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

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

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]

This game has been spread too thinly: while initially engaging, it quickly becomes repetitive and dull. [June 2012, p.87]

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

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

Bluntly, depth doesn't automatically mean satisfaction, and even within this very small strategy niche, "Europa Universalis II" is a much better choice if this is the kind of warmongering that floats your trireme. [May 2006, p.93]

It's distractingly unrealistic rather than joyously cartoonish. [July 2007, p.89]

Even if the final chapter justifies the journey, this leg of it is sadly lifeless. [June 2013, p.97]

What Chaos Unleashed adds is solid, but there's nothing essential enough to warrant fighting against the game's lazy matchmaking system. [Mar 2012, p.117]

Even the best moments of parody are undermined by the fact that it simply isn't as good as the games it mocks. Shame. [Feb 2012, p.101]

Another fine idea choked by the grind. [Christmas 2006, p.72]

The result is the entire game feeling like a tutorial, with only one proper level to play at the end. [June 2009, p.93]

The big picture is impressive, but if the devil is in the details, this is his pitchfork jabbed right up your fundament. [Aug 2009, p.86]

Bizarrely creaky tech masks nice ideas. [May 2009, p.66]

This is a weak port. [Feb 2010, p.85]

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

Just as frustrating is the shoddy timing and placement of enemies. [Dec 2006, p.74]

A wheezing hybrid that can only frustrate. [Aug 2007, p.70]

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

Another middle-of-the-road glimpse of the future. [Feb 2009, p.71]

Remarkably basic. [May 2012, p.105]

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

Too much is crude or dysfunctional, and with no stellar ambition to justify it. [Christmas 2013, p.83]

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.

An attempt to remake the pretty-looking shambler - with no effort to improve the balance of game systems or iron out bugs. [July 2013, p.80]

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

A by-the-numbers cover shooter punctuated by mind-numbing hacking minigames and woeful space combat. [July 2013, p.92]