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For 391 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 37% higher than the average critic
  • 7% same as the average critic
  • 56% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 9.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Game review score: 65
Highest review score: 100 SnowRunner
Lowest review score: 20 Toy Soldiers: War Chest
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 192 out of 391
  2. Mixed: 69 out of 391
  3. Negative: 130 out of 391
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Forza Horizon
    In Forza Horizon, racing is rubbing, wrecking, banging, and rewinding. Without a meaningful economy, there's no incentive to drive anything other than completely wrecklessly. The driving physics concur. This is one of those games that has no solution to the problem of videogames teaching kids that the best way to keep inside a turn is to bounce off the side of another car. Bounce off other cars, rear end the guy in front of you to slow down, and cut across corners with impunity.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Skylanders Giants
    For parents, this is a sure-fire hit. For Gamers, keep an open mind. There is something under the cuddly hood. For Gamer parents, don't pass this up.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Fighting Fantasy: Blood of the Zombies
    In the 80s, these choose-your-own-adventure books were novel and exciting, particularly on your way to discovering some of the well written Infocom adventures. But today, on an iPad, Blood of the Zombies is a tedious relic, not unlike playing Adventure on an Atari 2600 emulator. It might sound like a cool idea until you're actually doing it. Some things are better off remembered instead of experienced.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Carmageddon
    I have no recollection of how the original game progressed - I mainly just remember the moment-to-moment glee of splattering pedestrians - but this iOS version is a series of unlockable levels, a collection of unlockable cars, a garage full of car upgrades, and variable goals for each level. If that's not enough, leaderboards, achievements, and challenges are all supported on Gamecenter. In other words, a whole lot of incentive to drive, smash, and splatter.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    XCOM: Enemy Unknown
    It knows. It understands. But not blindly, not slavishly. More than a fan of X-Com, this game is a fan of the tenets of modern game design. It's doing exactly the right thing, in exactly the right ways, at exactly the right time.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Borderlands 2
    I'm not terribly surprised that the studio that made the first Borderlands has created such a wildly good gunplay-based action RPG. But I'm surprised that the studio that stitched together Duke Nukem Forever and all those Brothers in Arms games has also made it such a joy to discover for reasons other than the awesome guns and gunplay. Bravo, Gearbox.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Resident Evil 6
    Yes, this is just like Raccoon City all over again: stilted, awkward, ridiculous, embarrassing, tedious. Except for the parts where it's like Call of Duty, which are equally stilted, awkward, ridiculous, embarrassing, and tedious, but with more NPC soldiers milling about. Resident Evil 6 is thoroughly oblivious to so many of the things that make a good game these days.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Torchlight II
    Torchlight II's willingness to play tough is only one of its selling points, but it's arguably what sets it apart from the other good latest-gen action RPGs you could be playing right now (Diablo III, Borderlands 2, Darksiders II, and Guild Wars 2 come to mind).
    • 79 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Puzzle Craft
    Dungeon Raid was based on building up your RPG character and earning high scores. But with its crass Farmville skin, Puzzle Craft is ultimately a variation on one of those godawful free-to-play play-now-m'lord microtranscation boondoogles. It's like a time waster wrapped around a time waster. Time wasters all the way down.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Guild Wars 2
    I can count on two hands the games I've loved as much as I now love Guild Wars 2. This isn't just a great example of the genre and arguably the Second Coming of MMOs. It isn't even just one of the best games I've ever played. This is what happens when a group of talented, smart, dedicated, imaginative, bold, consumer-friendly creators get together and spend years solving problems and making something wonderful.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Pinball FX 2: Plants vs. Zombies
    I suspect Zen Studios intended it to be player friendly, designed to appeal to casual players unaccustomed to pinball. The result is minimal opportunities to lose the ball, lots of extra balls, frequent multiballs, and liberally activated kickbacks.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Lost Cities
    This new presentation is particularly appropriate since the entire game is such an enthusiastic package. This isn't just a way to play Lost Cities matches. It's a whole silly metagame, with four different AI opponents, ingame emoticon chat, goals, and leveling up.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    San Juan
    A central fact about San Juan is that you're playing against the shuffle more than you're playing against the other players. If you're willing to draw out a ten-minute solitaire game into however long your asynchronous matches take, San Juan has multiplayer support. And even if you're not into multiplayer, it has a nifty take on leaderboards.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Darksiders II
    The gear in Darksiders II is only as important as the combat, and the combat simply isn't that important. If there's one place the mostly satisfying and smartly designed Darksiders II needed more streamlining, it was the monty haul and the corresponding hack-and-slash.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Bug Princess 2 Black Label
    One of the brilliant touches in maniac mode is how Bug Princess 2 literally fills the screen with your score. When you convert bullets into points, the number appears on the screen where the bullet used to be. When you pull this off correctly, overlapping 9999s fill the screen. It's one of the most gratifying experiences you can have in a videogame (Cave's Espgaluda works similarly, but it's no Bug Princess).
    • 80 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Sleeping Dogs
    A middling open-world game can get by if it's well paced. The Saboteur and Prototype 2, for instance, weren't necessarily good, but they moved. Really moved. They pulled you forward, thanks in large part to great progression systems. There is no such sense of progression in Sleeping Dogs. You have a few tracks that gradually unlock moves you may never use.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    iFighter 2: The Pacific 1942 by EpicForce
    If you play shmups because you like to wrestle with cool scoring systems, there's not much here for you. But if you play shmups for the mindlessness of dodging bullets and watching things blow up, this is a viable choice: crisp, lively, loud, busy, obligingly World War II.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Dariusburst SP
    With its forgettable competence, Dariusburst very nearly turned me off of the entire genre of iPad shmups.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    10000000
    All the cool stuff 1000000 gets right - the strategy, the long-term persistence, the loot, the leveling up - falls apart when I have to back up and align two tiles just so in order to convince the game that I want to move in the direction I want to move. It doesn't happen often. But it happens regularly enough to kill what would otherwise be a pretty cool game.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Jewel Master: Cradle of Rome 2
    A nice, boring, middle-of-the-road review score just to ensure no one will ever read this.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Small World for iPad
    As an iPad game, Small World is a big disappointment. But as an advertisement for the boardgame…well, I've just ordered the basic set and two of the expansions. Mission accomplished, Days of Wonder! There aren't many iPhone games that end up costing me another $50 after I've bought them, much less disappointing iPhone games.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Zombie HQ
    The bottom line is that Zombie HQ is not a game. It's a shameless business model.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Secret World
    Less ambitious MMOs break less dramatically. But The Secret World breaks differently, crushingly, almost tragically. There are various explanations and workarounds and excuses, and it mostly comes down to the simple fact that making games is hard and making MMOs is even harder. Funcom is simply unable to make the game they designed.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The Amazing Spider-Man
    It's all such an uninspired riff on Rocksteady's Batman masterpiece, with the stink of a mandate from a boardroom to make it like that Batman game that did so well. But Arkaham City was built from the ground up because it suited the character. The Amazing Spider-Man is entirely borrowed.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Marvel Pinball 3D
    These tables aren't a very good fit for the 3DS. Instead, they're a good fit for sales. Paranormal Activity, Mars, Secrets of the Deep, and Epic Quest? What? Who? What movies were they in? But Iron Man and Captain America? Who can blame Zen Studios for making the most out of their licensing deals?
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Le Havre: The Harbor
    Tightly pieced together, efficient, muscular if not nimble.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    DiRT Showdown
    Dirt Showdown is all the in-between stuff from other racing games. It's those filler events you had to play to get to the next actual race. Basically, driving game gametax, now given its own game. It's as if someone lifted up all the rally races from the previous Dirts, swept out the detritus that was left, collected it into a tidy little pile, and then slapped a name on it. Dirt Showdown.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes
    If I want to break stuff and collect things, there no way quite so mindlessly obliging as Lego Batman 2.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013
    The overall effect is like taking a broom or a flamethrower to the rules, completely undermining the game as designed. Which is something I couldn't be happier to see, because the game as designed is in dire need of undermining. If there's anything that can breathe life into Magic the Gathering, it's a shake-up like planechasing.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Pinball FX 2: Marvel Pinball - Avengers Chronicles
    The reality-bending and dimension hopping are nicely realized, and the whole idea of having to find gems for a magic glove lends itself well to a pinball table. Here's a great example of how to do obscure lore in a pinball table.
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