A waste of time; dull and shoddy, Back to the Future fails to deliver on anything that made the movies so much fun.

A tragically flawed LucasArts tribute. [Jan 2009, p.80]

Disjointed and muddled, wth embarrassingly bad acting. [May 2007, p.83]

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

It's sterile, it's empty, and has no sense of fun. [June 2011, p.95]

A free MMO whose ingenuity does little more than simply streamline what we've seen elsewhere. [July 2010, p.104]

A ghastly mess of bad design decisions that brings out the worst in user-made content. Not worth it. [Sept 2009, p.78]

Dark, moody, and full of hate. Your reviewer the day after the diary puzzle. [Aug 2008, p.89]

An absolutely worthless addition to the game. [Apr 2010, p.107]

Snail-paced frozen nonsense. [Apr 2009, p.66]

Disappointment. [Sept 2010, p.103]

Order of war is irrefutable proof pretty Panzers are no longer enough. [Dec 2009, p.91]

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

An agonisingly unimaginative adventure game acting as a gateway to a puzzle game based purely on cracking safes. [Aug 2007, p.92]

A very flat, slow series of mouse clicks, only interrupted by the unlpleasant appearance of test papers based on what you've just played. [May 2006, p.97]

It's got decent spaceship sections and charmingly bad dialogue, but don't expect quality or compelling action. [Apr 2011, p.96]

An idea tangled in shoddy design. [Oct 2006, p.86]

Stay away. [July 2011, p.98]

Shank is a visually attractive but completely shallow excuse for a 2D brawler game. Frustrating combat doesn't help.

Red River takes all the things the Flashpoint name is associated with – creative, emergent destruction and go-anywhere realism – and lets them wash away. It tries to be a bombastic shooter, but dodgy AI, a warren of bugs and an unpleasant tone mean the few gulps of fun you could draw from its waters are to be taken in multiplayer only.

It's repetitive, mindless, claustrophobically linear, over-stylised and incoherent. [June 2009, p.93]

Even if it wasn't catastrophically broken, HAWX 2 would be a hard game to get particularly excited about. [Jan 2011, p.96]

The worst thing is that you can't skip the dialogue. [July 2010, p.91]

The puzzles are mediocre, the controls are too sluggish, the animal behaviour too abstract and the humour either non-existent or gratifyingly dad-like. [June 2009, p.101]

An average idea made even worse by the poor execution. [Aug 2006, p.81]

Pointless but not worthless. [Jan 2008, p.74]

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

World War One with zombies somehow ends up being no fun. [Apr 2009, p.81]