Fails to excel. [Nov 2014, p.95]

Looking for a fulfilling lane defence game? Get Plants vs. Zombies. [June 2014, p.91]

Despite its clumsy handling of some issues, Journal has clever moments. [May 2014, p.91]

Too much is crude or dysfunctional, and with no stellar ambition to justify it. [Christmas 2013, p.83]

Rarely exciting, mostly disappointing. An unfinished tactical shooter let down by technical issues and terrible AI.

The whole DLC feels hastily cobbled together to the people who foolishly bought the season pass. [July 2013, p.97]

It can't live up to the hyperbolic name. [July 2013, p.97]

A by-the-numbers cover shooter punctuated by mind-numbing hacking minigames and woeful space combat. [July 2013, p.92]

An attempt to remake the pretty-looking shambler - with no effort to improve the balance of game systems or iron out bugs. [July 2013, p.80]

Even if the final chapter justifies the journey, this leg of it is sadly lifeless. [June 2013, p.97]

Comprehensive enough, but the laughable inconsistencies make FIFA Manager 13 impossible to take seriously as a sim. [Christmas 2012, p.102]

Inflexible controls. [Dec 2012, p.107]

Avoid. Run screaming. The funniest - and smartest - part of this game is the fact that the developers told you exactly what to expect when they named it. [Oct 2012, p.109]

Tremendously ambitious but agonisingly incomplete. Its battlefield is buggy and crude, and its RTS credibility is MIA. [June 2012, p.96]

This game has been spread too thinly: while initially engaging, it quickly becomes repetitive and dull. [June 2012, p.87]

The bulk of JULIA feels like an attempt to pad out the story. [May 2012, p.111]

Remarkably basic. [May 2012, p.105]

Unfinished, unpolished. [May 2012, p.87]

A serviceable compilation wrapped in a dodgy console conversion. [May 2012, p.87]

If you're going to be offensive, you need a point. This has none, either as satire, commentary, videogame or comedy. [Mar 2012, p.118]

What Chaos Unleashed adds is solid, but there's nothing essential enough to warrant fighting against the game's lazy matchmaking system. [Mar 2012, p.117]

There's enough of the terrible stuff to drown out the scant few passable bits. [Mar 2012, p.117]

If you weren't a big fan of the original's combat or writing, there's nothing to recommend about Origins. [Mar 2012, p.117]

If this was a budget release, it would merely be a rubbish game. At full price, it's unforgivable. [Mar 2012, p.113]

Even the best moments of parody are undermined by the fact that it simply isn't as good as the games it mocks. Shame. [Feb 2012, p.101]

A short burst of too easy fun at too high a price. [Feb 2012, p.93]

It's very pretty, but for a game so enamoured with the action, it never clicks. [Jan 2012, p.141]

A big, detailed database wrapped in a friendly UI, then wasted on an unresponsive and inaccurate pitch simulator. [Jan 2012, p.122]