Genuinely uninteresting racing. [July 2009, p.94]

Likely to remain a bog-basic, reassuringly free shooter that you might just pick up and play in an idle moment on your laptop. Very, very occasionally, in other words. [Apr 2007, p.72]

Ignore the media furore, and enjoy this as a standalone puzzler. [July 2006, p.97]

It's an awkward strategy game that tries to step out of the turn-based frying pan and ends up in the unplayable-pap fire. [May 2006]

Web of Shadows aims for a sandbox GTA-style open environment, but has neither the verve, nor the technical ability to pull it off. [Jan 2009, p.101]

Just too short and too shoddy. [May 2008, p.106]

Includes everything you'd want from a game about the 2008 Olympics, apart from the fun gameplay and repression of Tibet bits. [Nov 2008, p.108]

A solo Nightcrawler game could rock, but this team effort is cash-in gibberish. [July 2006, p.100]

In short, just don't. [Oct 2007, p.64]

Like anything this complex, it is by turns brilliant, incredibly frustrating and boring. There's too much information to cope with. [Christmas 2004, p.111]

Gloriously silly. [Oct 2009, p.99]

Darkest of Days has this whole time-travelling, setting-right-what-once-went-wrong schtick. Oh boy. [Dec 2009, p.99]

Eragon bored me almost to tears, and the limp plot utterly failed to keep me pushing on through the pain barrier. [Feb 2007, p.68]

Every bit as boring as it should have been awesome on toast. Button mashing, blandness, and dodgy controls. Zzzz. [Aug 2008, p.105]

Just manages to scrape into the "different enough to be interesting" category. [Oct 2004, p.100]

It's cute in an exploding flatulence kind of way, but the actual gameplay itself is pretty tedious and repetitive. [July 2007, p.70]

You can't out-Diablo "Diablo," so don't try. [Oct 2005, p.92]

If you find your trigger finger itching, you'd better buy yourself a WWII or sci-fi shooter to sate your appetite, because Kuma/War manages to get it very wrong. In every single sense. [Dec 2004, p.101]

A thorough and comprehensive sim. [Oct 2007, p.65]

It's a mix of disappointment at missed opportunities, and general boredom because of the stagnation of ideas. [Feb 2008, p.112]

"Prince of Persia's" ugly second cousin. Does not get invited to royal functions. [Nov 2004]

It wasn't fun. [Jan 2010, p.93]

Basically it's not a game, it's still just a tech demo, and a pretty unsuccessful one at that. [July 2007, p.64]

In an age when intelligent, engrossing first person shooters rule the roost, Legendary feels positively ancient. [Jan 2009, p.100]

It looks lovely, but plays like an out-of-tune banjo, thanks to the notorious trial-and-error gameplay. [Sept 2006, p.104]

The game is incredibly awkward to play. [Oct 2004, p.99]

The film tie-in adds interest, but it's too linear and we've seen it all before. [Nov 2006, p.102]

Would have made 70% if not for the atrocious control system.