The first episodes of Zero Punctuation were originally uploaded to YouTube by the series' creator Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw, where they quickly drew attention from the video games community. Shortly afterwards, The Escapist contacted Croshaw and employed him to make more videos for their website.
Initially, the episodes featured different music each week during the introduction and credits. However, in July 2008, the title sequence was remade, and featured a new theme tune which has been used on every episode since.
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| Airdate | Reviewed subject | Intro and outro songs | Notes |
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| 2007-07-24 | The Darkness demo |
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| 2007-07-29 | Fable: The Lost Chapters | ||
| 2007-08-13 | Zero Punctuation |
An announcement trailer for Croshaw's show Zero Punctuation outlining that it will be shown on The Escapist. |
| Airdate | Review subject | Intro and outro songs | Notes |
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| 2008-01-02 | Super Mario Galaxy
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| 2008-01-09 | Silent Hill: Origins
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| 2008-01-16 | Crysis
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| 2008-01-23 | The Witcher
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Features a two-minute, dubbed segment from Painkiller at the end. |
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| 2008-01-30 | Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles |
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| 2008-02-06 | Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare | ||
| 2008-02-13 | SimCity Societies
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Features a series of still images produced using Garry's Mod, featuring the Heavy, the Medic and the Spy from Team Fortress 2, ordered to tell a story. |
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| 2008-02-21 | Yahtzee goes to GDC |
A selection of short cartoons created for the GDC. This episode was also the only episode to have profane audio censored, although not removed from the on-screen texts. |
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| 2008-02-27 | Uncharted: Drake's Fortune
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Contains a live-action criticism on Quick Time Events in the style of a Quick Time Event. |
| 2008-03-05 | Devil May Cry 4 | ||
| 2008-03-12 | Burnout Paradise |
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| 2008-03-19 | Turok |
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| 2008-03-26 | Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure
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| 2008-04-02 | Army of Two | ||
| 2008-04-09 | No More Heroes
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Opening song is interrupted by Yahtzee saying it is "too obvious." |
| 2008-04-16 | Condemned 2: Bloodshot | ||
| 2008-04-23 | Super Smash Bros. Brawl
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| 2008-04-30 | God of War: Chains of Olympus
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| 2008-05-07 | Mailbag Showdown |
Various emails Croshaw received after the less-than-flattering review of Super Smash Bros. Brawl. |
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| 2008-05-14 | Grand Theft Auto IV | ||
| 2008-05-21 | Painkiller
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| 2008-05-28 | The World Ends with You | ||
| 2008-06-04 | The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion | ||
| 2008-06-11 | Video game console rundown |
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Repeat of the 2007-08-29 episode |
| 2008-06-18 | Haze |
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| 2008-06-25 | Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots |
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| 2008-07-02 | Webcomics |
A review of gaming webcomics, taking several stabs at unnamed web comics, although many believe it was aimed at Ctrl+Alt+Del (a webcomic he claims to have a personal hatred of, having previously called it "the Rubbish King, sitting proudly on a throne of rotting meat"[1] and stating outright "I fucking hate Ctrl+Alt+Del",[2] later noting that "I look at CAD and I see a lot of misdirected potential"[3]). |
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| 2008-07-09 | Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures |
Ian Dorsch - Zero Punctuation Theme |
The first episode to feature the new title sequence and theme music. Also features a live-action, mimed review of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. |
| 2008-07-16 | Alone In the Dark
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Features the same mimed review of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull as the previous week, now with subtitles. | |
| 2008-07-23 | Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures | ||
| 2008-07-30 | The E3 Trailer Park
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| 2008-08-06 | Ninja Gaiden II | ||
| 2008-08-13 | Prince of Persia Trilogy
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| 2008-08-20 | Soulcalibur IV | Features a Technical Difficulties card, depicting Yahtzee with a gun in his mouth. | |
| 2008-08-27 | Braid | ||
| 2008-09-03 | Eve Online | ||
| 2008-09-10 | Too Human | ||
| 2008-09-17 | Spore | ||
| 2008-09-24 | XBLA Double Bill
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| 2008-10-01 | Mercenaries 2: World in Flames | ||
| 2008-10-08 | Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (Wii version) | ||
| 2008-10-15 | S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky | Features a parody of Test Card F, as well as faked crashing. | |
| 2008-10-22 | Silent Hill Homecoming | Features a two-minute, dubbed segment of two separate telephone conversations from Silent Hill 3 and Silent Hill respectively. | |
| 2008-10-29 | Saints Row 2 | ||
| 2008-11-05 | Dead Space
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| 2008-11-12 | Fable II | ||
| 2008-11-19 | Fallout 3 | ||
| 2008-11-26 | Guitar Hero World Tour | Features the title screen music for Deus Ex, where Yahtzee describes the game through his own lyrics. | |
| 2008-12-03 | Mirror's Edge | ||
| 2008-12-10 | Left 4 Dead | ||
| 2008-12-17 | Sonic Unleashed (X360 / PS3 version)
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Contains an ad for Yahtzee's TV series "Game Damage." | |
| 2008-12-24 | The Year in Review – 2008 |
A clip show of the most notable reviews, intended to be used for a quiz that was hosted on The Escapist. |
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| 2008-12-31 | Prince of Persia |
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| 2009-01-07 | Awards for 2008 |
A mock awards show in which Yahtzee presents various humorous awards to games of 2008 and their characters. The awards were:
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| 2009-01-14 | Tomb Raider: Underworld
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| 2009-01-21 | Far Cry 2 |
At various points in this episode, Yahtzee's voice randomly slipped between his normal English accent and a humorously badly imitated South African accent, as per the game's African setting. |
| 2009-01-28 | Gears of War 2 | |
| 2009-02-04 | LittleBigPlanet |
Contains a clip of someone dancing around to "Soul Bossa Nova" with two eyes stuck onto their boxer shorts, Yahtzee thinking the review was a bit short and added the clip to "fill the time" before returning to comment on user made content. Then at the end, there's another clip containing a slow sinister zoom-in to one of the eyes, dotted with static sound and extreme close-ups of the eye. |
| 2009-02-11 | Thief: The Dark Project
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| 2009-02-18 | Skate 2 | |
| 2009-02-25 | F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin | |
| 2009-03-05 | Spider-Man: Web of Shadows | |
| 2009-03-11 | The House of the Dead: Overkill | |
| 2009-03-18 | 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand | |
| 2009-03-25 | Resident Evil 5 | |
| 2009-04-01 | X-Blades and Halo Wars
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Featuring Graham Stark from The Escapist's Unskippable doing the review of X-Blades. It also features a post-credits review of Pedigree Chum by one of the imps. Both reviews are, however, cut short by Yahtzee's angry and violent interjections. |
| 2009-04-08 | Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars | |
| 2009-04-15 | MadWorld | |
| 2009-04-22 | Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X | |
| 2009-04-29 | Siren: Blood Curse | |
| 2009-05-06 | The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena | |
| 2009-05-13 | Valkyria Chronicles | |
| 2009-05-20 | Velvet Assassin | |
| 2009-05-27 | Duke Nukem Forever
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Featured Yahtzee satirically reviewing Duke Nukem Forever, a game which had been announced as cancelled a few weeks before the review. He reviewed it as the best game he had ever played, though implied that the review was satirical in a number of places and during the credits. |
| 2009-06-03 | Bionic Commando
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Features a post-credits "Letter of the Week" segment with a letter from a fan requesting help in buying Duke Nukem Forever, despite it having been cancelled, with Yahtzee's reply being simply "thanks for writing!" |
| 2009-06-10 | inFAMOUS
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| 2009-06-17 | The Second Annual E3 Hype Massacre
A summary of various games shown at E3 2009. |
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| 2009-06-24 | Prototype | |
| 2009-07-01 | The Sims 3
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| 2009-07-08 | Ghostbusters: The Video Game | |
| 2009-07-15 | Overlord II | |
| 2009-07-22 | Red Faction: Guerrilla | |
| 2009-07-29 | Wii Sports Resort
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| 2009-08-05 | Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood |
The 100th episode. Yahtzee put together a video montage at the end of the episode featuring clips from all of the episodes leading up to it, using the full length of the theme music. After this, a brief image of the boxer shorts from the LittleBigPlanet review flashes up to shock the viewer.. |
| 2009-08-12 | The Conduit
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| 2009-08-19 | Silent Hill 2
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| 2009-08-26 | 2.5D Hoedown
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| 2009-09-02 | Tales of Monkey Island |
Reviewed in both his normal voice as a fan of Monkey Island, and by its own merits in a fake Irish accent. |
| 2009-09-09 | Wolfenstein |
Yahtzee reviewed the game in limerick form throughout most of the video. This was also the first and currently only time Yahtzee used a score rating (2 out of 5 stars), though this was most likely just to keep rhyming. |
| 2009-09-16 | Batman: Arkham Asylum | |
| 2009-09-23 | Guitar Hero 5 and The Beatles: Rock Band | |
| 2009-09-30 | Darkest of Days | |
| 2009-10-07 | Scribblenauts | |
| 2009-10-14 | Wet | |
| 2009-10-21 | Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story | |
| 2009-10-28 | Brütal Legend | |
| 2009-11-04 | Washington D.C. |
Yahtzee takes a break from reviewing video games and takes a tour of Washington, D.C. in the United States, as well providing commentary for the landmarks within, such as the White House and the Lincoln Memorial. |
| 2009-11-11 | Uncharted 2: Among Thieves | |
| 2009-11-18 | Dragon Age: Origins |
Yahtzee also announces the winner of the "Stonking Great Game Contest." |
| 2009-11-25 | Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 | |
| 2009-12-02 | Assassin's Creed II | A microphone malfunction caused Yahtzee's voice to sound drastically different, leading fans to believe it was not Yahtzee.[4]
Yahtzee later cleared the confusion in his Extra Punctuation segment.[5] |
| 2009-12-09 | Left 4 Dead 2
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Yahtzee simultaneously reviews Left 4 Dead 2 and New Super Mario Bros. Wii in the same video. |
| 2009-12-16 | Demon's Souls
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| 2009-12-23 | Holiday 2009 | A short 24-second video in which Yahtzee chastises the viewers for turning up two days before Christmas with expectations of a proper episode having been made. |
| 2009-12-30 | The Saboteur |
| Airdate | Reviewed subject | Notes |
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| 2010-01-06 | Awards for 2009
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Yahtzee looks back at the 2009 season of game reviews and hands out arbitrarily-themed mock awards to the previously reviewed games.
The awards were:
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| 2010-01-13 | Torchlight
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| 2010-01-20 | Darksiders | |
| 2010-01-27 | Bayonetta
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This is the first Zero Punctuation episode to be shown in a widescreen format, although the aspect ratio is closer to 14:9, instead of the more standard 16:9 ratio used in subsequent episodes. This was pointed out at the end of the Dark Void review, which stated "this week's widescreen-o-vision is slightly wider than last week's widescreen-o-vision". |
| 2010-02-03 | Dark Void
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| 2010-02-10 | Borderlands
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| 2010-02-17 | Mass Effect 2
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| 2010-02-24 | Dante's Inferno
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| 2010-03-03 | BioShock 2
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| 2010-03-10 | Aliens vs. Predator
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| 2010-03-17 | Heavy Rain
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| 2010-03-24 | Battlefield: Bad Company 2
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| 2010-03-31 | Final Fantasy XIII
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Yahtzee only reviews the first five hours of the game. |
| 2010-04-02 | April Fools | A short 59-second video with Yahtzee reading a section from "Ode on Melancholy", which was a part of an April Fool's joke hidden on the "Game Dogs" episode |The Party". |
| 2010-04-07 | God of War III | |
| 2010-04-14 | Red Steel 2
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| 2010-04-21 | Just Cause 2
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| 2010-04-28 | Silent Hill: Shattered Memories
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| 2010-05-5 | Splinter Cell: Conviction
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Also features an advert for Croshaw's book, Mogworld. |
| 2010-05-12 | Nier (video game)
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| 2010-05-19 | Dead to Rights: Retribution
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Features a repeat of the advert for Mogworld, as well as a request from Rebecca Mayes for suggestions on lyrics for a "love song" about Yahtzee. |
| 2010-05-26 | Monster Hunter Tri | |
| 2010-06-2 | Alan Wake
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Features a repeat of the advert for "Mogworld". |
| 2010-06-9 | Red Dead Redemption
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Features a repeat of the advert for "Mogworld". |
| 2010-06-16 | Alpha Protocol
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| 2010-06-23 | Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands
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| 2010-06-30 | E3 2010
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Yahtzee reviews the upcoming gaming hardware and software shown in E3 in 2010, including the motion control features introduced for the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360, the new games and the Nintendo 3DS from Nintendo, and upcoming third-party games. Also features a song written by Rebecca Mayes, which ends with her asking Yahtzee out for a drink, then implying she will stab him with a screwdriver if he does not accept. |
| 2010-07-07 | No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle
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During the review, Yahtzee refers to Rebecca Mayes' love song, joking that he had better not offend women in the review else he be stabbed. |
| 2010-07-14 | Super Mario Galaxy 2
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| 2010-07-21 | Singularity
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| 2010-07-28 | Crackdown 2
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| 2010-08-04 | DeathSpank and Limbo
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| 2010-08-11 | Shadow of the Colossus
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| 2010-08-18 | Split Second: Velocity | |
| 2010-08-25 | Transformers: War for Cybertron
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| 2010-09-01 | Viewer's Choice: Duke Nukem Forever | This was chosen by the viewers in place of a normal review as Yahtzee was on holiday. |
| 2010-09-08 | Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days
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| 2010-09-15 | Mafia II
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| 2010-09-22 | Metroid: Other M
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| 2010-09-24 | Video Game Voter's Network | Yahtzee lends his support to the cause. |
| 2010-09-29 | Amnesia: The Dark Descent
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| 2010-10-06 | Halo: Reach
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Yahtzee offers slight praise to Halo: Reach for holding up on single player and respects Bungie's decision to quit the franchise. |
| 2010-10-14 | Dead Rising 2
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| 2010-10-21 | Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions
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| 2010-10-27 | Castlevania: Lords of Shadow
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| 2010-11-03 | Enslaved: Odyssey to the West
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| 2010-11-10 | Fallout: New Vegas
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| 2010-11-17 | Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II
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| 2010-11-24 | Call of Duty: Black Ops
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| 2010-12-01 | iPhone Games
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Yahtzee reviews iPhone games Angry Birds, Cut the Rope, Fruit Ninja and Doodle God |
| 2010-12-08 | Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
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| 2010-12-15 | Splatterhouse
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| 2010-12-22 | Epic Mickey
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| 2010-12-29 | Holiday 2010 | Features selected Yahtzee's quotes from the 2010 videos. |
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| 2011-01-05 | Top 5 Games of 2010 | Yahtzee ranks the top 5 and bottom 5 games of 2010.
The top 5 rankings were:
The bottom 5 rankings were: |
| 2011-01-12 | World of Warcraft: Cataclysm
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| 2011-01-19 | Fable III
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| 2011-01-26 | Minecraft
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| 2011-02-02 | A Shadow's Tale
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| 2011-02-09 | Dead Space 2
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| 2011-02-16 | DC Universe Online
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| 2011-02-23 | MindJack
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| 2011-03-02 | Two Worlds II
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| 2011-03-09 | Bulletstorm
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| 2011-03-16 | Killzone 3
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| 2011-03-23 | Kirby's Epic Yarn
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| 2011-03-30 | Dragon Age II
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| 2011-04-06 | Pokémon White
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| 2011-04-13 | Yakuza 4
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| 2011-04-20 | Crysis 2
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| 2011-04-27 | Nintendo 3DS | Features a review of the Nintendo 3DS portable game console. |
| 2011-05-04 | Portal 2
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| 2011-05-11 | Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
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| 2011-05-18 | Mortal Kombat
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| 2011-05-25 | Brink
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| 2011-06-01 | L.A. Noire
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| 2011-06-08 | The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings
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| 2011-06-15 | Hunted: The Demon's Forge
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| 2011-06-22 | Duke Nukem Forever
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Yahtzee adds the disclaimer "for real this time" to the title of the video, so as not to be confused with his earlier satirical review. |
| 2011-06-29 | Infamous 2
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| 2011-07-06 | Alice: Madness Returns
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| 2011-07-13 | Shadows of the Damned
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| 2011-07-20 | F.E.A.R. 3
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| 2011-07-27 | The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D
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| 2011-08-03 | Call of Juarez: The Cartel
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| 2011-08-10 | Bastion and From Dust
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| 2011-08-17 | Catherine
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| 2011-08-24 | Red Faction: Armageddon
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| 2011-08-31 | Deus Ex
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| 2011-09-07 | Deus Ex: Human Revolution
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| 2011-09-14 | Driver: San Francisco
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| 2011-09-21 | Dead Island
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| 2011-09-28 | Resistance 3
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| 2011-10-05 | Gears of War 3
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| 2011-10-12 | Hard Reset
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| 2011-10-19 | Rage
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| 2011-10-26 | Kinect
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| 2011-11-02 | Batman: Arkham City
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| 2011-11-09 | Battlefield 3
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| 2011-11-16 | Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception
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| 2011-11-23 | Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
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| 2011-11-30 | The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
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| 2011-12-07 | Saints Row: The Third
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| 2011-12-14 | Assassin's Creed: Revelations
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| 2011-12-21 | The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
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| 2012-01-04 | Serious Sam 3: BFE
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