Nothing like the game implied by the trailer and an only occasionally interesting, and obviously low budget, attempt to marry Dead Rising with Fallout.

An excellent update of an almost forgotten British classic, and a promising start to the Gremlin Presents series.

Indie gaming at its retro-loving best, with some of the most cunningly-designed and purposefully infuriating 2D gameplay of the year.

More an interactive hint at what could've been than a proper game, but more engrossing than the flat out disaster it first appears to be.

Horribly inconsistent but also daringly imaginative, but even with its faults this is one of the most innovative racers for years.

A football sim and role-playing game may be one of the oddest genre mix-ups ever attempted but this shoots and scores with surprising accuracy.

A pointless rehash for series regulars, but if you've never experienced the joys of being a totalitarian dictator this is still good clean city-building fun.

Cheaply shovelled ports of four classic games, plus two awful new exclusives that do both their franchises and the 3DS an enormous disservice.

A great version of one of the best fighting games, and therefore one of the best multiplayer games, of all time - assuming you have the dedication for it.

There's an awful lot of recycled content here, but if you like Zombies mode this is still an essential, if potentially expensive, download.

A serious game for serious minds or a fun and surprisingly accessible stealth shooter. Just as it should be, the choice is always yours.

Real-time strategy for the FarmVille generation, and yet it still owes too much to the past - and offers far less than it pretends for free.

The best Japanese role-player of the current generation and a big step forwards for the genre in terms of accessibility and ambition.

A surprisingly competent 2D fighter, but one whose presentation and muted combat will restrict it only to hardcore fans.

There are some clever ideas in this strategy role-player but they're suffocated beneath a weight of banal storytelling and tedious battles.

One of Cave's finest moments loses surprisingly little in its move to the iPhone, with excellent controls and plenty of extras.

One of the best marriages of gameplay, graphics and music ever seen on a portable and a triumphant return to the roots of rhythm action.

Still a loving remake of the influential strategy role-player, but not quite as good as the PSP version and actually slightly more expensive.

An adult video game that is neither exploitative nor pretentious, but instead weaves a fun yet incisive tale about all too human characters.

It copies and borrows from the best - and often very well - but competence is no substitute for character in this forgettable 2D adventure.

If you want to waste a minute or two, wasting hundreds of zombies, then this is one download that will do exactly what it says on the tin.

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

Jeff Minter rides again, but in a considerably more laidback and accessible action puzzler that's very well suited to the iPhone.

Another great movie tie-in from the creators of Toy Story 3 and one of the best Mario Kart clones for years.

Achingly beautiful god sim that struggles at times over structure and difficultly curve, but never in terms of spectacle or vision.

At last a Fallout download that's genuinely worth the bandwidth, with a sparkling script that's better than either of the main games.

The combat might never feel as clever as the visuals and narration but this is still an engrossing and distinctive action role-player.

There are number of clever concepts here, but they're left drowning in a sea of mediocre first person shooting and action movie clichés.