Cheat Code Central's Scores

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For 5,754 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 63% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 33% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Game review score: 71
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5,754 game reviews
    • Metascore: 41
    • Critic Score 40
    The score is deceptive. There are worse superhero games you could be playing. In the end, though, there aren't any secrets that don't apply to gamplay so there's not much reason to revisit this.
    • Metascore: 46
    • Critic Score 40
    You may have read this review and wondered, where's the cool stuff? Good question.
    • Metascore: 74
    • Critic Score 40
    The brawling gets old fast and the game's design isn't conducive to using guns, making for some boring, linear gameplay, The lackluster narrative doesn't help.
    • Metascore: 58
    • Critic Score 40
    For a $10 WiiWare title, the amount of content is respectable. In terms of fun factor, however, this one's hard to recommend.
    • Metascore: 42
    • Critic Score 40
    While this game will take you twenty or more hours to complete, it is so repetitious and clunky you'll swear it was closer to eighty.
    • Metascore: 41
    • Critic Score 40
    While this game will take you twenty or more hours to complete, it is so repetitious and clunky you'll swear it was closer to eighty.
    • Metascore: 37
    • Critic Score 40
    Even if you got this game as a gift, you should return it immediately. There are far too many moments that make it unplayable. Go play Gears of War instead.
    • Metascore: 43
    • Critic Score 40
    Even if you got this game as a gift, you should return it immediately. There are far too many moments that make it unplayable. Go play Gears of War instead.
    • Metascore: 68
    • Critic Score 40
    There are a decent number of workouts to choose from, and the workout programs are a nice touch, but you'll burn more calories struggling with the controls than you will actually playing the game.
    • Metascore: 52
    • Critic Score 40
    There's not enough content in this package, and the progression aspects are woefully lacking. For the most part you're expected to keep playing to rank up stats, rather than a compelling campaign.
    • Metascore: 38
    • Critic Score 40
    The story mode is pointless and the two-player mode is bare-bones. There is almost nothing worthwhile to do in this game.
    • Metascore: 47
    • Critic Score 40
    There's some fun to be had in the Time Trial mode, but only because you don't have to struggle with the inadequacy of the rest of the game. Online play may eventually offer some fun as well, but right now it doesn't seem to work.
    • Metascore: 42
    • Critic Score 40
    Once I had committed a few hours to the game and was deep inside Venice leveling up and completing quests, I was indeed drawn into the game. But the sordid path it took to get me there and the unnecessary complications of the map were beyond frustrating and would turn away most gamers.
    • Metascore: 47
    • Critic Score 40
    Once I had committed a few hours to the game and was deep inside Venice leveling up and completing quests, I was indeed drawn into the game. But the sordid path it took to get me there and the unnecessary complications of the map were beyond frustrating and would turn away most gamers.
    • Metascore: 82
    • Critic Score 40
    If you've already been-there-done-that, move along - there's nothing to see here. But if you must have Pokemon then just get one of these games. Don't fall prey to Nintendo's cheesy marketing scheme.
    • Metascore: 58
    • Critic Score 40
    While it does the multi-player thing better than most games, the single-player mode is nothing more than a single-player version of the multi-player mode. There's no story, no strategy and really nothing that you could call innovative.
    • Metascore: 61
    • Critic Score 40
    Slapdash.
    • Metascore: 60
    • Critic Score 40
    The biggest complaint is that the games suffer from slowdown, especially when the scrolling can't keep up to the speed of the character.
    • Metascore: 70
    • Critic Score 40
    All around there's just too much repetition in this game. It's fun for half-an-hour tops and that's it.
    • Metascore: 38
    • Critic Score 40
    This game is even worse than the show.
    • Metascore: 48
    • Critic Score 40
    Does not even come close to capturing the fun, speed and total recklessness of the original.
    • Metascore: 42
    • Critic Score 40
    The problem with this game is that the controls are terrible.
    • Metascore: 55
    • Critic Score 40
    Although the challenge is formidable, the game is relatively short. The developers were hoping that the difficulty of the game alone would add to its length.
    • Metascore: 53
    • Critic Score 40
    If the graphics and animation were better on Beyond the Battlebox, this game would stand a chance. Unfortunately it's about as basic as you can get.
    • Metascore: 44
    • Critic Score 40
    Faced with the removal of all the great production this GBA version highlights the game's weakest aspect - the gameplay. It's like seeing Madonna without her makeup.
    • Metascore: 44
    • Critic Score 40
    Un-challenging, un-fun, easy to beat and way too short. It’s such a boring game that the only saving grace is that it’s mercifully short.
    • Metascore: 50
    • Critic Score 40
    It has the gimmick of Daredevil's heightened senses and special abilities but it's not enough to carry the lame gameplay.
    • Metascore: 67
    • Critic Score 40
    This new difficulty didn't make the game any better, it just made it more difficult. It's like having to make friends with an asinine neighbor just because you feel obligated to be nice.
    • Metascore: 47
    • Critic Score 40
    Unless the girls that receive Barbie Groovy Games as a gift are too stupid to notice, Barbie makes only a few brief appearances in the game.
    • Metascore: 63
    • Critic Score 40
    There's no personality or story development here - all resemblance to any fictional character is virtually coincidental.
    • Metascore: 60
    • Critic Score 40
    The presentation is hideous. This is so bare bones I'm sure even a Russian would feel a little embarrassed about the lack of options, detail, story and gameplay. The music is terrible.
    • Metascore: 56
    • Critic Score 40
    You can throw in all the famous characters you want but if the gameplay isn't there you don't have a game worth playing.
    • Metascore: 70
    • Critic Score 40
    In my opinion it's just a little too little, too late.
    • Metascore: 57
    • Critic Score 40
    Punch, punch, punch, jump - and throw something. That seems to be the extent of the gameplay.
    • Metascore: 62
    • Critic Score 40
    So much of this game is derived from Pokemon that it's shameless.
    • Metascore: 53
    • Critic Score 40
    Multi scrolling levels give the game a 3D appearance which will fool some gamers for a while but it's hard not to get bored playing on the same plane.
    • Metascore: 57
    • Critic Score 40
    The game looks good, sounds good, has a great collision detection system, no drop in the framerate or any other noticeable technical flaws. But like so many sequels, it's just void of a soul.
    • Metascore: 40
    • Critic Score 40
    It features lots of characters from the series, perhaps all of your favorites, but if these fighters were real they'd be on the phone with their agents trying to stop this game from getting released.
    • Metascore: 39
    • Critic Score 40
    Where Flight of the Falcon goes wrong is in trying to make the GBA display 3D environments for an entire game.
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    One of the worst party games ever invented.
    • Metascore: 35
    • Critic Score 40
    It's obvious that some care and talent went into the making of this game. Unfortunately it just didn't dribble down to the most important part - the gameplay.
    • Metascore: 26
    • Critic Score 40
    Only the most feeble of gamers or the very young will get any challenge out of this game. It should have been a mini game.
    • Metascore: 66
    • Critic Score 40
    Unfortunately it sounds like a wristwatch alarm. After an hour or so of playing Xevious, staring at your watch will seem like a refreshing change of pace.
    • Metascore: 66
    • Critic Score 40
    Virtually every motocross game released for the GBA in the last three years is better than this one.
    • Metascore: 55
    • Critic Score 40
    Releasing an older, inferior version of Bomberman on the GBA when there are already plenty of great, newer version available surely must be an indication of madness.
    • Metascore: 51
    • Critic Score 40
    The gameplay mechanics mutiny against what might have been an enjoyable, mindless, first-person shooter.
    • Metascore: 33
    • Critic Score 40
    From the gameplay to the graphics, Van Helsing is one poorly developed game. I don't even care what the excuses are, this game should not have been released in the state that it's in.
    • Metascore: 79
    • Critic Score 40
    Aside from those tree huggers that cling to "classics," the average gamer of today would have little use for such long, drawn out RPGs that just simply can't compete with today's RPGs. There's a reason the RPGs are really popular now and that's because they've evolved from what they were.
    • Metascore: 66
    • Critic Score 40
    In Dr. Mario, its all too obvious that Mario is practicing in Tetris territory without a license.
    • Metascore: 57
    • Critic Score 40
    Like the kart racers of fighters. It's a generic 2D fighter that has limited control and very little depth. Not recommended for hardcores.
    • Metascore: 37
    • Critic Score 40
    Bean there - done that - won't do it again.
    • Metascore: 54
    • Critic Score 40
    The entire presentation is flat and uninspired. With the exception of color, this game looks like it was destined for a watch.
    • Metascore: 59
    • Critic Score 40
    A collecting RPG in the tradition of Pokemon - shamefully so. But instead of expanding on this style of gameplay that's already been done to death, The Shaman King sees fit to simplify it so that it offers a challenge akin to turning a water faucet on and off.
    • Metascore: 56
    • Critic Score 40
    It may have a sophisticated graphics engine and a good assortment of aircraft but for a game that should be presented in 3D, it falls flat.
    • Metascore: 77
    • Critic Score 40
    I don't care how good the gameplay is - it's been done to death. It's like releasing the game of checkers over and over with different colored game pieces.
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    • Critic Score 40
    Unfortunately the accuracy of the weapons is low. The controls are loose and sometime they don't even register a command. Very sloppy.
    • Metascore: 60
    • Critic Score 40
    A collecting RPG in the tradition of Pokemon - shamefully so. But instead of expanding on this style of gameplay that's already been done to death, The Shaman King sees fit to simplify it so that it offers a challenge akin to turning a water faucet on and off.
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    • Critic Score 40
    Blades of Thunder reduces the thrills of chopper combat to that of delivering crates of Kentucky Fried Chicken to remote Indian reserves in the Canadian wilderness.
    • Metascore: 57
    • Critic Score 40
    If you get frustrated easily, like when the ink runs out of your pen, then this game's for you. It will only last a few hours and then you can go back outside and continue trying to hit rocks with a stick.
    • Metascore: 47
    • Critic Score 40
    If this game were available for free in a cereal box I still wouldn't recommend it - but it would make it easier to swallow.
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    • Critic Score 40
    About the only thing the developers got right are the graphics. Considering how low-res they are, it's not much of an accomplishment.
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    • Critic Score 40
    Even at the budget price of fifteen bucks, save your money and hunt down an arcade version of either games. At least you'll have a few hours worth of fun instead of an eternity of mediocrity.
    • Metascore: 37
    • Critic Score 40
    Don't confuse this game with the console games however. Console games good; GBA game bad.
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    • Critic Score 40
    There's absolutely nothing redeeming about this game except that it's price lower than a real game, so you won't get ripped off as badly if accidentally purchase it.
    • Metascore: 46
    • Critic Score 40
    Once you get past the graphics you will be confronted with a cold and sterile fighting engine. The game is barren in the area of options, menu and unlockables.
    • Metascore: 44
    • Critic Score 40
    This game is more of an action adventure without the combat. It's also a little shy on action and adventure.
    • Metascore: 48
    • Critic Score 40
    Murakumo at first looks like an expensive diamond but after playing it you to will see it’s nothing more then a polished lump of coal.
    • Metascore: 45
    • Critic Score 40
    Slot car racing is bloody boring enough without have to replicate it in a videogame. What's next? Snail racing?... It stinks.
    • Metascore: 68
    • Critic Score 40
    The game gets very old, very fast, especially in the four-player mode.
    • Metascore: 58
    • Critic Score 40
    Although the driving engine isn't bad at all, the automatic targetting system is more than a little chaotic and clunky.
    • Metascore: 46
    • Critic Score 40
    There's little you can do despite the 34 spells at your disposal. Getting out alive is left to chance and a lot of button mashing.
    • Metascore: 33
    • Critic Score 40
    Are we going to be forever destined to inferior products based on popular characters wading through a series of hackneyed mini games?
    • Metascore: 42
    • Critic Score 40
    There's nothing here that would warrant this game being on the Xbox. It doesn't look good, the sounds are average, the tunes are forgettable and the gameplay is unimaginative.
    • Metascore: 55
    • Critic Score 40
    Nothing is more embarrassing, or fun to watch, than something that someone thinks is cool, which falls flat while they really try to sell it with clueless enthusiasm. Just about every aspect of this game falls flat, from the gameplay to the soundtrack.
    • Metascore: 40
    • Critic Score 40
    The gang vernacular and the gratuitous use of swearing may make this game appear cool but you may as well listen to an Andrew Dice Clay recording and play with a string-less yo-yo.
    • Metascore: 22
    • Critic Score 40
    The sad part is that there are just too many problems that were not fixed before the release. The main thing is the controls of the game itself... It's a game with some cool gimmicks that try to hide a poorly made game.
    • Metascore: 74
    • Critic Score 40
    An uninspired action adventure game that rehashes the same old elements that we've seen throughout the series. There is little combat and what is offered is limited by a few moves and combos which are all practically divulged at the outset.
    • Metascore: 44
    • Critic Score 40
    Nothing more than a stagnant, relentlessly boring game. You can exploit everything the game has to offer in less than a couple of hours.
    • Metascore: 30
    • Critic Score 40
    Take away the Robocop license, pop culture sound bytes and you've got a totally generic FPS on your hands that is completely forgettable.
    • Metascore: 71
    • Critic Score 40
    FlatOut has all the makings of a great budget games, except that it's not great and that it's not budget priced.
    • Metascore: 48
    • Critic Score 40
    From the graphics to the gameplay this is a game that would be more at home on the PSX than either the Xbox or the PS2. About the only good thing about this game is that it's a budget title. I wouldn't expect any serious gamer to get more than an hour's worth of entertainment from this.
    • Metascore: 53
    • Critic Score 40
    From the gameplay to the graphics, this game screams budget title. It not only looks generic but it acts generic. The developers really missed the mark with this one.
    • Metascore: 70
    • Critic Score 40
    While "The Sims" can get deep, The Urbz: Sims in the City is a very light version of the original. This game is designed for girls that haven't yet grown out of the Barbie phase. The Urbz is the shallowest version of The Sims yet.
    • Metascore: 51
    • Critic Score 40
    187 Ride or Die is bad - but it's not so bad that it's good. There's nothing good about it, period.
    • Metascore: 36
    • Critic Score 40
    The load times are ridiculous. I have not seen a more frustrating design. It loads when you access a menu. It even loads after you pause it. There is no other reason for this other than sloppy design.
    • Metascore: 44
    • Critic Score 40
    Even longtime fans of the series are bound to be disappointed with the premise and the gameplay.
    • Metascore: 44
    • Critic Score 40
    Instead of a game that takes its inspiration from the show that it's based on, it appear to have been more inspired by "GTA" than anything else. And if you can imagine how bad a budget title of "GTA" would be, you can imagine how bad American Chopper is.
    • Metascore: 45
    • Critic Score 40
    There's no good reason on God's gray earth why anyone would want to play this street racing game when there are so many good ones available.
    • Metascore: 61
    • Critic Score 40
    The tutorial sets the stage for a pleasurable experience, but shoddy game modes, AI, and visuals kill the moment.
    • Metascore: 43
    • Critic Score 40
    The latest game is entitled Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Melee and like the last two games, threatens to send the Turtles back into hibernation or wherever the hell they went last time.
    • Metascore: 38
    • Critic Score 40
    It does have a good variety of modes but the controls are awful and the gameplay is repetitive, repetitive, repetitive, repetitive.
    • Metascore: 44
    • Critic Score 40
    In its defense, the enemy AI is more intelligent than ones in your average shooter. If they were any more intelligent they would pick up and find a better game to play in. I advise you to do likewise.
    • Metascore: 55
    • Critic Score 40
    Most of these games could be replicated on the GBA, certainly the DS. There's no reason to get this package especially for the Xbox. It's like slumming to waste a great console on these old hackneyed games.
    • Metascore: 52
    • Critic Score 40
    This is a lousy simulation of the televised version. It looks terrible with its blocky graphics and herky jerky animation. The poker gameplay is about as average as you can get. There are better, more realistic poker games available on the net for free.
    • Metascore: 56
    • Critic Score 40
    Most of my complaints have to do with the shoddy graphics and technical glitches. But the gameplay is also suspect and will not escape my wrath. I can't think of one positive aspect of this game to recommend even renting it.
    • Metascore: 49
    • Critic Score 40
    The only thing the Dukes game has in common with it is the freeroaming nature of locating missions. Once you do acquire a mission you will find that they are of a make-work nature. The entire game is linear and the sense of freedom is only an illusion.
    • Metascore: 49
    • Critic Score 40
    Not only does the game look bad with last decade's graphics, but the controls are way too loose making any kind of sudden changes in direction virtually impossible.
    • Metascore: 46
    • Critic Score 40
    The textures are so low-res they will give you a headache. The two-player mode is even worse as it compresses the graphics into two halves to facilitate a vertical split screen making everything distorted and elongated, it's like sitting at the front of a Drive-Inn movie screen.
    • Metascore: 46
    • Critic Score 40
    It's not the most challenging of games but there are some side-scrolling moments that liven up the pace.
    • Metascore: 55
    • Critic Score 40
    There is no doubt that it gets challenging near the end but you should be able to breeze through most of the levels in a day.
    • Metascore: 65
    • Critic Score 40
    Combines some of the best elements of past games but still fails to deliver what should be a near-perfect gaming experience. It's like a stew that just doesn't blend.
    • Metascore: 63
    • Critic Score 40
    P.N. 03 won't keep anyone interested for more than a couple of hours. The longer you continue to enjoy the game after that is directly proportional to the time you spent watching reality TV shows.
    • Metascore: 59
    • Critic Score 40
    The game's biggest problem is the programming of the AI. When you assemble your team, little do you realize what idiots they all turn out to be. It's like they're all on crack or something.
    • Metascore: 44
    • Critic Score 40
    The Falsebound Kingdom is almost a prophetic title as this inferior product is forced upon the multitude of loyal supporters that are blind to the deception and exploitation employed by the Yu-Gi-Oh Empire.
    • Metascore: 57
    • Critic Score 40
    A dated game that is today belittled by the very games that it helped inspire. I can't believe that this game hasn't been tweaked. It's nearly identical, warts and all to the DC port.
    • Metascore: 61
    • Critic Score 40
    I found it cliché, repetitive and not very much fun.
    • Metascore: 44
    • Critic Score 40
    The bottom line on this game is that it makes a great appetizer but you'll want "Tony 4" or "Aggressive Inline" for the main course.
    • Metascore: 68
    • Critic Score 40
    With battling monsters and cards to collect this is really just another Pokemon game in disguise and not a very good disguise at that. Come on Nintendo, your slip is showing.
    • Metascore: 56
    • Critic Score 40
    Few kids possess the capacity required to make sense of this scrambled, onscreen action in real time. It will just frustrate all those that play it except the odd MENSA member.
    • Metascore: 54
    • Critic Score 40
    Lego is trying to change its image with the futuristic racing game, Drome Racers. It's like Barney doing a porn movie - but much less interesting.
    • Metascore: 44
    • Critic Score 40
    This is a lousy simulation of the televised version. It looks terrible with its blocky graphics and herky jerky animation. The poker gameplay is about as average as you can get. There are better, more realistic poker games available on the net for free. Go ahead and look for one now.
    • Metascore: 53
    • Critic Score 40
    There's very little to do in this game, and from start to finish it will take you only a few hours. The levels are repeated incessantly, and there is almost zero variety in the missions.
    • Metascore: 73
    • Critic Score 40
    In terms of value, this is one of the worst fighting game re-releases yet.
    • Metascore: 52
    • Critic Score 40
    The game just feels sloppy and unfinished. It controls poorly, looks bad, and completely misses the point of the Resident Evil franchise. Honestly, I wouldn't even recommend this game to Resident Evil fans. If you want a better co-op zombie shooter, you should probably just go back to Left 4 Dead.
    • Metascore: 33
    • Critic Score 40
    Black Ops Declassified isn't a Call of Duty game. It's like one of those grey-market cameras that has an almost-recognizable brand name on the front. And Activision, in all of their laziness, may have inadvertently kicked off the Vita's funeral procession.
    • Metascore: 50
    • Critic Score 40
    This is an exercise in tedium, a substandard brawler that exudes laziness at almost every turn.
    • Metascore: 48
    • Critic Score 39
    Gives the white trash population what they want: more crap. This game is just bad.
    • Metascore: 54
    • Critic Score 38
    The real crime of FaceBreaker is that its gameplay is so bad and the A.I. is so cheap that the game's excellent create-a-player feature can't really be enjoyed. Who cares how many cool characters are available in a game that is insanely frustrating to play?
    • Metascore: 53
    • Critic Score 38
    The real crime of FaceBreaker is that its gameplay is so bad and the A.I. is so cheap that the game's excellent create-a-player feature can't really be enjoyed. Who cares how many cool characters are available in a game that is insanely frustrating to play?
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    • Critic Score 38
    While this Space Chimp's platforming is fairly solid, its linear nature and numerous problems succeed in removing any enjoyment that could possibly be derived from this movie tie-in.
    • Metascore: 44
    • Critic Score 38
    As a mainstream game, Garfield's Fun Fest is absolutely horrendous, and even as a kid's game it fares little better. A complete lack of effort on the part of the developers has led to a title that has boring, repetitive gameplay, poor sound and visuals, lack of humor or even a mildly entertaining storyline, and a total dearth of value.
    • Metascore: 46
    • Critic Score 38
    Were it a $10 WiiWare title, we'd still have to give it a thumbs down. There's almost no focus, there's little reward for your time and money, and the production exhibits an extreme lack of care.
    • Metascore: 44
    • Critic Score 38
    Although there are plenty of modes, the poor controls hamper any play value this title might have had.
    • Metascore: 30
    • Critic Score 38
    Shellshock 2 is incredibly short, largely unsatisfying, and even painful to play at times.
    • Metascore: 35
    • Critic Score 38
    Shellshock 2 is incredibly short, largely unsatisfying, and even painful to play at times.
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    • Critic Score 38
    At only twelve levels, this game is incredibly short. But, in the case of ATG, that's a blessing.
    • Metascore: 41
    • Critic Score 38
    With bad controls, a terrible camera, and an unforgiving life and checkpoint system, don't expect to play this one for very long.
    • Metascore: 41
    • Critic Score 38
    Almost unplayable by oneself and difficult to find others to play with online. 0 Day is a really short game that you'll likely not come anywhere close to getting fifteen dollars worth of enjoyment out of.
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    • Critic Score 38
    Not only is the price outrageous for the amount of game you're getting, but the game you're getting is absolutely terrible.
    • Metascore: 41
    • Critic Score 38
    Repetitive, short, and uninteresting are good ways to describe the play experience found in Cybertron Adventures.
    • Metascore: 36
    • Critic Score 38
    There are songs to play you can't get anywhere else, but you should really ask yourself if you to play them on a "real-fake" guitar.
    • Metascore: 36
    • Critic Score 38
    There are songs to play you can't get anywhere else, but you should really ask yourself if you to play them on a "real-fake" guitar.
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    • Critic Score 38
    Fans of WWII will no doubt seek it out since there is a rabid market for such games. But once they get it home and find out that it sucks, they feel shocked, betrayed, angry and bitter at the very industry that they have come to love and trust.
    • Metascore: 52
    • Critic Score 38
    Boring. Everything about the game seems to be crafted in such a way to make the experience as un-engaging as possible. The graphics: poor. The voice acting: dry. The combat: repetitive. The story: uninteresting. In fact, the only thing this game has going for it is the Game of Thrones IP it is attached to, which is par for the course for licensed games.
    • Metascore: 51
    • Critic Score 38
    Even though I saw serious potential for the game to be fun, I lost interest with it barely a half hour in.
    • Metascore: 39
    • Critic Score 38
    The game isn't funny, and that's inexcusable.
    • Metascore: 45
    • Critic Score 36
    D1 as a budget title is practically a joke, but as a premium title, this game is too ridiculous for words.
    • Metascore: 41
    • Critic Score 36
    Gameplay and control, unfortunately, are the worst aspects of the title. I can usually live with poor graphics if gameplay is good and the controls are solid. Alas, you will become bored very quickly. This game is a real snoozer.
    • Metascore: 25
    • Critic Score 36
    So, the conclusion is this: you got a free game with your Wii when you bought it right? Just play that.
    • Metascore: 51
    • Critic Score 36
    unless you are really into dragons then I would not buy this game. Rent it, you may enjoy it more than I did, but for a game that lasts around five hours it should not have felt stale long before the final dragon was slain.
    • Metascore: 29
    • Critic Score 36
    With its incredibly short play time, lack of any reason to play through more than once, horrific camera, and just overall feeling of being rushed to the market, Jumper: Griffin's Story is unlikely to make anyone glad for the experience.
    • Metascore: 45
    • Critic Score 36
    If you're a huge Mr. Driller fan, I urge you not to purchase this title. Namco doesn't deserve to be rewarded for their less-than-lackluster effort. I truly feel that this game is a complete rip-off!
    • Metascore: 44
    • Critic Score 36
    The movie is good; the game is not, so save yourself the heartache, the pain, and a few hours. I, on the other hand, was not so lucky, but that's life.
    • Metascore: 70
    • Critic Score 36
    A boring Breakout/Arkanoid rip-off in a long line of boring Breakout/Arkanoid rip-offs.
    • Metascore: 37
    • Critic Score 36
    Despite the game's great sense of humor, respectable graphics, and well crafted child-friendly horror-themed atmosphere, frustrating and monotonous gameplay make HorrorLand virtually unbearable.
    • Metascore: tbd
    • Critic Score 36
    With just one substantial game mode, poor controls, and tacked-on unlockables, you'll get bored with this game in less than an hour.
    • Metascore: tbd
    • Critic Score 36
    And why has so little respect been shown to this mythology. Granted, it’s going to be difficult for anyone to make an interesting Zorro game in an age where fragging rules, but The Destiny of Zorro is a total mess of a game.
    • Metascore: tbd
    • Critic Score 36
    There's a good amount of content and game modes, but it's all based on the terrible core gameplay mechanics.
    • Metascore: 58
    • Critic Score 36
    Painfully low production values, unsatisfying action, and outright confusing controls.
    • Metascore: 35
    • Critic Score 34
    This game is clearly a rushed mess, and perhaps should have taken a nod from the Superman Returns video game and not been released until The Golden Compass inevitable DVD release.
    • Metascore: 35
    • Critic Score 34
    A real clunker.
    • Metascore: 43
    • Critic Score 34
    Myst DS is a game you have to avoid like eating Fritos before a first date.
    • Metascore: 36
    • Critic Score 34
    A sad story. The game had an interesting concept and a good amount of potential but it just never came together.
    • Metascore: 36
    • Critic Score 34
    A sad story. The game had an interesting concept and a good amount of potential but it just never came together.
    • Metascore: 41
    • Critic Score 34
    A sad story. The game had an interesting concept and a good amount of potential but it just never came together.
    • Metascore: 39
    • Critic Score 34
    The most that can be said in support of Onechanbara: Bikini Samurai Squad is that it's mildly amusing, at first, to slice through countless zombies in quick succession, while watching the blood fly. From there it's all downhill: the sex and blood represent a dedication to offense, not art; there's no technique required in the hardest immediately available difficulty; the game was poorly executed on a technical level.
    • Metascore: 31
    • Critic Score 34
    With extremely dated graphics, poor sound, archaic mechanics, and a loser of a plot, this game just doesn't measure up to any standard. This dummy just needs to crash and be done with it.
    • Metascore: 35
    • Critic Score 34
    When your game makes you want to skip the egregiously tedious gameplay so you can see what happens in the utterly forgettable story, you know you're doing something wrong.
    • Metascore: 36
    • Critic Score 34
    When your game makes you want to skip the egregiously tedious gameplay so you can see what happens in the utterly forgettable story, you know you're doing something wrong.
    • Metascore: 65
    • Critic Score 34
    Virtua Tennis 4, however, seems to take about a dozen steps backward, with few redeeming features able to keep your interest. Hopefully, they take a long hard look at their flaws and serve up a better product the next time around. Until then, where's my Wii Sports?
    • Metascore: 37
    • Critic Score 34
    To recap: The price is too high, the content is lacking, the game's fighting framework is the very definition of shallow, and its violence manages to come across as both puerile and dull.
    • Metascore: 26
    • Critic Score 32
    As awful as repeating any of these single-player mission sounds, it’s something that you’re going to have to get used to. Due to the unfair advantages of the enemy, including the fog of war that prevents you from seeing what lies ahead, you will constantly be surprised by waves of enemies as you push forward without the ability to obtain any intelligence or reconnaissance.
    • Metascore: 56
    • Critic Score 32
    While the Wii version is an oddly enjoyable experience, the DS version is a complete disappointment.
    • Metascore: 38
    • Critic Score 32
    While the graphics and hole designs are inviting, the frustrations caused by the controls and Barker himself successfully put a damper on the entire experience.
    • Metascore: 39
    • Critic Score 32
    Unfortunately, if the Wii version of AITD is any indication as to where this series is headed, then nostalgia may be all that is left for its many fans.
    • Metascore: 25
    • Critic Score 32
    As awful as repeating any of these single-player mission sounds, it's something that you're going to have to get used to. Due to the unfair advantages of the enemy, including the fog of war that prevents you from seeing what lies ahead, you will constantly be surprised by waves of enemies as you push forward without the ability to obtain any intelligence or reconnaissance.
    • Metascore: 39
    • Critic Score 30
    This is the style of arcade game that was around in mechanical form since the early 50s. It's just an on-rails shooter that never lets up. You never move from your position while shooting down swarms of Japanese aircraft with your AA gun. It's so easy to play it's ridiculous.
    • Metascore: 41
    • Critic Score 30
    The biggest problem with BUM:ZoD (actually BumZod is kind of a cool word…ya bumzod!) is directly related to the narrow track design that awaits you on every track. Crashing, smashing and bashing into the sides is something you'll have to get used to because there is no discernible way of NOT doing it.
    • Metascore: 47
    • Critic Score 30
    The problem with Prison Escape is that it's just a buggy little piece of crap. If I were playing this game for my own enjoyment instead of reviewing it I would take this back to the store so fast I would be able catch myself coming out of the door withit.
    • Metascore: 58
    • Critic Score 30
    I had to look twice to see if perhaps this copy of the game was actually a PSX game accidentally packaged in a PS2 wrapper. Frankly, this game plays so poorly I'm surprised that it's not on a cartridge.
    • Metascore: tbd
    • Critic Score 30
    It looks bad, it plays bad, it's unoriginal, it has no replay value and it's too short. Maybe it's a good thing it's not that long of a game. You can play it through in an afternoon.
    • Metascore: 27
    • Critic Score 30
    The lack of realism, physics, graphics and good level designs would make any gamer pine for the Super Nintendo just to play a decent game for a while.
    • Metascore: 32
    • Critic Score 30
    A text-based, gladiator management sim, Coliseum asks the question, "How long can you last?" The correct answer is: Long enough to get a real, wicked, #%*!-ing headache.
    • Metascore: 47
    • Critic Score 30
    Gamers DO NOT GIVE A %$#@ about concept art. I understand that it's an easy extra to toss in, but does anyone in their right mind actually look forward to unlocking this useless nonsense? Do they just sit there and stare at it? Who cares?
    • Metascore: 28
    • Critic Score 30
    There is no reason in the world to own this product when "Pictochat" basically does everything at least, equally as well.
    • Metascore: 49
    • Critic Score 30
    The story is lame, the gameplay is repetitive and the entire control system is compromised in one way or another. Let the developers fix their mistakes before you throw any money in their direction. Don't even rent this one.
    • Metascore: 16
    • Critic Score 30
    Throwing rocks at cars would be a more fun than shooting rats in NRA Varmint Hunter. Playing this game made me feel like a hobo at a garbage dump with a metal detector.
    • Metascore: 35
    • Critic Score 30
    Atrocious. And not "atrociously good fun" either. Simply atrocious. It's like biting into an Oh Henry and discovering that it is indeed, a big fat solid chunk of stanky human dung and undigested peanuts.
    • Metascore: 26
    • Critic Score 30
    Atrocious. And not "atrociously good fun" either. Simply atrocious. It's like biting into an Oh Henry and discovering that it is indeed, a big fat solid chunk of stanky human dung and undigested peanuts.
    • Metascore: 37
    • Critic Score 30
    With terrible graphics, boring game objectives, frustrating, at best, controls, and mind-numbing character interaction, Escape from Bug Island sets a new low point for Wii games and video games in general.
    • Metascore: 38
    • Critic Score 30
    I would like to say to all of the vampire enthusiasts out there, if you have ever wanted to see if you would survive a vampire attack, here's your chance to find out. For everyone else that doesn't desire to know that a vampire would end their life in two hits, stay away from it.
    • Metascore: tbd
    • Critic Score 30
    The ESRB rating for this game should be changed to N for nobody, and the number of players should be changed from 1 to 0. Can we call another developer to come and Pimp My Game?
    • Metascore: 37
    • Critic Score 30
    The PSP version has so many things against it: the gameplay is terrible, the story is non-existent, and the entire game experience ranges from boring to enraging, depending on how long you've been playing. I feel almost guilty giving ANY game this bad of a review. But trust me, this one earned it.
    • Metascore: 20
    • Critic Score 30
    Of the worst games you could ever have the misfortune of playing.
    • Metascore: 53
    • Critic Score 30
    Kids beware THQ has made a crumby product in hopes of gaining a quick buck.
    • Metascore: tbd
    • Critic Score 30
    This title is amateurish all the way around, and I would have been more forgiving if the game were just a mistake, but it seems like these people are determined to create low-quality games to sell for a low price and fool the minds of those who can't or don't want to pay much for their games. This is the kind of game that brings the Wii down to embarrassing levels, and everyone should be against that.
    • Metascore: 26
    • Critic Score 30
    Not only have no changes been made to the gameplay since its release nearly two years ago, but the newly reformatted control scheme just feels unnecessary. Controlling your clunker with the Wii-mote feels overly loose and unresponsive and any other use for the controller just involves shaking the Wii-mote up and down throughout the title's tediously boring mini-games.
    • Metascore: 39
    • Critic Score 30
    While everything basically works as it should, steering is still made difficult by a mixture of poor camera angles and claustrophobic tracks.
    • Metascore: 41
    • Critic Score 30
    Seriously, even if you are a fan of the original game, you will be hard-pressed to find the appeal of this title and will be disappointed in the end. Play the original, it’ll be cheaper and more entertaining in the long run.
    • Metascore: 28
    • Critic Score 30
    Dragon Ball: Evolution is probably a terrible movie, but I can say with all certainty that it is a terrible game. Poor graphics, a non-existent soundtrack, long loading times, and sparse play value make this title one that you should definitely skip.
    • Metascore: 48
    • Critic Score 30
    Most of Lux-Pain's gameplay is derived from wading through innumerable dialogue boxes by tapping the stylus or pressing a single button. If this sounds like fun to you, save yourself some money by buying a book and arbitrarily clicking your mouse 1,000 times while reading it.
    • Metascore: tbd
    • Critic Score 30
    I doubt anyone will play this game more than once.
    • Metascore: 54
    • Critic Score 30
    Forty stages feel more like four hundred due to slogging painfully from one to another.
    • Metascore: 45
    • Critic Score 30
    The only thing of any value here is the story, and even then you're mostly just reading it in the menu screen. This game has nothing to offer anyone in terms of gameplay.
    • Metascore: 47
    • Critic Score 30
    The only thing of any value here is the story, and even then you're mostly just reading it in the menu screen. This game has nothing to offer anyone in terms of gameplay.
    • Metascore: 46
    • Critic Score 30
    It might be better than watching the film (and it doesn't help that you can probably finish the game in the same time it takes to watch its theatrical counterpart), but Yogi Bear still won't hold your attention for more than a few minutes, if you even bother to play it.
    • Metascore: 53
    • Critic Score 30
    This game is not worth playing for free. Don't ask for it and don't buy it for anyone except a little bastard that deserves it.
    • Metascore: 47
    • Critic Score 30
    Instead of a Superhero game this one is more of a go here and punch this guy, repeat and move on. Not even die-hard fans like Vaughn would have many nice things to say of this version.
    • Metascore: 42
    • Critic Score 30
    I would have had more fun gluing spray-painted macaroni to my ass than playing Mission Impossible: Operation Surma on the GBA.
    • Metascore: 43
    • Critic Score 30
    It lacks features and control. All you really do is make a few choices and let the game play it all out for you. It's like the battle system in an old-school RPG.
    • Metascore: 36
    • Critic Score 30
    In order to keep processing to a minimum, the camera is locked in a fixed position that keeps either of the two playable characters front and center at all times. When you come to levels that require jumping you can't look around to see where the next platform is.
    • Metascore: 35
    • Critic Score 30
    One of the most boring games to be released on the GBA this year. Sitting Ducks isn't a horrible game, it's just so darn boring.
    • Metascore: 39
    • Critic Score 30
    With crappy animation, slow speed, generic gameplay all topped off with a password save, Cartoon Network Speedway could, in the future, be used in place of coal as the universally accepted bad Christmas gift for naughty, disrespectful children.
    • Metascore: 23
    • Critic Score 30
    Thunder Alley could have been released for the GBC in the mid 90s and it still would have been considered a piece of junk.
    • Metascore: 58
    • Critic Score 30
    You would be better off spending a few extra bucks and getting the "Zero Mission" game if you don't already have it. Otherwise I would be very hesitant to spend the twenty bucks on this old clunker.
    • Metascore: 60
    • Critic Score 30
    This is a rushed job and one of Nintedo's worst in several years. Are these games filled with broken tilt mechanisms? You decide.
    • Metascore: 19
    • Critic Score 30
    The game falls apart at the multi-player mode, the very mode of which this entire party concept rides on.
    • Metascore: 49
    • Critic Score 30
    If you're not bored with it in half-an-hour then you can come over to my place and watch the paint dry on the side of my garage. You will spend endless fascinating hours as the sun causes the underlying layers of latex to expand and bubble, eventually making the top coat flake off into little peel-able chips.
    • Metascore: 33
    • Critic Score 30
    Fails on so many levels. It looks bad, the control system suffers from lag and ineffective weapon designs, the AI is incredibly unbalanced and the missions are a repetitive mix of elements.