Latest PC Game Metascores on Metacritic

93% StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty

2009-08-16T10:33:10-04:00

Critic Score: 93%
Release Date: 2010-07-27

StarCraft II continues the epic saga of the Protoss, Terran, and Zerg. These three distinct and powerful races clash once again in the fast-paced real-time strategy sequel to the legendary original, StarCraft. Legions of veteran, upgraded, and brand-new unit types do battle across the galaxy, as each faction struggles for survival. Featuring a unique single-player campaign that picks up where StarCraft: Brood War left off, StarCraft II presents a cast of new heroes and familiar faces in an edgy sci-fi story filled with adventure and intrigue. In addition, Blizzard again offers unparalleled online play through Battle.net, the company's world-renowned gaming service, with several enhancements and new features to make StarCraft II the ultimate competitive real-time strategy game. Features fast-paced, hard-hitting, tightly balanced competitive real-time strategy gameplay that recaptures and improves on the magic of the original game. New units and gameplay mechanics further distinguish each race. Vibrant new 3D-graphics engine with support for dazzling visual effects and massive unit and army sizes. Full map-making and scripting tools to give players incredible freedom in customizing and personalizing their gameplay experience. [Blizzard]

73% Toy Story 3

2010-06-16T12:01:01-04:00

Critic Score: 73%
Release Date: 2010-06-15

Unleash your imagination in this new open world and play with Andy's toys your way. As Buzz, Woody, or Jessie, you choose what activities you want to do and the order you wish to do them. The more you use your imagination and create your own story, the more you get rewarded. [Disney Interactive]

67% Need for Speed World

2010-07-20T00:00:42-04:00

Critic Score: 67%
Release Date: 2010-07-20

Need for Speed World is a massively multiplayer online action racing game available for digital download for the PC. Need for Speed World combines the rush of illicit street racing, deep RPG style progression and vehicle customization into an immersive, socially-connected Need for Speed experience. Players can compete against any one of their friends, family or pick from thousands of top ranked players to challenge in intense online battles and police pursuits across 150 miles of sprawling open world. [Electronic Arts]

54% Darkness Within 2: The Dark Lineage

2010-06-02T00:00:40-04:00

Critic Score: 54%
Release Date: 2010-05-28

In The Dark Lineage, the second installment of the Darkness Within series, Howard E. Loreid discovers his own horrible past is connected with the madness that is about to swallow him. The Dark Lineage will take you to places where the "things" of the past still live, and all the memories that should be long-forgotten are still remembered; including a drowsy, depressive town called Arkhamend, a Victorian mansion that hides a lot of horrible secrets, a dilapidated building inside a notorious, snow-clad woods and dim underground buildings and tunnels. [Iceberg Interactive]

56% Shrek Forever After

2010-05-19T00:00:51-04:00

Critic Score: 56%
Release Date: 2010-05-18

Gamers adventure through a variety of locations from the Shrek universe, solve challenging puzzles and battle exciting new enemies as they morph between Shrek’s normal world and his alternate reality…and ultimately conquer that crafty Rumpelstiltskin! The game offers a fun-filled social and collaborative experience with its co-operative multiplayer mode, allowing up to four players to work together through the single player story. [Activision]

71% Alien Swarm

2010-07-20T00:00:37-04:00

Critic Score: 71%
Release Date: 2010-07-19

Available free of charge, the game thrusts players into an epic bug hunt featuring a unique blend of co-op play and squad-level tactics. With your friends, form a squad of four distinct IAF Marine classes. Plan your attack using an unlockable arsenal of weapons with countless loadout configurations against a wide variety of aliens. Blaze your way through an overrun, off-world colony, eradicating the alien infestation in environments ranging from the icy planet's surface, to a subterranean lava-flooded mining facility. Along with the game get the complete code base for Alien Swarm that features updates to the Source engine as well as the SDK. Alien Swarm adds 3rd person camera, depth of field, improved dynamic shadows and a wide variety of gameplay additions to the Source engine. [Steam]

63% Blacklight: Tango Down

2010-07-20T00:00:38-04:00

Critic Score: 63%
Release Date: 2010-07-07

[Downloadable Game] Participate in the “NetWar”: a hyper-realistic battlefield letting you fight tomorrow’s conflicts with or against your friends in the gritty Blacklight universe. Customize your character and weaponry from among thousands of combinations to become the soldier you always wanted to be.

87% Puzzle Dimension

2010-06-26T00:00:54-04:00

Critic Score: 87%
Release Date: 2010-06-21

Brain exercise in 3D - Train your spatial visualization ability by navigating increasingly complex 3D puzzles. The objective "pick all the sunflowers" sounds simple - but Puzzle Dimension is not your ordinary game world. Here up and down are relative terms as the gravity depends on where you roll the ball. [Steam]

62% Disciples III: Renaissance

2009-08-16T10:32:36-04:00

Critic Score: 62%
Release Date: 2010-07-13

Disciples III: Renaissance is the sequel to Disciples II: Dark Prophecy, the fantasy strategy/role playing game. The player takes on the role of a Lord of one of the fantastic races of Nevendaar in their enduring struggle to establish the reign of their respective god over the world. Ripe with surprises and turn-arounds, the story of the world of Nevendaar is played against a somber backdrop and shows a unique and style that has players asking for more. The visual design follows the ominous style of the Disciples world, and now all of the game environments and individual units are in real-time 3D. Disciples III: Renaissance uses .dat's in-house Virtual Dream engine, which supports all modern 3D technologies, and initially features 3 playable races: The Empire, The Legions of the Damned, and the Noble Elves, each with unique Unit styles and city representations that allow city sieges, and end with a battle for the main fortress. [Strategy First Inc.]

66% Dragon Age: Origins - Leliana's Song

2010-07-09T00:00:45-04:00

Critic Score: 66%
Release Date: 2010-07-06

A standalone adventure in which you play as Leliana during the mission--and betrayal--that changed her forever. It is years before the Blight, and Leliana is a young bard whose curiosities run more to passion than to the Chant of Light. Her mentor, Marjolaine, is determined to inflict the Orlesian game of intrigue on Ferelden. It is a time of adventure and excitement. And it cannot last.

80% Tropico 3: Absolute Power

2010-05-19T00:00:53-04:00

Critic Score: 80%
Release Date: 2010-05-01

Tropico 3: Absolute Power is the first official expansion pack to follow Tropico 3.

54% Making History II: The War of the World

2010-07-22T00:00:35-04:00

Critic Score: 54%
Release Date: 2010-06-15

Making History II: The War of the World gives players the power to take full control of any world nation, colonies, regions, cities, and military units during the time leading up to and during the Second World War. Armchair generals and fans of grand strategy can take their turns building great empires or protecting the world from tyranny during these pivotal moments in world history.

80% Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse Episode 4 - Beyond the Alley of the Dolls

2010-07-21T00:00:48-04:00

Critic Score: 80%
Release Date: 2010-07-20

The new season Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse is the biggest, strangest and most epic to date. As the saga begins, an otherworldy power for controlling matter and space calls to the strongest and strangest who might wield it - intergalactic warlords and eldritch gods, under-dwellers and scholars of the arcane.

68% 15 Days

2010-02-02T00:00:32-05:00

Critic Score: 68%
Release Date: 2009-11-20

This game is about a political group of activists that steal from the rich and give back to the poor.

75% Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers

2010-06-24T12:01:03-04:00

Critic Score: 75%
Release Date: 2010-06-15

An extension of the world's premier trading card game, Magic: The Gathering: Duels of the Planeswalkers' brings a pulse-pounding mix of strategic thinking, fantastic artwork, and arcade-style thrills to your PC. Experience an epic game of fantasy and strategy, as never before, when you take on the mantle of a planeswalker - a powerful mage capable of traversing the infinite planes of existence - and forge your destiny! [Wizards of the Coast]

63% Alien Breed: Impact

2010-06-25T00:01:19-04:00

Critic Score: 63%
Release Date: 2010-06-03

Alien Breed: Impact is an explosive science fiction arcade-shooter that resurrects a much revered franchise with an epic story, swarms of highly intelligent alien enemies, high-impact weapons, highly detailed and rich environments; all implemented with superb technology in a state-of-the-art gaming experience.

88% Monkey Island 2 Special Edition: LeChuck's Revenge

2010-07-01T12:00:53-04:00

Critic Score: 88%
Release Date: 2010-07-07

More Pirates! More Adventure! More Monkeys! Relive the second swashbuckling misadventure of the wannabe pirate Guybrush Threepwood as he searches for the lost treasure of Big Whoop, attempts to win back the beautiful Elaine Marley and takes on the now evil zombie pirate, LeChuck! Monkey Island 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge faithfully re-imagines the original classic in signature Special Edition detail. Plus, interact with the world of Monkey Island like never before with new direct-character controls, an interactive object highlight system, behind the scenes art viewer and creator commentary featuring the original developers of Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge! Play it again for the first time with signature Special Edition features. [LucasArts]

57% Sniper: Ghost Warrior

2010-06-28T00:00:48-04:00

Critic Score: 57%
Release Date: 2010-06-29

The democratic government of Isla Trueno has been overthrown and a military regime comes into power. The country becomes a theatre of influence war. You are sent as one of the covert commandos to support the rebels fighting their oppressor. [City Interactive]

70% Armada 2526

2010-01-21T00:00:30-05:00

Critic Score: 70%
Release Date: 2009-11-24

Armada 2526 continues the great tradition of space opera games. You guide your race from its first interstellar journeys, until it becomes a mighty galactic empire. Along the way, you'll explore the galaxy, conduct research, diplomacy and trade, found new colonies, maneuver mighty star fleets, and fight epic battles. Although the game is complex, and the possible strategies endless, powerful help and advisor features help you get up to speed quickly. [Matrix Games]

79% Singularity

2009-08-16T10:33:06-04:00

Critic Score: 79%
Release Date: 2010-06-29

On a clandestine mission deep into Russian territory, an American black ops team crash lands on an island research base that was mysteriously abandoned in the 1950’s. Cut off from the outside and under attack by an army of nightmarish creatures, Captain Nathaniel Renko is forced to battle his way through the hostile territory armed with the TMD (Time Manipulation Device) – a time altering weapon created over 50 years ago. Who created the TMD and why is just one of the many Cold War secrets Renko must uncover as he is thrown back and forth across time, making choices that will alter the course of world history. [Raven Software]

60% APB

2009-08-16T10:32:25-04:00

Critic Score: 60%
Release Date: 2010-06-29

APB takes the universal theme of Criminals and Enforcers and brings it to a persistent, open-world, online multiplayer setting in the modern, crime-ridden fictional city of San Paro. Some players will achieve notoriety by feeding on the city, its people and its businesses - the Criminals. Some will live by a higher code and instead feed on the criminals and their organizations - the Enforcers. This dynamic where players become the core content for other players is one of the many unique features of APB. APB promises unrivalled customisation options and scope for creativity thanks to its innovative expression suite, gritty, urban conflict in a persistent online world and a leaderboard dynamic allowing players to become in-game celebrities. [Realtime Worlds]

84% Drakensang: The River of Time

2010-03-02T12:00:38-05:00

Critic Score: 84%
Release Date: 2010-02-19

Prequel to The German RPG Dark Eye: Drakensang.

69% Puzzle Agent

2010-07-01T00:00:46-04:00

Critic Score: 69%
Release Date: 2010-06-01

Take the Professor Layton games, throw in a dash of that Telltale humor, and layer on top the sharp artwork of renowned artist and animator Graham Annable, and you get Puzzle Agent, an episodic puzzle adventure. [GameSpot]

83% LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4

2010-06-25T00:01:26-04:00

Critic Score: 83%
Release Date: 2010-06-29

Build the adventure from Privet Drive to the Triwizard Tournament and experience the fun of the first four Harry Potter stories – Lego style. Explore Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, learn spells, brew potions and relive the adventures with tongue-in-cheek humor and creative customization that is unique to LEGO videogames.

75% ArmA II: Operation Arrowhead

2010-06-25T00:01:19-04:00

Critic Score: 75%
Release Date: 2010-06-26

Three years after the conflict in Chernarus, portrayed in the original Arma 2, a new flashpoint in the Green Sea region heats up and coalition forces led by the US Army are sent to Takistan to quickly restore peace and prevent further civilian casualties in this standalone expansion pack to the best military simulator of 2009 – Arma 2. [Bohemia Interactive]