Many innovative and motivating game mechanics, but due to passive AI factions and lack of diplomacy it stops being a challenge too quickly.

If you want to rule over Europe you can look forward to complex trading and city building. For military strategist it may fall short.

The developers' love for detail, which is apparent in the characters of the Jericho team, is missing otherwise: the levels are linear and sometimes monotonous, the enemies always act the same way.

Am I having a blast with Saints Row? Yes! Would I unreservedly recommend it to all action fans? Rather not. Because there are too many little things that just aren't for everyone.

An atmospheric role-playing experience made with genuine passion, that unfortunately falls short due to technical flaws and a clunky combat system.

A horror adventure in the woods of Norway, which offers a slightly scary story rather than real horror.

A nice little build-a-vault-game, great for spending a little time. But it lacks the depth to be motivating in the long term.

Empire of Sin offers solid turn-based tactics, a swag 20s gangster setting and an economic layer; however, it lacks depth and polishing.

The game lacks diversity. In each of the similar looking rooms you're doing the same thing. The less well done shooter elements and climbing passages can't change that.

Solid Quidditch entertainment for Harry Potter fans, which lacks in terms of variety and depth in the long run.

A real fresh setting that let's you forget that it's just a game character that's being hunted. A great achievement for a game so unsightly.

Mata Hara was a legendary woman – this game is a one-dimensional disappointment. Instead of offering a thrilling story the game is just a line of mediocre dialogues, held together by some stereotypes. The riddles are boring and often only seem to be there to connect some mini games together. That’s not enough.

Quotation forthcoming.

Cossacks 3 is a disappointing remake of the first installment with new graphics and lots of very old bugs.

It's an open world RPG for extremely patient and cooperative settlers who can also stand a lot of grinding for resources and skills.

Quotation forthcoming.

Dead on time: Garage: Bad Trip presents itself as a fast-paced zombie shooter for very experienced or frustration resistant saviors of the world.

Right now, it's unplayable. With patches it may be a nice survival-roguelike for fans. The main problem is the botched release.

It’s more than just a simple game with a move license. The crazy game world is filled with good gameplay ideas, so it‘s easy to ignore the flaws.

Quotation forthcoming.

If you don't give up because of the game's difficulty, you will be rewarded with a tatical depth that offers unequaled opportunities and exactly simulated weapon systems.

Quotation forthcoming.

Lincoln Clay's personal vendetta offers a thrilling story and a great setting, but a lot of the game is just grunt work.

Payback has the ingredients to be an entertaining arcade racer, but poor game design choices and lame gameplay prevent that.

Atmospheric and conceptual, therefore, Warsaw does everything right.

Above all, the first four Settler games benefit from the purely technical changes. All seven have aged with dignity.

Quotation forthcoming.

Rise of Industry does not live up to its own claim of "having enough strategic complexity and replay value" "to satisfy the most experienced fans of the genre" (quotations from the developers).