GameSpot's Scores

  • Games
For 9,524 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 45% higher than the average critic
  • 6% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Game review score: 68
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9,524 game reviews
    • Metascore: 24
    • Critic Score 24
    A train wreck of a game... Falls short in every respect.
    • Metascore: 47
    • Critic Score 24
    Unfortunately, Tetris Worlds also introduces one particular change to the gameplay that renders the classic game all but unplayable.
    • Metascore: 36
    • Critic Score 24
    Even taking the lack of MX games into consideration, this game is bad for everybody, and it's our sincerest hope that potential players will take our advice and stay very, very far away from this game.
    • Metascore: 52
    • Critic Score 24
    Layers and layers of flaws completely negate any strong points the game could have had. If you absolutely must play Urban Chaos, do yourself a favor and play the PC version.
    • Metascore: 33
    • Critic Score 23
    Superman Returns for the DS is a terrible game for numerous reasons.
    • Metascore: 43
    • Critic Score 23
    The gameplay takes you back in time to the days when RTS programmers had yet to figure out such intricacies as pathfinding, level design, and visual presentation.
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    • Critic Score 23
    A date with Kim Jong II would be more enjoyable than this shooter.
    • Metascore: 40
    • Critic Score 23
    In practice, however, the game's ugly textures, poor frame rate, and clunky gameplay combine to make MTV Skateboarding one of the worst PlayStation games released this year.
    • Metascore: 26
    • Critic Score 23
    Even the most hard-core Aquaman devotees will likely find little use for this short, shallow, problematic ramshackle game.
    • Metascore: 27
    • Critic Score 23
    Even the most hard-core Aquaman devotees will likely find little use for this short, shallow, problematic ramshackle game.
    • Metascore: 29
    • Critic Score 22
    If the developer was out to break the game of poker, then it succeeded masterfully... The last thing on Earth any poker player should do is pick up a copy of World Poker Championship.
    • Metascore: 33
    • Critic Score 22
    If you're looking for a horrifically bad game that takes less than two hours to finish--but arguably does follow the plot of the film--then, by all means, give Van Helsing a shot. Just remember to hold onto the receipt.
    • Metascore: 21
    • Critic Score 22
    It may be a great toy, but Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots is a lousy video game.
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    • Critic Score 22
    Terrible controls and paper-thin gameplay make Greg Hastings' Tournament Paintball Max'd a bad deal, even for a budget game.
    • Metascore: 30
    • Critic Score 22
    Despite its lengthy production cycle, has a bevy of horrible problems that render the game practically unplayable.
    • Metascore: 36
    • Critic Score 22
    An unplayable mess.
    • Metascore: 32
    • Critic Score 21
    A game that simply attempts to cash in on the success of "Counter-Strike" and the "Rainbow Six" series by copying their themes, but it ends up falling well short of the mark because of its terrible graphics engine, its ill-conceived design, and a campaign that takes only a few hours to (nearly) complete.
    • Metascore: tbd
    • Critic Score 21
    There's really no need for this game to exist. For Activision Value to have essentially repackaged a bad old game as a bad new game is an obvious and despicable attempt to cash in on the recent military operations going on in the Middle East.
    • Metascore: tbd
    • Critic Score 21
    Crime Life is just plain awful. Do yourself a favor and stay away from it.
    • Metascore: 36
    • Critic Score 21
    Land of the Dead fails to deliver even the most garden-variety of zombie-killing thrills, due to its inept combat, awful visuals, and cripplingly stupid artificial intelligence.
    • Metascore: 28
    • Critic Score 21
    In a word, MK: Special Forces is ugly.
    • Metascore: 34
    • Critic Score 21
    In a word, this game is ugly.
    • Metascore: 65
    • Critic Score 21
    Tetris Worlds does what countless iterations of the game haven't managed to do in the past--it actually breaks Tetris.
    • Metascore: 51
    • Critic Score 21
    The entire game is so unpolished and full of bugs that it's unfathomable how it ever passed quality assurance in the first place.
    • Metascore: 44
    • Critic Score 21
    Like a botched cloning experiment from a B movie, with developer Xpec Entertainment playing the mad scientist's role and Gauntlet playing the test subject. The beast that's emerged from the cloning chamber is just what you'd expect: a shambling, ugly, and dumb version of the source material.
    • Metascore: 30
    • Critic Score 21
    From top to bottom, there's absolutely nothing to like about Crime Life: Gang Wars. It isn't even bad in an interesting or funny way. It's just garbage.
    • Metascore: 26
    • Critic Score 20
    This is one of the most inept pieces of drek ever to be pawned off as a computer game.
    • Metascore: 27
    • Critic Score 20
    Because of its ugly graphics, bad sound, faulty artificial intelligence, and extremely dull gameplay, it winds up crashing to the ground like some ill-fated hydrogen blimp.
    • Metascore: 25
    • Critic Score 20
    As a team-based shooter with vehicles, the game strives to recapture the magic of "Battlefield 1942" in a sci-fi setting but fails miserably.
    • Metascore: 27
    • Critic Score 20
    It is just an awful game through and through, and it won't be enjoyed by anyone. Simply put: Don't play this game.
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    • Critic Score 20
    When Origin of the Species isn't breaking your mind with its completely insane storyline and bizarrely terrible gameplay mechanics, it's probably breaking itself with one of its many, many bugs.
    • Metascore: 38
    • Critic Score 20
    A disaster in just about every imaginable fashion. A few patches may yet round it into some kind of playable shape, but right now this is simply another cookie-cutter RTS loaded with serious bugs and unfulfilled potential.
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    • Critic Score 20
    If America's participation in World War II was as frustratingly terrible as this game, all of Europe would be speaking German today.
    • Metascore: 39
    • Critic Score 20
    An unplayable, buggy mess.
    • Metascore: 25
    • Critic Score 20
    This action RPG from Quotix Software hits new lows in mind-numbing combat and ridiculously confusing level design.
    • Metascore: 26
    • Critic Score 20
    From top to bottom World War II Combat: Iwo Jima is a terrible game with no redeeming qualities whatsoever.
    • Metascore: 37
    • Critic Score 20
    Hour of Victory is practically broken and has no business being on shelves in its current state.
    • Metascore: 28
    • Critic Score 20
    The King of Monsters stars in the worst of DS games.
    • Metascore: 28
    • Critic Score 20
    The Golden Compass is just another family-friendly film cash-in with a huge number of inexcusable technical glitches.
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    • Critic Score 20
    Any Defender of the Crown lovers from the '80s should leave their good memories intact and ignore this desecration.
    • Metascore: 26
    • Critic Score 20
    Horrid AI, broken physics, and terrible game design conspire to topple Jenga World Tour.
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    • Critic Score 20
    Terrible AI and indecipherable dialogue are just two of the many problems afflicting this zombie shooter.
    • Metascore: 41
    • Critic Score 20
    Without the ability to compete against human opponents, this version of Cyberball 2072 is a completely useless waste.
    • Metascore: tbd
    • Critic Score 20
    Spy Games' abysmal gameplay is matched only by its flair for the generic.
    • Metascore: 35
    • Critic Score 20
    World War II shooters simply don't get worse than Battle for the Pacific.
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    • Critic Score 20
    This truly horrible racing game could put you off M&M's for life.
    • Metascore: 17
    • Critic Score 20
    Poor technical performance joins mindless, repetitive gameplay and a truly atrocious sense of humor in the PlayStation 3 version of Box Office Bust.
    • Metascore: 42
    • Critic Score 20
    This frustrating, broken mess is one of the worst strategy games in years.
    • Metascore: 42
    • Critic Score 20
    Iron Chef America: Supreme Cuisine is a disgracefully bad attempt to capitalize on the popularity of Iron Chef.
    • Metascore: 28
    • Critic Score 20
    This dreadfully boring, expletive-filled, extremely short shooter is an absolute rip-off.
    • Metascore: 29
    • Critic Score 20
    This dreadfully boring, expletive-filled, extremely short shooter is an absolute rip-off.
    • Metascore: 26
    • Critic Score 20
    After beating 17 races in less than two hours, you'll have seen everything that this miserable excuse for a racing game has to offer.
    • Metascore: 25
    • Critic Score 20
    NBA Unrivaled is one of the worst basketball games ever made.
    • Metascore: 32
    • Critic Score 20
    Poor motion controls and unrewarding gameplay prevent you from having any fun at all with this terrible fighting game.
    • Metascore: 45
    • Critic Score 20
    This port has a host of new problems that render the game virtually unplayable.
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    • Critic Score 20
    If America's participation in World War II was as frustratingly terrible as this game, all of Europe would be speaking German today.
    • Metascore: 25
    • Critic Score 20
    From top to bottom World War II Combat: Iwo Jima is a terrible game with no redeeming qualities whatsoever.
    • Metascore: 39
    • Critic Score 20
    Absolutely awful in every way.
    • Metascore: 38
    • Critic Score 20
    Absolutely awful in every way.
    • Metascore: 35
    • Critic Score 20
    Childish minigames and saw-it-coming plots make NCIS a mockery of its TV inspiration.
    • Metascore: 20
    • Critic Score 20
    The only way to draw even the tiniest bit of entertainment from the game is by playing on nearly empty servers to avoid the player-killing cheaters and focus on the undead. Even then, you soon get fed up with the dreary zombie combat, or some hacker shows up and puts you out of your misery. Fighting zombie hordes in an apocalyptic wasteland has never been so depressing.
    • Metascore: tbd
    • Critic Score 19
    You can pass through most of the game in this way without ever having to fight, which means that Arthur's Quest is either an action game with an exceedingly poor design or a fast-paced, arcade-style coward simulator.
    • Metascore: tbd
    • Critic Score 19
    An unplayable mess of a game; it feels like a really bad amateur mod that was released before it was finished.
    • Metascore: tbd
    • Critic Score 19
    If you have the misfortune of playing Mini RC Rally, you can at least find solace in knowing the next game you play won't be any worse.
    • Metascore: 46
    • Critic Score 19
    About as incoherent and obnoxious as the ramblings of a bored frat boy who's holding an empty six-pack and a boom box, except with Nightcaster II, you have to pay $40 to be subjected to it.
    • Metascore: 32
    • Critic Score 19
    Land of the Dead fails to deliver even the most garden-variety of zombie-killing thrills, due to its inept combat, awful visuals, and cripplingly stupid artificial intelligence.
    • Metascore: 23
    • Critic Score 19
    A horrific display of ineptitude.
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    • Critic Score 18
    A huge mess of a game that is riddled with grievous bugs, badly designed in every measurable capacity, and completely lacking in any conceivable dimension of fun.
    • Metascore: tbd
    • Critic Score 18
    One of those curious amalgams of a migraine-inducing interface and relentless number crunching, a program so needlessly complex that you can't bring yourself to call it a game.
    • Metascore: 33
    • Critic Score 17
    More punishment than game. No matter what the box says, this isn't so much a fantasy role-playing game as it is a medieval torture device right up there with the rack and the iron maiden.
    • Metascore: 24
    • Critic Score 17
    In short, the game plays like an unfinished product rushed out the door and has absolutely no redeeming qualities whatsoever.
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    • Critic Score 17
    Pimp My Ride was shoddy enough as a console game, but the PSP version goes that extra mile and makes it completely unplayable.
    • Metascore: 33
    • Critic Score 16
    Downright painful to play...utter garbage that should be passed up without a second thought.
    • Metascore: 18
    • Critic Score 16
    It's hard to imagine that anyone would want his or her name prominently displayed on such an abysmal game, especially one whose only distinguishing feature is that it's actually even worse than the awful game that preceded it, a contender for worst game of last year, Elite Forces: Navy SEALs.
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    • Critic Score 16
    NRA Gun Club's awful gameplay and presentation make it an effective though unintended antigun message: Guns are boring.
    • Metascore: 22
    • Critic Score 16
    Just an absolutely broken mess of a game...One of the most atrociously unplayable games to come along in quite some time.
    • Metascore: 34
    • Critic Score 15
    Soviet gulags were probably more punishing than You Are Empty, but we're not taking any bets.
    • Metascore: 20
    • Critic Score 15
    A $30 game about winning fake money by picking random numbers is awful to begin with, but a completely broken version of said game is another story altogether.
    • Metascore: 19
    • Critic Score 15
    Anubis II is one of the worst games ever created and fundamentally broken. If you play it, you can never get back the three hours you wasted on this unique brand of torture.
    • Metascore: 25
    • Critic Score 15
    Do not play, look at, or even think about this mangled wreck of a strategy game.
    • Metascore: 12
    • Critic Score 14
    Both games are completely devoid of gameplay, fun, and flair. Worse, they are available free for the PC.
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    • Critic Score 14
    Both games are completely devoid of gameplay, fun, and flair. Worse, they are available free for the PC.
    • Metascore: 32
    • Critic Score 14
    One of the worst games to be released this year or any year, on the Xbox or any other platform. The fact that Microsoft's supposedly rigid approval process allowed this game to see the light of day is simply disgusting.
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    • Critic Score 14
    This game is, without a doubt, one of the worst products ever released. It will eternally battle Kabuki Warriors for the title of "Xbox game most likely to make your brain explode."
    • Metascore: 26
    • Critic Score 13
    KISS fans will be disappointed by the distinct lack of KISS, and pinball fans will be disappointed by the distinct lack of pinball.
    • Metascore: 19
    • Critic Score 12
    Outdated graphics, bad sound, lousy control, horrible technical performance, nonfunctional computer AI, terrible weapons--the game has about every problem you could possibly think of. In fact, it's difficult to imagine that Gods and Generals could be much worse than it is.
    • Metascore: 25
    • Critic Score 12
    A really, really terrible game, and it always has been. In fact, it's so bad that a longer review would only give the game more validation, which it simply does not deserve.
    • Metascore: 8
    • Critic Score 10
    So astoundingly bad that it manages to transcend nearly every boundary put forth by some of gaming's absolute worst of the worst and easily makes it into that dubiously extraordinary category of being one of the most atrocious games ever published.