Full Auto 2 is a deeply satisfying and rewarding experience. It’s fun as a pure racer, but include the massive amounts of carnage you must inflict upon your competition and the game ascends to a new level of satisfaction. [Feb 2007, p.121]

Dewy’s Adventure feels like a full-blown game rather than a collection of brief remote-based tasks that have seemingly become the Wii norm lately. [Oct 2007, p.125]

Between the variety, the playability and the great feeling of accomplishment that comes from completing one of the many tasks, FMX is really quite good fun. Overly ambitious but fun nonetheless. [Oct 2003, p.115]

Bright, intriguing, but lacking depth. [July 2018, p.74]

Clichéd, generic, bland, boring and infuriating. [Mar 2008, p.120]

You’re essentially playing an endurance test in videogame form. It’s not terrible, but it is horribly annoying. If you’re aware of that before going in you may just love it. [May 2007, p.121]

The combat is well-structured. [Issue#164, p.86]

A beautiful technicolor journey into darkness. [Issue#188, p.83]

Good for the franchise, but still not great. [Nov 2009, p.125]

Basically a GameBoy Advance Urbz re-release in all but name. That version had its flaws so releasing the same game with a few minor additions isn’t going to fool anyone. [Jan 2005, p.121]

Passable fluff. [Issue#117, p.126]

Battlefront II is fan service and little else; much respect to the craft, the attention to detail and the wealth of content, but sadly it just isn't enough. It's starting to feel as if Star Wars simply isn't a franchise suitable for this type of sprawling, large-scale multiplayer experience. It doesn't have it in its bones, and if DICE can't find a way to make it work, we're fearful nobody can. [Issue#195, p.72]

Worth experiencing, but there are better-made horror games around. [Issue#150, p.127]

There’s more new content than you’d usually find in a Special Edition. [May 2006, p.128]

Tries and fails to replicate Inside's brilliance. [Issue#190, p.78]

It's still hard to shake the feeling that this is DLC; it is padded-out content and it is, ultimately, a bit of a grind. [Issue#157, p.112]

Ultimately, Happy Home Designer feels more like a mini-game from a main Animal Crossing title, albeit one that controls like a dream. As a cheaper eShop release designed to spark interest in collecting the cards it would have been fine, but as a full price game its one-trick-pony style is far too repetitive for some.

Shadowrun has stacks of good ideas; it just fails to rest them on a bed of good value and substance. [Aug 2007, p.104]

Rough visuals dampen its impact. [Issue#180, p.41]

Neverwinter might be competent, but it's rarely fun or interesting. [Issue#161, p.96]

With Extraction Point, TimeGate has lost sight of what its predecessor did so well, creating something truly average. Which is why it’s so surprising that Perseus Mandate is so great. [Jan 2008, p.124]

Possibly the most technically realised rally experience available on console. [Issue#102, p.115]

Like many of the revivalist action films we've seen in recent years, it is little more than a slick homage that lacks the bite of the real thing. [July 2008, p.123]

Decent - if limited - fun. [Issue#180, p.47]

Never gets bogged down in the endless conversations of, say, Phoenix Wright. [Christmas 2008, p.107]

Every change of camera is greeted by painful seconds as the textures load in. Every opened door is greeted with the loading screen. Every battle features a cataclysmic drop in frame rate. The result callously skims the cream from the top, depriving you of your ultimate satisfaction. [Jan 2009, p.106]

A package with some technical issues and a generally very shallow feel. [Christmas 2011, p.108]

It becomes an overbearing checklist of simplistic social commentary. [Issue#163, p.109]