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For 924 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 56% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 39% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Game review score: 74
Highest review score: 98 Grand Theft Auto IV
Lowest review score: 5 Xiaolin Showdown
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 548 out of 924
  2. Mixed: 299 out of 924
  3. Negative: 77 out of 924
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    The Godfather: Blackhand Edition
    It's still got some dodgy AI moments (mafia members running non-stop into walls, anyone?) and occasionally the Wii controls are a little unresponsive, but for 20 plus hours of gameplay, you could certainly spend your money on worse during what seems to be a somewhat worryingly slow period for game releases on Wii.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 81 Critic Score
    LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures
    Lego Indiana Jones is very accessible and very well produced. Although for some endlessly smashing Lego scenery and finding keys to fit winches again and again and again in a desperate attempt to reach the next mildly humorous Mr. Bean-injected version of a scene from the classic films may get slightly tedious after hours and hours of it, and this is just about all Lego Indiana Jones' gameplay really amounts to.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Red Dead Redemption: Liars and Cheats
    Horse racing and Stronghold take some perseverance, but if you're able to get pin down the gameplay, then you'll get more out of the new modes. Get a posse together meanwhile, and you'll find more than enough to enjoy in Liars & Cheats.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 86 Critic Score
    Stranglehold
    Put aside such quibbles however and you're left with a fantastic action game that brings you as close to being the lead in a fully formed John Woo film as you're ever going to get, for his fans that alone will be enough, for the rest of you still left undecided go and watch 'Hard Boiled' with an Xbox controller in your hand and imagine how great it would be if it was interactive.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Need for Speed Carbon
    Testing out the new additions and playing around with the new options is more than mildly diverting. However, after a while the tediousness of the city-scape and the simplicity of the driving model conspire to make one think of the other things that could be done with the time.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tom Clancy's EndWar
    The online multiplayer is addictive and fun too, thanks to the context provided by the evolving world, and although the game is marred by weak singleplayer narrative and lacklustre AI, the lasting impression is still well within the positive.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Metro 2033
    On a very basic level it's little more than a conventional corridor shooter, however, it's draped in such atmospheric finery you'll hardly notice.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 77 Critic Score
    The Godfather
    It would have been forgivable to exaggerate the gameplay in places in order to make it more entertaining. But The Godfather is a game for the purists and in order to please it has to feel genuine, The Godfather certainly is.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 57 Critic Score
    NFL Street 2
    Yet another example of the dangers of one publishing company gaining a monopoly over a particular genre. The experience becomes homogenised and the resulting games become soulless products devoid of any indication.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin
    F.E.A.R. 2 is a decent mix of self-aware cliche, gratuitous and hyperbolic violence mixed with the occasional touch of subtlety and reservation. It's a solid, dependable shooter that, in its best moments, gets your heart racing. Whilst the universe might be confusing and unfriendly for those who haven't played the first game, the shooting mechanics should be satisfying enough for fans of the genre.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    Gun
    Graphically Gun is as pretty as a peach. The motions of both man and beast are well captured and even close up, they look beautifully textured, very tangible.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie
    While the experience is short-lived, the seven or so hours of gameplay you get from it are truly amazing and for once, I can say a film-to-game conversion has successfully been achieved.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 87 Critic Score
    Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day!
    Prof. Kawashima's Brain Training: How Old is Your Brain is an intriguing 'program'. This is not a game for Mensa geniuses, but is ideal for those of a general intelligence.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet
    The boss fights showcase the game's weapons-based puzzle solving well, and no more so than the final boss.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    Pro Evolution Soccer 2008
    It does what it does very well indeed providing a version of football that while not hugely realistic plays the kind of fast exciting all action game you wish you watched week in week out on the terraces. Put it this way, my England vs. Croatia game this morning ended 7 - 1 (4-4-2, Beckham on from the start and no untested young keeper), hands up who'd have rather watched that on Wednesday night.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 73 Critic Score
    Transformers: War for Cybertron
    As for what was actually made, Transformers: War for Cybertron is a solid but unremarkable effort that occasionally shows glimpses of its true potential. It provides a complete, if a little too short, package of modes and features in a genuinely interesting setting. It just needed a little more spark.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising
    Simultaneously engaging and fun to play, Op Flash 2 will be enjoyed by all but the most staunch realism pedant. Given the slight scaling back of the unremittingly harsh difficulty of the first game, this sequel boasts more than enough authenticity to replicate more than just a modicum of what real war might be like.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 81 Critic Score
    FlatOut 2
    If FlatOut 2 proves anything it's that there's room for more than one type of racer that strongly encourages wreckage at every twist and turn, and it's refreshing to see that despite EA's undeniable might smaller developers are willing to have a go at competing, often showing them a thing or two about game design in the process.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2
    If the idea of having complete control of every aspect of your squad and planning the action down to the last detail floats your boat then the PC version is ideal, if you'd rather feel like you're in charge of a team of real people surviving moment to moment on your instincts alone then you'll have more fun with the console version.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 73 Critic Score
    Endless Ocean: Blue World
    It's definitely worth a look, if only to have something on the shelf that's gently mesmerising and a very nice break from the norm.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 77 Critic Score
    Heroes of the Pacific
    "Underwhelming" is a word to describe Heroes of the Pacific as a whole. It's a game that is definitely competent but it just doesn't do anything special.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    Second Sight
    A very solid, if slightly unspectacular title. It's not amazingly long, but unlike some of its contemporaries it hangs together well.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    LEGO Batman: The Videogame
    This is how all casual games should be.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty
    As current gen platform games go this is still one of the best even in a bite-sized package. As a Ratchet and Clank game however you're left yearning for all the bits they've left out. If you're a fan then there's enough platforming fun here to warrant its purchase just don't be expecting Tools of Destruction 2.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    Burnout Dominator
    Absolutely crammed with speed and thrills, though perhaps a little light in terms of content and longevity without the inclusion of multiplayer, Burnout Dominator is still as impressive as most of the series editions, and certainly equally as appealing as Burnout: Revenge in all the right gameplay places - but that is also perhaps its one defining fault.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    Gun
    Graphically Gun is as pretty as a peach. The motions of both man and beast are well captured and even close up, they look beautifully textured, very tangible.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Multiwinia: Survival of the Flattest
    It's a quick game which uses its brevity as a lure with that one-more go factor scoring very highly. Its rich visual style and strong core gameplay put many other monster titles to shame.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    UEFA Euro 2004: Portugal
    Those of the football mad persuasion will certainly relish the tangible sense of occasion, excitement and authenticity ingrained throughout EA Sport's latest.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway
    All in all, considering that the overall gameplay mechanic is a rinse and repeat exercise of duck and cover shooting coupled with a partially fractured command interface, it's hard to recommend Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway to anyone other than hardened series fanatics.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Singularity
    What a waste of a perfectly decent videogame. Activision should hang its corporate head in shame, directly after it offers the development team at Raven a public apology for so savagely shafting its work on Singularity. If there were any justice in this world, and my opinion amounted to anything more than a whisper lost amid a crowd of screaming maniacs, every shooter fan would promptly purchase Singularity in order to drag it back from the depths of hell to which it has been so unfairly consigned.
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