Vietnam's story mission is pants, but the new weapons and survival map will please devoted Magicka fans.

A bountiful adventure game with a lot of personality, but one that suffers from its own ambition. [June 2013, p.82]

Poirot is the strongest and best performed character, which makes his background role a great mistake. Competently built, OE is too often directionless, but most of all, dull. Dull, dull, dull. In conclusion: dull.

1849 finds a few glittering flecks in taking a well-worn RTS template into gold-rush California, but no prime nuggets. [July 2014, p.78]

Depressing, derivative movie cash-in. [Sept 2007, p.88]

Intellectually barren space RPG. [Oct 2008, p.80]

Flashes of brilliance and masses of bugs. Cliffs of Dover needed at least another six months in the hangar. [June 2011, p.84]

Repetitive, old-fashioned. [Jan 2008, p.86]

And now, dressed up in this sorry state, trying to excuse itself like a dad in a night club, there's not even that to defend it. [May 2006, p.97]

With no visceral thrills and little reward from exploration, this becomes something of an empty shell, or perhaps a wonky snowman - likely to vanish from memory with the first rays of sunshine. [Feb 2009, p.70]

Basically eight new maps for Majesty 2. [July 2010, p.91]

Feels like a showcase of a brilliant game mechanic, but that doesn't excuse the sparseness of the game around it. [Feb 2012, p.99]

Spoiled by repetition and muddle. [Jan 2007, p.100]

Fails to match "Lego Star Wars" for charm. [Jan 2007, p.98]

Grossly predictable. [June 2007, p.84]

A delightful dream devolves into a nightmare of poor controls and awkward movement. [Dec 2009, p.92]

Obscure II is not gripping enough to be survival horror and not good enough at storytelling to be an adventure; it's just a series of quite relaxing puzzles interrupted when some pink things burst through the wall. [Dec 2007, p.89]

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

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

Night of the living dud. [July 2007, p.86]

Not quite as exciting as the title might suggest. [Sept 2006, p.103]

A pretty shell for a game that's pretty lacking. Not much fun. [Aug 2007, p.92]

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

This is not the most convincing military sim ever, but it's a good approximation of grinding boredom followed by sudden death - and a virtually unplayable game. [Aug 2007, p.86]

A distinctly average point-and-click adventure that doesn't deliver on the potential of its prison-break premise. [May 2014, p.90]

Too tough for tykes, too dull for adults. It's not a looker either. [Oct 2008, p.78]

Confused and weightless, APB doesn't satisfy on any front: the shooting, driving, story and objectives are all sub-par.

Moxxi is pretty, polished, and as characterful as Borderlands ever was, and it adds a bank to store loot you might want to keep, but it's really not something you should spend your pocket-money on.