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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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    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mass Effect 3
    There's no debate whether Mass Effect 3 is a good game. It has good combat, an effective atmosphere, satisfying resolution, and a few great characters. Co-op is surprisingly entertaining. Bioware has finally settled on a good balance of RPG elements, too. It's easy to dismiss most of the nitpicks. It's the best game in the series for all these reasons...Instead, I argue about whether Mass Effect 3 is a great game. I write about it because I deeply care about Bioware as a developer. I want Bioware to strengthen choice and consequence and master character writing so I can consider their games to be classics again. At the very least, I'm no longer left out of this series now that I appreciate the combat and the universe.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    SSX
    The overall takeaway I get while playing SSX: sometimes EA gets it exactly right. Sometimes their experience from a dozen misguided games, and a half dozen decent games, and two or three really good games is distilled into one perfect example of how some AAA titles are every bit as awesome as they're supposed to be.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land
    Red Wasp Design seems to prefer detail to elegance, and that's exactly the wrong call to make on the iPhone. It's also a damn shame in a game with such an obvious affection for its own characters and the Lovecraft mythos.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Wargame: European Escalation
    So it turns out that Wargame: European Escalation isn't just good. It's also unique.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Syndicate
    It's every generic shooter you've forgotten you played, come back to be forgotten again...Oh, did I mention there's bullet time? Because there's bullet time.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Crusader Kings II
    But there's something mildly sadistic about Crusader Kings II's complexity and reach. Maybe even passively aggressively sadistic. I'm not saying it's not accessible, becuase it is, to an extent.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Nexuiz
    This game is crazy Neapolitan through and through, with a sense of mad glee for how frequently and flagrantly it breaks the rules.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Darkness II
    It even looks fantastic, with an emphasis on cel-shaded splatter horror. The Darkness II plays as if it were an homage to the EC Comics of the 40s and 50s. It has that same grimly colorful and colorfully grim vibe in its approach to crucifixion, torture, madness, hell, and a demon who pees on bodies and farts in their dead faces.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Midway Arcade
    As I played - or tried to play - these games, I found myself wondering if Tiffany Melson is on Facebook. Which would never happen if I had playable versions of Gauntlet, APB, Rampage, and Defender.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Conquest of Elysium 3
    I don't mind in the least the game's modest production values, but I do wish that Illwinter was more hip to certain modern game design principles, like how to play us out of a game.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Twisted Metal
    It's a bit like a fighting game that offers distinct player characters, but no information about what the characters can do, or how you should play them, or their relative strengths and weaknesses. That's all for you to figure out because, apparently, the developers were too busy making the game to teach you anything. You have to take the initiative and set up solo games against the AI bots.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Rhythm Heaven Fever
    There is absolutely nothing casual about this game. But it's incredibly gratifying to finally nail a puzzle in the same way that it's gratifying to nail a song in DDR or a level in Patapon. Rhythm Heaven Fever, which seems to know full well how hard it's pushing you, is eventually as satisfying as it is infuriating.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Pinball FX 2: Epic Quest
    This persistence is Epic Quest's most notable feature. Think of it as an experiment in building an ongoing leveling system onto a single table.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Unstoppable Gorg
    Unstoppable Gorg's gloriously goofy, brash, and cheerful presentation is some of the most delicious 50s B-movie sci fi cheese since War of the Monsters on the Playstation 2.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Caylus
    What it all comes down to is this question: Is Caylus a good candidate for porting to the iPhone? Given the length of games, given the poor multiplayer support, given that the elegance of the boardgame is lost entirely, I suspect the answer might be "no". Which is a real shame after Big Daddy Creations so successfully ported Neuroshima Hex to the iPhone.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Final Fantasy XIII-2
    If there's no payoff - or, as is the case here, if the payoff is hidden behind such a clot of unavoidable tedium that it ultimately overwhelms how much I care about reaching that payoff - then hasn't the game failed? The balancing act for any game designer is to make me care in proportion to the challenge level you throw at me. And given how close I must be to the end, and how little I care to push on, Final Fantasy XIII-2 ultimately fails.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Resident Evil: Revelations
    Assuming that you accept that Resident Evil isn't a game about running backwards and spewing ammo, you'll find here another wonderfully tense shooter.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    SoulCalibur V
    The new character customization is either much better or much worse, depending on what you're looking for in character customization. If you want to put stickers on your cape or make a short Asteroth, Soulcalibur V is the game for you. But if you want Soulcalibur IV's indepth unlockable stat-based equipment RPG, well, Soulcalibur IV is the game for you. Because Soulcalibur V has none of that. What a disappointing step backwards.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Oil Rush
    For the most part, this is a game about running around for five minutes and then a long grind of the winner winning until he wins while the loser loses. Press "F" to watch.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    FlipShip
    Kudos to the developers of Flip Ship for not succumbing to the obvious trend to micropayments. When you buy Flip Ship, you get a self-contained package where high scores are strictly and entirely a matter of how good, lucky, and persistent you are. Put away your nickels, because they aren't any help here. Flip Ship is all about the choices you make.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Triple Town
    Triple Town is yet another clever game hobbled by yet another mercenary business decision.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Saints Row: The Third - Genki Bowl VII
    Saints Row 3 is a tough act to follow, particularly given how much awesome over-the-top stuff is already in there. But dribbling out forgettable and pointless content like Genki Bowl is exactly the wrong way to follow it.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Hero Academy
    Hero Academy is simple, simplistic, and ultimately unsatisfying. You might as well find a friend and take turns punching each other in the arm to see who gives up first.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    ZEN Pinball 3D
    Zen Pinball 3D is no quick n' dirty port. It's a lovely new way to enjoy Zen Pinball on the go.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    All Zombies Must Die!
    It feels disappointingly slight, partly for the writing, partly for all the repetition, partly for the weirdly useless local multiplayer, and mostly for the smallness of it, hemmed in as it is by doors for the inevitable DLC. Suddenly it's over and you're left to grind if you're so inclined.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Jetpack Joyride
    It all comes down to the fact that I would rather pay for a carefully tuned game than get a financially optimized one for free. But I guess if a developer's going to screw up the equation, they might as well do it with a game as good as Jetpack Joyride.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Orcs Must Die!
    The problem with Orcs Must Die isn't necessarily Orcs Must Die. The problem is Toy Solders: Cold War, Plants vs. Zombies, Defender Chronicles, and Dungeon Defenders. Because a good tower defense game is just the first step to a good full-featured tower defense game.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Driver: San Francisco
    This is the sort of wheelsport the Need for Speed arcade racers should have been providing all along.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Fusion: Genesis
    I'd say that literally more than half of the game's systems are entirely unexplained, if not completely hidden from anyone who doesn't accidentally stumble onto them. All downloadable games have a "How to Play" section, but few are as devoid of useful information at Fusion: Genesis'.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fortune Street
    If your kids/wife/girlfriend/parents can grok a finicky numbers game, this will be right up their alley. But otherwise, this is a videoboardgame for hardcore strategy nerds. Who don't mind playing with Miis.
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