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83 out of 100

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9.1 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 63 Ratings

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  • Summary: The hip-hop collective's eighth album is their first for Def Jam records, and also features the return to the group of rapper Malik B.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 24 out of 26
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 26
  3. Negative: 0 out of 26
  1. Stylus Magazine
    100
    With Game Theory, the Roots have finally delivered on nearly every once-broken promise.
  2. Entertainment Weekly
    91
    It's all ghetto vérité and political paranoia, with claustrophobic production to match the doom and gloom.
  3. Q Magazine
    60
    Classic Roots. [Oct 2006, p.126]
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 40 out of 43
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 43
  3. Negative: 1 out of 43
  1. RadoslavP.
    10
    Incredible - borders gendre,rase,coolor and religion - everythnig for everyone.
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  2. Spongeee
    5
    The Roots are talented, but they will forever lack the ability to make 'songs' and not these weak, simple, 'real hip hop' jam sessions they call songs. Things Fall Apart was their apex...its been all downhill since. I rather watch them live, but as far as albums...they need to learn to make songs cause theyre wasting talent. And yes Idlewild was far better.… Expand
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  3. RonaldOVOXO
    3
    I dont know what happened to the Roots before Undun but this album wasnt nearly good. They couldnt make this album a classic and it disappoints me because im a huge Roots fan. But at least we have classics like "Undun" & Phrenology… Expand
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