CSI: Hard Evidence isn't a game that can be summed up by a single numbers. Instead, it's best summed up by two words and two numbers - five hours, 1,000 gamerpoints. If you buy this, the only thing that needs investigating is your head.

Ready, Deadie, Gone. And don't come back. [Sept 2013, p.93]

Advanced video chat...and same old games. [Oct 2007, p.96]

The lobotomised, slash-block combat is the final straw. Rise of Nightmares offers nothing in the way of action, puzzles, intelligence, or maturity. It's a heartbreakingly lame way to kickstart the adult Kinect genre.

Ditches tricks for a succession of lame ideas that don't belong anywhere near a biking game. [Sept 2016, p.87]

Nowhere near clever enough to bother with. [Dec 2008, p.100]

Dull, frustrating and deeply dated cash-in. [Jan 2010, p.113]

A wasted opportunity. [Sept 2007, p.109]

It's Trials HD, but it's also rubbish. [Dec 2011, p.105]

Playing Zathura is like being force-fed Saddam Hussein's skid-marked underpants. And we find that kind of thing really upsetting.

Dull and predictable gameplay. Avoid. [Oct 2006, p.90]

You'd be a Raven lunatic to buy it. [Oct 2009, p.90]

An interesting concept that's backed up with almost nothing of consequence. Most of the game involves plodding around pressing one button, and even the puzzles solve themselves.

Don't mourn this roadkill. [Oct 2012, p.99]

Awful - a crushing disappointment. [Oct 2010, p.102]

Angry Birds Trilogy just feels like simple cash-raking from a franchise that's displayed little-to-no creativity since the first bird was fired.

Overlord focuses too much on trying to be funny, not enough on being fun. [Jan 2016, p.85]

A total snooze cruise of a car combat game.

Shrek the turd, more like. [Sept 2007, p.106]

Dreary and glitchy, a reminder that Hitman 2: Silent Assassin isn't as good as you recall. [May 2016, p.78]

Once you've stabbed one, run past one, and been killed by one, you've played enough. And that two minute process is not worth any amount of money.

A half-baked mess. [Feb 2014, p.86]

This parasitic barnacle seeks only to corrode and cash in on joy. [Feb 2014, p.89]

Passable idea with no charisma or presentation. [Feb 2012, p.99]

Fun for none of the family, sadly. [Christmas 2012, p.93]

The thrill of a 400-foot homer can't make up for many faults. Swing and a miss. [June 2018, p.80]

A poorly polished, poorly realised and remarkably underwhelming action game. [June 2018, p.82]

If you want to waste your money on a broken game that barely inspired a smile from us, buy Goat Simulator. Presumably, if Coffee Stain Studios tried making Hilarity Simulator it'd be set in a morgue.

Frankly, we're getting tired of buying games and then waiting for them to be patched so they can actually be played. [Oct 2016, p.100]

Bustin' doesn't make us feel good. More like incredibly bored. [Oct 2016, p.103]

One or two half-decent gags aside, Deadpool is a dreary, lumpen, vapid and altogether forgettable action game with an exasperatingly garrulous lead. [Feb 2016, p.85]

It's tempting to praise Oxygen for tackling the tricky job of turning this pub sport into an enjoyable videogame but instead, all Oxygen proves is why darts is better off as a novelty mini-game rather than the main attraction.

One of the worst examples of this genre. [Mar 2010, p.115]

More than being a sub-Flash compilation of insulting video games, this casts doubt on whether Hasbro understand what makes its non-digital games good. Or perhaps it just thinks people who play video games are so stupid they'll gladly lap up any old crap. Whatever the reasons behind FGN4 - this is reprehensible.

Your presence doesn't seem to matter. [Sept 2015, p.111]

One of gaming's greatest series bails horribly, loses its high score and sinks to a depressing new low. Truly awful.

The overriding problem is that the central character doesn't fit the environment.

Quirky but not worth the asking price. [Apr 2009, p.90]

Zany, but this price is just ridiculous. [June 2008, p.79]

The worst DW game of this generation. [Mar 2010, p.109]

An amazingly limited game - so basic that you can't quite believe it's not free on Xbox Live Arcade. [Nov 2006, p.102]

Its shear randomness and awfulness is a remarkable sight. Take it from us that its not a spectacle you need to witness first hand, nor have staining your Gamertag forever more.

Too much murder, not enough '80s hair. [March 2015, p.83]

More revolting than it is a revolution. [May 2009, p.87]

Our brains just shut down after a while. [Nov 2009, p.99]

Makes us feel deathly cold inside. [Apr 2010, p.109]

Like being trapped in a barrel of monkeys. [June 2011, p.103]

Puts the "ass" in NASCAR. [June 2011, p.105]

Some of the ideas at the core of it are brilliant, but the same thing could be said of the atomic bomb. Blades of Time is slightly more pleasant than a nuclear explosion, but that doesn't make it worthy of your money or your time.

Laborious and horribly put together, Agony really will put you through hell. [Aug 2018, p.78]

A well deserved hammering. [July 2011, p.103]

Aged, dated, decrepit and repetitive! [Nov 2006, p.107]

Becomes a mirthless, snails-pace co-op brawler set in boring marsh environments. [Christmas 2013, p.107]

"it's for fans" isn't a good enough excuse. [Christmas 2011, p.105]

Definitely not worth the ridiculous 800 MP asking price. [Aug 2008, p.94]

A laugh-free and miserable undead slog. [Christmas 2011, p.111]

It's a genuinely bad game in every respect. [May 2018, p.82]

We'd rather be hit by lightning than play Bolt. [May 2009, p.95]

Confusing, annoying and frustrating. [Nov 2008, p.97]

Sails beneath already low expectations. [Jan 2013, p.91]

It boggles the mind that these kinds of games are still being made. [Aug 2014, p.83]

Five hours of playing this game will kill the entire genre for you, too. [Aug 2011, p.99]

One to avoid, we think - though the creepy trailer, with a father and his two dead-eyed sons is worth watching. It's like something out of Twin Peaks. [Feb 2015, p.83]

A completely unremarkable WWII shooter with more bugs than Pixar's second feature film. There's nothing offensive about it, it's just subpar in every possible way, from AI to controls to visuals to voice acting. Feels like a launch window 360 game.

A tired bit of space trash. [Jan 2008, p.98]

The unkindest cut of all is that you only rarely get to actually command the Enterprise, and when you do, the implementation would disgrace the average Call of Duty turret sequence.

As a box set it's just over-packaged and over-priced nostalgia. [Dec 2012, p.97]

One to avoid like Crypto's anal probe. [Mar 2009, p.93]

It looks like it's been lazily ported from the PlayStation 2 because, frankly, it has. [July 2007, p.103]

Generic aerial warfare that fails to take off. [March 2013, p.87]

Nobody in their right mind should buy this.

Frustrating and counter intuitive. [Dec 2012, p.101]

A sweet idea, hobbled by the hardware. [Jan 2012, p.99]

It's not 'Big' and it's certainly not clever. [June 2008, p.76]

This game originally came out on PC back in 2007, and it really has no place on Xbox 360 in 2009.

Puts the 'limp' in olympic. [Aug 2012, p.109]

A boring, brain-dead waste of time. [Oct 2009, p.82]

One of the worst titles on Xbox One, and another savage disappointment for rugby fans. [June 2016, p.87]

A startling glimpse into true hell. [Sept 2013, p.86]

X-tremely poor in every respect. [May 2009, p.95]

Deals a very poor hand. [Aug 2007, p.84]

Like a train wreck - can't help but look. [Aug 2007, p.103]

A masterclass in bad design. [Apr 2013, p.85]

A black mark for the History Channel. [June 2008, p.72]

It's not very good. Who'd have thunk it? [Aug 2009, p.93]

Nothing but a cynical movie cash-grab. [July 2010, p.99]

Without even a two-player mode, this won't last you ten minutes. [Aug 2007, p.103]

A ponderous, plodding shooter with levels that drag on for aeons, that champions boring conservatism over death-defying aerobics. One of the least exciting shoot-'em-ups I've ever played.

Everything about this game smacks of a half-arsed Xbox Live Arcade title that's blundered into the full retail schedule by accident. [Apr 2007, p.93]

Makes you want to jump off a cliff.

This really is absolutely shocking.

It's so terrible it nearly transcends its own boundaries and becomes something jaw-droppingly incredible - being memorably crap. [Apr 2014, p.89]

Easily the worst sports game we've played. [March 2015, p.83]

Occasionally difficult, never fun. [Christmas 2013, p.107]

A mercifully brief battle. [June 2011, p.103]

Neither monstrous nor jammy, just tedious. [July 2008, p.84]

Poorly executed, lacking personality and completely disrespects your time. Avoid. [Nov 2018, p.84]

Most free to play games are engineered for compulsive play, but Spartacus Legends is about as addictive as swallowing sand. Thumbs down.