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

You can do a spot of car modding as well, but the options are pretty limited. [July 2009, p.77]

Isn't sudoku-y enough for sudoku fans, and not detective-y enough from mystery fans. [Dec 2009, p.70]

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

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

More accomplished than you might expect, but lacking the depth needed for return visits after slogging through the lengthy campaign. [June 2012, p.92]

Dream Trigger 3D is quirky to the point of brain-bursting confusion. But it's a welcome change from 3DS's current line-up of simplified titles.

Much like a value supermarket sausage, this is 18% Sonic and 82% sawdust. Avoid it. [May 2009, p.56]

As innovative as a zero-effort PS2 conversion that makes no use of the Wii's features. [Jan 2009, p.60]

A box office turkey. [Feb 2010, p.67]

Nice to see a tie-in game doing something slightly different. [Aug 2010, p.72]

Criminally short. [May 2012, p.88]

Remarkably ordinary pinball that's quite forgettable. Wait for the Williams collection - it's load better than this one. [July 2008, p.68]

Contains tiny needles of goodness, but they're buried in a giant haystack of vomit, poison and rabid dogs. Not fun. [July 2009, p.61]

"Quotation Forthcoming"

An imaginative game spoiled by rubbish controls. [Aug 2010, p.76]

Taking a simple formula and injecting it with cruelty is rarely a good way to win new fans. Frustration, thy spirit animal is a digital frog.

Shame the developers don't feel Wii owners are able to handle the "proper" Top Spin, though. [Apr 2011, p.61]

A linear snooze fest that suffers from overwhelming plainness. [Jan 2009, p.62]

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

Ugly sprite work. [Nov 2011, p.75]

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

Not a game, but a series of instructional videos, plus simple interactive activities. [Aug 2011, p.69]

Online play with rankings tables and Mii support is the big draw (no pun intended) here. [June 2009, p.73]

At least this is short so you won't have much time to get bored. [Oct 2009, p.68]

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

Blighted by camera issues and its short length, but the sheer physicality of the gameworld will endear it to fans. [Dec 2008, p.69]

Simplistic and repetitive and not at all realistic, but quite endearing all the same. [Christmas 2009, p.61]

A dream come true for '80s kids. But where's the game? [Oct 2007, p.66]

The safety of brand outweighs the desire to innovate. Sword fighting doesn't work with the remote. [Aug 2007, p.47]

This is okay for what it is, but what it is certainly isn't worth 30 quid. [July 2008, p.73]

How about instead going into your back garden and flicking cheese footballs at a ladybird. Much more fun. [Christmas 2011, p.79]

Uninspired missions, repetitive gameplay, bored-sounding voiceovers, ugly graphics, painful controls. [July 2007, p.46]

Does an awful lot, but it fails to do any of it well. [Dec 2011, p.52]

Oozed originality on PS2 a few years back but now feels stale. Wii controls are weak. [May 2008, p.56]

Offering simultaneous play for eight players (four on nunchuks and four on remotes) with everyone playing on the same game screen, it's certainly a tempting idea. Unfortunately after five minutes with even just a couple of players, all the ball action becomes totally confused, empty and aimless.

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

An expensive and entirely cosmetic companion to the DS games. [Jan 2008, p.50]

Not without its moments, but it's needlessly confrontational without necessarily raising any hairs. [July 2008, p.60]

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

Misfires with its repetitive gameplay and ships that handle like ice skaters. [Sept 2008, p.67]

If someone could give this a tidy-up with some spot-on physics and some real challenges it could be a gem. Shame. [Feb 2009, p.77]

Cheapo presentation. [Christmas 2009, p.67]

There's some gratuitous (And not very effective) use of the DSi camera, but that can't elevate this above puzzling mediocrity. [Issue#56, p.71]

Very edutaining for the under-eights. [Dec 2007, p.70]

As undemanding as this kind of thing gets. [Sept 2009, p.54]

It somehow turns a shallow activity into a game with all the depth of a puddle. [Apr 2009, p.72]

Complex and hideous, but there's a lot to keep you occupied - if you're of the almost non-existent demographic that'll be interested in it. [Mar 2009, p.71]

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

A cheap and cheerful extended minigame. [Feb 2010, p.74]

Hardly epic and in no way legendary, but this contains mild thrills - if you can come to terms with how outdated it all is. [Aug 2009, p.71]

An unsophisticated disappointment. [Aug 2006, p.67]

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]

A polished, professional, utterly frustrating and totally nonsensical experience. So much effort has been wasted on this it's tragic. [Dec 2008, p.79]

A sedate management game that's a little lacking when it comes to variety or excitement. [Aug 2010, p.77]

Leaden and clumsy. [June 2010, p.62]

One for the sin bin. [Dec 2009, p.71]

Instantly forgettable. [Sept 2007, p.66]

A must for Bionicle fans and decenet, trashy fun for everyone else. But the controls are poor. [May 2007, p.52]

Boring, truncated and better experienced elsewhere. [May 2011, p.64]

Never trust a board game designer to do a math's professors job. This is too lightweight to be of note. [May 2008, p.72]

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

Cocoto can bore you into thinking you're having a good time, but it's a poorly executed game that's been done much better before elsewhere. [Sept 2008, p.68]

Unusual, fun and insane. [Mar 2009, p.73]

The motion controls don't make for a very intuitive way of playing. [Dec 2007, p.55]

It's neither educational or entertaining enough. [Jan 2010, p.72]

It's not quite original or addictive enough to compete with the best in the casual genre, but this is a polished and fun enough game that's unlikely to be a purchase you regret. [July 2012, p.107]

Smart and cute. [Mar 2011, p.73]

Utterly uninspired stuff in every single way imaginable. [Jan 2008, p.55]

Forget calling it 'the one that comes with the plastic wheel'; this is 'the one with the shoddy graphics and limited control.'[January 2007, p.57]

It's a massive rip-off of Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training. [Christmas 2011, p.77]

You'd think that the Wii would be suited to a darts game. It may very well be, but this sure ain't it. [Apr 2008, p.67]

Nice characters, though. [Aug 2011, p.69]

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

More disappointing than the first outing. [Mar 2009, p.74]

Uninspired. [Apr 2010, p.74]

It tries its best, but it simply isn't good enough. Too frustrating for younger players, and too fussy and inconsiderate for anyone else. Still, if you must... [Aug 2006, p.56]

More a party game than a sports sim, but not a particularly good one. [May 2010, p.64]

Running is done clumsily with the D-pad, while the stylus is only used in minigames. [Sept 2007, p.70]

It just doesn't have the required spark. Disappointing. [Nov 2009, p.66]

Doesn't make great use of the Wii controls and EVE can be a sod to fly around. [Oct 2008, p.70]

Not the greatest basketball game, especially if you take the sport seriously. You're best sticking wtih football on Wii. [Dec 2008, p.68]

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

A bit of a mish-mash, with environmental puzzles leading into distinct combat sections or explory bits. [Sept 2009, p.72]

Fairly unexceptional. [Aug 2006, p.67]

A mediocre entry in the Bub and Bob saga, too irritating to ever be absorbing, and missing the sparkle of the mighty original. Some nice ideas meet the frustration of poor level design. [Apr 2007, p.56]

Not bad little quests in theory, but anyone over the age of 11 will find them torturous. [May 2008, p.75]

Abomination more like. [Sept 2008, p.70]

ANY sense of achievement would be nice. [Feb 2008, p.70]

A yo-ho-no. [Dec 2008, p.77]

Pointy, clicky, and not terribly good. [Apr 2008, p.72]

It looks like they've raided the N64 back catalogue for the lowest-res textures they could find and shoveled them into a Wii. [Christmas 2009, p.69]

The content-to-price ratio is horribly skewed. [Mar 2010, p.67]

Poor AI, limps physics, forgettable track layouts and a general absence of excitement. [Christmas 2010, p.59]

A shallow affair when played solo, but with seven of the sports providing a good grin in multiplayer, this is a decent addition to the mini-game genre. [July 2008, p.66]

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]

A staggering work of technical ineptitude. [Dec 2009, p.71]

You know us, we love to champion the odd outsiders, but Baroque drinks your praise only to then puke it in your lap. Horribly interesting. [July 2008, p.62]