Thunderbolt's Scores

  • Games
For 2,038 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 36% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 60% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Game review score: 69
Highest review score: 100 Red Dead Redemption
Lowest review score: 10 Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing
Score distribution:
2038 game reviews
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Dream Trigger 3D has a lot of interesting ideas, but rarely implements them well. The gameplay mechanics are needlessly contrived; by the time you've gotten over the learning curve, you'll probably want to stop playing.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A game that probably shouldn’t have seen the light of day. A brawler is not something you expect to see these characters starring in, but it’s not as bad as you might imagine.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Fans of the ancient myths will want to give this blandly rewritten adventure a wide berth as will RPG fans and people waiting patiently for the next God of War. There’s no challenge here, no excitement and ultimately no game worth playing. What a wasted opportunity.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Another disappointing effort.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The jokes are pulled from all over the place and most of them fall flat, and no one gameplay mechanic is particularly impressive. It feels like it doesn't quite know what it wants to be, whether it's an old school throwback or a more modern shooter, and in the end it succeeds at being neither.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Sure it didn’t make sense but it ends on such a satisfactory note that it’s hard to look down on the eager greenlit kickstarter upper that only meant to be fun. And for the short while that it lasted it was.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Vancouver 2010 has its moments, but they’re exhausted within an hour’s play.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    These poorly implemented QTE sections cripple the intent of presenting an interactive storytelling experience.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It’s going to need to become more than a sum of its parts if it wants to compete in this modern gaming era though.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Aside from the campaign mode, there is a lackluster sandbox involving the building of a criminal empire without objectives or opposition. Go online and you can take the terrible combat system and enjoy it with friends, or against them, if you wish. But you won’t feel like a gangster, but rather an accountant with a penchant for real estate.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Battle Tournament may lack some of the charm that made the old game so loved, but it’s a decent action adventure in its own right.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Ghost Rider is the classic example of what happens when videogames meet a license. That's all I can say to wrap this one up.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    What's truly shocking is the fact that there is a real, substantiated horror experience tucked behind its Kinect veneer.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    An enjoyable strategy game which needs more depth and variety to be truly arresting. It does what it does well, however developer 4J Studios have succeeded in making the game perhaps too simplistic, and definitely lacking any narrative pull or long-term appeal.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    It does show a couple original ideas, but they’re never fully executed, and it’s full of small, annoying bugs that sour the experience.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    A great looking game with no personality.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    But if you’re a retro fighting game fan and willing to support SNK’s release of their anthologies, then give this a go. Nostalgia has its limits, but at least you’ll be guaranteed one quality game overall.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    I suppose, if you have an interest in US history, you might eke more enjoyment from the game than I did. But, I am afraid all the fears I had when I first unwrapped the game came true. Playable but, in the end, pretty dull.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    While the formula may never grow old, purchasing its incarnations is becoming rather trivial.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    One big, kaiju-sized lump of crap. The monster selection is crap, the gameplay is crap, the audio is crap, but the graphical presentation is fairly good. So, does that sound like a game you would enjoy?
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Its brevity doesn’t merit the fifty dollars you’ll have to shell out for it. The missions are a simplistic mishmash of killing, transporting, and exploration.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    It’s a given that the Xbox 360 sequel has slightly better graphics, but they don’t justify the aforementioned gameplay or the subsidiary poolside mini-games. Xtreme 2 represents a large step in the wrong direction for one of gaming’s finest development teams.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    It lacks just about everything that a quality game needs in this day and age. While the absence of a story may not impact your experience, the shoddy controls and bland attack system will leave you craving for something more.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Unfortunately, stellar graphics can’t save Pokemon Battle Revolution from utter mediocrity.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    FairyTale Fights is a likeable game with a fun style and surprisingly dark sense of humour, but it’s let down by simplistic level design, a lack of substance and undeveloped combat.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    A brief distraction from a never-ending chain of blockbuster epics.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    It's a pity that a video game which attempts to revel in back to basics no nonsense escapism - through a hail of bullets and bodies - somehow ends up being more forgettable than the Black Ops campaign. And that's saying something.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    It wouldn't even set the last generation of consoles alight.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's a shame Global Star didn't spend more energy on the single-player experience, or perhaps even drop the Story mode completely in favor for still more multiplayer modes and/or maps.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Perfectly fine in execution, its refusal to deviate or break the mould holds back its ideas from becoming fully realised and providing real character or polish.

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