Light-hearted and fast shooting fun but your precious gold is better spent elsewhere. [July 2010, p.98]

Still great fun. Looses out graphically but gains with interactivity. [Dec 2007, p.80]

One of 2008's biggest disappointments. [Nov 2008, p.67]

Beautifully presented and fantastic fun to play. [Jan 2014, p.80]

Stunted, bitty world design and cut and paste quests drain the colour from one of gaming's most vivid worlds. [Apr 2014, p.75]

A crazy and entertaining love letter to Contra. [May 2013, p.77]

Ninja Blade isn't without merit, but little of what it sets out to do is well implemented. [May 2009, p.64]

Intelligently redesigned but isn't punchy enough to be laughing all the way to the bank. [March 2012, p.96]

The excellent controls are hampered by shallow options and poor visuals. [Aug 2008, p.82]

It's really rather good. [June 2011, p.89]

A visually dazzling adventure in which navigating space feels almost as difficult as it would be in real life. [July 2017, p.72]

In fact, it's the most exciting superbike racing we've played for a while. [Dec 2008, p.83]

Heroically retains its charm. [Christmas 2013, p.77]

It's hard to get attached to your creations when they're represented by numbers alone. [Dec 2013, p.73]

A slice of Pokemon, a dash on "Pikmin," a little bit of frustration - but a lot of fun. [June 2006, p.76]

Competent, tight and good looking but lacking the satisfying gameplay to make it a must. [July 2007, p.68]

All the qualities you'd want from a puzzle game. Classy. [Mar 2007, p.84]

Beautifully styled puzzle platformer held back by movement frustrations and cheap kills. [Oct 2012, p.84]

Thrilling, non-stop action for those who can overlook a few technical woes.

A brief, touching sandbox of fiery fun, but maybe too much of an ask at its current cost. [Feb 2013, p.89]

What should be an epic race with huge scale and freedom is short-lived, disjointed and linear. [Jan 2012, p.64]

It's still just a bit too steep at 4.50 quid. [Christmas 2011, p.89]

Get used to its quirks and it'll make for a perfectly playable distraction until FF13. [Nov 2008, p.75]

Unfortunately, though, the game's controls turn out to be more effective at slowing you down than all of its eerie enemies and devilish puzzles. [June 2007, p.74]

It falls short of an unqualified recommendation at full-price because of a difficulty curve that's more or less flatlined, and the sometimes glacial (as an 'ice age', ha!) pace of the action. [Sept 2009, p.75]

A mild improvement for PSP, but you really want to play on a big telly. [Dec 2007, p.46]

Convincing, well presented and has a new swagger about it. Impressive. [Christmas 2007, p.68]

Casual puzzle solving that will test your eyesight more than your gaming skills. [Nov 2009, p.87]