A reasonable amount of content, but lacking in genuinely new features. [Mar 2006, p.96]

Tolkien must be revolving speedily in his grave. [Apr 2009, p.48]

Dodgy story, also lacking the 3D punch of Homeworld, but a satisfying space opera nonetheless. [May 2007, p.66]

Solid and full of promise, but it never quite delivers the goods. [Christmas 2006, p.96]

As a distraction, it's passable enough, at least at this price. [June 2008, p.112]

Leaves little up to the player apart from pulling the trigger. Repeatedly. [May 2006, p.96]

Challenging, but not always in the right way. Invade elsewhere.

Tense, drawn-out battles ahoy! Combat at sea has never been such fun. [Sept 2006, p.96]

Despite the heavy emphasis on replayability, only the most die-hard fans of the original series will be happy to chase the same car over an identical track again and again for the meagre promise of TV stills and rehashed video clips.

Perfect for people who hate helicopters and simulations. [Dec 2004, p.104]

Nice ideas, poorly executed in the main. Shows some promise online. [Dec 2005, p.96]

If there is an intriguing idea buried within RF Online, it's suffocating. [Apr 2006, p.94]

I could have forgiven this for being a superficial Trek-based shooter if it was at least fun. It's not. [Feb 2007, p.58]

It's riddled with bizarre mini-games. [Dec 2007, p.62]

This is a blunt bronze dagger to the shining steel halberd of "Rome: Total War." [Jan 2005, p.92]

The game boils down to hammering the hit button until all the identikit bad guys have turned red and vanished. It's cack. Avoid. [June 2007, p.64]

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

Utterly credible action-adventure with an arbitrarily varied difficulty level. [Feb 2005, p.89]

It's a pretty sexless affair nonetheless, and as such, it just doesn't float my amphibious landing craft. [Jan 2007, p.68]

When you factor in the poor translation, the stupid difficulty and the poor controls it's as much fun as the black death. Hard to be a good game, more like. [Apr 2008, p.115]

Poor controls and too much reliance on trial and error in order to progress within the game. Hacking up the zombies is good fun, though. [Sept 2008, p.102]

Just another game MIA in the jungles of Vietnam. It's adventure, but just not adventurous enough.

A textbook - not to mention chastening - exercise in making something inherently fun no fun whatsoever. [Sept 2007, p.60]

Brilliant, human-chewing fun if you like lots of blood and dismembered bodies, with some puzzle-led misiony stuff thrown in. [Feb 2007, p.67]

Repetitive action and a poor engine ground this flyboy. [July 2006, p.102]

Brazen plagiarism it may be, but this shooter is a worthy tribute to its forebears. [Nov 2006, p.103]

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]

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.