that all the previous games have built on. That’s a solid foundation, of course, but it’s become a bit too familiar.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Bound by Flame
    With its awful characters, inconsistent voice acting and combat hampered by problematic enemies, what little there is to enjoy is whittled away. It’s something to be tasted when absolutely starved for RPGs and could provide enough sword and sorcery shenanigans to tide one over until something more appetizing comes along, but it’s unlikely to prove fulfilling.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Wargame: Red Dragon
    Wargame: Red Dragon is more of the same excellent, very serious strategy that experienced players have come to expect. If you’ve exhausted AirLand Battle and still want more, it would be silly to ignore Red Dragon. But if you’re looking for an entry point into the series, then this is not it. Pick up AirLand Battle instead. It’s still one of the best modern RTS titles you could have the good fortune to play.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Dark Souls II
    It’s a marriage of phenomenal world design and impressively tight mechanics.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    SMITE
    Smite is invigorating. It’s not another MOBA. It takes one aspect of a MOBA’s structure and builds on it until it's something else entirely. Smite has developed into an action game. One with lanes, creeps and towers, all the things you’d expect from a MOBA, but even the familiar looks different when viewed from Smite’s refreshing perspective.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Warlock 2: The Exiled
    Warlock II might take place in a silly universe where narrators like to impersonate Sean Connery and kingdoms are ruled by regal rats or chatting skeletons, but Ino-Co has taken its construction very seriously. It’s exactly what a sequel should be, keeping the spirit of the original but improving every aspect.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Elder Scrolls Online
    The Elder Scrolls Online is frustrating. It has moments of sheer class, but they’re consistently tainted by bugs. I love the PvP, but it’s pointless playing when the rewards are so slim. I like the questing, but huge numbers of quests are simply broken. I love the world, and the lore, and some of the systems they have produced. But my enjoyment of them was undermined by poor design.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Moebius: Empire Rising
    The recipe for a good adventure game is there, but the measurements are all wrong. Rector is too flawed, the puzzles are too easy, the metaphysical elements get too ridiculous are not well explained - everything is just off.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Wolf Among Us: Episode 3 - A Crooked Mile
    I’m completely invested now. I worry about Bigby. I’m pointlessly going through the decisions he made, I made, attempting to figure out how they will change the way the rest of the fables’ view their protector. But most of all I want to finish this case and catch whoever is responsible for this titanic mess, and then rip his limbs off. Bigby’s indignation and quest for vengeance is infectious.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Halo: Spartan Assault
    It’s almost absurdly simple. The thing I’ve always liked about twin-stick shooters is a sense of escalating chaos - the idea that you’re only just keeping a lid on waves of baddies. Spartan Assault never manages this: there just aren’t ever enough enemies on screen, nor do they ever feel particularly dangerous.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Betrayer
    Betrayer is an FPS where the shooting is lackluster and the enemies annoying.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Goat Simulator
    Here’s the thing. I can sort of appreciate Goat Sim, but it leaves me a little cold. However, I showed it to some pre-teens, and they thought it was the greatest game they’d ever seen. Their sides still hurt from laughing.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea - Episode Two
    It integrates the fighty and the talky enough to make Rapture feel a more dangerous and believable place, discards the impenetrable conceits with which the first DLC began, and brings an almost seven year old series full circle and to a satisfying end. What a wonderful trick, and a fitting note for one of PC gaming’s best loved studios (as we know them, at least) to bow out on.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Age of Wonders III
    It’s the best that Age of Wonders has ever been.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Mighty Quest for Epic Loot
    Eventually, you’ll probably find that Mighty Quest is not worthy of your whole attention. But play it with a podcast on, stick to the Ubi-designed castles early on, and you’ll be happy - not least because you’ll avoid the self-consciously loopy screech of its trad fantasy characters. Rayman this is not.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Diablo III: Reaper of Souls
    You have to admire Blizzard's approach to Diablo III. They fixed it. The game itself now absolutely superb. Reaper of Souls finishes the job.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    TowerFall Ascension
    In TowerFall Ascension, there are no inevitable deaths. Every time you stare down the shaft of the Grim Reaper’s arrow, there’s always a way out. You just have to be smart and quick enough to put a plan into action before someone nails you to the wall first.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Deus Ex: The Fall
    In The Fall, NFusion have taken a scalpel to to Human Revolution’s template, collected together a pile of game meat - the essential giblets of a Deus Ex game - stitched it together and presented you with a serving. It’s recognisably Deus Ex but it’s not very appetising.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Luftrausers
    Simple in almost all respects, Luftrauser is one of Vlambeer’s biggest triumphs because it strips back everything in the name of exposing the fun at the centre of the game. It’s almost as if the designers were engineers of the rauser itself; reducing weight and tweaking fuel lines to ensure the most effective deliverer of death possible.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Infested Planet
    This is a big planet and there are a lot of caves needing clearing, think of raids as housekeeping.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Titanfall
    And that’s maybe Titanfall’s biggest, and most forgivable flaw: it looks less interesting and novel than it actually is. It’s such a fresh take on the military shooter, splitting the difference between the more deliberate pace of games like Battlefield and Call of Duty and the kinetic excitement of games like Tribes or even Counter-Strike. It just takes a while to see that, because Titanfall’s presentation is so conservative.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft
    Hearthstone is a wonderful game. Nostalgic, simple and best of all: fun. This is the best online collectible card game you can play. Just be careful how much you spend in it.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Walking Dead: Season Two Episode 2 - A House Divided
    Any doubts I had during the first episode have been washed away. This is Telltale’s storytelling ability at its very best. Filled with emotionally resonant dialogue, painful scenes and a cast that’s quickly matured, A House Divided makes it seem possible for The Walking Dead Season Two to eclipse its celebrated predecessor.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Thief
    In fact, of all the games I’ve been in, this one is definitely the worst.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    South Park: The Stick of Truth
    Where other South Park games have utterly failed to capture the crude, offensive, absurdly entertaining spark that has kept the cartoon running for 16 years, The Stick of Truth succeeds utterly. Not only is it series creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker - who co-wrote the game - firing on all cylinders, it’s Obsidian’s most polished RPG. Not just a great South Park game, the Stick of Truth is simply a great game.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Jazzpunk
    A fumbled finale puts a notable stain on the experience. They say one of the key rules in comedy is to leave the audience wanting more, but as Jazzpunk’s credits rolled I was left feeling a little indifferent. But the game is something to be admired. Few titles dedicate themselves to comedy as wholly as Jazzpunk does.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    CastleMiner Z
    Minecraft is beloved because it’s a celebration of creativity. CastleMiner Z is the antithesis of Minecraft: it’s a depressing, cynical cash-grab almost wholly designed to hijack gamers’ excitement for Mojang. For 69p, its survival horror elements are a nonsense novelty. But at the price demanded on PC, we should be throwing it out to the creepers.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    CONSORTIUM
    Consortium is a tragedy. There’s an extremely clever game to be found within, but only when it works. It’s just the first part of a planned trilogy, and I have so many questions that I won’t be able to help myself, I need to play the second part. But I can only hope that it’s not held together by chewing gum and sellotape again.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Loadout
    Loadout is throwaway, silly entertainment. It gets you into a game, raises a smile, and spits you back out again. It’s scrappy, with a few rough edges in the level design and art. But it’s endearingly dumb, and I really think you should, at least, have a try.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Bionic Dues
    At its best, with its dystopian future and haphazard revolution, Bionic Dues feels like a Games Workshop game that never was. At its worst it’s like being submerged in a swimming pool of dice and calculator printouts.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Journey of a Roach
    Too many basic lessons on how to treat players go unlearnt. Even over its short duration, initially colourful scenarios become sadly static and tired. Journey of a Roach has some promising ideas, but unfortunately struggles to demonstrate them at their best.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Wolf Among Us: Episode 2 - Smoke and Mirrors
    Despite a few missteps, Smoke and Mirrors is an excellent follow-up to Faith. It’s a twisted journey through Fabletown’s dirty, neon underbelly exploring the darker side of glamour magic and the exploitation of fables. It ends somewhat abruptly, with a terrible revelation, making the wait for the third episode already agonising.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Strike Vector
    Strike Vector deserves more. It deserves a selection of inspired game modes. It deserves a collection of well-balanced, strategic weapon unlocks. It deserves a flight school that’s more than picture boxes and poor spelling.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Broken Age: Act 1
    In some ways it’s surprising that - despite being traditional - it doesn’t feel like a Lucasarts game. That’s likely what backers wanted, and whilst those elements are there, this is a Double Fine game to the final letter. It’s gentle, loving, and fun; not a Grim Fandango rehash, but the gaming equivalent of a petting a kitten. If your eyes are not welling up with sheer joy at such a thought, then perhaps Broken Age is not for you.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Europa Universalis IV: Conquest of Paradise
    Though the natives still feel underdeveloped and the colonies don’t really become interesting until they attempt to gain independence, Conquest of Paradise is still a welcome addition to Europa Universalis IV. It adds more than it takes away.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Banner Saga
    It’s challenging and thoughtful, but it does lamentably become repetitive.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Broken Sword 5: The Serpents' Curse - Part I
    Broken Sword 5 will slowly worm itself into your affections if you expose yourself to its ever so gentle humour for long enough.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Unity of Command: Black Turn
    It is the final exam of Unity of Command, and a perfect capstone to one of the finest entry-level PC wargames since Panzer General 2.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    X Rebirth
    It’s a universe filled with boring people living on boring space stations, and playing in this universe is, unsurprisingly, really bloody boring. There’s not one thing that X Rebirth does that Albion Prelude or, indeed, any of the X games doesn’t do better beyond a few visual treats. Even when the bugs are fixed, the bizarre design choices will persist, as frustrating and counter-intuitive as they were at launch.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    SimCity: Cities of Tomorrow Expansion Pack
    For all the ways in which aims to take SimCity into the future, it remains tethered firmly to its past. Due to the peculiarities of its simulation, Origin's temperamental connection, and ultimately its own mechanical shallowness, Cities of Tomorrow is unlikely to make converts of those already driven out of town.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    PixelJunk Shooter
    Gleefully swift, ingeniously puzzling, and kind to your senses through delightful art and a terrific soundtrack, Shooter is received with open arms on the PC. All we need now is its 2011-released sequel to really satisfy that post-game hunger.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Call of Duty: Ghosts
    Most of the time it revels in being mediocre and cowardly by the numbers rather than outright terrible, though there are moments where it manages to be both. If this isn’t a wake up call, showing once and for all that churning out more or less the same stuff year after year only serves to dilute the quality of a franchise, then I don’t know what is. It’s completely shameless, and it’s undoubtedly going to sell phenomenally well.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea - Episode One
    Burial at Sea has a real pacing problem, stemming from the very literal segregation of its narrative and combat sections. It makes you finish your meat before your can start on your vegetables, where the metaphorical meat is the talking and the vegetables are the shooting.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
    For all that The Bureau get’s wrong, it is at least a passable tactical shooter with a novel, well-realised setting. If you love the golden age of science-fiction, there’s something here for you. Just don’t expect it to ever get truly interesting, because XCOM Declassified never captures what XCOM is all about.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Total War: Rome II
    And here’s the rub: every addition, every sub-system, every mechanic is subservient to War. War is what Total War is really about. Everything else not directly related to conflict comes across as ancillary. Rome II is a game for warmongers, on both the campaign map and, obviously, on the battlefield. When peace is happening, nothing is happening. When war is happening, Rome comes alive.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Card Hunter (2013)
    Card Hunter is anything but inconsequential. It’s a top tier turn-based tactics game, a secret TCG, and the first RPG I’ve ever played to make a virtue of a generic fantasy setting. It’s the inspired XCOM variant that Space Hulk seems to have turned out not to be.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Foul Play
    If the filler were stripped out Foul Play would only be a two hour game but it would be two hours flush with ideas instead of five hours sprinkled with them. It would make for a more appealing co-op game, too. You won’t find yourselves saying “Just one more act,” you’ll be loading up Castle Crashers.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Final Fantasy XIV Online: A Realm Reborn
    The completionist in me is nearly overwhelmed with the sheer amount of things to do in A Realm Reborn. Square Enix really do deserve praise for not only fixing the issues of the original game, but far exceeding their goal.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Wolf Among Us: Episode 1 - Faith
    Faith is a sterling beginning to what looks to be another feather in Telltale’s cap; a confident, slick opener to a mystery that begs to be explored. I wait with bated breath and sweaty palms for the next installment, where I’m sure to discover how my choices have only made things worse, at least if The Walking Dead is anything to go by.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    F1 2013
    If you’ve been away from the F1 series for a year or longer, or just want the definitive F1 game from this hardware generation, F1 2013 is an easy pick. It is the best this series has ever been in all the ways that count, and historical cars and tracks are a wonderful bonus.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Democracy 3
    Democracy 3 demands a particular mindset to appreciate, where one’s eye is not constantly fixed on winning elections, but it’s a grand political adventure for those willing to experience a story told by numbers and polls. There’s also a surprising, understated beauty about how everything is seamlessly tied together, with every decision echoing throughout the elegant spiderweb.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Typing of the Dead: Overkill
    I think criticising it for being ugly and short is to miss the point. This is a no holds barred novelty amusement. It is stupid and dumb and very, very fun.
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