A teeth-grindingly stupid premise belies a few okay gameplay ideas. [Aug 2008, p.75]

Some enemies that weren't can-based would have been even nicer. [Mar 2010, p.73]

More of the same culinary-based action again, but this time it's more of the same in three dimensions and for up to four players. [Christmas 2011, p.68]

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

A few good ideas, but it's mainly happy to fall back on some geriatric genre conventions. [Oct 2008, p.67]

As a tribute it's more souvenir than towering statue. [Christmas 2010, p.69]

The coolest of all cool ideas, pieced together in a profoundly uncool way. Wait for MotionPlus to throw up something more substantial.

"Wii Play" fans will like this inconsistent bunch of around 25 minigames, with competition mode keeping it lodged in your Wii for longer. [Christmas 2007, p.58]

When it's dark - when the screen is gloomy, and only illuminated by the zoom function - it can be like looking for a needle in a rough school. [Feb 2010, p.75]

A very basic DS game dressed up for Wii. [Mar 2011, p.69]

Button-mashing with a few RPG-ish stats thrown in. More of a light breeze than a huge hurricane; don't expect to be blown away by this title. [Feb 2007, p.73]

Another joyless lump of registered trademarks designed with vulnerable kiddies in mind. [Winter 2009, p.63]

We can't deny the initial thrill of creating your own dungeon and looting it for meat, but it wont' take long before its charm turns into sheer annoyance. [Dec 2008, p.64]

A package riddled with niggles. [Sept 2009, p.69]

Novel controls that take some mastering, but are quite effective. The cheap feel prevents it from developing into anything great. [Mar 2007, p.71]

There are some cheeky thrills - roughly two per character - but this is tiresome. [Apr 2009, p.58]

The aiming is too imprecise to be less than an irritation and the different game modes are too similar to each other to be interesting. [Feb 2007, p.82]

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

Outdated, frustrating, repetitive and only intermittently fun. [June 2010, p.68]

Although not quite as challenging as it could have been, there is still much fun to be had in this quaint little forestry world. [June 2008, p.55]

A great idea for a puzzle game, with a cool minimal art style, but it's just stretched too thin. The baffling slowdown and useless mini-map only make it worse. [July 2012, p.92]

Absolute minger of a game. [Christmas 2009, p.66]

Thunderously dumb combat in an endless succession of technically borked corridors. [Nov 2011, p.65]

This is by turns frustrating, fun, exciting, dull, a technical achievement and a bit of a mess, but it's the most authentic Indy game yet.

Possibly the most cynical and tawdry ripoff of "Mario Kart" we've ever seen....A horrible kart game, with pathetic handling, idiotic AI, and no racing tension at all. [Feb 2007, p.83]

Terrible platforming and puzzling. [June 2008, p.58]

Far too hard at the beginning, even on Easy mode, and all poorly explained. One for the only the hardiest strategy fans. [Sept 2007, p.63]

Curse you, feeble minigame collection. [Oct 2010, p.60]