PSM3 Magazine UK's Scores

  • Games
For 1,144 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 47% higher than the average critic
  • 6% same as the average critic
  • 47% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.5 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Game review score: 69
Highest review score:
Critic Score 97
Lowest review score:
Critic Score 11
Score distribution:
1,144 game reviews
    • Metascore: 76
    • Critic Score 40
    Just far too slow. [June 2011, p.92]
    • Metascore: 43
    • Critic Score 40
    A wasted opportunity to show off Move control. [Sept 2011, p.102]
    • Metascore: 71
    • Critic Score 40
    Even if it wasn't buggy and ugly, this would still be a chore to slog through. Dead Island's zombie plague is the stuff of nightmares in all the wrong ways. [Nov 2011, p.98]
    • Metascore: 47
    • Critic Score 40
    Everything about Supremacy MMA feels rushed. [Dec 2011, p.107]
    • Metascore: 55
    • Critic Score 40
    Feels like it's been hiding in the bushes for years, growing old as it waits to spring out on stealth fans. [March 2012, p.92]
    • Metascore: 57
    • Critic Score 40
    Hellacious. [Apr 2012, p.107]
    • Metascore: 43
    • Critic Score 40
    Very few people need this product. [Nov 2012, p.98]
    • Metascore: 41
    • Critic Score 40
    Firing an Uzi is like squeezing off a spongy Nerf gun round. [Christmas 2012, p.96]
    • Metascore: 67
    • Critic Score 39
    An interesting gaming artifact, and very lovable...but essentially rubbish. [May 2008, p.79]
    • Metascore: 63
    • Critic Score 39
    The background tries so hard to be next generation it simply ends up putting you off or making the numbers too hard to read. [May 2007, p.77]
    • Metascore: 47
    • Critic Score 39
    A dull, uninspired car crash of a game. A complete waste of PlayStation 3's power. [Aug 2007, p.74]
    • Metascore: 42
    • Critic Score 39
    There's humour and effort here, but not much in the way of fun. [Christmas 2009, p.94]
    • Metascore: 52
    • Critic Score 39
    A slow, ugly, repetitive descent into block boredom. [Sept 2010, p.94]
    • Metascore: 65
    • Critic Score 38
    Enjoy "Super Puzzle Fighter" - it's ace. Just a shame the rest of CPW is such balls. [Mar 2007, p.78]
    • Metascore: 42
    • Critic Score 38
    Basically this is a hugely simplified, pointless and weird version of "Power Stone." So get that instead. [Feb 2007, p.78]
    • Metascore: 55
    • Critic Score 38
    With horribly repetitive gameplay and awful graphics the choice between this and armageddon is still a close one. [Oct 2008, p.78]
    • Metascore: 35
    • Critic Score 38
    Even when Shellshock flirts with being playable, you realise there's a dozen PS3 shooters better than this mess. [Apr 2009, p.78]
    • Metascore: 60
    • Critic Score 38
    Clunky, poorly animated, mostly unexplained, dreadfully written, utterly bland and archaic. [Aug 2011, p.92]
    • Metascore: 42
    • Critic Score 37
    Dumb AI, stupidly linear, crap guns... a disaster. [May 2008, p.79]
    • Metascore: 56
    • Critic Score 37
    Traveller's Tales have no excuse for serving up this steaming pile of Minotaur dung. [Nov 2008, p.84]
    • Metascore: 71
    • Critic Score 37
    The rosiest-tinted specs in the world can't save Gunstar Heroes from showing its age. [Sept 2009, p.76]
    • Metascore: 45
    • Critic Score 37
    It's just perverted. [Apr 2011, p.91]
    • Metascore: 57
    • Critic Score 37
    A terrible experience, years behind the competition. [Aug 2011, p.92]
    • Metascore: 67
    • Critic Score 36
    It's a budget PlayStation 2 game wearing its big sister's high-definition make-up. It's abominable, and just thinking about it makes the veins in our forehead bulge. [Feb 2007, p.64]
    • Metascore: 42
    • Critic Score 36
    Overall Flying is sometimes a joy, but Iron Man is basically repetitive, confusing and graceless.
    • Metascore: 44
    • Critic Score 35
    It's descended into a dismally unimaginative hack-and-slash affair. [Christmas 2008, p.86]
    • Metascore: 32
    • Critic Score 35
    Don't do it. Unless you breathe Dave Mirra and have an irrational love of terrible games. You don't, right? [May 2007, p.79]
    • Metascore: 56
    • Critic Score 35
    It's more bad karaoke compilation than game. [Christmas 2007, p.82]
    • Metascore: 54
    • Critic Score 35
    It's actively irritating having to press the same buttons and complete the missions over and over again. [Apr 2009, p.78]
    • Metascore: 43
    • Critic Score 35
    One of 2009's worst movie tie-ins proves boring beyond salvation. [July 2009, p.72]
    • Metascore: 56
    • Critic Score 35
    A cynical, sterile attempt to ? og cash out of Ski Sunday fans.
    • Metascore: 33
    • Critic Score 35
    AMY
    Amy has all the survival horror elements, but the execution is so poor that the result is a poisonous chimera. [March 2012, p.113]
    • Metascore: 54
    • Critic Score 34
    Clumsy and uninspired. Avoid this like a mugging. [May 2009, p.64]
    • Metascore: 37
    • Critic Score 33
    It manages to distract you from how pointless it actually is for, ooh, at least half an hour. [July 2008, p.78]
    • Metascore: 58
    • Critic Score 33
    One of PSP's worst games. [Christmas 2006, p.98]
    • Metascore: 43
    • Critic Score 33
    Technically inept and morally desolate. [Sept 2010, p.94]
    • Metascore: 51
    • Critic Score 32
    Such a total misfire, it's difficult to see how even the most committed of Trekkers will have any fun. [Feb 2007, p.70]
    • Metascore: 47
    • Critic Score 32
    Courses so unmemorable your'e still looking for turns on the third or fourth lap. [May 2008, p.81]
    • Metascore: 61
    • Critic Score 32
    In 2009, portable King of Fighters seems far from magic. [Apr 2009, p.78]
    • Metascore: 46
    • Critic Score 32
    There's no depth or substance, just acres of mindless combat punctuated with the odd lockpick mini-game. [Oct 2009, p.82]
    • Metascore: 57
    • Critic Score 32
    You'd get better interactivity in general from buying his Greatest Hits album and tapping your foot. [Apr 2012, p.109]
    • Metascore: 36
    • Critic Score 31
    Even the most rabid of fans will be disappointed. [Sept 2007, p.80]
    • Metascore: 36
    • Critic Score 31
    Curiously, the real stars of the show - the blokes at West Coast Customs - aren't here. Instead, you drive around the fictional city in unresponsive cars. [May 2007, p.78]
    • Metascore: 46
    • Critic Score 31
    If only the gameplay was better. [Aug 2010, p.96]
    • Metascore: 44
    • Critic Score 31
    Sadly, it's awful. [Mar 2011, p.96]
    • Metascore: 53
    • Critic Score 31
    A truly wretched game. [July 2011, p.94]
    • Metascore: 44
    • Critic Score 30
    A shallow demo with minimal functionality outside Wi-Fi access, this just isn't an appealing offer. If the core game was a free download, things could be different. [March 2012, p.91]
    • Metascore: 39
    • Critic Score 29
    The ugliest game on PS3 can be entertaining, but it's mostly a mess. [Feb 2009, p.78]
    • Metascore: 49
    • Critic Score 29
    It's racing for small children, imcompetents, or owners of 2004-era Nokias. Everyone else should ignore it. [Apr 2012, p.109]
    • Metascore: 33
    • Critic Score 28
    We've not played anything this shoddy in ages. A disgrace on pretty much every level. [Feb 2007, p.76]
    • Metascore: 56
    • Critic Score 28
    Timewarp RPG sends us to sleep. [May 2008, p.81]
    • Metascore: 27
    • Critic Score 26
    Total f*cking garbage, as the right honourable Dick would (probably) say. [Feb 2010, p.93]
    • Metascore: 43
    • Critic Score 25
    The worst Star Wars game ever, and that's really saying something. [Christmas 2009, p.84]
    • Metascore: 41
    • Critic Score 24
    Avoid. [July 2010, p.96]
    • Metascore: tbd
    • Critic Score 23
    Consign it to the scrap heap and be done with it. [Sept 2008, p.79]
    • Metascore: 45
    • Critic Score 23
    Essentially an empty and futile game. [Mar 2009, p.74]
    • Metascore: 45
    • Critic Score 23
    A real dog of a historical slasher. [Christmas 2011, p.107]
    • Metascore: 42
    • Critic Score 22
    Completely lame. [June 2011, p.92]
    • Metascore: 54
    • Critic Score 21
    The only thing less desirable than a 2D Star Trek strategy game in this day and age is a Jethro DVD covered in poo. [May 2008, p.79]
    • Metascore: 54
    • Critic Score 20
    Avoid like Sauron. A shameless hack-and-cash in. [Mar 2009, p.62]
    • Metascore: 34
    • Critic Score 20
    Lacking in excitement, polish, star power, and any sort of fun. Avoid this excuse for a movie tie-in. [Oct 2012, p.104]
    • Metascore: 40
    • Critic Score 18
    Just an offensive disgrace. [Jan 2013, p.105]
    • Metascore: 44
    • Critic Score 15
    Easily one of the worst games we've played on current consoles. You'll be hard-pressed to find anything funny about this tired joke. [Christmas 2012, p.97]
    • Metascore: 17
    • Critic Score 14
    Although LSL is about smutty humour, the laughs are non-existent, courtesy of flat fart jokes, pathetic sexual innuendo and practically stillborn puns. [July 2009, p.77]
    • Metascore: 39
    • Critic Score 11
    Thor is one of the worst superhero games ever made, which is really saying something, and it's a truly epic travesty. [July 2011, p.95]