The new areas are the standout feature and shine in a way the original Titan Quest's levels never did.

With diplomacy and more resourceful units, Hegemony could have been great rather than good. [Aug 2010, p.102]

An artful but mild shooter. [Aug 2008, p.78]

Think of it as an unofficial add-on. [July 2008, p.80]

Quotation forthcoming. [June 2007]

Cute but confusing physicsy puzzles for you. [Feb 2009, p.74]

Classical, but no classic. Bread and circuses at their most generic. [Sept 2006, p.105]

Alchemy, brigands, gold management, and lots of trading [Christmas 2006, p.85]

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

Fuel's races can sometimes frustrate, but making your own fun in a truly massive world is rarely a chore. [Sept 2009, p.76]

It's less good at variety. [Feb 2011, p.97]

What you're doing isn't terribly interesting. [July 2010, p.97]

More an interactive fairytale than a game, this Sims spinoff tells a good yarn but feels limited.

It's brief enough and silly enough that it never stops being dumb, no-strings fun. Even when your VS becomes capable of barely-steerable flight and unbearably slow-to-recharge energy swords, y'know, it's still a flying robot with swords. Also, a generically Xboxian art style aside, it often looks fantastic, the motion blur and haze of snow especially.

Exploring is fun, resource exploitation is basic and extermination is tedious. [July 2012, p.84]

The dark addictiveness of levelling is as strong here as anywhere. [Oct 2007, p.85]

It lacks a sense of lasting import. [March 2013, p.111]

So many good ideas, but there're the cheese in a mousetrap of punishing difficulty. Proceed, but with great caution. [June 2007, p.82]

Played correctly, it's still fun, but never feels as important as its older brother did. [May 2011, p.79]

Just a pretty good indie adventure: the difficulty and pacing are absolutely spot-on, even if the visuals lack the ostentatious fireworks we're used to these days. [June 2009, p.99]

While it's limited, it's also a lot of fun. [Sept 2011, p.89]

A superb idea, let donw by execution. [May 2008, p.86]

Achingly beautiful. [Aug 2013, p.85]

A decent indie puzzler that gets a lot out of its premise. Smart physics and some excellent puzzles here. [Apr 2010, p.106]

The detail is there, but thanks to the mild handling and thin, generic audio, the magic isn't. [Aug 2012, p.97]

It's lots of fun as a straight team-based shooter, but the MMO side of things needs polish to make it more accessible. [Apr 2010, p.100]

As much fun as a day at the beach, but Tropico 3 misses a big boat by not showing you the results of your presidential labours. [Dec 2009, p.108]

The closest thing HoE has to a distinguishing feature is something called the 'ace kill.' [Dec 2009, p.105]