GameStar's Scores

  • Games
For 628 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 65% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 31% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.3 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Game review score: 74
Highest review score:
Critic Score 94
Lowest review score:
Critic Score 25
Score distribution:
  1. Negative: 20 out of 628
628 game reviews
    • Metascore: 44
    • Critic Score 49
    Scorpion: Disfigured uses some well-known features from other games, like weapon and character improvements (Deus EX) or psychic abilities (System Shock 2). But nothing really works well, not even shooting, which feels like throwing cotton balls. For a shooter, that's the final nail in the coffin and this game should be buried.
    • Metascore: 49
    • Critic Score 49
    Only the fact that games like this are rare on PC may make Garshasp an interesting game for some people. But we hardly had any fun with it. What did the developers do during the three years of development time?
    • Metascore: 43
    • Critic Score 49
    We didn't expect part 2 to be better than part 1, but it scores 49 instead of the 48 points of the predecessor. Only 33 more Harry Potter games to go to be as good as the first one from 2002.
    • Metascore: 40
    • Critic Score 49
    After this shock I must urgently re-play something better. For example, Aliens: Colonial Marines.
    • Metascore: 37
    • Critic Score 48
    This is Harry Potter and the Deadly Shallows. It's only six hours long, but just as boring and confusing as the book and just as bad as the console versions.
    • Metascore: 56
    • Critic Score 48
    There's just one basic problem with Pirates of Black Cove: the developers forgiot to deliver a game. What's the point of all the items and upgrades if nothing really makes a difference?
    • Metascore: 43
    • Critic Score 48
    Quotation forthcoming.
    • Metascore: 43
    • Critic Score 47
    Quotation forthcoming.
    • Metascore: 49
    • Critic Score 47
    Quotation forthcoming.
    • Metascore: 45
    • Critic Score 47
    Quotation forthcoming.
    • Metascore: 24
    • Critic Score 45
    I could fill novels with what is wrong with Postal 3. To shorten the whole thing, three words are enough: I am shocked. Not by the representation of violence and the scabrous knee-slappers, that many people see in the series. No, I'm shocked that Postal 3 turns out to be a technically older than dirt data cluster with lame gameplay, which has absolutely nothing really individual anymore. Oh dear, Postal 3 stimulates not even controversial discussions! In the end, it consists only of trivial game mechanics, which were copied cheesy from other games and have nothing to do with Postal itself anymore. Thereby Postal 3 is one of the biggest disappointments of 2011 for me. What have the developers just done for all eight years?
    • Metascore: 58
    • Critic Score 43
    Quotation forthcoming.
    • Metascore: 44
    • Critic Score 42
    Instead of being an entertaining horror game, I’m Not Alone seems to be a zombie itself. Should you see it somewhere, remember zombie rule number one and run for your life.
    • Metascore: 49
    • Critic Score 40
    I would like to like that game because of its B-movie story and because of the natural-disaster-weapon. But as far as game design is concerned everything is just plain wrong: controls, AI and path finding.
    • Metascore: 20
    • Critic Score 39
    The War Z is plagued by too many mistakes, but the developers seem to be unprofessional. I've watched the development of the game for too long now - without realizing improvement.
    • Metascore: 39
    • Critic Score 36
    Quotation forthcoming.
    • Metascore: 53
    • Critic Score 33
    Do you have a six year old son who likes to watch CSI? Then this is the game for him. There's a shattered body lying next to the Empire State building, so we start collecting evidence all around it: Pretzels, empty cans, flowering pots and rubber ducks. That doesn't make any sense? That's right, this just a simple game of "find the hidden object" with a thin story and some CSI people. Asking 30 Euros for all that is nothing but a rip-off. Well done, Ubisoft.
    • Metascore: 23
    • Critic Score 31
    The subtitle of Flatout 3 is "Chaos & Destruction". Quite appropriate: This impudence sparked in me an unexpected destructive frenzy so far. And after throwing my gamepad about twentyseventimes through my office, it was also there, indeed, pretty chaotic. The subtitle, however, remains the only promise that redeems Flatout 3 - the rest is utter misnomer. Here is pursued, in the most shameless way, to flog off an abysmal racing game with a known name to unsuspecting fans of the series. Flatout has not deserved this!
    • Metascore: 25
    • Critic Score 25
    Stupid name, stupid game. There are some games which will be remembered because of their quality. And then there are others which we would like to forget, but can't - because of their stupidity. This game is one of the latter, causing sore eyes and ears.