Another rock-solid performance from Treyarch.

It's the same, but it's a good kind of same. [Oct 2007, p.90]

Crysis 3 might be a victim of this love-blindness. You'll never be bored during the campaign, and certainly not during the excellent multiplayer. But Crysis 3 feels like a retread of entertaining ground, with a frustrating glimpse of how good it could actually be.

Stick with it and there's a lot to love here. [Dec 2015, p.77]

The best fitness game around. [Feb 2015, p.79]

It's still a collection of relatively shallow events competing against other sports games, such as FIFA, that have the luxury of offering vast depth within a single sport. As a result even though this is the best multi-sport game we've played in an age, it still feels more like a platter of hors d'oeuvres than a gut-filling steak dinner.

Wonky, repetitive and short but oh so very unnerving. [Aug 2014, p.87]

Being the weakest episode in a series that's been so consistently amazing is hardly massive criticism, though. We'd felt quietly confident about it for a while, but the cliffhanger at the end of Episode 4 leaves us in no doubt: the final episode of is going to be an absolute corker. If you've not started playing, it's time to catch up.

Features like these mean Shattered Dimensions would actually work as a Spidey game even though it's not an open-world swingers' party. It's just a massive shame they're housed in such a linear and grindingly predictable format.

This first episode falls a little short of expectations. [Feb 2015, p.80]

It may lack in variety, but the core conceit of Strike Suit Zero: Director's Cut is both sound and consistently enjoyable. Swoop in with your ship, turn into a robot, destroy everything, get the hell out. It's not subtle, but it is good, wholesome, dumb fun.

This is imaginative and witty stuff. [Dec 2015, p.78]

But the thing which pulls this down to a seven is actually its technical aspect - while diving in and out of the subgames would amuse, the constant loading pauses before most fracture its atmosphere.

If you utterly exhausted last year's effort and are waiting for the revolution the series now sorely needs, keep on walking.

Cracking twin stick mech attack. [Aug 2011, p.99]

A good value-for-money offering that expands and fine-tunes one of the Xbox 360's rougher diamonds. [Aug 2014, p.93]

If you're a survival horror fan, and miss a time in gaming when a zombie bite was the scariest thing in the world, then you'll find a lot to suffer through here. In a good way.

Jaw-droppingly beautiful to look at, no worse to play than its excellent originator, but not really that much of a step forward. New balls, please!

Telltale's reinvention of Minecraft captures the game's cosy vibe, but fails to get the blood pumping with its action and puzzling mechanics. [Dec 2015, p.85]

Hits an unexpected sweet spot of Hollywood-style bombastic entertainment. [Dec 2013, p.86]

The core puzzling itself is horribly addictive. Poker Smash isn't going to make you want to eat ice cream-topped pizza but it is the perfect way to kill a few hours.

A flawed yet ultimately winning tie-in that serves up the best dinos on Xbox. [Sept 2018, p.72]

The problem is, we have real friends who'll accompany us to real pubs with real tables on which we can play real pool. So why do we need a slightly sterile virtual version? [Feb 2015, p.83]

There's an overall lack of personality to the game - there aren't enough control quirks to master or career goals to aim for. While EA's NHL 10 rewards you at every turn for digging into the game, NHL 2K10 has nothing new to offer but the chance to ride a Zamboni machine and polish ice.

Whether you're haring along some cliffside road, desperately trying to keep yourself from sailing to a painful death, or just fiddling with your sponsor challenges for maximum return, WRC 2 is an involving and rewarding racer. It's still not as great as the DiRT games, but it's not as far off as you might think.

A well-polished movie tie-in that will keep undemanding kids amused for a weekend or two. [April 2006, p.88]

Fantastic music and a few new features make this LEGO game good, not great. [Sept 2018, p.78]

A promising debut, but just too light on options - both inside and outside the Octagon - to be the champ it desperately wants to be.