Like visiting Disneyland during the off-season: crowds are few, there's not much pampering of customers, and many attractions are closed or under renovation. [Mar 2003, p.90]

New World's engaging crafting and faction rivalries are held back by abysmal PvE and a boring world.

Torchlight 3 does a great job with its class design, but the world feels barren and unfinished.

Boasts some beautiful, convincing countryside to hunt in, but the glacial pace will challenge the limits of most people’s patience.

A great artstyle and flashes of brilliance never truly make up for a meandering, risk-averse plot.

Northland is really a sim posing as an RTS game. I doubt it'll fully satisfy fans of either. [July 2004, p.69]

First up is the AI, which, for both the enemy and your squad, is simply dreadful. [Apr 2004, p.66]

Rogue Trader gets 40K's atmosphere right, but it's buggy and the rules are a mess.

A fun, if repetitive, kart racer whose charms are sullied by its predatory microtransactions targeted right at young children.

The Sonic Pulse Grenade that makes Zombie heads explode is a satisfying reward, but the new environments simply just aren't enough to justify the $10 price tag. [Mar 2012, p.81]

An accomplished and pretty strategy game, sadly hindered by a handful of questionable design choices.

There's simply too little to do. As a result, there's not much of a challenge to be had--at least any intentional challenge that is. [Holiday 2007, p.72]

Only the most commited turn-or card-based strategy gamers will enjoy <i.Star Chamber</i>, which is a real shame, because with better online help(there's no manual)and a more fleshed-out tutorial, this game could have appealed to a wider audience. [July 2006, p.97]

Be prepared to watch hours of repetitive combat animation. [Holiday 2001, p.92]

An exceptional RTS let down by a very disappointing remaster.

But repetitious single-player, frustrating co-op and a laughable narrative reduce it to a mess that's fun only as long as it takes you to realize nothing interesting is ever going to happen. [Oct 2010, p.81]

A better game than XIII but with an intolerably bad story, this is a still-flawed sequel that clearly isn’t at its best on PC.

This is not the modern Transport Tycoon I hoped it would be, but it will fill a few hours before your attention inevitably derails. [Holiday 2014, p.66]

The word Maelstrom's Danish roots mean "to grind" or 'stream'--I'll let you guess which one of those definitions is most applicable to this ponderous RTS. [May 2007, p.69]

If you're dying for an excuse to play as a sniper, or you have $20 you're itching to spend, Marine Sharpshooter II certainly isn't the worse budget military game we've ever played. [Oct 2004, p.95]

The ambition of Signal Ops is admirable, but playing it is like trying to paint your hallway through the mailbox. [Aug 2013, p.73]

It's unfortunate, because this Groundhog Day game design significantly impairs what could have been a diverting and sentimental blast from the past. [Apr 2012, p.79]

Looks are pretty much the only appeal. The main culprit in sabotaging the attractive premise is the horrible AI. [May 2003, p.82]

A mediocre detective game with predictable stealth and a surreal story that runs out of steam near the end.

Unexplored 2 has potential, but right now the adventure's unreliable and storytelling's seriously flawed.

I&#146;m confident that young kids will get a kick out of HP:SC, but everyone else is better off doing their adventuring elsewhere. [Feb 2002, p.68]

So I just finished playing through &#147;Project Tedium&#148;&#133;wait, make that Project Eden. [Feb 2002, p.69]

Before its release, someone should've poured a big bottle of polish on D.I.R.T.--it needed the clean-up. [Jan. 2007, p.66]