Some great sniping action surrounded by ropey stealth sections and enemy AI. [June 2013, p.69]

This is dull stuff. [Aug 2012, p.80]

There's a reasonable amount of potential for some multi-player monster fun, but all that impromptu city demolishing action all gets old real quick. [June 2006, p.79]

Horribly overpriced. [May 2011, p.93]

We love Jack Sparrow, but we're disappointed he's not in a better game. [Sept 2006, p.69]

A good idea lies buried somewhere beneath a lot of generic levels and abysmal controls. [May 2009, p.68]

A scrappy, unfulfilling brawler that's nevertheless quite difficult to dislike despite itself. [Aug 2016, p.70]

Suitably fast and fun but it gets samey and a bit dull in single-player. [Jan 2007, p.82]

Sitting uneasily between the "sim" and "showboater" camps, this is a bit of a mess. [Aug 2006, p.73]

As loveable as Greg Rusedski's haircut. [June 2006, p.78]

If you adjust to the controls, Stormrise will create a new breed of hardcore RTS gamers. [May 2009, p.66]

Pretty as it is, Koi isn't polished enough to make any waves. [July 2016, p.80]

Guiding the five idiotic animals through each level is real torture. [Oct 2008, p.85]

Incredibly simplistic, it works poorly with a pad and grows tiresome all too quickly. [Sept 2012, p.101]

A likeable, if slight, slice of gory Brothers Grimm gaming. [Winter 2009, p.86]

Other games do the same things much better. [July 2010, p.98]

With trickier minigames and less wandering and this would have been a winner. [Sept 2007, p.80]

Best played with a friend, as it's too repetitive otherwise. Nice dragon, though. [Jan 2007, p.65]

Fans of the film - and those after a traditional platformer - will overlook it being average. [Sept 2008, p.73]

A disappointment. [July 2011, p.93]

Blame the combat system; it's rudimentary and unwieldy. [Sept 2010, p.104]

Bloody and ballsy, but lacks the wit and charm of "God of War" or even "Conan." [Christmas 2007, p.62]

Repetitive, buggy, and hamstrung by underbaked design, Shadwen feels like an unfinished product. [July 2016, p.79]

Best not leave your fingerprints on this one. [Dec 2012, p.83]

A whole lot of colour and fun, with big things to smash, but it becomes repetitive far too quickly. [May 2018, p.82]

Frustrating and unrewarding crime solving surrounded by inconsistent gameplay systems. [Aug 2014, p.62]

An enjoyable adventure with a few niggles - only has replay value for completionists. [Nov 2013, p.69]

We've found free games on the internet better than this. [Aug 2006, p.82]

Cry at the money wasted on this. [Nov 2013, p.69]

One-track, funny and very rough around the edges. [Oct 2013, p.75]

It's a proven formula, but the game proves to be a bit of a bugger to interact with. [July 2006, p.70]

A botched attempt to borrow ideas from the best has produced a shocker of a game. [May 2009, p.70]

Fun up to a point, the exploration eventually grows tired before the end. [Jan 2011, p.89]

It's borderline slapstick at times. [June 2013, p.75]

Its unique brand of gibbering heroism can be tedious work. [Jan 2012, p.90]

In an attempt to be a game for all, it turned into a game for no one. [Jan 2008, p.78]

A great idea but it lacks the necessary atmosphere and drama. [Apr 2008, p.75]

Let's hope Hogan wraps his 24-inch pythons around the neck of the guy responsible for this. [Mar 2010, p.77]

Go and see the movie instead - it's cheaper, it stars Ricky Gervais and they serve popcorn. [July 2009, p.82]

Those vibrant skies still pop and the sense of speed is undeniable, but this is best left as a happy memory. [Issue#232, p.87]

An epic adventure that's come too late and is let down by being rough around the edges. [Nov 2007, p.72]

Yoostar doesn't so much put you in the movies as put you next to a mangled clip of the movies. [June 2011, p.89]

Sure, there's a neat Muramasa-ness to the inky visuals, but we shouldn't have to endure such combat tedium in order to appreciate them. Yuck. [Sept 2012, p.107]

A fun and original revenge shooter, often playing like a big meat jigsaw. [March 2012, p.94]

There's very little to differentiate this from other Warriors titles. [June 2008, p.82]

Technically polished and full of character, but as a game it's horribly frustrating. [Christmas 2006, p.70]

An admirable attempt, but it's much too short and lacks balance. Entertaining, though. [Nov 2006, p.76]

We love original ideas, but there's no point in crazy innovation if you don't nail the basics. [Sept 2008, p.80]

Not the most thrilling experience because going gung-ho means failing. [Dec 2007, p.84]

The world's most average shooter, doused in a hundred gallons of blood and gore. [Feb 2008, p.64]

Undeniably inventive ideas are spoiled by a steep learning curve, poor signposting and duff controls. [Issue#232, p.89]

The game cleverly features cartoon clips, too. [March 2012, p.93]

Laughable next to other sports titles, like FIFA, despite being technically competent. [Nov 2011, p.91]

A soulless advert for a crummy toyline. [Dec 2009, p.85]

Basic, low-budget dungeon grinding with a ridiculous price tag. [May 2012, p.99]

A handful of nicely insane activities. [Apr 2012, p.85]

Good controls and occasionally thrilling, but more often it's frustrating. [Apr 2008, p.82]

The multiplayer's fun but the lack of games ruins the solo mode. [May 2008, p.77]

As a game it's meaningless bilge. [Nov 2013, p.73]

It's a case of quantity over quality. [May 2012, p.101]

Modern missiles are too good to make games any fun - give us crap biplanes any day. [Sept 2006, p.65]

The game's crass humour, repetitive gameplay and cultural indelicacy results in a depressing relic that should be consigned to the same draw[er] as that lightgun peripheral you never use anymore. [Oct 2014, p.77]

A total dud. [July 2011, p.89]

Underwhelming. Only slightly more fun than a maritime museum. [June 2008, p.83]

A fairly unappealing prospect. [Dec 2011, p.96]

There is certainly light in this tunnel, but it doesn't shine brightly enough to reach the end. [Oct 2014, p.81]

It's a sweet game and ideal as a 'my first videogame' for kids. [Jan 2007, p.82]

'Amazing' really is such a strong term. How about the fairly acceptable arachnid, instead? [Aug 2014, p.79]

It isn't even a half decent fighter! [Apr 2009, p.77]

A decent stab at a J-horror sim. We'd be interested to see more first-person scarers. [Apr 2010, p.83]

Bare-bones American football without the entertainment we enjoyed in "NFL Street." [Apr 2008, p.73]

Frustrating because of its terrible implementation of its fantastic ideas. [March 2013, p.87]

How can Duke be such a dick, have such an inconsistently crappy game and we still enjoy it? [Sept 2011, p.84]

A passable strategy game, but not even fans will find much to love. [June 2008, p.80]

Some reasonably exciting aerial combat, but IL-2 Sturmovik still wins the dogfight. [Nov 2012, p.90]

Yawn. [May 2013, p.77]

Same brilliant game it always has been. [June 2011, p.89]

In short bursts, it plays well but the stellar source material begs for a better tie-in, and the game's finale provides all the exctiement of a soggy firework. [Jan 2007, p.72]

An interesting but underwhelming take on the open-world shooter - novel, but seriously janky. [July 2016, p.68]

Sweet sprites and backdrops really aren't enough to hide a pretty bog standard RPG. [Aug 2006, p.72]

Lacks the intensity, variety and action the Terminator license deserves. [June 2009, p.76]

Has no depth, no polish, and no point. [June 2009, p.81]

As a quaint button masher there's a superplex of fun to be had. [Christmas 2012, p.87]

Knight Rider? Shite Rider, more like. [Jan 2014, p.63]

An unremarkable FPS plagued by dim AI and repetitive set-pieces. [Apr 2013, p.68]

Levels are too long, too sedate and too tedious. It's the gaming equivalent of a Chinese Finger Trap. [Issue#232, p.95]

A nice collection of undemanding minigames, one for younger gamers only though. [Apr 2008, p.66]

Boo. We were hoping for mindless and stupid, but not THIS mindless and stupid. [Nov 2007, p.67]

Entertaining enough but high-speed dot-to-dot can only last for so long. [Nov 2008, p.84]

Horror with randomly-generated elements is well worth exploring, but this relies on many stale genre cliches. [July 2014, p.68]

Realistic, addictive and brutally satisfying sometimes let down by the controls. [Jan 2011, p.88]

Cool gadgets don't excuse the fact that most of this game is bland and repetitive stuff. [Sept 2006, p.68]

Other [puzzlers], unfortunately, rely on easily-missed collectibles or suffer from a lack of explanation. Combine all this with terrible acting(not helped by the script), technical flaws (including a consistently awful frame rate and occasional clipping), and a boring script, and you'll find that Syberia 3 leaves you cold. [July 2017, p.83]

It can be frustratingly hard too: slog. [Aug 2012, p.77]

Giving a niche audience what it wants, arguably at the expense of general appeal. [Mar 2008, p.76]

Not really a game, but even as an application this is pretty flaky stuff. [Sept 2008, p.78]

Ideal for complete beginners and Amy-haters, it's one to miss for the rest. [Feb 2013, p.85]

A better puzzler than action game but Saww 2 does little that the previous game didn't already. [Issue#232, p.95.]