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For 397 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 58% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 39% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Game review score: 75
Highest review score: 100 Worldwide Soccer Manager 2007
Lowest review score: 20 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 259 out of 397
  2. Mixed: 95 out of 397
  3. Negative: 43 out of 397
397 game reviews
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tomb Raider: Legend
    Most importantly, the puzzles are back on track. Traps, levers, pulleys, chains, chasms, secret passges, underground lakes, rotating knives - there's a cunning solution to each, designed to keep you puzzling for just long enough to gain satisfaction in the solving, but not long enough to make you want to hurl your own internal organs at the screen.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tomb Raider: Legend
    Most importantly, the puzzles are back on track. Traps, levers, pulleys, chains, chasms, secret passges, underground lakes, rotating knives — there’s a cunning solution to each, designed to keep you puzzling for just long enough to gain satisfaction in the solving, but not long enough to make you want to hurl your own internal organs at the screen.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Test Drive Unlimited
    And with 1,000 miles of road to roam, it comes closer than most games to re-creating the freedom of real life.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    SOCOM 3: U.S. Navy SEALs
    Games do not come much larger than SOCOM 3, which has been designed very much with the internet in mind: go online and you can play against up to 31 opponents.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Hitman: Blood Money
    This episode has more depth than the two previous follow- ups, and its developer, IO Interactive, has introduced many intelligent refinements.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tomb Raider: Legend
    Most importantly, the puzzles are back on track. Traps, levers, pulleys, chains, chasms, secret passges, underground lakes, rotating knives — there’s a cunning solution to each, designed to keep you puzzling for just long enough to gain satisfaction in the solving, but not long enough to make you want to hurl your own internal organs at the screen.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Need for Speed: Underground 2
    The courses in this game are just as much the stars as the cars. The dazzling downtown locations are massive, dominated by skyscrapers whose light bathes the streets in a radiant glow.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Thief: Deadly Shadows
    It's the creepy atmosphere and the easy-to-pick-up-but-tough-to-perfect gameplay that most impress, and there are enough quirks and twists to ensure that you will do your damnedest to complete this compelling title.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Call of Duty 3
    The graphics are top-notch and the sound helps immerse you in the wonderfully rendered action.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    TimeSplitters: Future Perfect
    The mechanics are competent, but it is the characterisations, especially the wooden delivery of some lines, that let the game down. On the plus side, the ample options include a story mode, multiplayer clash modes and a mission designer to open up replay values.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Myst IV: Revelation
    Some will find that the game’s endless puzzle-solving becomes frustrating when they reach stumbling blocks, though the Help feature has been enhanced this time around. In contrast, legions of Myst fans will delight in cracking this parti-cular if rather peculiar cerebral nut.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Need for Speed Underground 2
    The courses in this game are just as much the stars as the cars. The dazzling downtown locations are massive, dominated by skyscrapers whose light bathes the streets in a radiant glow.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth
    The interface is largely invisible, having been dramatically streamlined to make this a more intuitive experience for newcomers to the RTS genre.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Hitman: Blood Money
    This episode has more depth than the two previous follow- ups, and its developer, IO Interactive, has introduced many intelligent refinements.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Tony Hawk's Project 8
    This eighth instalment in the hugely popular skateboarding series, and the first built specially for the Xbox 360, is the best and most realistic by far.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Saints Row
    This is a game guaranteed to offend and entertain in equal measure, but it is emphatically not for children.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lumines II
    A simple but effective upgrade.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy
    You could play straight through this game in a few hours, or dally with it for days. Therein lies its brilliance.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Trauma Center: Under the Knife
    Here is a game that is both more exciting and more educational than Casualty, ER and Scrubs put together.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Age of Empires III
    In short, AoE III is yet another masterly triumph.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45
    As frantic as it is visually stunning.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    RollerCoaster Tycoon 3
    Those who do not want to embark on complex challenges will still find hours of enjoyment in sandbox mode.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly
    There’s not much innovation here — the gameplay is far too linear and there is too much emphasis on key searching to trigger the next cut scene — but for atmosphere alone it is hard to beat.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Pokemon FireRed Version
    The graphics here are clean, robust and more colourful than previously, while the music, though still unswervingly upbeat, is as inoffensive as ever.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Perfect Dark Zero
    Although experienced first- person shooter players may find the going in single-player mode a little too easy, the game offers a host of multiplayer options, including split-screen on one console, or team-based mass slaughter challenges via the internet.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    MechAssault 2: Lone Wolf
    Experienced gamers will have a blast in cyberspace, battling with other players from around the world, which pretty much justifies the cost of broadband on its own.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Pokemon LeafGreen Version
    The graphics here are clean, robust and more colourful than previously, while the music, though still unswervingly upbeat, is as inoffensive as ever.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    TOCA Race Driver 2: The Ultimate Racing Simulator
    A great racing title that offers some serious improvements to the existing Toca series.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Gitaroo Man Lives!
    The fun to be had derives from the game’s simplicity of play, its wildly colourful backgrounds, and the dexterity required to get it right.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dungeon Siege II
    This is a handsome game with a stirring soundtrack, with the potential to deliver weeks of very involving gameplay for hardcore followers.
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