The maps look boring, the units have few and bland animations, the sounds are awful, and someone seems to have forgotten combat effects. [July 2002, p.69]

Makes me never want to see the movie again for fear it will remind me of the game. [August 2002, p.76]

Considering their utter lack of intelligence, it'd be more accurate to name these guys "Inbreed." [July 2004, p.70]

If it’s trivia you’re after, read questions from Trivial Pursuit cards. Or pick up an Encyclopedia Britannica. Don’t, however, buy this game. [Feb 2002, p.99]

The degeneration continues. [Aug 2003, p.90]

No matter how interesting the real-life situation is, the game manages to make it more boring than missions in most budget shooters. [Sept 2004, p.76]

Next time, use the million-dollar PVP cash prize to improve gameplay. [Oct 2005, p.78]

I used to really love adventure games, but after playing this one, I can't remember why. [Aug 2004, p.79]

It's a lot more of the same - the same grinding disenchantment. [Feb 2003, p.80]

This game is so annoying and poorly designed that it left me vindictively cheering the show's demise. [Dec 2002, p.136]

This game just feels like an insult. Or maybe a practical joke. [Nov 2004, p.80]

The only thing Legacy leaves you with is a feeling of relief when it's over. [Apr 2005, p.88]

BCT fails so dismally at playability that the realism doesn't matter. [August 2002, p.81]

What stinks more than anything is SOE's treatment of the game's devoted fans, who find themselves spurned by the developer's hope that a dumbed-down gaming experience will appeal to a wider audience. [Feb 2006, p.76]

The best game ever for gamers without the energy to move their thumbs from the A button to the B button on their gamepads. [May 2004, p.89]

Though it's not an entirely offensive game, in its attempt to be individualistic, Locomotion has learning nothing from other games in the genre and ends up feeling like a 10-year-old game with a 5-year-old coat of paint. [Holiday 2004, p.103]

A total rush job, from start to all-too-sudden finish. [Feb 2006, p.73]

All tension drains away as the game turns into the equivalent of a deathmatch against sheep. [July 2003, p.74]

X3 sometimes morphs into a derivative on-rails shooter during scripted story missions. [Feb 2006, p.74]

For some insane reason, the developers decided that you have to insert both discs in sequence every time the game boots... It's just completely preposterous. [Feb 2003, p.96]

The whole thing feels more like feature creep in a box than an expansion pack. [Mar 2006, p.84]

A bad third-person shooter is still bad even with '60s music and Vietnamese prostitutes. [Dec 2004, p.96]

If this game is any indication, the SOG soldiers were blind and deaf, and had the tactical sense of lemmings. [Aug 2005, p.76]

It may have spectacular AI, but it's still just an elaborate virtual pet forced to perform a tedious sequence of often frustrating tasks. [May 2002, p.89]

For every potentially cool element in Prince of Qin, there's a worse one waiting to kneecap it. [Jan 2003, p.124]

The gameplay, already uninspired and annoying on the consoles, is an uncontrollable mess on PC and not even worth it for fanboys. [Sept 2003, p.100]

A $20 game that plays like a $10 game. [Aug 2005, p.77]

SCI took just six months to publish a PC conversion of the generally ignored PS1 game based on the largely forgotten film. [Feb 2003, p.98]