Too slow, too short, too annoying. Only the graphics have any real quality. Stick with "Sonic And The Secret Rings," or even "Excite Truck" if you don't mind the lack of hedgehog.

Save the 30 quid and spend it on a side salad in one of Gordon's restaurants instead. It'll be better and should last longer than this pile of ****. [Dec 2008, p.62]

This brawler is a step down from the first Panda game - and with barely any drawing elements, it's stupid that uDraw is mandatory. [Aug 2011, p.72]

Wait for snow and venture outside instead. [Feb 2012, p.100]

One of the worst Worms games in memory. [May 2008, p.62]

The flimsy core betrays a bevy of neat ideas nabbed straight from the film. [Aug 2008, p.63]

But hey, at least the characters look nice. [Christmas 2010, p.74]

This isn't the sort of thing you play for the 'game' part, is it? [May 2011, p.70]

Too little, too late. A shameless, lazy cash-in on a venerable series, which ultimately feels totally pointless to play. [Feb 2009, p.70]

Too basic to be much fun. [Apr 2011, p.74]

Neither compelling nor a decent rhythm-actioner. [Apr 2012, p.49]

A few nice ideas spoiled by some blitheringly daft ones and duff graphics. "Mario and Sonic" are still the gold medalists. [Nov 2008, p.67]

Weak, tiresome and devoid of almost any excitement whatsoever. [Winter 2009, p.66]

Boring and confusing in single-player; briefly entertaining with a friend. That's not really worth 25 quid, is it? [Oct 2009, p.67]

Not awful, then, but crushingly generic. [Oct 2011, p.70]

Dark, dreary and awkward. You'd have more fun spending the afternoon trying to pronounce the noise Fisher's goggles make. Pyooooaeeeee?

A collection of ordinary games with no soul and an awkward gimmick. [Aug 2011, p.66]

Dry presentation and limited interaction. Home run? Not quite. [May 2012, p.98]

A remarkably charmless game. [Apr 2010, p.71]

A competent golf game, but also a fussy, bland and entirely forgettable one. [May 2012, p.108]

This is too creaky to forgive. [June 2008, p.55]

Only the basic building blocks of an average RPG are to be found here - and nothing else. Move along. [Apr 2010, p.65]

The tracklist isn't bad. [Nov 2011, p.72]

The 3D judders horribly. [Dec 2011, p.72]

We applaud the return to nature, but outside of a few icky moments there really is nothing to recommend Necro-Nesia. Go throw a spider at someone; it's a whole lot more fun. [JPN Import; Mar 2007, p.52]

A pale imitation of a far more ambitious game, Alone in the Dark on Wii is too higgledy-piggledy to satisfy. A handful of terrific highs can't make up for hours of lows. [Sept 2008, p.58]

A dumb, frustrating and forgettable shooter, but a completely unpretentious one too. [Nov 2009, p.64]

A contemptible chore. [Winter 2009, p.57]

Some of the monkey animations are cool, though. [Oct 2008, p.77]

Far too hard at the beginning, even on Easy mode, and all poorly explained. One for the only the hardiest strategy fans. [Sept 2007, p.63]

With a few more months' development this might have come good. But in this state not even Professor Xavier could convince us to play it again.

Not actually broken in any way, it's just an oddly vacuous and simplistic take on the poisoned ground previously laid down by Hudson. [Nov 2006, p.69]

Tables are too squished on the DS screen, making the balls seem massive, but using the stylus to direct the cue and set power is pretty effective. [Apr 2007, p.70]

Different protagonists, same game. [Christmas 2008, p.66]

No fun. [Apr 2009, p.46]

A series of unpredictable laughs and little else, disguised within a vibrant luchadore mask. [Sept 2007, p.70]

Travel In Time doesn't so much scrape the barrel as suck dirt from the barrel with a bendy straw. There are almost no ideas and, as a result, almost no fun.

If the balance board controls worked, the game world wasn't so barren and there weren't severe balancing issues, this would be okay. [Feb 2009, p.64]

As a game, Escape Trick: Rock City Prison is turgid and infuriating. [Jan 2012, p.123]

More tech demo than anything else. [May 2011, p.65]

The source material deserves far better than this. [Apr 2008, p.73]

The whole game looks like it was hastily moulded out of plasticine. [Sept 2007, p.70]

Zendoku is much, much better. [Aug 2007, p.65]

You'll think you've snagged a winner to begin with, but reeling in boot after metaphorical boot reminds you that this is the same old Rapala. [Dec 2008, p.63]

This game only confirms our anti-Thor prejudice. He IS crap. [June 2011, p.64]

Less Deep Blue Sea, and more In The Bin. [May 2008, p.74]

Hold out for the vastly superior Shinobi. [Aug 2011, p.72]

Sorry to disappoint, but if Safecracker is the ultimate puzzle adventure then we're a small punnet of strawberries. [Mar 2010, p.68]

We just sigh for what could have been. [Feb 2012, p.101]

Good graphics, thoroughly boring gameplay. [Issue#56, p.60]

The only mystery is why anyone would buy into something so lazy. [Aug 2008, p.66]

The makings of a great sim let down by terrible AI and scrappy graphics. [Christmas 2011, p.75]

A so-so puzzler spoiled by airborne interludes. [Oct 2008, p.77]

The only mystery is why anyone would buy into something so lazy. [Aug 2008, p.66]

Play the real games instead. [Christmas 2010, p.70]

This is a love letter to 16-bit RPGs, albeit written in really messy handwriting. [Sept 2009, p.73]

Whatever nuance there is to swing control is lost in the five-hour bowler animation. [Dec 2007, p.54]

It's very little fun to play, and since you can play a limited version online for free as a Flash game, there's no good reason to put it in your DS. [June 2007, p.70]

It makes Space Jam look like a sophisticated and well-considered movie. [Nov 2011, p.73]

A bit of stylus-powered frog-in-a-ball rolling occasionally interrupts the bounding, but even this is clumsily controlled, with mad stroking more likely to erode your DS screen than get the spherical spawn of the devil to respond. [Mar 2007, p.61]

This repetitious trudge is nothing to do with Soul Calibur beyond some character skins, and should be avoided unless you want to lose the will to live. [Feb 2008, p.52]

The terrible presentation and the tiny icons won't endear themselves to the crusty purne-eyes belonging to their target audience. [Aug 2007, p.71]

The kids will probably love it, mind. [Apr 2011, p.74]

Too easy. [Feb 2011, p.70]

An awkward and ugly collection of minigames. [Apr 2010, p.62]

Cuteness doesn't make up for the lack of an enjoyable game - we hope this only serves a short term in office. [JPN Import; Mar 2007, p.60]

Less a twist on the genre, more a re-draw with a different coloured pencil. [Apr 2012, p.101]

At one point, we actually thought we were going to cry. [July 2008, p.73]

At best it's a formulaic RPG, but mostly it's a one-way journey to dullsville. [Feb 2008, p.70]

Tedious and incredibly unrewarding. [Aug 2008, p.65]

Depressing from the very first row of formulaic collectable yellow orbs, Raving Rabbids is platforming by numbers. [Feb 2007, p.75]

The drudgery of seeking is broken up with occasional spot the difference and tile-sliding puzzles but these can be skipped without incurring penalty. [Issue#56, p.71]

Uninspired controls. [Jan 2009, p.70]

We don't care for the source material and this is too chaotic to actually play. Throws so much silliness around you can't appreciate it. [Feb 2007, p.73]

This is messy and dull. [July 2010, p.66]

It's hard not to be insulted and even harder to wring enjoyment from this. [Aug 2011, p.68]

We can only hope this barren minigame collection is the testing ground for a proper Gremlins revival, as there's zero reason for it to exist otherwise. [Feb 2012, p.99]

The Dracula-themed story means there are 'spooky' (ie, murky0 locations unsuited to item-finding, and some object placement is just impossible. [Issue#56, p.71]

It drives you bonkers in the first half hour, each of the ten trillion fights dull and easy. [Apr 2007, p.70]

There's a certain amount of fun to be had smashing everything to pieces, but no longevity. [Oct 2008, p.76]

Strictly for the show fans. In America. [Mar 2009, p.74]

The Wii doesn't have a great history with skating games, but that's no reason to settle for a boring, charmless title such as this. [July 2009, p.72]

Depressingly devoid of any of the movie series' charm. [Apr 2007, p.51]

Very pleasant and cute for the kiddies, but mum or dad will soon spot the technical shortcomings. [May 2010, p.68]

Cuter than it is fun. The Squeeballs need more time in the toy factory before they're unleashed on gamers again. [Winter 2009, p.62]

Gives you a reason to use the board. But seeing as it's one of the worst peripherals ever made, that's not something to celebrate. [Jan 2011, p.64]

Localisation hasn't improved this fatally flawed game. It's a shame, as some good ideas have been smothered by lame controls. [July 2009, p.72]

This is a basic third-person shooter with really clunky controls. [Issue#56, p.70]

Lacklustre. [May 2011, p.71]

A pretty poor detective yarn with (literally) two-dimensional characters. [Winter 2009, p.67]

More disappointing in reality. [Oct 2010, p.65]

The DS has plenty of mediocre puzzle collections, and Puzzle Time fails to do anything better than its many competitors. [Oct 2010, p.65]

Ugly and uninspired, but with a cracking story. [Mar 2009, p.64]

This is every bit the under-developed movie tie-in. [Aug 2008, p.63]

We're going to leave this out on the street and hope it gets towed. [Aug 2011, p.74]

This is barely one evolutionary step beyond the likes of Sonic & Sega All Stars Racing. [June 2010, p.71]

Dull. [Feb 2010, p.69]

Easy, boring and often massively annoying. Yet another entry on the ever-growing list of sub-par Star Wars games. [Winter 2009, p.56]