The sad thing about BBR is the lack of variety. [June 2007, p.97]

Attractive game reworked properly for the younger types. Help make Spryo truly famous once more. [Christmas 2006, p.125]

A poor excuse of an FPS makes for an adequate, if pointless, adaptation of a sport better experienced in the real world. [April 2006, p.92]

Refreshingly unique. [July 2007, p.104]

Like Roman Reigns, it looks the part, but the wrestling is rubbish. Scrap this and start again, 2K. [Christmas 2016, p.86]

Surprisingly slick with excellent online play.

It's depressing to see a developer that applied so intense a spotlight to existing practices and archetypes resort to so generic an expansion.

As a budget, somewhat unambitious retooling of the Wolfenstein engine, Youngblood offers impactful shootouts that showcase some truly brilliant guns. Yet by aiming for co-op grind, this offshoot loses the charm of BJ’s blasters. A slight misfire, then, but the sisterly slaughter on display still has its moments. [Issue#181, p.75]

My thoughts on Vergil's Downfall in a nutshell? Played it. Liked it. Now, I just resent the extra step it puts in the menu system between me and Danté Must Die.

Playable and expansive, but extremely familiar-feeling and technically clunky. [Christmas 2018, p.84]

Downpour is an engrossing, eerie play, but it's simultaneously empowered and constrained by its necromantic heritage. There are two sides to every Silent Hill, and like every studio since Team Silent, Vatra hasn't brought enough to the party.

There's promise but The Technomancer just can't get away from well-worn genre conventions. [Sept 2016, p.84]

For all its shallowness, I couldn't help but fall for Zoo Tycoon. While its charms may indeed be too quickly exhausted, they're potent while they last, and there's an overpowering wholesomeness that's difficult to resist. There are a lot of great ideas, wonderful moments and potential memories to be made here that make it more than worth a look, but much like my experiences with real-life animal parks, Zoo Tycoon becomes less likely to delight upon each subsequent visit.

Like an everlasting gobstopper, you can buy Cloudberry for peanuts and certainly get your money's worth in terms of quantity. But play it just long enough, and it quickly loses its flavour.

Not bad if you can bring the skills. [Nov 2009, p.95]

Track editors looking for new tools might want to buy, but otherwise try the community courses. [Nov 2015, p.89]

A satisfying if uninventive tribute to the new era of dark, narrative platformers.

The Kinect controls for all these activities feel intuitive, accurate, and responsive. Considering the range of gestures, there's impressively little frustration involved.

Looks flashy, and fun but ends up being a shallow, repetitive trawl.

Ironically, in trying to cram loads into Blitz: The League II, Midway has actually made it less enjoyable. The tacked-on mini-games only delay the proper action. That's not to say it's not a fun game: it's just not consistently fun. Shame.

A meticulously designed Live shooter...Few multiplayer FPS games furnish you with unique anecdotes about valiant last stands and over-the-trench assaults but Brink is full of them.

Everything's improved except the controls. [May 2010, p.87]

It’s the perfect fan service addition to the Ghostbusters canon, and regardless of the all-female reboot or upcoming Ghostbusters 2020, this still stands up as that ‘third film’. The fact that it’s also a very good game frankly makes our toaster dance. [Issue#184, p.82]

We say the gameplay is 'deceptively simple', because there's effectively two buttons. [Nov 2007, p.106]

Even with its signature gimmick disabled, it's actually not too bad.

Magical game fun for kids; brief fun for adults. [Aug 2007, p.99]

Clearly designed for the world of mobile devices, Cubot is the kind of thing you've probably downloaded for pennies, many times, and played for half an hour before getting hopelessly stuck and abandoning it. [March 2016, p.87]

If you demand polish, this-gen graphics, and spoonfed plots - well, maybe you need to move briskly along. [Issue#65, p.90]