You'll often have to tediously meander through the game's various locations. [June 2008, p.88]

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]

A slight, but serviceable spin-off that has bags of energy, if little else. [Nov 2013, p.80]

It's a bit dull. [Christmas 2013, p.89]

Just Dance is a facilitator, not a game. [Mar 2010, p.87]

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

Criminally short. [Jan 2011, p.76]

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

It's by no means as bad as you may have heard. [Apr 2009, p.89]

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

This tries to pull off so much but it's neither as compelling and varied as "The Sims" nor as loveable as "Nintendogs." Plus it's so blocky it's like someone invented an 8-bit DS. [Dec 2006, p.87]

A potential cult hit betrayed by framerate issues and sluggish controls. [Jan 2013, p.110]

A fun game, but one where you'll struggle to get your money's worth. [May 2011, p.88]

Poor show. [Sept 2010, p.89]

A deep, thought-provoking title, but be warned: it's very peculiar and very slow-paced. [May 2009, p.75]

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

A great little puzzle game. [Oct 2008, p.97]

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]

Technically great, but it should have focused more on the action than the mini-games. [Sept 2009, p.85]

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]

A game that has clearly had a lot of time put into it. The handling, the graphics and the general feel of the game are fine. Problem is, the actual game content feels like an afterthought, as if the development studio suddenly thought, "Oooh, we haven't actually got anything for the player to do. Quick, stick a short story in there, put loads of swearing in it and pad it with street races."

Fun for the young 'uns, but serious gamers will be bored in minutes. [Nov 2009, p.103]

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.

Your furball is far too floaty and controlling him becomes an exercise in anger management as he bumps into one obstacle after another, some of which are difficult to spot.

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]

Some great recipes but the experience is marred by fiddly cooking games. [Christmas 2008, p.87]

Very average indeed. [Apr 2010, p.93]

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.

Fun while it lasts, but you can finish the whole game before your bottle of Butterbeer gets flat.

Some interesting bits of "art," but it's pointless as they're freely available elsewhere. [Mar 2011, p.103]

It's hard to care about villagers when they are all generic-faced repetition bots. [June 2014, p.86]

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

The core gameplay is much like the GameCube version, it looks good and its comedy "Star Wars" style is amusing. But it's so glitchy it's almost insulting. A bit of a disappointment, really. [Nov 2006, p.86]

Underwhelming. [Sept 2014, p.90]

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

There's not a huge amount of content, the handling a little wobbly at times, and the tracks tend to get very familiar. [May 2010, p.85]

Could have been so much better but hasn't been fine-tuned well enough. [Oct 2010, p.95]

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]

This is the sort of game that's perfect for the Wii Remote as anyone can pick it up. [Jan 2007, p.79]

There's a very good game in there, but it's smothered by dull, arbitrary exploring.

As a fun way to spend a half an hour it's not bad. [Oct 2010, p.94]

Avoid. [Apr 2010, p.95]

Should entertain any kids after they've been to see the film. [Mar 2011, p.100]

The on-rails steering mechanic will be an insult to your gaming ability. [Apr 2008, p.79]

A dumbed down on-rails shooter, albeit a half-decent one. [Christmas 2010, p.82]

Heartbreakingly awful. [Feb 2009, p.84]

Not for everyone, but younger gamers and arcade fans will love it. The multiplayer mode adds a surreal slice of joy, too. [Jan 2013, p.103]

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.

A half-decent time-management game. [Aug 2009, p.99]

Imprecise motion controls and muddy visuals. [Christmas 2008, p.99]

A technically decent WiiWare game, but it's nothing remarkable. Not essential. [Mar 2010, p.94]

Quotation forthcoming. [Sept 2010]

Look, we won't beat about the bush here. It's a game about tanks blowing up other tanks. What more do you want?

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]

The control system and mission structure makes it unfairly annoying at times. [Mar 2009, p.88]

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.

Quite why they didn't simply make a new Myst specifically for the DS is the real mystery. [Feb 2008, p.84]

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

It's rubbish fun. [Mar 2010, p.94]

A surprisingly good instalment. Well worth a look if you see it for 20 quid or so. [Apr 2011, p.90]

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]

The effort has been put in here - it's very easy to make your own Tetris clone by selecting different blocks and a background with the stylus before sharing it with friends via StreetPass or QR codes.

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]

The game's instant appeal fades quickly. It's cheap but not particularly cheerful. [July 2008, p.86]

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]

As movie tie-ins go this is a decent effort - but you'd need to have downed your body weight in butter-beer to claim that it didn't need a little more care, attention and (perhaps) experience in its creation.

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]

They're actually playable (for the most part) and don't feel rushed or broken. [Christmas 2010, p.91]

A dull, confusing game. [Mar 2011, p.101]

It isn't terrible, it's just dull. [Feb 2014, p.84]

If you're after more than ten minutes of distraction, look somewhere else. [May 2008, p.90]

A bland, lackluster shooter. [Christmas 2009, p.102]

Too basic. [July 2010, p.95]

Horrible stuff. [Apr 2013, p.85]

It's not even a very good example of what's already a tired and lazy genre. [Mar 2011, p.100]

It's what a bag of roast beef crisps is to a Sunday roast with all the trimmings. [Sept 2007, p.90]

Pointless. [Aug 2008, p.103]

Nostalgia-seekers need not apply: this is easily outdone by the 13-year-old game from which it is derived. A shame. [Christmas 2012, p.111]

Limp shocks and dull content leave us with a lingering grudge towards Ju-On's creators. [Dec 2009, p.92]