Both a decent brain-tickler and a remarkably swift argument-starter. [Aug 2008, p.72]

Everything's got that cute MySims sheen but it feels hollow. [June 2009, p.75]

Monkey Ball has grown flabby and gutless. A real shame. [Apr 2011, p.52]

It's baseball designed for a pad and buttons rather than a motion controller. [Oct 2007, p.67]

Not a great game. Not really even a good game. But a very funny game. [June 2009, p.69]

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

What's here does work up a good sweat. [June 2012, p.101]

Classic puzzling, but essential only for die-hard fans or genre newbies without a PC. [Feb 2011, p.74]

It's good fun and something different. [May 2009, p.76]

Just what the doctor ordered - if he ordered brainy but slightly disappointing puzzle action. [Feb 2011, p.75]

It's a perfect game for young children learning how to use the Wii, but outside of that, even the most die-hard platformer enthusiast may have a hard time sticking with it till the end. [Feb 2007, p.69]

Don't expect to put the pedal to the medal and this is harmless Disney-fied racing. [January 2007, p.56]

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]

A short, sharp blast of pricey fun, like being shot in the head with a riot gun. [July 2010, p.76]

The relaxing way to shoot things. [Aug 2008, p.74]

A really bad showcase for MotionPlus, inexplicably packaged with a technology it doesn't understand. [Issue#56, p.48]

Memorable, though perhaps not essential, playing. [Mar 2010, p.75]

Appalling voice acting makes this feel very shoddy, though with the sound turned down it's a passable 'entry level' point 'n' clicker if you can find it cheap. [July 2009, p.77]

We can't dismiss it entirely because it does have a nice-looking bonus update of classic Bomberman. But the adventure mode is seriouly poor. Think twice, bomberfans.

There are some okay ideas here, just not 101 of them. [Feb 2009, p.76]

Totally hollow. [Sept 2009, p.73]

Boogie has its moments, but the game lacks fluidity, the karaoke lacks cool tracks and the rhythm sometimes just lacks, full stop. [Oct 2007, p.62]

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

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

This is by no means the car crash of a game that Ubisoft's withholding led us to expect; it's more of a severe car scrape against a bollard. [June 2007, p.42]

It's nicely made, just rather dull. [Oct 2010, p.64]

There's novelty value here for fans of the show but anyone else will find this as limp as, well, House's limp. [Jan 2011, p.69]

Spongebob doesn't have the personality to pull it all together. [Oct 2011, p.71]