X-ONE Magazine UK's Scores

  • Games
For 1,514 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 34% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 62% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 10 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Game review score: 65
Highest review score: 100 Grand Theft Auto V
Lowest review score: 10 Novadrome
Score distribution:
1514 game reviews
    • 49 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    An 18-rated game made for 13-year-olds, and yet it is the gameplay that is the biggest disappointment. [Issue#74, p.82]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Not atrocious but lacks any sense of originality and is far too tedious. [Issue#46, p.87]
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    • 41 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    A typical videogame tie-in that will last no longer in the public's memory than the film. Play it if you must, but don't say we didn't tell you so. [Issue#60, p.99]
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    • 43 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Do you love wrestling with duff, clunky controls and replaying the same four levels over and over and over again? [Issue#30, p.119]
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    • 43 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    An exasperating experience. [Issue#106, p.85]
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    • 59 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The game appreciates boredom in a way that we never could. [Issue#32, p.89]
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    • 59 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    God of War minus the imagination, plus inordinate amounts of the colour green. [Issue#74, p.89]
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    • 57 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Inescapably dull and tedious. [Issue#32, p.118]
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    • 46 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Pales next to the likes of Torchlight and the DeathSpank games. [Issue#74, p.102]
    • X-ONE Magazine UK
    • 47 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    When it comes down to it, Crashed Ice isn't much more than an extra bit of advertising for Red Bull's own tournament. [Issue#94, p.82]
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    • 54 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The fighting is okay, a few design decisions commendable, but ultimately there is just not enough great game here. Tiny levels with nothing in them? Looks like we are the ones being golden fleeced.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    A real mess of ideas that tries hard but just doesn't have what it takes. [Issue 26, p.118]
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    • 54 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    An utter waste of time and you money, please ensure this unambitious racer never enters your 360. [Issue 13, p.88]
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    • 51 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    It can't hide its budget nature, presenting strategy fans with irksome gameplay, ugly visuals and an overall lack of polish or thought. This is a mess. [Issue#97, p.76]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Tired, completely lacking in variety and without any substatial replay value to speak of, Rayman Raving Rabbid breaks all three golden rules of the successful party game. [Issue#20, p.88]
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    • 40 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    There isn't a single mini-game here that won't seem anachronistic three months from now. [Issue#67, p.90]
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    • 57 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Offers a smaller and less entertaining variety of workout than its fellow Kinect fitness titles. [Issue#66, p.93]
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    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    More fun than being tortured and killed, but still not really much of an advertisement for 13th Century living. [Issue#73, p.87]
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    • 59 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Disappointing isn't the word. What is the word...Lazy? Rubbish? It's probably a word we can't print. [Issue 13, p.90]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    As a game though, it's far too uninspiring. [Issue #22, p.88]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The eight-angle camera system serves only to confuse players with depressing regularity. [Issue#67, p.103]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    A rather depressing waste of money. [Issue#73, p.88]
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    • 57 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Do yourself a favor and get Costume Quest instead. [Issue#67, p.105]
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    • 38 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    This just isn't worth bothering with. [Issue#73, p.89]
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    • 38 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Never before has a game's potential been squandered so much just because the hardware was unable to keep up with the vision. [Issue#87, p.80]
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    • 55 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Both a poor update and an unwieldy, near-cheating videogame overall. [Issue#73, p.101]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Tat. [Issue#5, p.120]
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    • 41 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Though you might think Kinect would be the perfect fit for its staccato gameplay, it ultimately makes things even more frustrating. [Issue#87, p.87]
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    • 49 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Korra isn't broken by any means, it's just mediocre in almost every area. This is for diehard Avatar fans only. [Issue#118, p.80]
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    • 53 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Very pretty to look at and a lot of attention has been paid to female anatomy, but it has no substance whatsoever. [Issue 15, p.82]
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    • 53 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Boring. Abysmal. Buy NBA 2K15. [Issue#118, p.83]
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    An utterly inoffensive third-person shooter. [Issue#117, p.83]
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    • 45 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    While you may enjoy the combat and beasts, the whole game is just far too tedious and it’s missing everything that made the original great.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    It's quickly frustrating. [Issue#77, p.91]
    • X-ONE Magazine UK
    • 64 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    All in all, a shame. [Issue#55, p.105]
    • X-ONE Magazine UK
    • 40 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Really boring bits. [Issue#63, p.91]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Buy an amp and start a garage band instead. [Issue#119, p.86]
    • X-ONE Magazine UK
    • 61 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    There are much better alternatives. [Issue#53, p.95]
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    • 39 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    As strange as they come, with the shallow twist of centering on a group of women who bare all. You already know if this is for you or not.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The levels that you fly through have all been seen a hundred times before. [Issue 28, p.118]
    • X-ONE Magazine UK
    • 64 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    How so many irritations made it into a game with such an incredible world blows our minds. Should have spent more time in development.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    This game's destiny? The bargain bin. [Issue#78, p.84]
    • X-ONE Magazine UK
    • 63 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    There are much, much better ways to spend 1,200 Points. [Issue#58, p.105]
    • X-ONE Magazine UK
    • 54 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Nothing more than an interesting curio. [Issue#58, p.105]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Broken, overly repetitive and frustrating to play. [Issue#78, p.89]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    It's not awful, but splicing these two series together adds no value for fans of either one. It is both an inferior Walking Dead game and an inferior Escapists. [Issue#130, p.82]
    • X-ONE Magazine UK
    • 64 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The basic framework of the combat is acceptable, but really...nah. [Issue#48, p.99]
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    • 55 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Bizarrely this Hulk game isn’t as much fun as Hulk: Ultimate Destruction, and it wasn’t exactly brilliant anyway. You’re best off just watching the film and leaving this alone.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Terrible stuff, and what’s more quite predictably so. The problem’s made worse by how much better things would be if its fat was simply trimmed. Oh Sonic, where art thou?
    • 59 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    It's just not very good at all, even for "fans of the series," as people tend to say. [Issue#56, p.90]
    • X-ONE Magazine UK
    • 45 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    An uninspired, cheap-looking Trials HD rip-off, plastered with the Red Bull logo. [Issue#78, p.103]
    • X-ONE Magazine UK
    • 55 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Fiddly controls. [Issue#51, p.105]
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    • 29 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Just another bemani game with horrible music that you're supposed to play with seven big buttons but instead you play it with wee buttons on the pad. [Issue#35]
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    • 34 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    We're hoping the online component's as good as we think it'll be, because between the ugly new look and the lack of any offline multiplayer, there's nothing here for offline gamers. [Issue 12, p.96]
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    • 54 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Motocross has so much more to offer than this dire racer. [Issue#84, p.87]
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    • 50 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    You're left roaming the virtual landscape, hoping opposition might come your way. [Issue#33, p.117]
    • X-ONE Magazine UK
    • 54 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The lack of challenge only adds to the boredom. In every way, Army Of Two: The Devil’s Cartel is an embarrassment to videogames...Not just boring, but exactly the kind of ‘violence for violence‘s sake’ dross the anti-videogame lobbyists dredge up at the arrival of each new atrocity.
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    • 40 Critic Score
    Even Superman struggles to save this action RPG, which is dragged down by technical issues, uninspiring levels and graphics straight out of 2007. [Issue#109, p.78]
    • X-ONE Magazine UK
    • 68 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Ill-suited to the 360 platform and massively overpriced. [Issue#71, p.101]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    It comes up short. [Issue#56, p.105]
    • X-ONE Magazine UK
    • 69 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    A contradictory videogame premise that screams frustration from its opening stage, and continues in that vein thereafter. [Issue#71, p.103]
    • X-ONE Magazine UK
    • 43 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Try to forget that it ever happened. [Issue#52, p.93]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    These robots could sure use a little extra life injected into them. [Issue#84, p.104]
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    • 49 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Zombie Wranglers sucks. Especially the 'comedy' names they've given each level. They really suck. [Issue#35]
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    • 28 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    It sucks! [Issue#37, p.116]
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    • 42 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    A good-looking but boring button masher that should be avoided. [Issue#86, p.100]
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    • 49 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    This game could send the blood pressure of a Buddhist monk into the stratosphere. [Issue#90, p.78]
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    • 47 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    So many cliches, so little time. [Issue#40, p.103]
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    • 59 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The trouble is, said hints can appear superimposed over the play area, reducing play to a highly distracting farce. [Issue#57, p.107]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Put simply, there are deeper tactical outings, more sociable games of skill, and many Live Arcade titles more enjoyable than this. Go and buy one of htose instead. [Issue#34, p.116]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    We accept that there’s some who’ll like this. You know who you are and you know you’re not the majority. Listen up majority, it is you to whom we speak.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    [An] abomination. [Issue#29, p.117]
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    • 44 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Not terrible, but so dry it’s pointless. If videogame paintball appeals you may be entertained, but boredom will set in.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Some truly horrendous loading times. [Issue#58, p.94]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    We’ve seen it all before; the bones of the typical Saints Row’s design are creaking under the desire for new experiences.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    A shame in so many ways. Avoid, unless you like boredom.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Feels like an unfinished game. [Issue#57, p.97]
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    • 57 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    There are much better games out there for the same audience. [Issue#44, p.84]
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    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Quite simply, this would have been struggling for a decent mark on Live Arcade. One strong concept does not a game make.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    A strange one, this. Fun to play with friends for a while, but the questions range from interesting to just plain stupid, and this really should be DLC. That’s what DLC is for!
    • 61 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    It doesn't work nearly as well on the 360 as it has in the past. Shame. [Issue 8, p.94]
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    • 44 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    It’s no surprise that a movie-licensed game has turned out rubbish, again. There is no excuse for gameplay this dated. Avoid, unless you’re feeling very nostalgic.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    A fundamentally flawed and boring RPG, Enchanted Arms might be steeped in Japanese charm but without any sense of fun or involvement, there's no reason to buy this. [Issue # 11, p.84]
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    • 43 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Monotonous. [Issue#23, p.97]
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    • 55 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    It's also insanely easy and offers no lasting challenge. [Issue 27, p.117]
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    • 60 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Offers little more than the free trial vision can provide. [Issue#93, p.88]
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    • 42 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    One day someone will nail this series and make a game that does its mystery characteristics justice, but we're stuck waiting until then. [Issue#66, p.91]
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    • 50 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    A contender for one of the dirtiest games of the year, Payback is two parts uninspired garbage and three parts loading screen. [Issue 28, p.98]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    No attempt at making its single-player outing more interesting than exhibition matches also stinks. [Issue#23, p.97]
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    • 59 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    If you must play one, go back a few games. [Issue#48, p.87]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    What should be exhilarating, fast-paced and exciting turns out to be boring, samey and unbalanced to the point of being broken. [Issue#68, p.89]
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    • 59 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Poor controls. [Issue#92, p.88]
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Madness. [Issue#23, p.97]
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    • 47 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    A good idea in principle, and one that could have made for a great game, but its execution is so poor that it ends up looking like a complete mess. [Issue#75, p.76]
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    • 35 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Some promising ideas, but little to no delivery on any of them. [Issue#49, p.90]
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    • 56 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    It's an improvement on staring out the window. [Issue#91, p.78]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Painfully dull gameplay. [Issue#75, p.82]
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    • 53 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    It's looking a bit on the tired side. Great music though. [Issue#25, p.118]
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    • 59 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Simply too boring to even consider a rental. [Issue#75, p.84]
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    • 46 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    So technical that it might as well be a manual. [Issue#75, p.85]
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