What's perhaps best about Warriors Orochi is that you can play two-player split screen, with the pair of you taking on the entire story mode. [June 2008, p.84]

Ultimately, Rise is meant for the BFME hardcore. [Christmas 2006, p.74]

Atmospheric, pretty and convincing but short of activities. [Christmas 2007, p.95]

While Shadowgrounds doesn't do much that's new, within its restrictive confines it's engaging and competent. Gaming lite, but still a nice snack. [June 2006, p.85]

These brief snippets aren't quite worth the return ticket. [Jan 2014, p.101]

Irritating level design and a poor story are somewhat redeemed by explosive action and a challenging co-op mode. [Sept 2010, p.82]

Confused and buggy, but very entertaining under the right circumstances. Bring friends.

Great sniping, great sneaking, and several grueling missions where you can do neither. [Sept 2010, p.104]

Soccer sim solidly cluttered. [Christmas 2008, p.78]

Better, but eight episodes in, it needs to be even better still. [Mar 2008, p.87]

Clever puzzle concepts fail to coalesce into anything scintillating, undermined by inconsistent physics and a rather witless world. [Sept 2012, p.100]

Undeniably an interesting, surprising and oddly haunting experience. [Christmas 2009, p.117]

Galactic Assault: Prisoner of Power is a slick hex wargame that wears its theme like a chimpanzee wears a trilby (reluctantly and unconvincingly). Besides the names of the factions, units and characters, there's almost nothing here of the dark, distinctive source material. [Dec 2007, p.84]

Given time, a tune-up, and some more vigorious fanning of the community flames, this could improve, but at the moment there are more appealing things to spend a monthly fee on. [June 2006, p.90]

Delayed gratification of locked-out units dampens the enthusiasm of the new fast-paced class-based action. [May 2010, p.78]

A stingy and unexciting offering. [May 2006, p.92]

An entertaining arcade racer with outstanding car chases, undone by its micro-transactions and lack of depth.

Patience is a virtue. [Apr 2015, p.87]

A decent ride until you get off. [Dec 2008, p.72]

The one Shogun DLC I have trouble getting enthusiastic about. [Mar 2012, p.109]

New ideas save this buggy oddity from walking the plank...just. [Aug 2007, p.87]

It's not a bad game, just a terribly uninspiring and disappointing one. [Christmas 2006, p.66]

Age of Empires III just hasn't aged all that well. [Feb 2007, p.91]

An attractive and powerful sim that spoils itself by trying too hard to be a straightforward infantry shooter. [Dec 2009, p.98]

Does it justify the steep price? No. [July 2012, p.99]

The lack of online play is a shame. [Christmas 2013, p.93]

It's almost innovative. [July 2009, p.79]

A good idea that allows for some fun co-operative strategising, but too often the mechanics or technical issues get in the way. [Christmas 2011, p.100]