Editing PC Zone (section)

==Review system==
''PC Zone'' prided itself on its reviews scoring system, which was based on the idea that 50% was an average grade. As a result, many publishers accused the magazine of being too harsh. Games that scored 75-89% were given a ''Recommended Award''; games that scored 90% or more were given a ''Classic Award''. Very few games, perhaps only ten a year, received the latter distinction. Games scoring under 20% were given the ''PC Zone Dump'' award (Previously the ''PC Zone Pants'').

As a combined result of its honest scoring system and its age, ''PC Zone'' managed to acquire many UK and world print exclusives in terms of [[news]], previews and [[review]]s. ''PC Zone'' contained world exclusive previews for ''[[Half-Life 2]]'', ''[[Doom 3]]'', and ''[[Deus Ex (video game)|Deus Ex]]'', the first of which achieved a near-record score of 97%, a ranking it shared with three other games: ''[[Quake II]]'', ''[[Alone in the Dark 2]]'', and the relatively unknown flight simulator ''[[EF2000 (computer game)|EF2000]]''.

The lowest scoring game ever was ''Big Brother: The Game'' in 2000. It garnered a score of 1%, summarized with "Truly woeful, and the fact that [[Infogrames]] hasn't stuck the game in a box and is only collecting a [[tenner]] shows how embarrassed [they are] by this unmitigated piece of trash."<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://archive.org/details/PC_Zone_96_December_2000/page/n89/mode/2up|title=Big Brother The Game|magazine=PC Zone|publisher=Future plc|issue=96|date=December 2000|page=90|access-date=September 24, 2024}}</ref> The lowest scoring non-game release was ''Page 3 Calendar & Screensaver'' in 1996, which managed to score in the negatives at -10%.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://archive.org/details/PC_Zone_42_September_1996/page/n87/mode/2up|title=Budget Games|magazine=PC Zone|publisher=Future plc|issue=42|date=September 1996|page=86|access-date=March 11, 2022}}</ref>