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For 777 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 24% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 73% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 9.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Game review score: 65
Highest review score: 100 Grand Theft Auto V
Lowest review score: 0 Wanted: Dead
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 292 out of 777
  2. Mixed: 350 out of 777
  3. Negative: 135 out of 777
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A Plague Tale: Innocence
    Given how believable this plague-ravaged world is, it’s unfortunate that A Plague Tale’s story falls short of its technical accomplishments.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    BoxBoy! + BoxGirl!
    The game is clearly geared toward young players, so expect a lightweight experience.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Mortal Kombat 11
    The sole saving grace is that the game’s beating heart—its combat—is so well-executed. Mortal Kombat 11 is at its most entertaining and gleeful when it is, indeed, just Mortal Kombat. It’s at its most utterly repellent when it’s trying to be Mortal Kombat Mobile.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Days Gone
    The game meets the baseline level of quality we might expect from a big-budgeted joint, yet it remains a tiresome, empty experience.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    God's Trigger
    In the vein of so many B movies that seek to provide the campiest of thrills, God’s Trigger takes delight in its over-the-top violence, cheesy monologues, and nonsensical plot.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Ghost Giant
    Ghost Giant suffers from a bit of an identity crisis, in that it can’t quite decide whether it wants to be an adorable, low-stakes exploration game or if it wants to be about capital-B big issues.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Heaven's Vault
    The game is ambitious for its translation mechanics and its big-picture look at the evolution of culture through the ages.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Dangerous Driving
    Though it’s abundant in hyper-realistic visuals, that isn’t enough to disguise its lack of polish in almost every other way.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Earth Defense Force: Iron Rain
    After a promising start, Iron Rain becomes a special kind of frustrating sequel that’s too inconsistent to realize its potential as an incisive comedy or exciting shooter.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Yoshi's Crafted World
    To enjoy the game is to believe that there can be purpose or joy in a long stroll, in being curious enough to peek around a distant corner of our world.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
    Its boss fights highlight the contrived lengths that FromSoftware has gone to in order to satisfy players’ thirst for difficulty.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Tom Clancy's The Division 2
    The game doesn’t rely on narrative reasons to entice the player, leaning instead on endorphin-releasing gameplay hooks.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Hypnospace Outlaw
    The game is a monumental achievement, not just for its detailed rendering of another place and time but for the observed humanity of its writing and the things it has to say about the intersection of capitalism and art.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Devil May Cry 5
    The game is a near-endless buffet of innovative options for turning enemies into mincemeat.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Dead or Alive 6
    Throughout, you may be gripped by the feeling that you’ve seen all that there is to see in the fighting game genre.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Occupation
    The Occupation’s fierce commitment to immersing the player in its credible world is also the game’s undoing.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Anthem
    Look past the lush tropical beauty of Bastion, look past the simple but stingily doled-out joys of flying a mech suit like Iron Man, and you’re left with the most depressingly banal collection of gameplay loops and mechanics in a major AAA game in the last 10 years.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Ape Out
    Ape Out is a masterpiece of desperate, reactive play that not only gets you to behave like a rampaging gorilla, it forces you to adapt like one.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Trials Rising
    A large portion of Trials Rising’s content is gated off to all but those dedicated to playing this game and only this game for the foreseeable future.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Stillness of the Wind
    Ultimately, the vestiges of Talma’s farm aren’t tragic. Rather, they’re totems that affirm her inner journey, her desire to live a life in isolation as sincerely as possible.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Far Cry New Dawn
    If New Dawn is as mute and monotonous about the issues that led to the nuclear war and the philosophies that shape its vision of America, that’s because it’s only interested in serving up a gamified version of survival, logic be damned.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    DiRT Rally 2.0
    As your vehicle weaves through the beautiful fall-season trees of New England or rocky terrains of Argentina, you can’t help but ponder the bravery of individuals who confront ever-changing street and weather conditions and live to see another day.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Metro Exodus
    Metro: Exodus ultimately seems less interested in the process of how humanity breaks down than its grisly end results.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Kingdom Hearts III
    The game pitches itself as the finale to a series so many have grown up with, but it hasn’t matured with its audience or video games as a medium.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Resident Evil 2
    This remake we’ve just been handed is something altogether fearless and perpetually full of surprises—a near-immaculate piece of survival horror willing to always put pressure on the player.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Sunless Skies
    Failbetter’s strange brand of Victorian fantasy meshes with the game’s measured resource management and dangerous combat to define a truly rich role to play, one that inevitably gives way to moral compromise as you operate, with some struggle and no small amount of complicity, under capitalism.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Vane
    Even more damning is that you may have to restart an entire chapter because of an exasperating glitch.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Slay the Spire
    There are few greater thrills than discovering a new, powerful combo in Slay the Spire.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe
    The game comes across like a love letter to everything that Super Mario Odyssey left behind.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown
    At its best, the game leaves you by your lonesome to get to know the “deep blue” sky as intimately as possible.
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