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

A very limited on-rails shooter that just gets boring after you've played it for about 15 minutes or so. [Mar 2011, p.105]

Unless you only want to learn the French for individual words though it's a bit useless. [Oct 2010, p.97]

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

Lacks depth. [Aug 2014, p.86]

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

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.

This has been done much better, many times before. [Christmas 2010, p.94]

Lumpy handling. [June 2010, p.91]

Lumpy handling. [June 2010, p.91]

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

Feels extremely basic and devoid of depth. [July 2010, p.95]

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

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.

Very basic. [Feb 2012, p.100]

It just isn't that fun to play. [Jan 2010, p.87]

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

Heartbreakingly awful. [Feb 2009, p.84]

It's pleasant enough, but this'll be over long before your couch has even warmed up. [Christmas 2010, p.94]

Weird. [Sept 2010, p.97]

It only works 30% of the time. [July 2010, p.95]

Never steps outside of its comfort zone. [Oct 2013, p.89]

A shameless imitation of a game that's infinitely better in every department. [Oct 2010, p.94]

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

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

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