A cheap and soulless victim of its own lofty ambition. [Oct 2006, p.91]

Stiff, confused. [Jan 2009, p.70]

Almost - but not entirely - worthless. [Aug 2008, p.70]

Shank is a visually attractive but completely shallow excuse for a 2D brawler game. Frustrating combat doesn't help.

The whole DLC feels hastily cobbled together to the people who foolishly bought the season pass. [July 2013, p.97]

Shoddy nonsense. [May 2008, p.74]

An agonisingly unimaginative adventure game acting as a gateway to a puzzle game based purely on cracking safes. [Aug 2007, p.92]

Unbelievably repetitive and shallow. [July 2009, p.85]

Well and truly eclipsed by the passage of RTS history. [Feb 2008, p.79]

With the cumbersome camera controls, you end up just wishing they'd hurry up and escape already. [Apr 2008, p.71]

Comprehensive enough, but the laughable inconsistencies make FIFA Manager 13 impossible to take seriously as a sim. [Christmas 2012, p.102]

Smug, poorly made, and incredibly frustrating to play, they managed the fearfully but not the wonderfully made. [Apr 2007, p.86]

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

What the f..k were they thinking? [Sept 2009, p.79]

Why am I empty, then? Perhaps because this crass, banal, unchallenging belch of a first person shooter has left me that way, groaning and giggling like a mental patient. [Nov 2007, p.72]

Woefully dated and underwritten sub-"Diablo" hack-slashery. [June 2006, p.81]

A depressing and shoddy misfire of a World War II sneak-'em-up. [July 2009, p.84]

Promising ideas completely wasted. [Oct 2007, p.78]

World War One with zombies somehow ends up being no fun. [Apr 2009, p.81]

A startlingly awful interface. [June 2008, p.89]

The opening battles are simply too difficult to play. [Aug 2007, p.91]

An awful vision of strategy's future. [May 2009, p.69]

Ghostbusting isn't a challenge. [June 2011, p.87]

Simply getting things done is a grating process. [Christmas 2011, p.107]

Not even those who know their peleton from their paceline will have the stamina to endure this baffling, alienating sim. [Sept 2007, p.89]

There's enough of the terrible stuff to drown out the scant few passable bits. [Mar 2012, p.117]

The fact is, you must bring so much effort to the PCM equation - a simple interest in bikes won't do - that it's hard to think of it as a game. It's hard to think of it at all. [Sept 2008, p.95]

Looking for a fulfilling lane defence game? Get Plants vs. Zombies. [June 2014, p.91]