Ultimately, SimCity DS feels like a compromise, with none of its features really sitting comfortably on Nintendo’s handheld.

Ultimately you cannot blame Traveller’s Tales too much for playing it safe with LEGO Batman and following their successful blueprint for retail success once again.

Ultimately Sega Superstars Tennis is yet another frivolous entry in the Wii Catalogue.

An major overhaul is needed to give some life back to WWE games. This just isn't it.

The Saboteur held much promise, which unfortunately never materialises whilst playing.

Marvel Super Hero Squad: The Infinity Gauntlet is a mess of a game.

It's a budget title at a budget price, and certainly stocking filler material, but don't expect entertainment beyond an hour of playtime.

We long for a good Godzilla game, but this isn’t it.

Much improvement will be needed to prevent it from following in the path of many a flightless bird...namely, into oblivion. In the meantime, place R: Racing Evolution on the "endangered species" list.

Boogie deserves to be a much better game. The excellent presentation hides a restrictive and basic control system that destroys any fun that might have been had while playing it.

With the movie being one of the biggest hits of the year ti date, it is a huge disappointment that the game was so far off the mark. We weren't expecting a God of War game but if done right it could of been pretty damn close. The lore was there, the combat, the possible beautiful worlds and yet somehow it was all overlooked and instead we get a decidely 'ok' game.

Family Game Night does exactly what is sets out to do. It brings together four family games, and successfully recreates them on the DS.

Fabulous graphics can only do so much damage limitation in the face of so many fundamental design flaws.

Overall Dash of Destruction is a pleasant enough detor that for younger gamers may prove to be more entertaining.

One word describes Ultimate Spider-Man: disappointment.

When there’s no more room in hell, you’ll be forced to sit on earth playing this game for eternity.

Even without the long loading times the gameplay is poor - how many games can you name with a control system much too complicated but with almost no depth?

Overall Bellator MMA Onslaught has the base to be a good game, however there are just far too many niggles at the moment. It is a game that feels like another year of development would have worked wonders. Working on the animations so that everything linked together in a more natural way and fleshing out the modes on offer would have made this a worthy purchase. As it is though, it is one to pick up only if you are desperately after a fighting game.

Fights soon degenerate into a short-range melee where you slug it out with blows and the occasional throw move. There is no balance, and button-bashers will feel right at home as you soon realise there is little room for tactics or skill.

It may have all the wit and style of the series, and Simpsons fans will no doubt love picking out all the references. With no effort put into caring about how the game plays, however, it means that you might not be able to actually play the game enough to get them all.

Sadly outside of the main mode Kung Fu Rider offers very little else for your money.

A very repetitive card game with minimal input from the player

The Matrix: Path of Neo does have its moments - but these are limited by the restraints of the medium. In the trilogy, Neo could do almost anything, which included manipulation of time itself. Transferring these abilities in-game has been problematic, and the engine simply can't cope with all of Neo's talents.

There are far better games out there (without a licence attached) that will yield far broader smiles.

Dead Island is described as a first person action-adventure game, whilst it is definitely first person, the latter two descriptions are misleading, it is action in as much as raising your arm is an action, it is adventure in as much finding toilet roll is an adventure. They should have called it a first person battle of tedium, because it would've been a lot more accurate.

Shining Soul is too shallow to appeal to the turn-based RPG crowd and the combat is too tedious to appeal to action RPG fans, or indeed anyone not wanting to inflict a repetitive strain injury upon themselves.

Ninja Reflex only feels like a third of what could have been a fun package. Even the kids will feel short-changed by the overall package, which despite some positives never warrants affiliation with the ninja.

Formulaic, stitched together and delivered bang on time for Christmas, it's hard not to view this as anything other than a cold turkey that won't be enjoyed during the festive period.