Both glitches and interface niggles conspire to leave our timbers feeling thoroughly unshivered. [Apr 2016, p.91]

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

Transforms children's dreams into tears. [Sept 2007, p.107]

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

Kinect Joy Ride provides a crammed package with plenty of games, a fine selection of unlockables and a challenge that offers plenty of room for improvement of your skills. If you're looking for a launch title to really get your teeth into even when you're on your own, you could do much worse than this.

Not perfect, but decent gun-run fun. [Jan 2012, p.103]

Just get some friends around for some local play. In that situation alone, Tenorman's Revenge becomes fully entertaining. [June 2012, p.93]

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.

An old-fashioned shooter in both looks and gameplay, but done with enough conviction that you can be forgiving. [June 2006, p.58]

Charming but flawed, and lacks ambition. [May 2011, p.101]

Everreach overreaches, struggling with a strong but overly ambitious concept. [Issue#187, p.81]

It delivers one of Dead Rising's most intense shootouts to date. [Apr 2014, p.93]

It's abysmal in singleplayer, elevating itself to merely dull and forgettable in co-op and multiplayer. Welcome to a zombie game that's as lifeless and ragged as its primary antagonists.

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

If you're a newcomer to the phenomenon of all this Jesus-themed, impossible code-breaking malarkey you'll find parts of The Da Vinci Code pretty bloody annoying. However, you'll find more to like as you explore, especially if you enjoyed Broken Sword.

Too meandering and dull to work as a twitchy arcade game, Spectra is saved from the ignominy of an even lower score by its sparkling soundtrack. A treat for the ears, then, but little more.

This hasn't moved on from the last generation of Tetris at all. [July 2007, p.102]

A further downer is that the campaign missions are relatively easy to rush through. [May 2012, p.99]

If you remain nostalgic about this strange era, love the books, and don't mind turn-based combat, this is surprisingly compelling stuff. Everyone else should approach with caution: don't expect an awesome dwarf to give you the cash back if you hate it.

It's just a bit shallow, and technically flawed with it: the frame-rate is nowhere near as solid as you'd expect from a game that looks only "all right" and the physics system is prone to craziness. Despite all the time in development, it lacks polish. [Feb 2008, p.96]

This one's already ground to a halt. [July 2011, p.103]

It's fun for a little while, but is precious more than a weekend's worth of entertainment. [July 2006, p.86]

It's cheap, but so is Jodie Marsh and we wouldn't shuffle her deck with yours. [April 2006, p.93]

Ropey adventure with semi-redemptive co-op. [July 2011, p.96]

By turns scrappy, hilarious, wearying and completely barmy. [Sept 2015, p.105]

This should have been better. Rebellion has done likeable banter in Rogue Trooper, Shinta Nojiri has made better stories, and they've all cracked jokes that don't fall this flat. But NeverDead honestly feels like a game whose creators gave up on it half-way through. It's a tragedy that it fails on so many levels.

Drearily predictable stain on the franchise. [Apr 2008, p.88]

An appealing-enough concept mired by shoddy execution. Unabashed scope junkies may find something to amuse them here, however, providing you put a bullet through your better judgement.