If CoD is you thing, you'll get loads of value from this. [Christmas 2010, p.62]

Excellent character portraits. [Christmas 2010, p.61]

Buy a comic instead. [Christmas 2010, p.60]

Clumsily executed port. [Christmas 2010, p.60]

Poor AI, limps physics, forgettable track layouts and a general absence of excitement. [Christmas 2010, p.59]

Look beyond the shoddy exterior and there's a surprisingly rich and varied arcade flyer. [Christmas 2010, p.58]

This is such a technical and conceptual mess that EA wouldn't send us a copy - we had to go out and buy it. [Christmas 2010, p.53]

Familiar farming fun. [Christmas 2010, p.52]

Few games offer value for money like this. [Christmas 2010, p.50]

Clumsy design holds it back from true greatness. [Christmas 2010, p.46]

Accept Sniper Elite's various quirks and foibles and you'll have plenty of fun with the satisfyingly brutal headshots contained within.

A meaty - often literally - thriller, well told. With no UK release currently on the cards we point all adventure nuts towards their nearest import site.

Like a supercharged Ace Attorney, Ghost Trick positively thunders forwards with an awesome narrative drive. Dead clever. Dead pretty. Dead good.

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"Quotation Forthcoming"

It seems that even the future has minigames, but even the future can't convince us that there's any serious alternative to the Wii Sports games.

The Dracula-themed story means there are 'spooky' (ie, murky0 locations unsuited to item-finding, and some object placement is just impossible. [Issue#56, p.71]

Good graphics, thoroughly boring gameplay. [Issue#56, p.60]

The lack of challenge will annoy some, but it's a game that anyone can enjoy, and most will love. [Issue#56, p.42]

There's some gratuitous (And not very effective) use of the DSi camera, but that can't elevate this above puzzling mediocrity. [Issue#56, p.71]

Controls have been streamlined, but the game engine is due a massive overhaul. [Issue#56, p.54]

Purer and cheaper than Sonic Colours, this is a great reboot for 2D Sonic. [Issue#56, p.74]

Fast paced but maybe too much so. Mastery will require psychic powers or a great memory. [Issue#56, p.61]

Some environments are so indistinct it's easier to navigate solely with the top screen's map than by looking where you're going. [Issue#56, p.70]

More of the same but better. The expanded tracklist means it's worth a look even if you've got the first one. [Issue#56, p.55]

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

As far as gameplay goes, it's in the same vein as Singstar and co, with the significant difference being that it doesn't really work very well. [Issue#56, p.68]

Pillage and plunder in a nice sort of way. Don't expect to be told what's going on, but as soon as you figure it out for yourself you'll be fine. [Issue#56, p.69]