[UPDATE: We've re-published this story on March 17, 2022 to include Elden Ring.]
It's not every day that GameSpot gives a game a 10/10, so it's an understandably big deal. After all, since 1996, only 19 games have earned that rare rank. However, a game needs to be essential to achieve a 10/10, and it needs to have something so meaningful to offer us that it simply cannot be ignored. Regardless, a 10/10 review score is always determined by the personal opinion of its respective writer and always reflects as such.
For more GameSpot reviews, be sure to check out all the reviews we've posted recently for a taste of how we critique games. But without further ado, you can find our 10/10 scored games in no particular order below:
Review Date: March 16, 2022
«In a genre that has become wrought with bloated and over-designed games, Elden Ring is defiantly contrarian in almost every way. Its commitment to design by subtraction and to placing the responsibility of charting a path through its world entirely on the player makes it stand head and shoulders above other open-world titles. Elden Ring takes the shards of what came before and forges them into something that will go down in history as one of the all-time greats: a triumph in design and creativity, and an open-world game that distinguishes itself for what it doesn't do as much as what it does.» Read the full review.
Review Date: September 13, 2021
«Perhaps the most laudable part of Deathloop is how it takes so many seemingly disparate things and creates harmony between them. Gameplay systems that feel isolated become pieces of a bigger puzzle, and when you see how they seamlessly connect together, you realize how special an achievement it really is. Similarly, on paper, the
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