It soon gets highly repetitive. [Mar 2011, p.72]

The map-making function is a stroke of genius, but this curious title is neither big nor clever enough to steal our heart. [July 2009, p.75]

Save your wrists and steer clear of this in favour of "Guitar Hero." [Jan 2009, p.65]

The whole game feels a bit incoherent, but there's enough charm to carry it through. [Winter 2009, p.70]

Looks nice and is actually challenging, but repetitive goals and fussy controls are a downer. [Christmas 2009, p.60]

As a pinball game, it's up there. As entertainment, it stares blankly at you and occasionally farts. Concrete-proof pinball belongs in the arcade.

This looks a bit lightweight when you think it's this or "Galaxy" for the same price, but it's a decent addition to Sypro's post-PlayStation gameography. [Christmas 2007, p.62]

Barely a game at all. [June 2011, p.65]

Funny and frustrating in equal measures. [January 2007, p.77]

This version offers nothing that regular puzzle-players won't have seen before, bar some cute animation. [July 2008, p.73]

The sad effects of aging in all their glory. Populous used to crack top ten games lists in 1990. Populous DS isn't even one of the top ten games this issue.

The bulk of the beast is a poorly programmed platform game, with a useless jump, lamely linking itself to the book/film's story with unlocked Story Pages. [Feb 2007, p.82]

We'd struggle to recommend it. [Feb 2010, p.74]

A C64 platform game in 3DS clothes, and not very convincing ones at that. [Dec 2011, p.79]

A lovably scrappy puzzle game that's brimming with ideas but hampered by clumsy execution. [June 2010, p.56]

It's worse than the last game in almost every way. Except potions. Making potions rocks. [Sept 2009, p.64]

A big fat thief, but it's a big fat thief with a heart of hold. [Aug 2010, p.70]

It's a decent compilation of games, with lovingly emulated coin-ops and a genuine modern classic in the mix, but for this price it should feature a lot more stuff.

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]

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

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

A strong action RPG title that, due to a meticulous and inflexible storyline, is sadly at times as impenetrable as a remake of "Van Helsing" cast by the Goons from "Popeye." [JPN Import]

The combat is pedestrian and repetitive. [May 2010, p.69]

Physics-based puzzle mazes with a slightly duff hero and a very slick control method. [Oct 2008, p.69]

Sadly there's no wireless mode, which is about as dumb as you can get. [Apr 2007, p.71]

Ignore the fighting's mechanical edge and this is about as good a shot as wrestling has at reaching a wider audience. But wrestling fans, beware - this probably isn't for you. [Christmas 2007, p.60]

A lazy, ugly, soulless, cheeky and cheap rip-off. But just about competent with it. [Nov 2011, p.77]

Despite a selection of new courses and modes, this feels dated. The tournament mode is enjoyable, but with no multiplayer you'll struggle to have a reely good time.