So much simulation so little gameplay. Life is Feudal shows medieval life really in detail, but the problem is, that it's not fun at all. [Issue#260]

Arcania is more of a restart of the series then a regular sequel – some dedicated fans will be disappointed by its overall simplification but it does not make Gothic 4 a bad adventurous experience. [Issue#197]

Maybe the best story that can be found in videogame (ever) is undermined by the slight absent of playability. 15 Days is definitely a great interactive movie but as game it is just average. [July 2010]

Good looking action adventure at first sight. But disappointment comes soon which places Alice in the same row with other “movie-games”. Stay out of rabbit hole if you are six or older. [Issue#191]

Beautiful adventure at first sight disappoints with shallow story and common puzzles. It feels more like interactive screensaver than adventure game. [Issue#208]

Crossfire shoots blanks. You don't need the original JA and the tactical part of the game isn't that bad but what good is it when the rest sucks big time. [Oct 2012]

Great idea wasted by a sterile execution, which removes the most important elements of the genre – fear, uncertainty and never-ending moral issues. [Issue # 261]

Point and click adventure game full of different mini games (both funny and annoying). The game is short, which doesn’t get compensated by multiple endings... However, one has to appreciate the beautiful seventies style. [Issue#289]

Unfinished product is grounded not only by its technical errors, but also by the inconsistency and diluted original concept. The honor of the game is saved by the robotic probes and tremendous modularity. [Issue#274]

Appealing yet not fully finalized attempt of interactive novel. Emotional dream adventure is not flawless but it evokes interesting questions to answer. [Issue#208]

Faster, Baby! Add-on shows what the third Mafia was good at, but it is pitifully short. Less than hour-long main chapter plus there are a few missions for Sinclair Parish residents, and then it's over. [Issue#274]

If you're a) an apocalyptic junkie enjoying the real fallout shelter plans, b) someone excited by problems, such as getting rid of a corpse; Sheltered with its never-ending nonsense will enrage you rather than entertain. [Issue#263]

Horizontal Tetris is not a bad idea at all. But if you combine it with a stupid story and crappy visuals you bury all the fun this puzzler has to offer. [Issue#190]

This is what you call an unfulfilled potential: great style of narration, perfect characters, original setting – but all wrapped in a depressingly repetitive game content. [Issue #268]

Being in the shoes of guerrillas in the war-torn Warsaw really is an experience. If it hadn't been for unfinished ideas and bad design, it could have been a turn-based strategy pearl. [Issue#300]

NFS World doesn't work as an MMO so far. Lack of cars, tracks and even the working matchmaking system makes it unattractive. Improvements are on the way fortunately. [Issue#195]

To copy the Industry Giant like this turned out to be unfortunate. Although the production chains are pleasantly complex in the Rise of Industry, trading is unrealistic and the game won´t offer anything besides the economy. A wasted opportunity! [Issue#295]

Only if you have not played Silent Hunter 3 and you are ok with a permanent internet connection you can enjoy the Atlantic battle from your periscope view. [Issue#190]

Great shooter from the universe of Warhammer 40K. Dark, rough and with unfinished work. If you are looking to fill the time and you don´t mind a new crazy action, give it a chance. But there is still work to be done and things to improve.

Thanks to its high pace, this funny and fast platformer distracts you from recognizing that there are not very inventive environments or enemies. [Issue #268]

Lots of cars, nice tracks and fast racing without binding rules. Gravel is a motorcycle arcade game which is worth buying. [Issue#284]

The FPS and RTS hybrid suffers from a stereotype, excessive simplification of most gameplay elements and a chaotically told clichéd story. [Issue#304]

Wanted is way better than any other movie–to–game product, but it’s way too short to enjoy it for longer than a single afternoon. Minigames suck, brilliant controls and spectacular effects that rock. [Apr 2009]

Heavily bugged boredom succeeded only with causing despair and reluctance to continue. After a lot of patches it will be playable, but definitely there’s little chance patches add any fun to the game. [Issue#253]

The beautifully presented dystopian society has a huge hidden story potential, which is mostly handed down to the players. Playable passages will get boring after a while, but if you like a good alternative history, you won’t mind the average gameplay. [Issue#289]

Bleeding Edge is an adrenaline soaked game. Chaotic gameplay and very uneven matchmaking is making it hard to enjoy for beginners and its weird design is hard to swallow for older player. But it still has its charm. [Issue#305]

The way this relationships-on-a-space-station simulator reflects our real life social networking is way cool. Its price, not so much. [Issue#238]

New developers bring new impulse. NASCAR comes to life with nice graphics and a range of game modes – and few errors. Even so it is a must-have for all the long year fans.

Excellent adventure game takes advantage of a catchy story, charming graphics and really low hardware requirements. Ritual is a perfect choice for both experienced adventurers and newcomers. [Issue#174, Jan 2009]

Why should you play this piece when there are many better racing games on the market? Only if you want to try an up and down average title with nice car models and dull opponents. [Sept 2009]

RTS lovers will be satisfied as long as they are the encyclopedic fans only. Repetitiveness of the campaigns, soulless environment and a weird interface make this game extremely boring and odd. [Issue#252]

Three strikes and you’re out? Not with Milestone and WRC suffers from it. Unless competition rises somewhere else, any new installment in this series will be merely a change in the number. [Issue#237]

Modern reincarnation of popular arcade driving gives an overall positive impression – old-school playability brings you a lot of "fast & furious" fun. [Sept 2012]

Too much ambition send Moon Hunters to mere mediocrity. The graphics will probably charm you, but procedurally generated gameplay will not. [Issue#264]

The best old engine you can get. PC players can be happy, all new game modes are present but regardless of these improvements the computer version is just a shade of the console ones. [Dec 2008]

Interesting race game at first glance fires all of its ammunition in the opening ten minutes of play. After that there is nothing more to offer. [Jan 2013]

Take a meatchopper and use it on raw piece of meat for 10 minutes. Then ask yourself if you've enjoyed it. If YES, Splatterhouse is a perfect match for you. [Issue#199]

An interesting idea is sometimes good enough to make a great game. And sometimes not. Demolition and terraforming cannot hide the overall emptiness of this average shooter. [Nov 2008]

RPG elements and a bunch of charismatic mercenaries make the new Jagged Alliance playable – it's solid team-tactical action but we bet that the fans of original game will stay with the classic. [March 2012]

Simple, yet poetic game of shadows and light, which would benefit from a little more polish, so it wouldn’t grate on its players’ nerves. [Issue#237]

A hero that fits in no pigeon-hole, of the video game that prays to the pigeon-holes. Run up headlong, and maybe you are going to be relatively satisfied. [Issue#232]

A solid stealth game that fails as an action adventure. While the aesthetics are interesting, the story quickly becomes a bore. [Issue#241]

Unexpected rise from the ashes – the third title of the WRC series is not flawless but is finally playable. [Dec 2012]

On-rails action adventure surprises with catchy fighting style and plenty of weapons. One of the best titles for PlayStation Move that you can get. [Feb 2012]

Maybe it is the nicest city sim but unfortunately it's only the empty shell. Too many design mistakes and an user-unfriendly interface make Cities XL 2012 wasted opportunity. [Dec 2011]

Don’t look for any inventiveness here just enjoy the fastest Tokyo ride on the wings of this exaggerated adrenaline action game where gravity and other laws of physics take a vacation. [Issue#187]

Destruction is still cool, and in the end I have to give the creators credit for the fact that the much marketing-washed akedo has its moments. Everything else that made a good Battlefield is completely missing, and that chase for record-breaking size or player count is really a poor substitute for well-designed maps, rich content in the form of game modes, and certainly no substitute for the original class system that the gameplay has always relied on in the first place. [Issue#317]

Attractive set-up based on the atmosphere of a TV series unfortunately suffers by the unbalance of gameplay features and slips to boredom gibberish which kills the funnier parts. [Aug 2008]

Very short, but cute platformer. The game plays nicely, it looks great, but its indecision about what it wants to be, negates it all. [Issue#266]

A small game can entertain hungry fans of the genre for a couple of hours. Unfortunately, without the stylus and 3D image, the game loses anything extra and adds on a few frustrating elements. [Issue#273]

Curse of Osiris does not improve Destiny 2 the way someone might wish. New players won't definitely be attracted, but fans will be pleased with the new content. [Issue#282]

The Dwarves would like to achieve a better rating, but their own companions in the fight undercut this effort. Simple technical state is not always a recipe for a success. [Issue #271]

For your first and second time, StarDrive brings a refreshing experience resembling Master of Orion. However, as soon as you understand its basic rules, the game is gone like through a Black Hole. [Issue#232]

Catchy storyline on one side, crappy RPG elements on the other… Venetica amazes with stunning visuals and attractive heroine but the game mechanics undermine the overall impression. [Feb 2010]

Don't go looking for any new features or updates. This year' incarnation is a product without purpose. [Issue#246]

If you enjoy the game art and somewhat hypnotic aimlessness of wandering through generated universe, you could wander for another five or ten years. Otherwise, you leave the game after a few hours never to come back. [Issue#266]

Charismatic heroine and interesting spy story from WWII cannot save the game from development bugs and really really weird game mechanics. Pick any Splinter Cell instead. [June 2009]

The ambitions were great for sure – but to fulfill all that the game could have achieved, it should have spent more time in the developers' hands. Still Fable is probably the best "hardcore" Kinect game. [Dec 2012]

A surrealistic action game is extended, with freedom of movement. However, it has lost its ability to hide the flaws. Zeno Clash II knows how to entertain, but at the same time it's terribly stupid. [Issue#231]

Budget price and low hardware requirements can attract gamers to try this straightforward hack’n’slash game. Repetitive missions and locations will reliably repel them after two to three hours of gameplay. [Apr 2009]

Nintendo designers are still capable of making creative and funny minigames. Not all minis in Wii Play: Motion is of this kind unfortunately. [Issue#207]

We didn't expect much yet we are disappointed. Linear hack'n'slash offers tedious contents, repeatable enemies and environments and above all it fails in cooperation mode. [July 2011]

Better than most "movie" games – Captain America recycles good ideas from other games and adds open world with lots of collectibles. [Issue#208]

Sheltered 2 is both engaging and confusing, while players are trying to dive into postapocalyptic world. The lack of proper storytelling and ugly graphics make Sheltered 2 feel old and out of the place.

Ryse is like someone you notice at a party but after you spend some time together, you realize that person lacks charm and can’t tell the difference between a duel and a duet. [Issue#238]

Mostly boring and uninteresting, sometimes even frustrating experience. Lost and wasted potential clearly radiates from this dwarven adventure. [Issue#262]

Tedious and absurdly overcomplicated game with no game design plus ugly graphics together made just another pointless strategy. [Issue#207]

Entertaining, hard and sophisticated strategy focuses on unexplored corners of history. Unfortunately, every good idea is matched with a bad one. [Aug 2010]

Overwrought puzzle platformer, which level design makes it way too hard. Give it a try – if you’ve got the patience. [Issue#241]

Fast, funny and well made. But is free-to-play really the future? [Issue#242]

Right from the start of a new game, you get the feeling that something is not right here. The animations are clunky, the voice acting sounds like a high school attempt at a rap song. The unreadable map is then made worse by the crew's constant comments that interrupt your gameplay. Spirit of Liberty is a difficult piece to digest. [Issue#329]

The game lacks quality puzzles like in Machinarium or Creaks, and one is left with "only" amazement at the interestingly rendered and a bit crazy world. [Issue#324]

The mix between Among Us and Cooking Dash makes for funny frenetic action that will get your nerves flowing. Every mistake usually means death and a return to the starting planet. Godlike Burger can therefore be frustrating and repetitive after a while. [Issue#319]

The main problem at the moment is that it lags behind its eight-year-old predecessor in every way except graphics. [Issue#326]

No one can hear you clicking in space… Missed opportunity to create a successful action paced sci-fi. Space Siege is more Dungeon Siege II mod than anything else. There are lots of nice flying and exploding barrels but playability itself is a bit “wearing” and you can beat the whole game in three afternoons of lazy playing. [Sept 2008]

The combat system is not the clearest. The player loses valuable lives quite easily just by touching an enemy. This leaves you with conflicting thoughts, and even the graphic design and adorable animations don't completely save the day. [Issue#327]

Solid action RPG with some survival aspects that might help you make it through a boring day – but not any longer. [Issue#237]

Maybe a great and unforgettable experience is knocked down by very poor optimization and extreme user "unfriendliness". We'll wait and see if patches change our mind. [Issue#204]

At first glance, a Great shooter with catchy story and interesting weapons and upgrades. Its cons are unveiled during play – AI, touch controls and "too narrow" level design. [June 2012]

Soundtrack, multiplayer and touch of freedom are the greatest pros of this new snowboarding game. Unfortunately, you'll find too many backlogs during the course of game to fully enjoy the white slopes. [Issue#174, Jan 2009]

The remaster of the famous game didn´t meet expectations, despite having a few bright spots. This is a very bad remake of a very good game. [Issue#301]

Although this game is made with passion and love there are piles of functions and modes too big and are unmanageable to be really enjoyed by the common gamer. [Nov 2012]

Nice visuals, easy playability and boring after while... if you remember the old times when Carmageddon hit the streets you won’t be disappointed. [Issue#187]

Short but extremely tough add-on to the kingdom sim may address devotees of the original game but brings no better playability or improvements except for the map editor. [Issue#191]

Up close, the combat is somewhat lacklustre and the tense musical accompaniment doesn't save it. So the horror rather comes from surviving such situations and being able to fully immerse yourself in the game. [Issue#327]

A failed showcase of stolen ideas that forgets to show any sign of its own spirit. [Issue#238]

Promising but somehow unfinished platformer game addresses only the hardcore players who are willing to break records infinitely. [Jan 2012]

Epic locations and stunning visual effects can not hide very small variability of your opponents and extremely repetitive combat mechanics. Play it for 10 minutes and you'll have seen everything this game offers. [Dec 2010]

SGW3 is an uncongenial mix of the failed open-world gameplay combined with useful sniping. It can be recommended only to grimly determined snipers. [Issue#275]

Funny and accessible casual game is inspired by the famous and popular strategy series. Only disadvantages are chaotic controls. [Nov 2012]

Godfall is an astonishing next-gen tech demo. Which is, honestly, the only positive trait of the game. Apart from that, it just delivers 10 hours of repetitive hack and slash gameplay and a tedious story worth a third grader. [Issue#308]

Lemmings-like, easy to play platformer with a cheerful music score takes you to the dreamy world of creativity. Frustration comes sometimes with randomly generated game objects luckily not very often. [Issue#187]

Avatar is nothing less then a wasted opportunity – breathtaking visuals are the only reason to play this average action game with a shallow story. [Issue#186]

The medieval Grand Theft Auto was only partially successful, while the main domain is the historical setting accompanied by plenty more or less tasteful and apt jokes. Outdated approach to game is then the biggest obstacle on the way to success.

If they made it in 2011 graphics and gave players more freedom in the missions Emergency 2011 could be a truly enjoyable game. [Issue#200]

Jack Del Niro is no Philip Marlowe, not a mite. However, if you're willing to accept compromises, then this classical "noir" Detective Story will know how to warm your heart. [Issue#233]

Solo game reveals weak graphics and easy an fight but when you switch to online multiplayer mode you’ll get the best out of this game. [Issue#189]

Great screenplay is downed by overall playability. Splendid moments take turns with boring ones and even the final shocking conclusion will not remove the overall bad taste. [Issue#195]