A very limited online shooter with a somewhat superficial design mode. Shame. [July 2018, p.87]

A sharp heroine and supporting cast, blunted by time constraints and uneven pacing. [July 2016, p.86]

Dull genre-bender with more features than fun. [Christmas 2011, p.110]

Only hipsters and farming fetishists need apply. [Nov 2013, p.91]

Not too substantial, but surprisingly polished. [Apr 2009, p.91]

A game so middle-of-the-road it ends up as roadkill. The ideas in here are solid, but simply refuse to go anywhere over its three-hour duration.

And as for those critical issues that dogged the last game and made it almost unplayable? Yep, they're still here too, joined now by an ability to perform the same move over and over to defeat your opponent simply because they can't react to it.

Critical flaws in every major respect, then, and yet it just about hangs together. There's an affecting moodiness to it, a real satisfaction when you do chain together several silent kills, and the low-tech 1940s setting lends a refreshing purity to the sneak 'em up genre. With a little more polish, further adventures for Violette could well be to die for.

The great and the rubbish at a price that's definitely not right.

As much fun as you'd expect from vermin. [Nov 2013, p.96]

Looks like Potter has lost its magic. [Jan 2013, p.97]

It's a distinctly average game from Harry, so a fittingly average mark for him as we give him a "five".

It's time to stop pedalling this game. [Sept 2012, p.95]

Overall, it makes for a slightly better game than "Pac-Man" and "Ms Pac-Man," though that's not saying much. [Feb 2007, p.101]

If you're a retro fetishist with a Jeff Minter costume, you might want to download this game, but we don't recommend it! [Jan 2007, p.96]

The controls of your spaceships just aren’t good enough. You rotate your ship in 3D. You rotate the camera in 3D. You fight in 3D – it’s all just too much 3D.

Kung Fu fun that quickly wears thin. [Aug 2011, p.101]

Judging by the amount of new content, this is more of a stop-gap than a sequel. Hardcore fans will be best off waiting for the next installment, because this add-on feels desperately half-hearted.

A lack of development time this time round is surely the only possible explanation for the game’s unfinished feel...There’s a fantastic title in there, one that Treyarch has obviously worked hard on, but we can’t help but feel it’s a case of embarrassing premature web-ejaculation.

This slight offering started life as a mobile game, and it shows. [Dec 2015, p.87]

The Six Nations Championship brings fresh hope that we might finally get a great rugby game, but this engaging effort fails to convert where it counts.

Reasonably fun in local multiplayer, but too basic to justify the price you pay. [Sept 2018, p.82]

Sadly, the game's not much fun - you get bored easily and there's not much variety to be had waving your arms up and down. [Dec 2006, p.99]

We're all for dolled up remakes of arcade classics, and those are some lovely backgrounds, but this one needs to be rescued from the limitations of its own design.

Open Season is definitely a good kids' game - nice to look at and very easy with it. However, adults will burn through this game in less than six hours with no real difficulty.

Fails to convert its potential. [Oct 2011, p.101]

It's an error to think of Fatal Conspiracy as a game. That creates an expectation of fun - a level on which CSI doesn't try to deliver. [Issue#67, p.103]

A grind in more ways than one. [Sept 2011, p.101]