The Darkness II is a good game, but whether you consider it a good sequel will depend entirely on what you liked best about the original. If it was the storytelling and exploration then you may find this disappointing, if it was the OTT violence and bizarre Darkness powers then this is still a hell of a lot of fun.

Indefensibly shallow and repetitive, but still great fun for Simpsons fans and nostalgic arcade goers in general.

Still the same innovative-but-flawed puzzler as on the DS, but now far cheaper and with even more attractive visuals.

A typically awful boxed set for such an influential series, but the games themselves work well in HD and this is still a useful primer for the series.

Prettier, more accessible, and more varied than ever. This is one of the best new 3D fighters of recent years, even with a horribly disappointing story mode.

An unusually innovative combat system that, although lacking the game structure to properly exploit it, still offers some enjoyably bizarre entertainment.

One of the best smartphone games of last year gets the multiplayer mode it's always needed, in this superb mix of Risk and Scrabble.

An improved sequel on paper only, with an overall experience that is still ruined by incoherent storytelling and unsympathetic characters.

The best Resident Evil since number 4 and that's despite a number of compromises in the story mode, but very much helped by the superb graphics and online mode.

Jeff Minter returns with one of his most surreal retro tributes so far, but if you can keep your sanity it's also one of his best.

Family friendly survival horror with a quietly ambitious, and largely successful, attempt to get the most out of Kinect.

Ludicrously expensive given both the format and the age of the game, but a loving adaptation of one of the best ever 2D shooters.

Spring cleaning has never been so entertaining in this well presented and cunningly addictive physics-based platformer.

A technically sound conversion of the old Dreamcast fighter, but two of its most important features are absent - leaving little more than an empty shell.

A fun, attractive 2D platformer of the sort that can nowadays only exist on services like Xbox Live Arcade. Although it's not quite as distinctive as the art style suggests.

The original PC version is still justifiably popular but touchscreen controls only turn a difficult game into an unreasonably frustrating one.

The same beautiful, laidback 2D adventure as it's always been, but now almost ruined by fiddly and unresponsive touch controls.

The gaming equivalent of a Reliant Robin, except with none of the character or entertainment value - just a grand tour of everything you could possibly get wrong in a driving game.

A very good update of the venerable arcade game and only a few niggles away from being a great game in its own right.

Even being paid to play it we felt we were being ripped off...Awful in almost every possible aspect, this hugely disappointing download is not just a failure as a survival horror but as a video game.

Impressively original, if still fairly abstruse, platform puzzler that challenges you to think as differently as it does.

It might look like Portal but it certainly doesn't play like it, which is a good thing in terms of the puzzles but not the dour presentation and story.

Almost unplayable shooter elements, with particularly poor movement and melee controls. Non-existent artificial intelligence, endless loading, frequent crashes, repetitive missions, and a general air of obnoxious self-satisfaction.

Punishingly hard for no good reason, turning what could have been a fun reaction-based platform game into a painful memory test.

Despite a few interesting innovations it's not only the enemies that are passed their sell by date in this bland downloadable shooter.

Mario turns property tycoon in a relatively successful alternative to Monopoly, but a very disappointing crossover.

Excellent platform/shooter hybrid, whose engrossing narrative and well-realised game world deserves to be appreciated by a much wider audience.

Almost the perfect portable download, with a great gimmick exploited with skilful level design and gorgeous visuals and 3D effects.