Category Archives: reviews

Hours after the midnight US launch, the Mass Effect 3 reviews have begun trickling in. At this early stage, Commander Shepard’s final adventure is pulling near perfect scores.

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Reviews for 38 Studio’s first foray into the market, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, have gone live and below the break are many a link to click full of opinions on the RPG.

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A couple outlets have gone live with reviews for 38 Studios’ Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning and so far, it sounds promising.

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Critics haven’t credited Konami’s NeverDead with the immortality the title suggests.

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Telltale employees have posted user reviews for Jurassic Park: The Game on Metacritic, and while such a thing isn’t a new occurrence, it sparked a bit of a red flag with Gamespot when it noticed four 10/10 reviews going up during the same time frame.

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Reviews have started popping up for EA Black Box’s Need for Speed: The Run, and we’ve rounded-up those we can find below along with the game’s launch trailer.

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Platformers may not be the most fashionable genre, but Michael Ancel’s beautifully animated take on Ubisoft’s mascot has drawn solid review scores for Rayman Origins.

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This is the big one: the review embargo for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has now lifted this afternoon. This will be all-out chaos.

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Reviews for the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of Battlefield 3 have started to hit, after PC reviews for the shooter went live yesterday.

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EDGE has gone live with the first review of Super Mario 3D Land, the first core Mario title for the 3DS, awarding it eight out of ten.

The notoriously critical mag praised the game’s use of “some of the best, most subtle use of 3D” the console has seen so far, and called it “fresher than any handheld Mario in years”. It was less impressed with the grab-bag power up gameplay.

Super Mario 3D Land launches in November, exclusively for 3DS.

Thanks, CVG.

With RAGE’s midnight US launches done and dusted, reviews have gone live, showing a strong average with a few notable down-marks. Get all the scores here.

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The first official review of Batman: Arkham City has been published, awarding Rocksteady’s latest effort a flawless rating.

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EA Sports released Madden NFL 12 in the US today, and we have compiled a list of review scores for the latest iteration in the long-running series.

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Reviews for Driver: San Francisco are starting to hit and it looks like it is getting some rather nice scores.

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The embargo on Eric Chahi’s From Dust has lifted, and a few staggered reviews have started popping up. Ubisoft has also seen fit to send us over a few new screenshots of the game, as well as its launch trailer – all are posted below.

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Bastion reviews have started hitting the net, and it looks as though the majority find it a charming Xbox Live title from Supergiant Games.

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“Below-average games are not being reviewed as often as they once were and, partly as a result, critics have not honed their skills at assigning scores from the lower end of their grading scales. The question of exactly how bad a game has to be to merit a 1 score instead of 2 on the 10 point scale, for example, is not being contemplated with as much experience, care and precision as the 8 versus 9 consideration.

“Even though enduring a 10-15 hour game that has been thrown together must be an excruciating experience for the game critic, picking that game apart in a review with the degree of care and precision that he or she would employ when reviewing a brilliant AAA game would absolutely help to better define a publication’s full scoring scale, making every subsequent score more meaningful.” – Metacritic founder Marc Doyle to GamePro.

Alma and the rest of her dysfunctional family were set loose on the US public today with F.E.A.R. 3. See how her reign of terror goes with the reviews round-up below.

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Reviews for Shadows of the Damned are starting to trickle in, and it seems folks are rather enjoying Grasshopper Manufacture’s descent into Hell. Get caught up on the scores below the break.

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Reviews for The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D have hit the net, and the game, which was released in the UK yesterday, seems to be a hit with reviewers and the current Metacritic score sits at 94. For reference, the original game on N64 carries a Metacritic score of 99.

Hit the jump and find out what folks think of the 3DS remake.

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