It isn't nearly as awful - no, indeed, as hopelessly generic - as it might first appear. [Issue#111, p.100]

There's just uninhibited hubris masquerading as knowing, swaggering braggadocio, a technological Frankenstein's monster. [Issue#111, p.98]

Magnificent. [Issue#110, p.133]

A patchy but occasionally outstanding oddity. [Issue#110, p.132]

A solid template, then, and interesting foundations on which for the inevitable paid follow-ups to build. [Issue#110, p.132]

Just don't believe everything you read on the box. [Issue#110, p.130]

While it lasts, Cave's genre breakout does a great job of making you feel like a nimble little paper ninja. [Issue#110, p.128]

Though retro in style, Strania certainly isn't without original ideas. [Issue#110, p.127]

Navigation and combat [are] incredibly infuriating. [Issue#110, p.126]

Dirt 3 is different. [Issue#110, p.125]

The most inadequate of games: a platformer that struggles in its platforming. [Issue#110, p.122]

An engaging and pacey swashbuckling romp through the highs of an accomplished franchise that will delight Pirates enthusiasts and Lego fans alike. [Issue#110, p.120]

The game does get bogged down in far too many unskippable and boring dialogue sequences. [Issue#110, p.118]

To say the level of humour is an acquired taste would be an understatement. [Issue#110, p.118]

Of course, any niggles relating to the quality of puzzles is alleviated somewhat by the quality of animation. [Issue#110, p.117]

If we have to make a criticism, it's that The Witcher 2 leaves you wanting more than it offers. [Issue#110, p.110]

It's not the most technical or the deepest fighter you'll ever play, but you'll struggle to find something so skillfully designed to complement its platform in any genre. [Issue#110, p.106]

A brilliant game, one that offers something for both the experimental gamer and the mechanical player who wants to 100 per cent every Archive. [Issue#110, p.102]

A disappointment, there's no two ways about it. The scares just aren't there – we live in a post-Amnesia world, so we know it's possible for FPSs to terrify – and the rest of the action is so utterly standard it strays into boring territory more than we hoped it would. A more interesting co-op mode and the competitive, point-based leaderboards covering both single and multiplayer drag it out of average territory, but generally speaking we fear this is a missed opportunity.

You'll still be thrilled by this original, amusing and brilliantly playable horror game.

For all its inventive turns and standout moments, however, much of Alice's return feels a little too templated for it to truly embrace the nonsensical.

The important thing, of course, is the racing, and the Codies tinkering permeates that with force, adding and subtracting features with gusto. Most alterations in this area, however, are welcome and inherently sensible.

An enjoyable enough score attacker, disappointingly one-dimensional and middling as it may be. [Issue#109, p.123]

A fairly competent twin-stick competitive shooter. [Issue#109, p.122]

So gratingly tedious in navigating stages that Monkey Ball's overarching identity is lost. [Issue#109, p.120]

As a download release, it has exactly the same flaws. [Issue#109, p.118]

Sega may need to up its game before the next iteration. [Issue#109, p.116]

A solid addition to the series that potentially offers plenty of additional scope due to its enhanced multiplayer component. [Issue#109, p.115]