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]