No arguments, this is one of the most beautiful game worlds created. [July 2013, p.85]

Multiplayer is a fun aside, but be prepared for your PC to struggle with the choking throng of units on screen. [Aug 2006, p.92]

A beautiful alternative to the standard MMO, but unlikely to draw you away from more structured questing for long. [May 2012, p.88]

A cute, quirky anime dungeon crawl that will cheerfully kick your arse until your nose starts bleeding. [Sept 2012, p.84]

Fodder for EQ lovers but suffers from a lack of variety. [June 2006, p.82]

We still believe in this, and with further tweaks it could yet become a fine murder romp. [Jan 2007, p.104]

City Life provides a valuable municipal service by being far more accessible while still providing a decent challenge. [June 2006, p.95]

This is actually technically inferior to the console versions, and it badly hurts the experience. Just because it works on the PC doesn't make it a PC game - ask for your fiver back, Capcom. [Apr 2007, p.84]

When blowing things up, more is generally merrier. Second Encounter offers way, way more. [July 2010, p.96]

Brings a whole new meaning to the words "resource management." [Apr 2011, p.85]

A bit too familiar, but fun while it lasts. [May 2009, p.72]

A fantastically imaginative gameworld of gods, dinosaurs and giants, beautiful but messy and poorly explained.

Delightfully drawn and packed with both personality and innovative game ideas, but more tiny than big. [Sept 2012, p.86]

A mean pricing system and lack of strategic control hamstring an otherwise promising management sim. [Christmas 2010, p.88]

A lazy, uninspired update. [Christmas 2006, p.84]

Button-mashing combat and new powers aren't particularly inspiring, but the large-scale level puzzles are rock solid. [Aug 2010, p.96]

Stalker: Clear Sky remains a remarkable misstep by the Ukrainian developers, and one that does not reflect well on their original game, or their independence from original publishers, THQ. We can only hope that their next effort will be more controlled.

If you're anything like me, its deeply tragic moments will make you weep real tears. [June 2006, p.70]

You get what you pay for, which in this case isn't anything new. [Sept 2006, p.101]

It lacks the stylistic nuances and gratifying climax scenes that really made FEAR work, and much of the level design is perfunctory at best. [Dec 2006, p.66]

A sturdy sense of humour, and canny logic to its proceedings, raise Evil Genius above a noisy crowd. [Apr 2006, p.95]

It's by far the closest the series has got to nailing the spirit of the original animations. [Oct 2009, p.84]

An ambitious and beautiful RPG that falls just short of greatness, thwarted by a stunted finale and imbalances.

An acceptable, lighthearted RPG that's often too simple, too staid and too black and white to be much fun.

Inventive, smart and adorable, but it plays oh so slowly. [May 2009, p.71]

I'm wildly outnumbered. [Sept 2010, p.93]

Huge, bold, but not particularly savage. [Apr 2008, p.68]

SiN is actually something of a guilty pleasure. It's over far too quickly and feels rather unsophisticated, but I enjoyed it anyway, a bit like I enjoy...eating hotdog. [June 2006, p.62]