Silent Hunter 4's awesome intro movie demands immediate wordage. [May 2007, p.84]

Frequent levelling and plentiful and varied loot give Silverfall a definite momentum; the blend of worlds and the inventiveness of some of the creatures give it a modicum of novelty. This is an easy game to get swept along by, but, largely because of those serried foes, it's also an easy game to walk away from. [Apr 2007, p.82]

It straddles the abyss between simulation and arcade, and it does it seemingly effortlessly. [May 2007, p.78]

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]

This is a big, tight game that's just lacking in greatness or spark. [Feb 2007, p.78]

Runaway gets halfway there, but just doesn't have any soul. [June 2007, p.91]

This is the biggest and best combat flight sim money can buy, but it's by no means flawless. [Jan 2007, p.70]

If only it had set its sights on capturing the same sense of fun. [May 2007, p.80]

A cheap and filling snack of carnage. [Apr 2007, p.80]

I feel only sorrow and embarrassment from having spent a bank holiday Monday wrestling with such garbage. [Aug 2007, p.92]

Even more annoyingly, it requires Windows Vista, although there's no real justification for this: it's Direct X 9 and could happily run on XP. [May 2007, p.72]

Chaotic but magnificent bouncy fun. [June 2007, p.76]

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

Disjointed and muddled, wth embarrassingly bad acting. [May 2007, p.83]

Shoddy graphics and repetition means that this is more of a warm-up act than a stadium filler. [Aug 2007, p.92]

All of which leaves this expansion pack as probably the least essential yet. It won't disappoint any fans, sure, but there's little to make lapsed devotees come in from the cold. [May 2007, p.89]

Elegant and refreshing. [Apr 2007, p.76]

The Mark approaches dreadfulness like a collector, cataloguing every scuttling horror in the digital world. The sound is terrible, echoing cheaply into dead environments. The voice acting is terrible, with lost children's presenters in place of military tough guys. The cutscenes are terrible, except for when they're rubbish slideshows.

The pattern of play - building a base, waging war - has ended up as middle-of-the-road as a Tiger on a country lane. [June 2007, p.88]

Another uninteresting slog around the World of Wehrmacht. [Jan 2007, p.104]

Largely the same as ever. Good if that works for you, bad if not. [May 2007, p.83]

You've played it before. [Apr 2007, p.96]

A remarkable piece of work, and a worthy successor to "Total Annihilation." Strategy games don't come this big, and this ambitious, and they never demand <I>this</I> much from you. Take command - if you think you can handle it. [Feb 2007, p.62]

It's just the kind of intelligent silliness that's always made GalCiv a joy to play, and worthy of even the most discriminating Space Miner's downtime. [June 2007, p.86]

It's still intelligent and sometimes witty. But this time it's ringing with emptiness. [Nov 2006, p.94]

A decent enough online shooter. If you really need another one. [Apr 2007, p.89]

Soapily melodramatic, inconspicuous consumption. [Apr 2007, p.100]

The worst is dressage, which plays like a Simon-says rhythm-action game designed by people without rhythm. [Sept 2007, p.89]