If you're tired of music games this peculiar platformer is no reason to keep your plastic axe either.

A game insensitive to both the subject matter and the need to offer any real variety or intrigue.

Another classy retro conversion but Rare's platforming sequel feels older than it looks.

It’s an interesting idea let down by one-note gameplay, finicky onscreen joystick controls, and its habit of forcing you to replay levels after each mistake. It’s also significantly overpriced at £6.99.

An interesting and original shooter, but one that never has enough ideas or challenge to justify the price of admission.

An admirable attempt to create a 'real' game for Kinect, but despite the simple arcade style gameplay the technology just can't keep up.

A bad idea poorly realised and while the original coin-op retains its campy charm this remake is rendered pointless by the unsatisfying controls and glitchy performance.

A game whose very existence is absolutely baffling, with a tiny collection of completely uninteresting mini-games, that remain dull and unimaginative no matter how many people are playing.

A shadow of one of the former masters of survival horror, that is better equipped to bore than scare.

Even committed fans are likely to be disappointed by this lazy and largely unnecessary rehash.

3D graphics may be the future, but this dull beat 'em-up is unlikely to convince you of the fact.

It’s nostalgic fun to start with, but you quickly reach a stage where currencies pile up so slowly that you either have to spend actual money or leave it alone for half-days at a time. Despite its high production values, there’s just too little to do.

A fascinating glimpse into the twilight era of the stealth genre but the outdated gameplay and awkward controls make it difficult to be all that nostalgic about it.

Its goals are noble enough, but this low tech shooter takes its realism too seriously – as the drudgery and unfairness of trench warfare is made all too real.

There’s a solid game buried under the monetisation, but you’ll need deep pockets to find it. You expect more from Lego than lending their brand to this shameless cash grab, lightly disguised as entertainment.

It's all a shame because the central idea of a constantly transforming dungeon is a good one. The actual game that's been constructed around it though is nowhere near good enough.

One of the most unique-looking shooters of recent years, but not necessarily in a good way. Especially not when the action is this unrefined and purposefully annoying.

The combat is good, and the script has its moments, but otherwise this is a highly repetitive open world shooter that makes very poor use of its licence.

A loveable slice of 90s nostalgia, but compared to shooters both new and old it’s surprisingly limp and inappropriately difficult.

The best entry in the series, but very far from being super – as the excitement of discovery is replaced with the drudgery of repetition.

It commits no cardinal sins but this belated return to the world of Darksiders comes across as shallow, frustrating, and disappointingly dull.

Turning Castlevania into a one-on-one fighter is a dumb idea but at least this tries to be different.

For a Dynasty Warriors game this is fairly innovative, but only if you have three friends to play with.

Omega Force touts a fresh story, new mechanics, and a massive cast of characters but this is yet another Warriors title that succumbs to the series’ repetitive hack ‘n’ slash formula despite signs of passion from its developers.

Hearthfire is certainly a download that shatters preconceptions, but only in the sense that it never really allows you to do any of the things you thought it would.

Depressingly banal in every way, it's not impossible to be entertained by Warfighter but it is impossible to be surprised by it.

Lords Of Shadow 2 waddles on for 20-odd hours and would’ve been twice the game if it was half the length, with the all the unwanted padding and repetition taken out. It’s such a shame because the first game, and MercurySteam, showed such promise. But this is a huge backwards step and we fear the undead charms of Castlevania may finally have been killed off once and for all.

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