Video Game Reviews

ALBA - A Wildlife Adventure - Toonami Game ReviewThroughout its history, Toonami has aired reviews of many popular video games. These reviews, delivered by Moltar, TOM, SARA and/or Flash, are fairly short (30-120 seconds) and run during commercial breaks. Most of the Toonami game reviews are written by Jason DeMarco and/or Gill Austin and are based on their own experiences with the games. Additionally, written reviews were posted on toonami.com during the TOM 1 and TOM 2 eras. Most of these consisted of a word-for-word transcript of the corresponding video, however, a handful of reviews were done for games that did not have a corresponding video. These games included: Medal of Honor, Perfect Dark, Front Mission 3 and Grandia.

Rating System
The rating system for Toonami game reviews was originally 1-5, however, the hosts have scored games on a 1-10 rating system since 2000. Games reviewed generally receive positive reviews, with only one game receiving lower than a 6/10 (Stinger which received a 1/5). During the XBOX ONE Paid Immersion Event, TOM and SARA played and talked about Forza Motorsport 5. However, the game was not given a rating because it was a paid advertisement and not an actual game review.

Beginning with the review of Desperados III on March 20, 2021, reviews now also feature three additional individual ratings for graphics, sound, and gameplay. However, it seems that these three ratings have little to no impact on the overall rating.

6 games have been given a rating not based on the 1-10 scale. Slender and Dropship: United Peace Force were given a "?". Dropship: United Peace Force because of TOM's many failed attempts to get past Level 6, and Slender because TOM could not find all eight pages in time, and he found it frightening to look at the Slender Man. Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag was given an "ARRRRRR!" presumably, both, because it's a pirate game and TOM had not yet finished it. Similarly another title in the Assassin's Creed series, Assassin's Creed: Valhalla, was given "a barbaric yawp". PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds was given an "Incomplete" because TOM didn't consider it a game yet and the game still had significant bugs that made it "an unplayable mess" at times. The game 198X was given an "Incomplete 7/10" due to the shortness of the game and because the ending hints at a part 2.