Gaming Illustrated's Scores

  • Games
For 155 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 80% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 16% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 10.9 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Game review score: 84
Highest review score:
Critic Score 100
Lowest review score:
Critic Score 50
Score distribution:
  1. Negative: 0 out of 155
155 game reviews
    • Metascore: 70
    • Critic Score 86
    A superb title, a lot of hard work has gone into this one and it shows, cinematic, challenging, absorbing and great fun.
    • Metascore: 69
    • Critic Score 84
    Good varied tournaments, and its fun to see the pros in the game.
    • Metascore: 69
    • Critic Score 78
    Strongly recommend a rent for the kids, a buy for kids that loved the movie.
    • Metascore: 69
    • Critic Score 70
    The innumerable customization options are enjoyable enough, but the overly difficult game play and poor controls keep the game from being much fun for casual mech fans or anyone new to the series.
    • Metascore: 68
    • Critic Score 76
    For those of you that are die-hard NASCAR fans, you’ll have to pick this up for the updated (but slightly out of date) roster, and the new features put in are decent. However, if you’re looking for a ground-breaking NASCAR title, you’ll probably be disappointed with this release.
    • Metascore: 68
    • Critic Score 74
    A decent game that's best played in the story "Life" mode.
    • Metascore: 68
    • Critic Score 76
    This leaves Nightshade’s appeal divided pretty evenly between those who will play at it, improve, and get better, and those who will quickly dismiss it as too hard. For those who stick with it to get high ratings in the stages, there’s a lot of value.
    • Metascore: 68
    • Critic Score 86
    The varied monsters made a nice gamepaly experience, as well as the variety of skills that the various heroes can perform.
    • Metascore: 68
    • Critic Score 82
    Great storyline, great originality, great sound.
    • Metascore: 68
    • Critic Score 94
    The PC highlights include the multiplayer version (which is definitely a lot of fun) and the much-much-much improved graphics (of course, you got to have the right tools for the job).
    • Metascore: 67
    • Critic Score 84
    A fun adventure title that gamers will enjoy. It's a nice, straight forward game that has some good graphics and cut scenes from the movie.
    • Metascore: 66
    • Critic Score 82
    A solid title whose best features include the humor, story, and amount of modes the game offers.
    • Metascore: 66
    • Critic Score 72
    Simple and fun action.
    • Metascore: 65
    • Critic Score 68
    A slight update to an already classic game that doesn’t make you forget about the original.
    • Metascore: 65
    • Critic Score 84
    The design team did a good job in offering multiple campaigns, scenarios, skirmishes, and the board-game option.
    • Metascore: 64
    • Critic Score 72
    It can provide some fun, especially its two-player cooperative mode, but it lacks the options and polish of the other action RPGs available.
    • Metascore: 64
    • Critic Score 76
    A pretty decent game that isn't anything spectacular, but for fans of the movie and people that enjoy bash-em shoot-em type of games involving multiple players will definitely enjoy the game.
    • Metascore: 63
    • Critic Score 74
    A decent game that's best played in the story "Life" mode.
    • Metascore: 63
    • Critic Score 50
    The controls were too loose for a game like this.
    • Metascore: 63
    • Critic Score 82
    Good graphics, fun in-game play, good mini-games, not a whole lot of depth with season mode.
    • Metascore: 62
    • Critic Score 72
    The gameplay is not meant for people looking for a realistic racing simulator, but rather the newbie looking for something fun and simple to get rolling with.
    • Metascore: 62
    • Critic Score 90
    The graphics are absolutely stunning and the characters are well designed.
    • Metascore: 62
    • Critic Score 76
    A pretty decent game that isn't anything spectacular, but for fans of the movie and people that enjoy bash-em shoot-em type of games involving multiple players will definitely enjoy the game.
    • Metascore: 61
    • Critic Score 78
    This was a decent title, and comes highly recommended for kids who love to play with the dance mat.
    • Metascore: 61
    • Critic Score 92
    A lot of games these days rely on ridiculous move combinations to advance levels, or increased difficulty means that your enemy has more health and you deal less damage. DW5E actually keeps it real by making the difficulty based on skill more than the other cheap tricks developers are using these days, and the AI is first class.
    • Metascore: 61
    • Critic Score 70
    Definitely worth a look, but gets a bit repetitive with the actual gameplay.
    • Metascore: 61
    • Critic Score 72
    More mature gamers will find themselves a little underwhelmed, but on its own it's a nice looking, nice sounding, and fairly fun title.
    • Metascore: 61
    • Critic Score 84
    Easily the most impressive feature of the graphics is the level of detail with the fluid motion with all the characters in the game. It's almost a combination of 2D characters running around in a 3D world, but there's no denying that the graphics are amongst the best on hand-held devices at this time.
    • Metascore: 59
    • Critic Score 84
    The perfect game of the sexually repressed immature male in your life ... and in other words, I thought it was pretty darn funny.
    • Metascore: 58
    • Critic Score 72
    More mature gamers will find themselves a little underwhelmed, but on its own it's a nice looking, nice sounding, and fairly fun title.