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40 out of 100

Generally unfavorable - based on 15 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 15
  3. Negative: 11 out of 15
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  1. PC Gameworld
    80
    Just remember to keep playing for more than five levels because once you complete a couple of the dream levels you'll be hooked!
  2. Game Chronicles
    57
    How much you enjoy that gameplay is going to be based on your love of the genre and your tolerance for numerous glitches. Hopefully a patch is in the works to improve things, or at least fix what's broke.
  3. IGN
    50
    There are bugs and instability, and interesting environments can't overcome bland gameplay, weak AI, and lack of polish.
  4. Cheat Code Central
    50
    What is missing from PsychoToxic is soul. It's not a unique game by any standards. It's a regular shooter with average graphics and sounds.
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  5. GameSpot
    41
    A long-in-development shooter from Germany that--despite occasional bursts of endearing "deepest depths of your soul" wackiness--is ruined by sloppy design, bugs, and a desperate need for some editing.
  6. IncGamers
    40
    The collision detection is ridiculous. Occasionally, you will get hung up on things as ordinary as steps!
  7. Computer Games Magazine
    40
    Game-crashing bugs? Check. Horrible enemy AI? Check. [July 2005, p.66]
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  8. Jolt Online Gaming UK
    38
    A lot of the good intentions in Psychotoxic are just lost in the mess of it all. We might have recommended the story to fans of sci-fi B-movies, but frankly after a few interesting cut-scenes the story goes absolutely nowhere for hours before wrapping-up in a not-entirely-satisfying manner.
  9. Computer and Video Games
    35
    For every second of satisfaction, there is a minute of monotony; where cardboard enemies fall under a cloud of red paint, physics offer no value whatsoever, AI is largely non-existent and gameplay follows the worn-ragged formula of coloured keycards and enemies that appear from thin air. [PC Zone]
  10. Armchair Empire
    30
    Such is the nature of a bad game though; if it's bad, it would have always been and always will be bad.
  11. GameSpy
    30
    It's mostly tedious, sloppy, and stale, with bugs and crashes adding insult to injury. You could find a better shooter blindfolded.
  12. GameCritics
    25
    Oh, and in a final note to developers: please don't put pictures of your children in the end credits of your video games. It's not like it kept me from giving Psychotoxic a bad review-I just feel kind of guilty about it.
  13. PC Format
    25
    Combine all of this with shocking AI, unfair combat and limited ammo, and you're looking at a veritable festival of the mediocre. [June 2005, p.101]
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  14. PC Gamer
    15
    And the mundane levels have been stretched out with keycard hunts, mile-high ladders, and endless corridors. [June 2005, p.72]
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  15. Gaming Nexus
    15
    It's ridiculously long, completely uninspired and quite simply, the biggest waste of my gaming time in the past decade. Even if struck deaf, blind and dumb, anyone can realize that Psychotoxic is without a doubt, one of the worst PC titles of all time.
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3.5 out of 10

Generally unfavorable- based on 4 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 2
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 2
  3. Negative: 2 out of 2
  1. DeviantHellborn
    1
    Interesting gameplay and slick weapons, but in the end, this game is like masturbation without the pay-off.
  2. AndyT.
    0
    I can't even get the damn thing to NOT lockup at 'Manifestation' world initialization (i.e. the beginning)
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