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
    • 43 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Though you'll often be angry at it, Naughty Bear finds a way to make you smile at least once each level, even if you are reloading it for the third or fourth time. It's an example for every game design classroom of what not to do, but almost in spite of the developers, somehow, there's an entertaining game here that you'll inexplicably come back to.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's at times a blissful experience, and at times a total joy, but at others it's frustrating, and shallow.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    If you can cope with laggy, wooden movement, touch-detection that goes from iffy during navigation to horrible in the minigames, a story which doesn’t (even try to) make much sense, minimal music, and conversations bordering on wall-talk, you might find some comfort in this old-school adventure game that sticks to its prehistoric roots. Otherwise, this isn’t worth the time – even though it is a pretty damn short ride.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Here’s how Rengoku works: take something cool and mess it up. It’s that simple. They took robots and they made them boring and stupid.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    A by-the-numbers shooter that fails to take advantage of its license.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Throughout its run-time, which seems like an eternity (though likely isn’t), Star Trek is a consistently underwhelming and frequently frustrating experience; it’s mostly ugly, it plays alright and does little of interest with a great license.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Whilst gamers are happy to purchase badly developed, poorly contrived games such as this, sadly those examples will still be a rarity.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Its story amounts to little more than misfired jokes about an obnoxious perv trying to look up as many skirts as possible.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    A lack of direction within the gameplay and narrative ensures that this is one gamers will overlook like so many before.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    We could have literally had Tom and Jerry, Aardman style. Instead we have rather un-imaginative game whose novelty runs off the older you are, and that's disappointing.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    DARK’s main mistake is that it never makes you feel like a terrifying vampire in any way. If it did, some of its many, many flaws could be excused. It’s bug-ridden, badly designed, and plain boring to go through. Add a side-dish of casual misogyny, and you end up with a deeply unenjoyable experience.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Xtreme 2 succeeds as a budget game - it just doesn’t cater to any audience in particular. A lack of focus is the overarching problem with this decent budget title.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Unfinished and rotten to the core.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    A complete failure of a game.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    If the wonky controls were worked out, the game would be substantially improved right there.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Deep Black: Reloaded features incredibly repetitive gameplay and broken, frustrating shooting. It's devoid of the smoothness in controls and exciting action that made the Gears of War series such a joy to play.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    In the end, it’s a game of such dubious quality I find it difficult to recommend even to fans of the films, and instead recommend it swiftly being hidden beneath better dross in a bargain bin, or, better yet, a normal, everyday, trash bin.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    This is a broken, dismal game that manages only to disappoint across its meager four hours. Fans looking for a longer experience can ramp up the difficulty level, but this just means you'll be bored AND frustrated. If you want an authentic Battleship experience, go buy the board game and avoid this dreck.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Better yet, let’s just leave the on-rails style in the ’90s where it belongs. It’s been a nice ride, but we need to start moving on.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    There is nothing here for anyone - not even the most ardent of Godzilla fans. It’s like if someone took your favourite ever franchise, made a half-arsed game out of it then spat in your face asking for money.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    After the excellence of Telltale’s The Walking Dead, it’s clear that Survival Instinct is the weaker of this species.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    There is no way anyone can justify buying this when Tomb Raider: Anniversary can be bought for a third of the price.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The characters have no personality whatsoever. The missions are a joke; the ridiculously horrible AI makes beating every objective a five-minute walk in the park at best.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The gameplay is broken in countless ways and the A.I. is comical at best. It's an ugly, unoriginal, inadequately tested and terribly implemented mess that has no place in anyone's game collection.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    A bad game. You might assume that a company as reputable as the History Channel might take more care to protect their license, but it's clear that they just wanted to make a quick buck.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Valhalla Knights only excels at one thing: no other game can grate on your nerves quite like this.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Avoid like you would a vicious infection.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    AMY
    Everything about Amy is designed to frustrate and drain the player's will before they eventually throw up their hands in defeat and give up. Between the broken combat, constant annoyances in dealing with Amy, counter-intuitive controls, non-existent plot, bland characters, cheap deaths, and overall shoddy workmanship, Amy fails on practically every level.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    This game has no story, almost non-existent controls, pathetic graphics, and audio quality that will make you twitch in discomfort.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The game is short, damn short. It can be finished in about an hour or so, and once you have sussed out the way the simple 'strategy' part works, all further enjoyment can only be derived from the main missions, which I'm sure you'll realise by now, can't save this Superman.

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