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For 147 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 42% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.4 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Game review score: 72
Highest review score: 100 Lumines
Lowest review score: 20 Street Racing Syndicate
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 83 out of 147
  2. Mixed: 42 out of 147
  3. Negative: 22 out of 147
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    SWAT 4
    SWAT 4 is no "System Shock 2" – it’s not going to break any boundaries. However, in a world where professional finish and attention to detail is increasingly rare, its focus on filling a job role rather than filling terrorists with holes is refreshing and admirable, and is definitely worthy of investigation from anyone capable of exercising the restraint required to fully appreciate what this game is about.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 86 Critic Score
    Onimusha 3: Demon Siege
    Definitely the best Onimusha title so far, based on a purely aesthetic level.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 92 Critic Score
    Ikaruga
    A fantastic game which is an absolute must buy both for fans of the genre and people looking for a real grown up challenge on the Gamecube.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Thief: Deadly Shadows
    Not as good as either of the first two games...What it is, is a rather decent homage to the greatest stealth game ever made, which does a reasonable job of recapturing the ethos and style, and a great job of recapturing the gameplay of the game we all fell in love with.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes
    For newcomers, what you’re getting is the ultimate vision of the best game from the 90’s.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Virtua Tennis: World Tour
    Fast, fluid and thoroughly absorbing, Virtua Tennis World Tour is not only as essential a purchase as "Lumines," "WipEout," "Ridge Racers" and Co., it’s a reason to buy the PSP itself.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Deus Ex: Invisible War
    We were disappointed by the length and size of the maps sometimes, sure, but there is no escaping the fact that the wealth of options present in Invisible War make it one of the most approachable games we have ever encountered since, well, Deus Ex.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition
    Has neither the dexterity of "Outrun 2," nor the thrill of "Burnout 3." It does little to either further the genre or master a particular element, yet to a degree this is a title that can be enjoyed in short spurts.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 89 Critic Score
    Battlefield Vietnam
    As if intentionally trying to be the best it could be, Battlefield: Vietnam has possibly the greatest musical score known to game-kind.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    TrackMania Sunrise
    Online, Sunrise is beyond fault. There are plenty of games to join (albeit most of which requiring a minimum of GCSE French) while if playing on your lonesome happens to be your thing, plenty of tracks are available for download, with your creations - if any good - are guaranteed an eager reception.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 74 Critic Score
    Thief: Deadly Shadows
    It's a shame that the rag-doll physics are the worst we've come across since, ooh, Rainbow Six: Raven Shield, because you'll often find that lifeless and unconscious bodies fall in the most ridiculous and impossible positions.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 86 Critic Score
    Painkiller (2004)
    Breathtaking attention to detail served with great graphics that'll run on anyone's system all make it highly commendable. The game provides a lot of intensely focused carnage, but absolutely nothing else, and that wasn't quite enough to keep us entertained for it's whole duration.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 92 Critic Score
    Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour
    The visuals are simply superb, and as we mentioned earlier, the courses look gorgeous and animation is up to the high standard Nintendo has created for itself.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 92 Critic Score
    Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly
    The story is very perplexing at times, no doubt. There’s an awful lot of backtracking and some really tough spots. But the game does everything that it wants to and everything it needs to to secure itself at the top spot of scary games chart.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town
    Harvest Moon is hugely addictive and will almost certainly have you playing for hours on end when you only expected to fill that blank half-an-hour in your schedule.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    Codename: Panzers, Phase One
    It’s uncomplicated, enjoyable and unashamedly action-packed: this is for gamers who don’t know exactly what they want. If they want meat, they’ll have chicken; if they want a drink, they’ll have lager; if they want a strategy game, they’ll have something good looking, easy to get into and more fun than a drunken weekend with Kiera Knightley.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Sid Meier's Pirates!
    The fusion of many games into one is uninspired and lazy, which is all the more depressing when you consider the basic frame of the game is a solid one.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Deus Ex: Invisible War
    The gameplay might be simpler, the setting more clichéd and the duration shorter, but the ideals of the old ‘Looking Glass Aesthetic’ remain intact. If you care about this, you’ll love Invisible War like your own child.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Codename: Panzers, Phase Two
    It’s a wonderful game with a clichéd, though entertaining plot and some hefty system requirements. If you can meet the latter and don’t give a damn about the former then you will find plenty here to enjoy. Especially the tanks.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Ground Control II: Operation Exodus
    A brilliant game. Even though at no point is the Terran Empire playable, the Virons and their unique melding technology (two units can be ‘melded’ together to create a different unit) makes up for this loss by adding a new level to the strategy.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Spider-Man 2
    The lack of real longevity as a result of this and the chronically unvarying things to do, combine with a curious mixture of shoddy and great graphics to create an odd concoction. It's so much fun swinging around and beating up baddies, but so painful to see the same situations again and again.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    Hitman: Contracts
    Essentially a filler game with a few new weapons and tools of murder, and, of course, its new and improved game engine. The problem is, while it’s nowhere near the leap from Hitman: Codename 47 to Hitman 2: Silent Assassin, Hitman: Contracts is still a highly enjoyable game, and one that gives us hope that the next title in the series will have much more effort poured into it.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Empire Earth II
    There’s nothing so wrong with Empire Earth II as to show it up for being the rather unexciting and decidedly average game it should be.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    MTV Music Generator 3: This Is the Remix
    Certainly, the only other drawback is the lack of a hard drive for the PS2 version, which would have been ideal for storing copious amounts of tunes, but we can’t hold Codies responsible for that one.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Combat Mission Anthology
    These games really are the pinnacle of strategic warfare, and anybody of this bent who hasn’t already visited really should give the Combat Mission Anthology a shot. Sure, the complexity will be too much for many, but persevere and there’s a wealth of intelligent fun to be had here.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Conker: Live & Reloaded
    The sheer carnage you're able to unleash can verge on the glorious, and the copious amounts of vehicles available in some sections certainly boosts variety. But the only thing we can really recommend Conker: Live & Reloaded for is it's single player mode.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Super Monkey Ball Deluxe
    A vastly entertaining, if flawed, port of a modern day classic.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Max Payne
    For a port of a PC game, Max Payne on the Game Boy Advance is astonishingly well-done.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    Etherlords II
    Etherlords II, on the one hand, benefits from having an excellent combat mechanism lying within the game. Unfortunately it takes a nose-dive because the game that surrounds it isn’t worth a toss.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Soldiers: Heroes of World War II
    Tough, punishing and as unreliable as the timer on a second hand VCR, there’s an experience hidden beneath the lush foliage and 100 different types of weapons that’s hopefully the first of many to revolutionise the RTS.
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