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For 144 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 36% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 59% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Game review score: 76
Highest review score: 100 Grand Theft Auto V
Lowest review score: 20 Saban's Power Rangers Super Samurai
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 89 out of 144
  2. Mixed: 49 out of 144
  3. Negative: 6 out of 144
144 game reviews
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    • 97 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Grand Theft Auto V
    Its problems range from finicky little things like twitchy helicopter flying controls to much larger issues, such as unsettling bits of cruelty that don’t always register as satire, or the still-unsolved challenge of maintaining any sense of plot urgency in a game where players are free to abandon the storyline and spend hours skyjacking blimps, tooling around in a submarine or taking in-game smartphone selfies and posting them online.
    • 97 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Grand Theft Auto V
    Another rampage through Los Santos in the eyes of your character, rather than looking over his shoulder, is both a surprising and surprisingly impressive feature that adds a lot of value.
    • 97 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Super Mario Odyssey
    Cappy’s powers make for some fresh puzzle solving and a new line up of supporting bad guys have been added. Toss in a storyline that is totally bonkers, really all that matters is that Bowser has once again kidnapped Princess Peach, and you end up with an Odyssey for the ages.
    • 95 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Last of Us
    Despite the occasional jarring juxtaposition between its story and its gameplay, The Last of Us is a landmark piece of interactive entertainment, proving that even action games can tell mature, thoughtful tales, with characters who don’t feel like an assortment of tropes and clichés.
    • 95 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Last of Us Remastered
    It’s tough to recommend for PS3 players who have already played the game, as the $55 price is a bit steep for some enhanced visuals and a bit of added content. But PlayStation 4 owners who haven’t yet experienced The Last of Us absolutely owe it to themselves to pick up this modern classic, and take a journey with Joel and Ellie across the heartbreakingly beautiful ruins of our world.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    BioShock Infinite
    It’s the kind of game you’ll immediately want to replay again from the beginning, not just to experiment with new vigors and weapons and tactics, or to find the backstory-expanding Voxophones and Kinetoscopes you missed on the first run-through, but to see the little bits of foreshadowing, the subtle design choices, the dropped hints that build up to the game’s brain-bending denouement.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
    It’s a game with a bigger world – and a bigger heart – than any other Uncharted, full of love for the games that have come before it and the fans who have been on board since 2009’s Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune introduced us to Nate, Elena, Sully and friends.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Super Smash Bros. for Wii U
    In a holiday season rife with games that are riddled by bugs and glitches of all sorts, it’s beyond refreshing to know that I can sit down and repeatedly wail on Mario or pummel Samus into submission to my heart’s content in lag-free glory. Smashing truly never felt so good.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Rayman Legends
    Rayman Legends is a sprawling masterpiece of a platforming game that’s just plain better than any recent Mario game, the gold standard for 2D platformers on Nintendo consoles.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Far Cry 3
    Almost everything about Far Cry 3 speaks to the game’s skilled, confident and tightly interwoven design, and players are free to seek their specific flavour of gratification and victory as Jason becomes the most dangerous animal on the island.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Diablo III: Ultimate Evil Edition
    Dare I say, Ultimate Evil Edition feels like it was built for consoles.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD
    As the most successful and dramatic HD upgrade ever, and of one of the better adventure games of all time, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD seems like a no-brainer if you own a Wii U and have any love for Zelda games.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Okami HD
    Still, for every demon slain, more beauty is restored to the land, as gorgeously rendered-flowers and wildlife spring up from the scenes of battle. And the wildlife that roams Nippon not to be feared, but rather fed, in sickeningly cute cutscenes.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    XCOM: Enemy Unknown
    By virtue of how it stokes more parts of my brain than any game of the past decade, I’m inclined to consider XCOM: Enemy Unknown one of the most important titles of this generation. This game will test your disaster-management skills, levy you with suffocatingly difficult choices on how to spend your resources and cause you to grow so fond of your chess pieces that each skirmish takes on the flavour of a Whedonesque drama.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Titanfall 2
    Titanfall 2 rises to the challenge of building something worthwhile on its predecessor’s foundation, and it’s fresh, fun and full of surprises. Happy endings aren’t always common in boy-and-his-’bot stories, but here’s hoping these mechanical marvels will stick around for a good, long time.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Horizon Zero Dawn
    Amsterdam-based studio Guerilla Games, best known for PlayStation’s grim but visually impressive Killzone franchise, spent more than six years on Horizon Zero Dawn, and it shows: in the beauty of the game’s visuals, the depth of its backstory and the tightness of its design. Hopefully this isn’t the last we’ll see of this high-tech savage land. (Horizon Forbidden West, maybe? Please?)
    • 88 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Mario Kart 8
    Despite this game’s gleaming high-definition sheen, there’s little doubt this granddaddy of the karting genre is beginning to show its age.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag
    The seafaring aspect of Black Flag is where much of the fun lies, but things feel a little too familiar every time Kenway sets foot on land. Climb buildings, collect items, infiltrate fortresses, assassinate targets. If you've grown weary of this formula, you'll count the minutes until you're back out at sea, plundering ships, harpooning sharks and diving for sunken treasure.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Last of Us: Left Behind
    What ultimately makes Left Behind special is the same thing that made The Last of Us one of the best games of 2013: characters we can relate to, care about and invest in. It’s well worth the pain of one more goodbye.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Shovel Knight
    It’s very clever and exceptionally well-designed, but it’s not a wildly innovative game, and in the years to come I’m not sure it will be as fondly remembered as the games that inspired it.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Animal Crossing: New Leaf
    And that’s where New Leaf really sinks its fuzzy claws into you: it offers the constant carrot of a bigger house, a new town project, a fresh gameplay mechanic or simply a cooler collectible that you didn’t even know existed before that day.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Batman: Arkham Knight
    Batman: Arkham Knight is a game that shows what can happen when a talented development studio is completely invested in a fictional universe and has mastered the technology to bring it to life. We’ve become the Batman before, but never quite like this.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    MLB 13: The Show
    The eighth instalment of The Show series pulls no squeeze plays on quality and realism when it comes to the game of baseball.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Pikmin 3
    Sure, this ‘puzzle’ may sound really basic, but it exists to help familiarize you with the game’s mechanics, and rest assured, complexity and challenge soon go up several notches.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Titanfall
    This sweaty, intertwined combat threesome – Pilots versus Pilots, Pilots versus Titans and Titans versus Titans – gives Titanfall a unique energy and fluidity that I’ve never seen in a shooter before.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tomb Raider
    It’s a fine return to form for the heroine whose comically conical boobs once fuelled a thousand adolescent quests for mythical nude codes. Lara Croft’s a real girl now, with real motivations, fears and feelings. And this is one reboot we hope will stick.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Dying Light: The Following - Enhanced Edition
    Although storyline is a little thin – Crane is in search of the leader of a mysterious cult which seems immune to the zombie virus – there’s enough variety in this new rural locale to make the game feel entirely fresh.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    DmC: Devil May Cry
    Beyond the near-perfect controls and satisfying combat, Ninja Theory has clearly sweated the game's atmosphere and visuals.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Forza Horizon 2
    Really, it’s all a shallow excuse to get players into as many different vehicles as possible, and that’s perfectly fine, because just like the Fast & Furious movies, no one plays Forza games for the engaging plot.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon
    Luigi may be a little bit clumsy, and sucking up a ghost with a glorified vacuum may not be quite as satisfying as unloading a clip of bullets into an expletive-screaming terrorist, but the newest adventure starring Nintendo’s second-most-popular brother is still a heck of a lot of fun. It’s even head-and-shoulders above Mario’s latest handheld title, New Super Mario Bros. 2.
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