What is the score 88 on Metacritic?

Metacritic (MC) is a web site that ranks games, movie, TV show and other media. It's pretty similar to Rotten Tomatoes, except it includes information for "game of the year" awards (eg: Metacritic does not recognize any GOTY awards), different types of media than Rotten Tomatoes but with fewer movies, TV shows and games on there and with just one score for each.

The game with the highest MC score will be the Game of the Year. The movies with the highest scores will be the Best Movies ever made. And the best TV series will be the Best Show on TV!

Achievements. If you've played a game through the entire game you can do: Game/s Played Through. How To Unlock This Achievement. What You Need To Know. What is it? Complete the game or an individual episode of the game or TV show. Note. Played a game in multiplayer. See: Multiplayer Playthroughs (PTS) Game Score. Your gameplay data. Games with perfect gameplay scores should give gamers everything they need, while games scoring less then 80% should have some features missing. See Metacritic FAQ

It's worth remembering, the overall game score doesn't take into account how fun a game is to play. Rather, it's how well-executed a game is.

Achievements: If you don't play enough and unlock all the achievements, you won't be able to see them in game. There are four achievement categories: Play Through, Time Attack, Playlist and Trophies.

Game Score: Play Through A game score is calculated from your gameplay through Steam Workshop. See Game Score page How to get the Game of the Year (GOTY) Achievement. You have to replay every level as many times as you want. Then complete all 5 games or all 10 episodes if you're a TV show playthrough. If you haven't unlocked other achievements before Game of the Year, you're done. The GOTY Achievement is not meant to be hard.

How reliable is Metacritic?

We investigate.

In a week that also included the release of Battlefield 1 Premium, Tom Clancy's The Division 2, and the launch of Star Wars Battlefront 2, the gaming industry was hard at work promoting new releases, trying to make the most out of what will likely be the busiest release period in entertainment history. For many, marketing has increasingly focused on the concept of review aggregator sites, such as Metacritic. As we saw earlier this year with the E3 Coliseum, large chunks of major media announcements can be broken down and packaged as a story of individual components - the trailer, press conference, gameplay reveal, etc. But even if you choose not to be swept away by this story, what is worth noting is how review aggregators like Metacritic are now integral to how developers and publishers communicate with consumers. Review aggregation sites help developers and publishers reach audiences they may otherwise have no direct access to, but it may be fair to question how valid this service is and how much they really care about the end result of an interaction between them and the market place.

Review aggregators are a tool that developers and publishers use to make themselves available, in a reliable way, for users to review their products, either through existing online channels or potentially in real life. As these outlets get bigger, so do the sites and the numbers of people they reach. With reviews in their arsenal, games can attract larger audiences, and their visibility may also increase in the market. If you go to any site today, you're likely to see multiple Metacritic pages, ranging from the most recent release to the entirety of the series. As a result, many people use Metacritic heavily, even if they've never actually read a review written by someone outside of the site.

There have been complaints over the years about Metacritic's credibility (it's still something of a black mark, not quite as black as the ESRB rating - but as the world of free speech continues to develop, so too does the need for sites that can offer something else). The first big complaint came from GamePro staff writer Ryan McCaffrey in 2024. His point was that a game could receive five stars on the site based on a positive writeup by the reviewer, not because it actually deserved it, but because the site had a lot of readers.

What is the rating scale for Metacritic?

The range of possible scores on Metacritic is 0 to 100.

0 is bad, 1 is bad but not as bad as others, 2 is average and 3-4 is good, 5-6 is excellent, 7-8 is amazing, 9-10 is off the charts. Anything over 10 is amazing. And anything under 0 is a piece of garbage. Anything in between is up for grabs. Also, if you have something over 3.5 stars, you will be considered an "A" game with a 70 percent chance of being an excellent or above average game. If you have something over 4. Anything under 4.5 is your standard "B" game.

Any games with a Metascore below 50 percent and above 30 percent get their own list because they are terrible and not terrible enough to warrant a regular list of bad games. And here is another category: Worst Game. Games which have a Metascore below 50 percent and an average score of less than four.

Best Game. It can happen. It's like the old saying: You know it when you see it.

Here are the Best Games according to Metacritic. Darksiders. FIFA 2024. Frozen. GTA V. Mass Effect. Need for Speed. Red Dead Redemption. Starcraft 2. The Last of Us. Top Gear. Uncharted. White House Down. X-Men: Days of Future Past. The best video game I have played in recent years. The best video game I have ever played. It's that good. Every single aspect of the game is perfect. Every song in the soundtrack is perfect. Each character has a personality that makes them feel unique and believable and the environments are so diverse yet so seamless, at times it would be easy to forget you were in a computer game. The camera angles are great, the gameplay is fun, the soundtrack is incredible, the levels are well-designed, the characters are realistic and the story is gripping and emotionally deep.

It's so good in so many ways it's difficult to point out just one of them, and even after having played through it twice now I'm still discovering things.

What game has the lowest user score on Metacritic?

Here's a list of the 10 most underrated games

The user score for Metacritic tracks a game's critical reception on the site.

This metric has a reputation for being subjective and flawed, so the scores tend to be a bit more erratic than ratings on other sites. Games that fall in the middle of the pack -- ones that are well-regarded by critics, but not considered critically beloved by everyone -- tend to receive relatively low user scores, and low user scores can be misleading, especially for games that have a huge following and are thus very likely to be considered "obviously good." Still, as a rough guide, we figured it would be interesting to see which titles received the lowest scores and what that says about them.

Some caution is required here, since user scores don't track every possible aspect of a game's reception, and they can also be influenced by how many review copies a game receives. Still, they do track an important part of the equation, and we think it's still useful to talk about what games are underrated on Metacritic. The games we found are some of the least loved in the site's catalog, but there are plenty of great games out there that haven't made the cut.

Super Mega Drive. Super Mega Drive is an enhanced port of the game Super Mega Drive released on the Sega Mega Drive in Japan in 1989. The port features the same 16-bit graphics, music and sound effects, but changes to the gameplay include several new options (such as the possibility of holding multiple weapons at once), as well as a high-resolution mode and an improved version of the Game Genie to make playing difficult stages easier. On Metacritic, Super Mega Drive has a user score of 55. Its user reviews are mostly negative -- and for good reason. It's a really bad game that shouldn't have ever been released. And yet, its existence on the Metacritic user score is an affront to anyone who ever cared about it.

FFXIII-2. FFXIII-2 is a remaster of the first entry in Square Enix's Final Fantasy XIII trilogy of games released in 2024. It was a great game in its own right, and the remaster adds some new features such as "epic" battle music and a "battle scene director" mode that allows players to create custom battles on the fly.