It’s easier to escape death in a hyperdrive and chop twenty tons of scrap metal with a lightsaber than overcome boredom and finish Republic Heroes.

The developers promised us an atmosphere of real horror, love, friendships, suspicions, paranoia, but delivered none of these things. This game has no spark, no aftertaste... In fact, it has no taste whatsoever.

The Scourge Project is a perfect example of how an inexperienced developer bit more than they could chew. They wanted to create a multi-platform action title with a great story and a four-player cooperative gameplay, but made a threepenny whangdoodle instead.

If Gusto Games focused their attention on production values, licenses and gameplay modes with the same, ahem, gusto as they tried to promote the fading golf star, ProStroke Golf would have become a decent game.

This game’s failure was perfectly described back in 1865 by Lewis Carroll: "Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!" You can't stop the progress.

Do not waste your money on this trainwreck. If you really want to know how it ends, go to the Fallout Wikia and read the article on Ulysses.

Futuremark could have made a great multiplayer shooter out of this concept, but, alas, they decided to sell a glorified tech demo.

Monster Kingdom is too uninspired and weak to entice the veterans of the original Majesty, and it will definitely won't attract any new fans.

Look past the thick veil of colorful visual effects, and you'll see Dead Trigger for what it really is – a compilation of the worst features of freemium shooters that plague the App Store.

Disciples 3 is a strategy game that is neither appealing nor intelligent. It lacks the kingdom-building aspect so much that it feels like a faux Japanese RPG.

I imagine that some of the SpellForce fans will love this expansion. For the rest of the world, it's a weird genre hybrid with horrible graphics, silly premise and dubious gameplay mechanics.

CreaVures looks really nice... when viewed as thumbnail-sized screenshots in Steam.

I'm not sure if we should be calling Iron Front a game. It's more like a huge target range where people can run around, drive tanks and shoot each other.

A typical Activision Value product – and that says everything. This one doesn’t even have multiplayer. If you happen to pass it by in a store... well, pass it by.

R.A.W. is aeons away from both Diablo 3 and Torchlight 2. Even finding a new shiny trophy is not fun here.

Secret Files 3 looks and plays as if even its creators did not give a damn about the final product.

Light brain teasers, minimal violence, furry characters… Just the thing for kids 3-5 years old. But the first four battles will bore even a child.

Unlike Audiosurf, Raycatcher doesn’t offer interesting gameplay modes. It fails on other accounts as well: playlists are clumsy, there is no pause, and, more importantly, no Internet features like leaderboards and achievements. All in all, with or without music, Raycatcher is just another boring arcade.

The best way to describe Kaptain Brawe would have been "Monkey Island in space" if only these two games weren't hundred light years apart quality-wise.

Establishing a new Family is a hard undertaking… and a tedious chore. Imagine spending 10+ hours on taking over one building after another! In GTA: San Andreas and The Godfather, this occupation was but a side attraction; here, it is everything.

A boring game that even doesn’t attempt to draw you in.

Establishing a new Family is a hard undertaking… and a tedious chore. Imagine spending 10+ hours on taking over one building after another! In GTA: San Andreas and The Godfather, this occupation was but a side attraction; here, it is everything.

Establishing a new Family is a hard undertaking… and a tedious chore. Imagine spending 10+ hours on taking over one building after another! In GTA: San Andreas and The Godfather, this occupation was but a side attraction; here, it is everything.

Lost Planet 2 is a disjointed mess without style or substance. The developers don't bother themselves with well-designed levels, clever triggers and challenging AI. They just throw you into a hostile crowd, hoping that you'll have fun.

All you need to know about the second Transformers: The Game is that it is a humdrum, lifeless thing.

Wild Blood is in a desperate need of Infinity Blade-style polish. The controls are abysmal, frequent slowdowns are annoying, and epic fights are few and far between.

Jurassic Park is trying its best not to spoil the player with variety. Its three pillars of entertainment are "alternate between two buttons", "press one button to fill a gauge", and "press the same button, but very, very quickly". If not for a few primitive puzzles and the ability to select replies in conversations, it would be not a game, but a collection of movie clips.

It takes a couple of hours to unlock all three available maps, but you’ll have to spend way more time to reach the highest rank. If you won’t fall asleep, that is.

And yet again, the only bright spot in a game about zombies is a CG promo that has nothing in common with the actual gameplay.

An idea, no matter how fresh and original, doesn't worth squat without a good implementation. Doc Clock is a prime example of that. The construction mechanics are too awkward, and the game does nothing to encourage our creative thinking.

It’s hard to see why they ask money for this one. If you want to swing a baseball bat as Rorschach, save yourself $15 and just buy Part I.

Sword of the Stars 2 is what happens when a space opera becomes a hostage of amateurish idealists.

"Expansions" like this one should be released as patches or included as bonus in reprints of the original game.

Those who wait for the WWII version of Total War, are out of luck again.

Helicopter boss is a telltale sign of a trashy first-person shooter. Well, this game has five of them.

Just a tie-in product, nothing more, like an Ice Age-branded mug or a mouse pad.

If only Daggerdale could offer fun gameplay, we would have forgiven it for dull story, horrible visuals and buggy multiplayer. Alas, the combat is beyond redemption as well.

If you're really interested in the "2D shooter" concept, try Soldat, which is still popular despite its age. It has much smarter AI, ten times more levels and a wider arsenal of weapons.

First thing that you notice upon launching Dungeon Lords MMXII is that it's plagued by the same many flaws as the original game 7 years ago.

Operation Anchorage offers three hours of uninspired action, turning Fallout 3 into a mediocre low-budget shooter without a trace of role-playing.

One can’t blame this failure on the studio's youth or lack of experience. The Creative Assembly Australia are not some clumsy outsourcers. After all, the well-received Kingdoms expansion to Medieval 2: Total War was entirely their doing. This is why Stormrise is not just another faceless RTS clone, but a total disaster.

The issue lies not in the occasional bugs or the concept, but rather in the excruciatingly dull gameplay. I guess some people found the official trailer (with dancing Stalin and cartoony invaders) amusing, but if you can giggle at the same joke for six hours straight, then, by all means, visit a specialist ASAP. Peculiar characters, snappy dialogue, sharp twists, and artful tactics – you won’t find any of this here.

If you liked Majesty 2, don’t pick up Kingmaker. Better wait for the inevitable Gold Edition that is bound to hit shelves sooner or later.

Besides the handy automap and the journal, the only other positive thing about Arcania is that it's at least better than Gothic 3: Forsaken Gods.

The best word describing Gangstar Rio is used in the game as a fictional car brand – "Crapo". Stay away from it, chicos!

At first, NecroVisioN seems like a fun game. But when you realize that the 1237th encounter with monsters is the same as the 561st, and that melee is just a polygon mess, all the fun goes away.

Both the gameplay and attempts at satire are equally pathetic.

Legends of Pegasus is a warning to all other developers in the 4X strategy genre – if you can't make a solid game, don't bother trying. In space, no one will hear you squeal.

All in all, Grotesque Tactics is a shoddy low-budget game.

Darkstar made me feel like a time traveler. It is as if at the end of the last century, fearing the "2K error" apocalypse, someone put this game in a capsule, and only now a team of archaeologists has unearthed these artifact CDs.

Stronghold 3 is boring beyond redemption. The blurb on the retail box should have been written along the lines of "We've run out of ideas, our artists forgot how to draw, and our programmers can't produce stable code anymore, but hey, a long, long time ago we made one really great game!"

Some people mockingly compare Raven Squad with Company of Heroes and Call of Duty. I prefer to compare it with Stormrise. These games belong to different genres but share the same approach: invent an original gameplay concept and… bungle it completely.

Fray in its current state is hardly a game at all - just snippets of code and someone's unfulfilled dreams.

The only difference between this game and the horrendous Gothic 3: Forsaken Gods is that it's almost bug-free.

I wonder if the developers themselves knew what exactly they were trying to create. Is it a stealth game? a tactical strategy? a top-down arcade? Kitschy, bold artwork is only there to cover up the lack of cohesive ideas, and crude execution.

Glitchy scripts, three-minute loading times, broken saves, crashes to desktop and the abundance of blur make this game a nerve-wracking challenge.

A poorly-made virtual shooting gallery starring U.S. Marines.

Babel Rising is equally boring in Survival, competitive and cooperative modes.

One can’t help but wonder what is going on at Infinite Interactive if their latest game feels like a parody of their own Puzzle Quest.

The final level of the game is a giant trash dump. Very symbolic, because it's hard to find a more suitable place for Dead Horde itself.

Grey’s Anatomy: TVG is an interactive novel where nothing depends on the player. The choice is but illusion. An actor says a few lines, makes an appropriate face, and the story resumes its course. Cue 200 more scenes of cel-shaded doctors phoning it in.

There is no connection between the actual investigation and actions of our zit-faced detectives. Horrendous dialogue, complete with the “American dream” philosophy, syrupy jokes about prepubescent love, and tear-jerking lectures of the characters, only widens this gap.

Zombies in jungle and abandoned temples – that’s a nice setup for a Left 4 Dead campaign. Unfortunately, Rebellion is not Valve. “Repeatedly press button on-screen to survive torture”, says a hint message during one of the interactive cutscenes. Oh I wish there was a button to erase Shellshock 2 from my memory.

It's not a game – just a prototype of one. And they charge money for that?!

The main character of Inquisitor is quite creative when it comes to torturing heretics. You can rack people, make them drink boiling water, or put them into the iron maiden… But the game itself is an even worse torture – not everyone can suffer through 100 hours being bored and annoyed at the same time. Inquisitor is not a hardcore RPG; it just hates the player.

Eight hours of sheer boredom spread over a few equally gray (in all senses) levels.

Paradox Interactive still cannot produce a decent third-party game (see also: Majesty 2, Sword of the Stars 2, Magicka).

You walk about dark rooms, straining your eyes to discern doors from walls, rotate valves, kill hordes of zombies, mercenaries, robots… and pray that this level will be the last.

“If nothing helps, change your tactics”, reads one of the game’s loading tips. I have a better suggestion: change the game as soon as possible.

Even if you watched Avatar two or three times, don’t expect to enjoy the familiar world in the game. Better save the money for the DVD.

How to lose friends and make everyone hate you? Here’s a recipe “from Vivendi”: kill a good publisher, take one of its classic adventure franchises, give it to the creators of Worms, spend all money on Hollywood talent voice-overs, and hope for a profit.

A soulless movie tie-in.

As a freeware game, Star Sentinel Tactics would have earned the approval of a rare retro-maniac, but these guys are actually charging for it.

Fans of Shrek will be better off watching the movie or replaying Shrek SuperSlam – the best game about the green ogre to date. Fans of platformers, better look elsewhere.

Trash. There is no other word for Gothic 3: Forsaken Gods. Not only this expansion is buggy and horribly designed, it's simply useless.

Black Lion took a bite of something that they could now chew – a tactical stealth action game. And instead of a generic by-the-numbers shooter, they spewed out a piece of garbage, complete with poor graphics, amoeba-like AI and a horrendously dumb story.

Virtual Dick Marcinko said it best: “Dead piece of sh.t!”

The worst thing about JASF is not that it's an unrealistic arcade game. It's just very, very boring.

I have no idea why someone ported this mindless iOS game to PC.

The Rockin' Dead looks like a byproduct of someone's failed attempt to master 3ds Max.

1.5 Gbytes of data. 10 US dollars. 45 minutes of gameplay. Ladies and gentlemen, we have a new winner for the title of the shortest commercially available first-person shooter. You've seen the bad movie – now play a crappy game.

This is CITY Interactive's worst FPS since Code of Honor: The French Foreign Legion.

A revolting prequel to a disgusting game.

I couldn't shake off the feeling that I was playing a game made by a bunch of school students.

Even a great graphics engine can become a basis for a horrendous game.

It’s not a game, but three hours of torture, complete with broken scripts and frequent crashes.

This game is not just boring – it's disgusting to play.