Far too little new content for your very few bucks. Ho hum. [Apr 2007, p.89]

Given the incredible scope and the devs' track record for turning out hard-to-get games, EU3's riches are surprisingly accessible. [Mar 2007, p.92]

Nothing else is this slick, this viscerally impressive, this overwhelmingly addictive.

The most enjoyable independent game I've played since "Defcon." Funny, challenging and cute, in the old school it's absolutely top of its class. [Mar 2007, p.76]

Lovingly drawn New York backdrops go some way towards rescuing the painful puzzles. [July 2007, p.90]

Enough Car Goes Bang, but not enough basic bang for your buck. [Apr 2006, p.78]

S&M mistakes 'wackiness' for comedy, alliteration for timing, and cliche for characterisation...Telltale just need to realise that writing funny is hard work, and they're not yet doing nearly enough. [Feb 2007, p.70]

Sweet as a kitten, and improving your personal lexicon. [Feb 2007, p.81]

The loose control means the precise movement required to traverse even some of the most basic levels just isn't there. [Apr 2007, p.50]

Superb artistic design, broken game. [Oct 2007, p.76]

It might well be more twitch than tactics, but Vegas is the fun, modernised version of its own predecessors and FPS cousin "Brothers in Arms." I reckon that right now you're itching for a shooter with a brain at the top of that jittery reptilian nervous system, and this is it - if you have God's own PC. [Feb 2007, p.84]

Childish, repetitive and ill-considered. [Feb 2007, p.80]

This is one of the biggest expansions that EVE has seen, with some far-reaching changes. However, I can't help feeling that it was delivered now for the sake of bringing in some new content, when really it could have waited a few months for something more comprehensive. [Feb 2007, p.82]

A tiresome, half-arsed effort. [Feb 2007, p.88]

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

There are times when - beaten by twitchy analogue controls, insufficient feedback and maybe just a sheer lack of hardcore skills - it can feel like a dispassionate sim rather than an affecting, involving game. [Jan 2007, p.90]

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.

An engrossing but overly geeky sortie. [Jan 2007, p.84]

The speed of TrackMania is truly ridiculous: you might think the idea of subtlety is lost when you're hitting about a gagillion miles an hour, but the faster the car, the better the handling. [Apr 2007, p.74]

HoAE is sweet, and absorbs time reasonably pleasingly, but at no point does it ever manage to be anything accomplished. [Dec 2006, p.96]

Unless you're already wrung every last drop of fun out of the outstanding "Combat Mission" trilogy (unlikely), I wouldn't bother braving this Winter Storm. [Oct 2006, p.87]

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

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

It's tedious beyond belief, has a plot that must have been ripped from the Eragon junior colouring book and action scenes that makes me cry. And they've gimped the dragons. [Jan 2007, p.80]

For now, unless you're desperate for a new RPG today, hold fire and see if the inevitable post-release patches will fix up the leaky bits. If so, add 15% or so to the score. [Dec 2006, p.112]

It's great that it's varied, and the penguins are madly cute, but there's no sense of pacing. [Jan 2007, p.104]

Remains a pretty and obscure artifact of narrow gaming tastes. [Jan 2007, p.92]

Mesmerisingly challenging... If there's another wargame that blends geopolitics with tactics this brilliantly, or portrays war so memorably, then I'm unaware of it... The new king of wargames. [Dec 2006, p.56]