Hyper Magazine's Scores

  • Games
For 140 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 41% higher than the average critic
  • 7% same as the average critic
  • 52% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.4 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Game review score: 72
Highest review score:
Critic Score 100
Lowest review score:
Critic Score 20
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 68 out of 140
  2. Negative: 7 out of 140
140 game reviews
    • Metascore: 85
    • Critic Score 100
    This is a true must-play. [Aug 2012, p.31]
    • Metascore: 76
    • Critic Score 100
    From around the halfway mark onwards, The Line is a gripping, at time harrowing, and unforgettable experience. [Sept 2012, p.66]
    • Metascore: 87
    • Critic Score 100
    Robust mechanics give rise to endless experimentation. [Sept 2012, p.70]
    • Metascore: 89
    • Critic Score 100
    Builds on the foundations of the first game to produce an experience that is both hugely enjoyable and technically impressive. [Nov 2012, p.59]
    • Metascore: 90
    • Critic Score 100
    An expertly-crafted love letter to stealth gaming, and so far one of the year's best titles. [Nov 2012, p.73]
    • Metascore: 93
    • Critic Score 90
    Thematically, the end of Mass Effect 3 and the conclusion of Shepard's story is pitch-perfect. But upon closer inspection after the fact, the manner in which you arrive at your fate - through bare number crunching and a tenuous causal link between war assets - fails to convince. [May 2012, p.55]
    • Metascore: 80
    • Critic Score 90
    Everything is tied together by yet another gorgeous soundtrack by long term Sakaguchi collaborator and true mater of the art, Nobuo Uematsu. [May 2012, p.62]
    • Metascore: 85
    • Critic Score 90
    The game is fun and exciting to play, and it's great fun leading your fighter to championship glory. [May 2012, p.65]
    • Metascore: 84
    • Critic Score 90
    Straightforward and deeply satisfying... for now. [May 2012, p.66]
    • Metascore: 86
    • Critic Score 90
    Another fantastic slice of battles and city building from Creative Assembly. [May 2012, p.74]
    • Metascore: 79
    • Critic Score 90
    Easily one of the best looking launch titles available. [May 2012, p.78]
    • Metascore: 78
    • Critic Score 90
    It's a mess of fun at a fraction of the price of a full Vita title. Insanity. Get into it. [May 2012, p.80]
    • Metascore: 83
    • Critic Score 90
    It's a bit of a meta-game for you to participate in and we like it. [May 2012, p.82]
    • Metascore: 90
    • Critic Score 90
    Crazy value for money and impossible to put down. Kiss the rest of your life goodbye. [June 2012, p.55]
    • Metascore: 92
    • Critic Score 90
    Clever, emotive, and easily the best downloadable game so far this year. [June 2012, p.58]
    • Metascore: 57
    • Critic Score 90
    Trash talk, petty grudges, suicidal vendettas. That's what wrecked is all about. [June 2012, p.62]
    • Metascore: 88
    • Critic Score 90
    What impresses most is the subtle way in which each additional part has been woven into the original game. [June 2012, p.64]
    • Metascore: 83
    • Critic Score 90
    Nintendo magic strikes again, if you can adapt to the controls. [June 2012, p.68]
    • Metascore: 83
    • Critic Score 90
    A sublimely clever, well-designed, borderline impossible shooter. It will utterly consume you if you let it. [June 2012, p.71]
    • Metascore: 82
    • Critic Score 90
    Fantastic stuff. [June 2012, p.29]
    • Metascore: 89
    • Critic Score 90
    Fez
    It's the most thought-provoking and fascinating game I've played all year. [July 2012, p.66]
    • Metascore: 82
    • Critic Score 90
    A learning experience of the best kind. [July 2012, p.67]
    • Metascore: 86
    • Critic Score 90
    A compelling, down and dirty bullet basket populated by real characters and visceral gunplay. [July 2012, p.55]
    • Metascore: 73
    • Critic Score 90
    If you love the journey more than the destination, The Secret World offers the most refreshingly unique, genuinely scary, fiendishly clever and immersive journey I've ever seen in the genre. [Sept 2012, p.63]
    • Metascore: 85
    • Critic Score 90
    A bursting at the seams port that sets a precedent for future Vita titles. [Sept 2012, p.74]
    • Metascore: 75
    • Critic Score 90
    It'll keep you going for a while. [Sept 2012, p.31]
    • Metascore: 84
    • Critic Score 90
    A stunning achievement in creative larceny that improves on its predecessor in pretty much every way that matters. A pity about the lacklustre endgame though. [Oct 2012, p.49]
    • Metascore: 83
    • Critic Score 90
    Stunningly beautiful, ridiculously run, and incredibly well-designed. This has been a strong year for XBLA, but Dust is still a standout. [Oct 2012, p.60]
    • Metascore: 74
    • Critic Score 90
    Because you've always wanted to play a game in which a pack of beagles fight a gorilla. And then get eaten by a cheetah. [Nov 2012, p.76]
    • Metascore: 89
    • Critic Score 90
    Manages to nail the sense of dread inherent in all good zombie fiction. [Nov 2012, p.29]