PlayStation Universe's Scores

  • Games
For 3,470 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 64% higher than the average critic
  • 7% same as the average critic
  • 29% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.1 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Game review score: 76
Highest review score: 100 Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
Lowest review score: 5 Little Adventure on the Prairie
Score distribution:
3472 game reviews
    • 41 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Ultimately, the different modes are a shallow vehicle for allowing players to control memorable characters from the franchise's history. There's unfortunately no tangible benefit to playing as favorites like Oddjob, or anyone else, for that matter.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    God of War set the bar for this genre and Clash of the Titans takes it ten years back.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Babylon's Fall flat out needed more time. The graphics make the experience just horrible at times, with the filter even giving me headaches. The combat can be enjoyable, though there is a grind to it, it's something I still enjoy along with the music. Beyond that however, there are still just too many aspects of this game that can make your time with it headache-inducing more often than not.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The best thing about Iron Man 2 are the cut scenes, where some competent writing and voice acting makes the game seem like it just might be worth ploughing through, even though it isn’t.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Dollhouse takes good ideas and puts them behind clashing mechanics. The randomly-generated landscapes all look the same, causing many issues with navigating and retrieving much-needed items. This pool of ideas lacks cohesion, and the minuscule payoff makes the tedium feel like a complete waste of time. Very little works in Dollhouse's favor.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Painkiller: Hell & Damnation is an old-school FPS that is sadly dated, boring and tedious to play.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    The only interesting part of Quantum Error is the premise, hinting at some intriguing cosmic horror ideas. Unfortunately, it's buried underneath rubble filled with bad controls, janky performance, and humdrum gameplay. Unless a complete overhaul could be implemented, there's no way a patch could save this game from itself.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    An original idea that takes a turn for the worse. No strategy, depth or replayability in a game that forces the player to drive and watch the grass grow for hours on end.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Escape Dead Island is a lurching, rotting horror that wouldn't look out of place shuffling about in the apocalypse.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Tamarin has a quirky and fun concept (a monkey with a gun), but its poor 3D platforming, inability to inform the player properly about objectives and where to go, and dated look with bugs make it a title that few people have any good reason to play, especially when there are much better games of the genre out there right now on PS4.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The stories and voice acting in CSI: Fatal Conspiracy are great, but the actual gameplay falls short.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Troll and I is ambitious but rubbish, with flawed mechanics and weak storytelling.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Zombieland Double Tap Road Trip completely strips away the charm and wit which makes the films so endearing and replaces it with cheesy mind-numbing dialog sprinkled with dull gameplay. It's basically an overpriced two-hour promo for the movie that has very little to offer unless you are a hardcore fan of twin-stick shooters or Abigail Breslin.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    If Umbrella Corps was a free-to-play title, it'd probably be a mildly inoffensive novelty, but it's not. It's a costly mess of confused messaging that adds almost nothing (bar a ‘shocking' revelation about an established character that's about as shocking as the Scottish Premier League table) to the Resident Evil universe. The game's lack of quality is almost dwarfed by how utterly pointless it is.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    With poor visuals, flawed gameplay and a narrative that fails to adhere closely to the source material, Deathly Hallows Part 1 is a colossal disappointment for gamers and Harry Potter aficionados' alike.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    What could have been a cheese-filled celebration of the history of one of the most famous movie monsters around instead winds up as a tragic and premature obituary.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Agony is not a good game. It feels as if the developers just gave up after such a long development cycle. Filled with bugs, boring and infuriating stealth and chase sequences and repetitive puzzles it's very hard to find anything to enjoy in Agony.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The sort of crushing disappointment that only comes around once in a while, Left Alive feels like an emaciated, innovation bereft meditation on Metal Gear Solid and in matching up so poorly with its inspiration, provides the Front Mission franchise with arguably its weakest entry in years.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A fine recreation of trivia with a real focus on the questions, That Trivia Game is best enjoyed with friends as its limited additional content and modes will struggle to sustain the interest of a lone player.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    A really bad experience that should be left in the Dungeon from once it came.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 15 Critic Score
    There's no denying that Past Cure is born from lofty ambitions. Regrettably, those ambitions are not joined with the necessary skill or understanding needed to make Past Cure anything close to a competent, coherent experience. A messy bore of a game that vomits its incoherent nonsense on your shoes as it rambles on mindlessly for ten minutes about why that's important.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    Shaq-Fu: A Legend Reborn is a fun title for as long as it lasts and a forgettable one once it ends.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Kung Fu Rider is a bland racing-inspired game that quickly becomes frustrating with its poor use of Move and the dreadful controls. The game would have been better suited for a standard controller.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Eternity The Last Unicorn is a hot mess of a game with old school graphics and game mechanics that feels more dated than a launch title from the original PS1.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Shellshock 2 will shock you, but for all the wrong reasons. Even if you're a fan of the genre, it's a technically inept and totally unenjoyable experience.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 45 Critic Score
    Much like the namesake character himself, The Lord of The Rings: Gollum couldn't be saved from what it became. Frustrating platforming coupled with boring gameplay and cheap ways to die make any experience hard to play. Unfortunately, the intriguing setting and lore exploration can't come close to overshadowing the game's fundamental issues.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    A train-wreck spin off of a series that deserved so much better, Fellowship of Evil is an unholy combination of so many undercooked elements that it's any wonder the game made it to release. While Overlord certainly deserves better there is someone else who does too – you. Avoid.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Dawn of Fear tries to bring back the nostalgia of classic survival horror but fails in almost every way. The poor controls lead to most of its problems and a lack of necessary mechanics creates problems that shouldn't exist in this day and age from the simplest of games.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    The best first-person shooter on a portable but it's not exactly a high yardstick.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    [A] subpar, scare-free effort.

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