Very, very dull. [Nov 2009, p.98]

A weak hide-and-seek game that's as laborious as it is devoid of fun. [Feb 2009, p.49]

A load of old (tennis) balls. [May 2013, p.87]

It's 30 pounds. THIRTY! The equivalent package is under 2 quid on a phone. Need we say more? [Dec 2012, p.102]

For a kids' game, Travel In Time is horrible at guiding the player. It's all over the place.

Frustratingly, it plays more like an interactive story book than a videogame. [Jan 2008, p.78]

If you're after some boxing action on the Wii, it might be best to stick with Wii Sports for now and wait for Punch-Out!! This simply won't satisfy.

While we can appreciate what Dust Strikers is trying to do, it just doesn't work. [Nov 2007, p.85]

A good idea, wasted. [Jan 2014, p.75]

Open Season is playable but you won't enjoy playing it. Its dull collecting scenarios and repetitive sound bites will drain your soul. Another bad movie tie-in. [Dec 2006, p.94]

Lacks depth. [Aug 2014, p.86]

If you can believe it, this is possibly even worse than the diabolical "Spider-Man 3." [Christmas 2007, p.83]

If you must play Battle of the Bands then rent it - you'll be finished with it after a day. [July 2008, p.79]

It is, and always has been, a horribly vanilla platformer with very little soul to it. [Christmas 2008, p.103]

This is the same licensed platform stuff people have been playing for years. [Jan 2007, p.77]

There really is no excuse for such a poor Wii version. Sort it out Activision. [Jan 2008, p.87]

The whole thing gets repetitive very quickly. [May 2010, p.91]

It had potential but at the end of the day it just doesn't work. This really needs Wii MotionPlus.

Disappointing. [Oct 2011, p.97]

A huge disappointment. [Apr 2010, p.92]

Falls flat at the first hurdle. [Oct 2008, p.95]

A prime example of how to disrespect the fans of something as big as Transformers: a £50 game that can be finished on a single GamePad charge. Yuck.

A poker game where you start off 600 Points down and can't win it back. Fail. [Nov 2009, p.104]

This offers some very poor football action with frustrating, nonsensical gameplay and awful visuals. [May 2008, p.94]

There are glimmers of promise in the 3DS version, but the execution is so bad and the graphics engine so lacklustre, that you'll find it hard to squeeze more than a few drops of genuine pleasure out of this cold, grey stone. [Sept 2012, p.107]

The original's good ideas are distorted in an apparent attempt to justify a price tag. [Nov 2012, p.98]

It gets the gold medal for pig-headedness, at least. [Dec 2013, p.80]

This is just shameful. A missed opportunity let down by sloppy, lazy programming. [Jan 2009, p.90]

Its challenge is too variable. [Feb 2012, p.105]

You can't transform a turd, no matter how hard you try. [Oct 2007, p.89]

Dull, and in many cases, incredibly annoying and frustrating. [July 2007, p.86]

Awful, just awful. It's a dirty, cheap, slapped-together cash-in title that's not woth the round plastic disc it comes on. [Apr 2008, p.92]

Awkward to play, hard to look at, difficult to control and socially neutered. We're not sold on Splinter Cell.

Straight to the top of this month's Avoid At All Costs pile. Hugely repulsive. [Oct 2009, p.88]

More or less the same experience (as Vampire Moon). [Christmas 2010, p.91]

A mindless slog that not even devoted fans will play through. [Oct 2008, p.98]

It's fantastically dull. [Dec 2008, p.97]

A shambles of a port that is an embarrassment to anyone who decided it was ready to be released.

The other Rabbids mini-game compilations may have been light on longevity, but at least they provided a laugh. Rabbids Land doesn't even manage this.

Liked bowling in "Wii Sports"? Well, if you want some decent bowling action on Wii you'll just have to stick with it because Brunswick has no style, character or spirit. Dreadful. [Dec 2007, p.88]

We couldn't even play the Super Mario Bros. theme, and if you can't do that then there's no point. [Feb 2010, p.83]

The increased precision of Wii MotionPlus is wasted and the result is a game you should steer clear of. [May 2010, p.85]

Tolerably mundane. [Oct 2013, p.81]

The unfortunate fact is that Bubble Bobble has been done too many times before. Yes, it's playable and challenging, but it's also old and far too simplistic for hte modern gaming era. [Mar 2007, p.77]

It's utterly boring. [Aug 2008, p.101]

Sleuthing is largely irrelevant as the characters keel over whatever you do. [Mar 2008, p.75]

Monkeys don't always make for comedy, it seems. [Jan 2010, p.86]

Perhaps the lowest example of not knowing when to give up. [Apr 2010, p.89]

Avoid like the plague. [Jan 2010, p.86]

We applaud Battle For Earth's unique approach to simplistic fighting, but its lack of content and depth won't impress anyone but the most junior gamers.

It's a dull trek and the stupid storyline doesn't help much. [Christmas 2010, p.91]

It tries to be different but falls flat on its face. It's repetitive, dull and we doubt that you'd see out the first hour. Avoid. [Sept 2008, p.93]

It's just a nice idea that doesn't work very well. [Dec 2008, p.98]

It's south of average. [May 2010, p.85]

Rank puddle of bilgewater. [Oct 2012, p.95]

Visually, it's a horrid mess of jagged polygons and smeared textures. [Apr 2008, p.76]

Playing the same six mini-games 11 times isn't even remotely enjoyable, especially when you're paying 5 quid per mini-game. [May 2008, p.92]

Only two of the remixes are any good, but even these aren't worth your time. [June 2008, p.84]

Decent gameplay let down by a lack of any multiplayer or other modes whatsoever.

Mind-numbingly boring. This is one call you should definitely send to answer phone.

Poor show. [Sept 2010, p.89]

It's dull, it's repetitive and it's as much fun as being cuddled by a cactus. [Nov 2007, p.87]

This is as lazy a use of a license as we've seen recently and this is from the company that made the Smurfs 2 game. [Feb 2014, p.91]

This is surely one of the most intensely frustrating games ever, but is not rewarding enough to be worthwhile. [May 2014, p.90]

Granted, we quite like the animated Gordon Ramsay but the rest really is a shambles. [Dec 2008, p.100]

Unless you like hammering the A button for eight minutes at a time while getting a headache, stay well away. Even young kids will get bored.

Even as rabid Pokemon fans we're really struggling to see the point of My Pokemon Ranch. [Aug 2008, p.103]

A shadow of its siblings on other platforms. [Christmas 2010, p.87]

The skateboard controller looks the part but doesn't work and seems to hate the game it was designed for. It may yet fall to another game to get the best out of it.

Had so much potential, but this is ultimately a waste of Points. There are countless better games out there.

Underwhelming. [Sept 2014, p.90]

Endless Ocean, we get - it has a point. This, on the one hand, is ridiculous. [Nov 2008, p.104]

Sorry, Sega, but your luck with movie licenses just isn't getting any better. [Sept 2008, p.101]

There's always one dreadful launch game (remember the GameCube's "Universal Tour"?) and Rampage: World Destruction is the Wii's. Even if you once enjoyed "Rampage" you won't like this. [Jan 2007, p.82]

Avoid. [Apr 2010, p.95]

Heartbreakingly awful. [Feb 2009, p.84]

The new best worst game ever. Briefly entertaining in a terrible B movie sort of way, but once that wears off this is just insulting.

So despite all the options - Championship mode, Capture The Flag, four player split screen and a Hot Pursuit mode - the wild handling is a little too much to cope with.

Quotation forthcoming. [Sept 2010]

What a stinker. [Aug 2008, p.101]

How Sega thinks it can get away with this utter detritus is beyond us. [July 2008, p.101]

An old PC game ported to the DS to cash in on people waning to bash their heads in. [May 2010, p.85]

Feels archaic compared to the likes of Face Raiders. Shame. [Jan 2013, p.110]

Feels archaic compared to the likes of Face Raiders. Shame. [Jan 2013, p.110]

There's a certain amount of tension as the clock ticks, but moving the stylus up and down to mow lawns is both fiddly and a bit dull - you really need to keep all three mowers running at once to succeed. Add in a ravenous dog that wants to bite chunks out of your kids and the result is a gruelling, unforgiving... well, chore.

A soulless title with poor mini-games, this is a party that needs no pooping.

A dull game that makes no use of the Wii U functionality. [Jan 2013, p.102]

A complete waste of time. [Christmas 2010, p.81]

It takes a genuinely profound kind of idiocy to turn such a romping good series into something so leaden. [Feb 2014, p.91]

A game rendered so easy by the needs of its target market, that it's dead on arrival. Consider this a Surf eulogy. [Sept 2013, p.89]

Just feels like an unfinished mess that's been rushed to the shops in time for the release of the movie it's based on. [Aug 2011, p.99]

Quite simply a rotten game with woefully little variation in gameplay and turgid mechanics. There's very little fun here an dit's cetainly a long way from 'cowabunga', dude. [May 2007, p.78]

Stupid design decisions. [Dec 2009, p.94]

A very unpleasant experience. [June 2013, p.84]

GT Pro Series has got decent cars and passable handling, but the below average physics and utterly shameful visuals give this a cheap, unfinished feel. [Feb 2007, p.84]

Tyranna-bore-us Rex. Triceraplops.Velocicraptor. You get the picture.

No ambition, love or visible original thought has gone into this miserable shell of a game. [Aug 2014, p.86]

Dull and barely related to footie. [Feb 2011, p.93]