Merely average. [Feb 2010, p.88]

Stick with it through those slow, opening Hobbiton chapters and you’ll be immortalised in the terrible poetry of Elvensong. No doubt.

As an alternative to "The Sims," only the abundance of nipples saves it. [Apr 2005, p.104]

Leaves on the line may cause brain delays in strategy management.

It's managed to create a whole new genre: the untactical shooter. [Mar 2006, p.104]

Crude and boring. Stick a cork up Larry's ass and his game in the bin. [Christmas 2004, p.120]

Fails to be what it sets out to be – a game. But still manages to be a charming journey for anyone with plenty of patience.

While it may be all kinds of multiplayer fun, either in deathmatch or co-op, it does get pretty old pretty quickly. [Aug 2007, p.62]

Pretty but tedious, Alpha Prime is a solid but supremely derivative shooter that's more often a chore than a pleasure. [June 2007, p.60]

Not so bad that you'll want to pluck your own fur out, but that's all. [Nov 2004]

An excellent though rather bland-looking 'copter combat sim. [Sept 2007, p.56]

It works, and it’s playable, but its remarkable fighting isn’t enough to pull it out of the mire labelled average.

Frustrating array of random pointing and clicking.

Just another lazy-port-slash-cheap-cash-in that is designed to fleece fans of the film, who in this case are mostly children. [Oct 2008, p.114]

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

Five years ago it might have been average. [June 2009, p.100]

Weary-feeling zoo sim with little new on offer. [Christmas 2005, p.102]

In equal parts frustrating and rewarding. [Aug 2009, p.97]

With the lack of a more complex skill development system, I found the clicky happy combat became repetitive fairly quickly. [May 2007, p.69]

It's not awful. Just empty. [March 2005, p.106]

Conflict: Denied Ops goes through the motions of first-person-shootage well, but ultimately feels mechanical and outdated. [Mar 2008, p.102]

Adds nothing to a formula that was already looking like a severely ropey one. [June 2008, p.111]

A largely by-the-numbers real-time strategy effort that twinkles but never shines. It's just a little bit too irritating to score highly. [Apr 2007, p.63]

On PC, however, it's an utter travesty. You'd have to be crazier than the Rabbids themselves to buy the PC version of this game. [Feb 2007, p.68]

Boog, the 900lb grizzly bear, would make a good rug and nothing more. [Christmas 2006, p.96]

"Black & White" without the creature, the plot or the bugs. [Dec 2004, p.102]

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]

An ugly WW2 RTS. Full of text-based mission intros and no joy whatsoever. The controls are clunky, the unit models are thoroughly basic and utterly devoid of any graphical niceties. [May 2007, p.68]