Once you've clocked enough playthroughs to upgrade your character's stats and worked out each enemy's attack patterns, the game starts to open up and you'll find yourself enjoying the run-throughs.

A brilliantly unique indie escape-'em-up that combines stealth, strategy, and simulation to great effect, but you'll need saint-like patience to get the most out of it.

A fun but deeply familiar karter.

Strong, frequently brilliant fun, but it's still only GRID 2.5. There's variety compared to its predecessor, but it never escapes the feeling that it's just a stopgap for whatever's coming next.

A great story mode and superb presentation, but gameplay clearly lags behind PES. [Dec 2016, p.70]

To paraphrase Bret Hart, it's the best there is, the best there was, but next year's will probably be a little bit better again.

This GTA-a-like will make you nostalgic, and grateful that AI is a lot better now. [Issue#179, p.86]

It's beautiful, it's comical, but it's a shame that it feels so lacking in solo play. [Dec 2014, p.82]

An honest and charming attempt to reinvigorate the 3D platformer genre.

Where Rocksmith 2014 triumphs is in teaching through engaging challenges rather than through rote learning. [Jan 2015, p.89]

Maybe a bit flat compared to previous seasons but still pretty nerve-jangling. [Aug 2017, p.78]

The best way to experience gaming's most loved, if not best, shooter series. [Dec 2016, p.76]

Type-0 is a modern Final Fantasy, with all the good and bad that entails. However, it's also a pretty good JRPG, on a system where they're not exactly bursting at the seams.

Simulates all the slam dunks and shoe contracts, but it could use a little polish. [Dec 2016, p.79]

Charming but infuriating puzzler. [Feb 2010, p.113]

A ravishing journey across a magical landscape. It's kiddie, but quite irresistible too. [Jan 2017, p.86]

Like sipping a mojito while resting your panda-skin boots on a pauper, there's something nasty yet refreshing here, as it pushes you to maintain control in marvelously illiberal ways. [Feb 2015 (US), p.72]

A mechanically sound shooter that's hampered by a lack of scale and inventiveness. [Jan 2017, p.88]

Very tough but seldom unfair, Furi is an unyielding and tantalising taskmaster. [Jan 2017, p.91]

The new Steel Battalion is going to divide people, in case you hadn't guessed. Some players will choke on the interfacial blunders, gag at the sporadically entertaining missions and walk away calling it the worst game ever. Others, however, will regard even the flaws as a thrown gauntlet.

The sweeping world map is brilliant, but married by subpar presentation and frustrating AI. [Dec 2016, p.91]

A game that feels both very new and very old at the same time. [Dec 2014, p.87]

Vanquish plays a one-note song, but thankfully that note is 'slow motion exploding robot face'. [Issue#66, p.92]

Intense shmup-ing but overpriced. [July 2012, p.107]

It's a good solid beat 'em up, if occasionally a little unfair. [June 2007, p.95]

It's by no means perfect, but Undead Labs has won itself a high level of forgiveness, with an atmospheric world that's as compelling as it is flawed.

The complete lack of boundaries means it's a totally unique challenge, in which standard racing skills often need to be thrown out of the window. Despite this, with such exciting technology at its core, we can't help but hope that Asobo gets another roll of the dice to create something truly, and consistently astonishing. [June 2009, p.84]

It's just a pity there isn't as much variety in the fighting as there is in the outfits, as we could've been looking at an even higher score. [Apr 2007, p.91]