Lengthy, clever, and gripping. It's nice to have a decent point and click adventure around. It's been too long. [Oct 2011, p.105]

Stuck halfway between the arcade slots and po-faced flight simulation, and in the process takes itself far too seriously. [Oct 2011, p.105]

For the jaded gamer with a few hours to spare it's like a zen garden for the soul. [Oct 2011, p.104]

One of the best physics puzzle games out there. A clever game and one devoid of pretension. [Oct 2011, p.104]

It's ugly, clunky and stilted, but channel your psychotic Sam Fisher and you'll find some fun. [Oct 2011, p.103]

An accomplished, silly and engaging game of a genre that's woefully under-used. [Feb 2007, p.69]

Puts its core mechanics before everything else and with good reason - they're as near-perfect as we're ever going to get. [Sept 2011, p.102]

Despite its fantastic visualisation of Wonderland, repetitive gameplay means it fails to muster a chortle. [Sept 2011, p.100]

A game destined to be forgotten. [Sept 2011, p.98]

There are times when this can be offensively unimaginative, but the combat and co-op are too good to ignore. [Sept 2011, p.96]

A budget game that delivers a budget experience. [Aug 2011, p.102]

A competent example of a PC port and of an RPG, but its obsessions with consumerism dampens the adventure. [Aug 2011, p.100]

A love letter to PC gaming, scrawled in crayon by an alcoholic bigot. Wait for the bargain bin to say goodbye to Duke. [Aug 2011, p.98]

Not quite the inspired sequel we had all hoped for, but there's still enough in DiRT 3 to bring the fans back. [Aug 2011, p.96]

Offers great weapons, a great destruction model...and not enough ways to have fun with them. [July 2011, p.94]

A hilarious slice of gaming glory. [July 2011, p.92]

Flawed brawling in a beautiful world you never quite get to explore. [July 2011, p.90]

Good hack 'n' slash mechanics are let down by a lack of reasons to care about the action and keep heading back into battle. [June 2011, p.90]

RPG fans will cry. [June 2011, p.86]

An ambitious, charismatic RPG that plays like no other. [June 2011, p.80]

Just as serving a delicious cheesecake on a bed of rotten mackerel kills the appetite, so OpFlash: Red River turns the stomach with its nauseating intro. No matter how appealing the main event might be, you just can't get that image out of your head.

Great sim thrills with EA's trademark slick presentation. [May 2011, p.94]

Worth grabbing when the price drops. [May 2011, p.92]

A damp squib, really. The single player is far too short and the multiplayer only occasionally rises above the average. [May 2011, p.90]

Doesn't fix what ain't broke; but does tweaks on an excellent formula to produce the best post WoW MMO so far. [May 2011, p.88]

As human mercenary enemies make way for the dreaded aliens, the AI suffers a brain haemorrhage and the game needs to distract you with spectacular visual events to distract you from your stand and shoot enemies. It's as good as any recent shooter at epic moments and gun-toting drama, but it feels a little shallow once you realise how remedial the all-conquering alien force actually are.

Immense fun, very addictive. [Apr 2011, p.104]

Some fun to be had in amongst the tedium. [Apr 2011, p.102]

The best RPG we've played in a long time. [Apr 2011, p.101]

It's just a huge shame that it's not as terrifying as it should be. [Apr 2011, p.98]

A bright, bold and lovably off-the-wall FPS. [Apr 2011, p.96]

It's the finest Total War game CA has ever made, with a beautifully focused campaign and involving multiplayer too. [Apr 2011, p.94]

A visceral, well-written and worthy sequel to an excellent game, with huge potential to become a modern classic.

A film tie-in that's above average for tie-in games, but that only means it deserves to be quietly de-razzed. [Mar 2011, p.108]

A surprisingly competent indie game that can't quite fulfill its ambitions. Time and patches should be kind to it though. [Mar 2011, p.106]

Visceral game changer that provides almost too much bang for 15.8591 bucks. No innovations that further the title, though. [Mar 2011, p.104]

The best attempt yet at merging action gaming and MMOs, and a dream come true for comic fans of all ages. [Mar 2011, p.102]

There are still bugs and little really new on offer here. [Feb 2011, p.108]

It just doesn't feel like footie. [Feb 2011, p.107]

Let's hope that The Old Republic gets is right in the many, many places where The Force Unleashed II gets it wrong. [Feb 2011, p.104]

The most successful MMO ever adds another thick layer of icing to its cake. [Feb 2011, p.100]

Smart design... Lacks visual innovation. [Jan 2011, p.110]

Incredibly easy, very short. [Jan 2011, p.109]

Terrific style... Not that funny. [Jan 2011, p.107]

Intoxicating. [Jan 2011, p.104]

Its duffer solo moments are masked by imaginative and visual whizz-band-fizz. [Jan 2011, p.100]

The problem is that the more you play it the more you realise just how slight and limited it is as an experience. The tracks are pleasingly long, but once you've got them figured out they don't represent anything of a challenge.

Can't decide whether it's a single player game, a co-op game or a tech demo. [Christmas 2010, p.102]

Appealing to both the single and multiplayer real-time strategist, although R.U.S.E. will be a hard mistress online. [Issue#245, p.102]

For the first time in a good seven years there's a decent Formula 1 game on the PC. An impressive return to form. [Issue#246, p.102]

Not the most innovative of games, but give Darksiders a go and you'll most likely be pleasantly surprised. [Issue#246, p.106]

This isn't a game, it's a trip into the human psyche's darker spaces. Not for the faint of heart, but horror junkies will lap it up. [Issue#246, p.107]

A massive upgrade on the first game, but don't blame us if you get a bit tired of shooting people in the face. [Issue#244, p.106]

It's a great footie game, and the best we've seen on the PC. [Issue#246, p.104]

The zombie chopping is great fun, but Capcom hasn't put enough effort into making it look and feel like a proper PC game. [Issue#245, p.104]

As good as Civ ever was, with some interesting new additions and, better yet, no more stacks o' doom. A worthy series update. [Issue#245, p.98]

This is neither a great racing game nor a particularly terrible one, but it does feel like a missed opportunity. [Issue#244, p.108]

Perfectly balanced multiplayer with old school elements intact, and rich and dynamic single player campaigns. [Issue#244, p.102]

There are game that cost five times as much that don't come close to its levels of satisfaction and perfectly-formed miniquests. [Issue#246, p.100]

Like an MMO, there's an undefinable something that keeps you playing, probably far beyond what your sanity can properly stand.

Football Manager 2011 isn't likely to draw in any new players, but it's also not going to lose any either. There are other new features, but essentially it's still that footie RPG with the addictiveness only FM and free-base cocaine can offer.

A well-rendered world, with a well-realised story, though without as much actual gaming as we'd hoped there'd be. [Issue#244, p.81]

Bluntly, the problem with EA's Create is in the title. It suggests you'll be creating things, with all the imagination and excitement that implies. Instead, Create feels like Little Big Planet, as copied by a robot that one day hopes to know what love is.

It may take a while to find them, but delve into PES 2011 and you'll discover its great - if unfortunately hidden - depths. [Nov 2010, p.100]

It's not a painful experience by any means; it just feels like it's little more than extended Fallout 3 DLC.

There's so much wrong here, from the Matrix rip-off storyline and painful attempts at imitating "Deus Ex," to the lack of textures and dull levels. [July 2006, p.102]

Newbie friendly from the outset and tons of quests on hand, but misses the vital spark to make it a must-play. [June 2010, p.99]

It makes Doom 3 look like a masterpiece. [Christmas 2009, p.94]

The jokes are tired. [Mar 2010, p.95]

It's still a fantastic game. [Sept 2010, p.102]

Maybe a great sandbox toy, but selling itself as a named campaign expansion is a work of great fail. [Aug 2010, p.100]

Half a game. [Sept 2010, p.96]

When it does get going it's a crateworth of time-control fun. [Sept 2010, p.102]

The format of these games gets more and more tired with each new franchise, too. [Sept 2010, p.104]

Many other games do this better. Play them. [Sept 2010, p.98]

A competent shooter that makes the best of its license. Those early 80s cartoons have been suitably honoured. [Sept 2010, p.100]

The most interesting part of the episode is how it plays with the characters. [Sept 2010, p.104]

A decent game. [Sept 2010, p.105]

A welcome return to the Prince we all know and love, but we feel that now we know him just a little too well. [Aug 2010, p.92]

In spite of the suitably grubby atmosphere, you always feel as if you're being kept at arm's length from the slimeys. [Aug 2010, p.101]

The idea is excellent, but overall a weaker expansion than the first and not as exciting. [July 2010, p.98]

Watch a Bourne movie instead. [Aug 2010, p.95]

It's smarter and faster than its Ubisoft competition, but it's still the same sort of racer you've played many times. [Aug 2010, p.96]

When blowing up a car by dropping a boat on it becomes boring, you know there's something fundamentally wrong. [July 2010, p.94]

I'm rather impressed. [July 2010, p.101]

A new, simpler breed of Splinter Cell action, though with enough of its hardcore gaming roots showing to please us all. [July 2010, p.90]

Bad translation... If you can speak German, get the native version. [July 2010, p.100]

This is a flawed game, but it's getting better. [Feb 2010, p.95]

It's very much in the head-hurting, time-bending, Braid vein. [July 2010, p.101]

Robotron is a good game to riff off, but there's only so many waves of bullets that you can avoid before you give in and go and do something more interesting instead. [June 2010, p.101]

They're not perfect, but these beloved characters are definitely in capable hands. [June 2010, p.100]

Completely and utterly pointless. [July 2010, p.100]

A great little shooter, and one that could well give Valve a run for its money. [June 2010, p.90]

A simple but entertaining take on the game of golf, if you don't pay for it. A shallow meaningless farce if you do. [June 2010, p.98]

This is one of the most original indie games we've seen in ages. A one-trick pony it may be, but what a trick it is. [June 2010, p.94]

It's the presentation and numerous glitches that let it down. [June 2010, p.101]

I can't think of any game recently that's got me so hooked on insane combat. Step aside GTA, you're about to be overtaken. [May 2010, p.91]

City builder with a hint of speed-chess. The intense micromanaging aspect won't be for everyone, but it's tough not to like. [May 2010, p.98]