This is the other one - the one that's quite crap. [Apr 2011, p.60]

Apart from the occasional feeling the gender differences have been artificially embellished to pad out the puzzles, this is an odd, sometimes confounding, but fun game of item-combining and sleuthing. [Dec 2007, p.71]

Even their signature vehicle forms are samey. [Aug 2011, p.74]

Even their signature vehicle forms are samey. [Aug 2011, p.74]

The combat's fun but a bit repetitive. [Christmas 2010, p.74]

A poorly designed game that allows you to create more poorly designed games, then inflict them on other unfortunates. [June 2012, p.106]

A dark fantasy adventure stripped of darkness, fantasy and, well, adventure. [July 2009, p.71]

There's a decent 3D platformer buried somewhere in SPRay, but a mass of bugs, poor design decisions and slipshod localisation makes it very hard to access. [Mar 2009, p.65]

Fairly humorless, and mostly done with button not stylus, but a good play. [Aug 2007, p.70]

Do you pine for a game where it takes the best part of an afternoon to kill an enemy? Then this is the uninspired film tie-in for you! [July 2011, p.64]

Basic, derivative, monotonous; but dressed up with some stylish visuals and the odd good bit, TMNT is impossible to entirely dislike, but equally impossible to recommend. [June 2007, p.57]

This is awful. [July 2010, p.61]

An overpriced puzzler that presents you with the bare bones of a game. [June 2012, p.106]

You'd have more fun if you asked a professional wrestler to try to transform your skeleton into the shape of a moped. [Aug 2010, p.68]

The action's limited but still amusing, and the music is truly late '60s fabulous. [Sept 2008, p.71]

It's bewildering as to why this is even a launch game, let alone how anyone thought it would be fun to <I>not</I> drive a car round a crappy looking track with a broken plastic steering wheel. [January 2007, p.54]

This is such a technical and conceptual mess that EA wouldn't send us a copy - we had to go out and buy it. [Christmas 2010, p.53]

This repetitive title somehow manages to make dinos seem dull. [May 2011, p.56]

Definitely not the most offensive game on the shelf for Wii, but not the most enjoyable either. Without multiplayer functionality, life on the water is a rather lonely one. [Feb 2007, p.72]

The Wii does shovelware better than anyone, but it's really hit a new low with 101-in-1 Sports. [Jan 2011, p.69]

Basically, you're fighting suicidal ghosts in a well-lit house. Worst sales pitch ever. [Mar 2011, p.72]

Welcome to Migraine City, population you. [June 2008, p.54]

Treacle-slow gameplay and, unless you love generic sci-fi future visions, very little incentive to soldier on. [Sept 2008, p.67]

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]

At 20 quid for five distractions that might keep you busy for 30 seconds, it's overpriced. [Apr 2007, p.60]

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

Even the most mild-mannered puzzle fan will fly into a Hyde-like rage if they realize they've wasted 25 quid on this. [Feb 2011, p.71]

Tiresome nonsense. [Sept 2007, p.40]

Experimental racing concepts should be tested in the developers' studios, not on shop shelves. [Sept 2008, p.54]

At 20 quid for five distractions that might keep you busy for 30 seconds, it's overpriced.[Apr 2007, p.60]

This miserably commercial effort - well, it's just depressing, and the only positive thing we've got to say about it is thank god it's unlikely ever to be released in this country. [July 2010, p.60]

Truly scary and, for fans of the films, probably worth experiencing, but this is frustrating and clumsy to actually play. [Dec 2009, 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]

There's less meat on this than a turkey carcass after Boxing Day. [Feb 2009, p.68]

Instead of giving you the game disc, the sales assistant could open the box and curl out a steaming log in there, and you'd have almost as much fun playing with it. [Dec 2008, p.56]

This is more obscure torture device than game. [Oct 2010, p.60]

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 collection of rubbish puzzles that will surely train your brain not to let your wallet waste 20 pounds on this sort of crap in the future. You have been warned. [Aug 2007, p.67]

Surgically extracts everything that makes the anime fun, leaving a lumpen brown mess. [Jan 2011, p.66]

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

Turns your living room into some kind of talent vacuum. This waste of development time makes three strong brands - Wii, Far Cry, and Ubisoft - look woefully incompetent. [Mar 2007, p.54]

Awful game. [May 2008, p.75]

It's well intentioned but underfunded. [Christmas 2009, p.64]

This strives for nothing and doesn't even make it that far. A poor game for a poor franchise. [JPN Import; Aug 2007, p.54]

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]

So inaccessible, they might as well padlock the game box. [July 2008, p.72]

Give this rubbish a miss. [Dec 2008, p.78]

The presentation's pretty ropey too. [Dec 2008, p.76]

There's no logic to any of the celebrity characters apart from having a cheap laugh at people currently in the public eye. Jack Black? Schwarzenegger? Why not jam Mika or Gail Trimble in there?

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]

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]

It might be simple, repetitive and nowhere near worth the asking price, but Urban Champion is a pleasant enough retro diversion for half an hour or so. [Oct 2011, p.76]

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.

You just mash buttons and move on. Dire. [Jan 2010, p.74]

Utterly mediocre. [Dec 2007, p.53]

Charmless, unfunny and barely playable. [Mar 2008, p.52]

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

Random and mindless, you'd be much better off diving head first onto a rusty nail bed than enduring five minutes of this tedium. [Mar 2007, p.81]

It's harmless, but hardly worth bothering with. [May 2008, p.74]

Jumping, fighting and puzzling for young fans of the movie. Most of it is incredibly easy but there's the odd bit of confusion to slow progress.

Precisely zero hours of fun. [Christmas 2007, p.57]

A most cynical and worthless package. [Apr 2011, p.78]

This fighter game gets a big fat F-.[May 2007, p.70]

A horrendous mess of a game, horrible to play in every way, short of severing your hands at the wrists and squirting lemon on the stumps. [Mar 2007, p.70]

We HATE this game. [Aug 2011, p.67]

It's totally broken. [Jan 2010, p.74]

The mini missions are klunky beyond belief with extremely shoddy animation, and they almost always have to be completed in a stupidly short length of time for enjoyment - and that's it. Ideal for morons with low expectations. [Feb 2007, p.82]

A big pot full of bum. [Dec 2009, p.64]

Some environments are so indistinct it's easier to navigate solely with the top screen's map than by looking where you're going. [Issue#56, p.70]

It's as pointless as it sounds. [Nov 2006, p.76]

A hasty rush job. [Nov 2011, p.73]

The lanes are nice and shiny, but "Wii Sports" is still our top banana for Wii Bowling. [June 2008, p.71]

An utterly terrible shooter which will, if nothing else, satisfy your recommended daily allowance of mirth...and pvc hotpants. [July 2008, p.68]

Ugly, repetitive and a waste of the license. It's not quite "Balls of Fury" bad, but getting there. Punch-drunk and pointless. [Feb 2008, p.64]

Unresponsive to the point of irresponsibility. [Aug 2011, p.79]

There's only one word for this experience: wooden. [Feb 2008, p.51]

There's a special place in percussion hell for crap like this. [July 2009, p.73]

Lame object hunt. [Dec 2011, p.77]

So bad it's worth renting, just to see. [Christmas 2009, p.68]

Avoid this game like you would one of the films. [Sept 2011, p.72]

Basic, crude, ugly. [May 2011, p.69]

Inoffensive, with samey levels and enemies, and unchallenging boss fights. [May 2008, p.75]

Ugly and stupid. [Mar 2007, p.80]

The target game in Wii Play is miles better and more challenging. [Oct 2007, p.69]

A very poor effort that doesn't succeed on any level. [Feb 2008, p.54]

It's a hairy wart on WiiWare's beautiful face. [Jan 2009, p.75]

The only people who'll be able to get through this game are those who already know how to tell the difference between C and F. [Jan 2008, p.65]

Congratulations, Nordcurrent, you've made the worst game of the year. [Oct 2011, p.75]

It's astonishing that anyone would try and sell this as a complete game. Piffle ball more like. [Apr 2007, p.71]

What a sorry affair. [June 2010, p.77]

Very basic platform game with a promising lead character. Not actually awful but it's overpriced at 20 pounds and a little frustrating for younger players. [Christmas 2007, p.65]

This is the kind of beast your mum wold describe to get you back in the house before curfew. [Oct 2007, p.77]

Ancient Egypt in glorious clunk-o-vision. If you like "Ninjabread Man" and "Rock'N Roll Adventures," you'll love this, but seriously, what are the chances? [Christmas 2007, p.65]

A shrine to gaming incompetence. Arriving in the same month as "Galaxy" it's gotta take some balls to release something as totally inept as this and expect people to play it. [Christmas 2007, p.64]

Just horrible. [Nov 2008, p.73]

There's more fun to be had in reading instruction manuals for toasters. [Oct 2008, p.75]

Explosive Megamix is about as welcome as explosive diarrhoea. [Nov 2011, p.75]

Massively addictive. [June 2008, p.70]