The only steering you'll be doing is steering clear. [Feb 2008, p.113]

Tightly designed macho action strategy. The best Conflict game yet. [Nov 2005, p.97]

A solid, if unspectacular hack and slasher. If you're looking for colourful, mindless fantasy action, this is yer man. [Oct 2007, p.56]

The core game itself can't stand alone and captivate its audience as much as it confuses them. [Oct 2007, p.65]

Ambitious and complex throughout, but lacking the fun factor. [Dec 2006, p.109]

The best golfing sim on the market. [Dec 2007, p.62]

Yes, to the casual user it feels little different – and not that much faster – to the original game; but frankly, no one can criticise Firaxis for giving Civ junkies the multiplayer hit they’ve been demanding for the last year.

There's a well-crafted basketball game here for the fans. [Dec 2006, p.108]

If you get it, just make sure you turn those graphics down. [June 2008, p.110]

Good ideas buried under several layers of below par execution. [Christmas 2005, p.101]

With so many competing FPS games on the market, Red Mercury falls sadly below par..."Splinter Cell" meets "Serious Sam." Not too bad. Not very good. [Dec 2004, p.90]

Quotation forthcoming. [Jan 2008]

Simultaneously fascinating and flawed, it's the definition of high maintenance. [July 2005, p.86]

There is fun to be found in Infernal, but you have to go through purgatory to find it and even when you get there, it's certainly not my idea of heaven. [Apr 2007, p.71]

A comprehensive lesson in how to make a mediocre "GTA" clone. [Oct 2007, p.62]

Appealing alterna-stealth undone by trying to be all things to all men. Specifically, the sexually frustrated teenage ones. [July 2009, p.93]

Reasonably entertaining space-shooty madness. [Dec 2004, p.104]

A classic case of overreaching, with a few too many stats-based irons in the fire, rather generic RTS elements and hugely clunky flight simulation. [Aug 2007, p.61]

Quickly gets as dull as a three-hour wait in A&E. With a saucepan on your head. [Sept 2005, p.95]

Go buy the book, it'll last longer, give you more joy and won't make you feel like your brain's leaking out of your ears. [Mar 2007, p.76]

Despite its flaws, Joan of Arc has an unmistakeable pick-up-and-play factor, coupled with a learning curve that makes it very enjoyable, especially acquiring many rare items from the slew of side quests.

A big disappointment after a promising preview. Far too simplistic and generic to hold anyone's attention for any length of time. [Oct 2008, p.104]

Five or six hours of totally joyless shooterage. I played this game so you don't have to. Don't let it all have been in vain. [Feb 2008, p.110]

It barely raises a smile, reducing most gamers to a grim comatose zomebie-state, the only sign a life now a dull flicker of hate in their glazed, cold eyes. [Christmas 2004, p.107]

With the combat interminably dull and the story unintelligibly delivered, this isn't the triumphant return of the space shooter we'd hoped for. [Dec 2007, p.62]

It's a half-decent game at a bargain price. Which doesn't, unfortunately, make it a wholly good game to actually play. [Mar 2009, p.96]

Fun while it lasts, but alas hit 'n' run is about all you get. [Mar 2010, p.95]

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]