Despite the clumsy controls and a tendency to keep throwing the same bits at you over and over (and over) again, this is recommended to all. [June 2007, p.46]

Feels more like a budget release. [Jan 2010, p.75]

Dungeon-crawling is deadly dull. [Dec 2006, p.50]

Mario Party has never dazzled but this is the dullest it's ever been. [Aug 2007, p.48]

The controls are a major pain at times, and it can be difficult to make tiny adjustments. Twisting the remote to control the angle of a piece while simultaneously trying to drop it on an exact spot isn't good.

Flacid combat. [Dec 2011, p.66]

Avoid this bad medicine. [Feb 2008, p.75]

No shortage of ideas makes this one of the better licensed titles, but its schizophrenic nature disguises sloppy gameplay. [Oct 2007, p.68]

Punchy, cheap and cheerful splatter gaming. [Christmas 2008, p.60]

Could have done with more ruthless quality control. [Feb 2009, p.65]

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.

Perhaps a bit redundant to release what's essentially a two decade old game, but dammit, it still has a place in our hearts. [Mar 2007, p.81]

Fast as you like, fun to control and a mindless diversion for military fetishists. Difficult, even on the easiest setting, but if you're up to the challenge you'll get loads of value from it. [May 2007, p.46]

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

A lazy addition to a series that belongs on DS anyway. [Apr 2009, p.70]

All it needs is for someone to strip out the associations with the film and you'd have a decent table tennis game. [Christmas 2007, p.70]

It's ridiculous, but it's executed so garishly, and revels in its own absurdity with such confidence, that you can forgive it for being the shallow nonsense that it is. [Apr 2010, p.76]

There's so few games, and it gets so madly repetitive, that you may as well spend your pennies on the site itself. [June 2007, p.70]

Not recommended, but not not-recommended. [May 2008, p.64]

Full marks for ingenuity but it is not the impressive in action. [Christmas 2007, p.61]

It's too easy, too repetitive, and worst of all, doesn't have that classic Butch Harman sense of humour. [Apr 2007, p.70]

Cute and fun minigames, for the most part, but lacking drive or motivation for the player, with different tasks getting repetitive quickly. [JPN Import; May 2007, p.50]

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]

A loveless port of a timeworn platformer, which lacks any artistic or creative reason to exist. Do we even need to tell you to wait for Mario 3DS?

A lot of puzzles but for a hell of a lot of money. [July 2011, p.64]

The feeling that it's all a bit slapdash never really goes away. [March 2012, p.107]

Although it has a good stab at open-world platforming, this soon turns into a chore. [Nov 2009, p.58]

Thumbs up for the two-player co-operative system that's perfect for mum or dad and the kids. [Aug 2006, p.66]