At best, Randal's Monday has puzzles that professors at the Institute of Moon Logic would point to and ask "What the hell?" They're nonsensical, poorly explained, reliant on the most painful 'try everything on everything' guesswork, and feel longer than being strapped to a board until Stephen Hawking's voice synthesiser has read out the entire works of Dostoyevsky.

Armikrog’s memory puzzles and tenuous humour are a low point in the adventure game renaissance.

This franchise is as stale as a holiday fruitcake. The new engine is needed NOW. [Mar 2001, p.86]

Fun but forgettable. [Sept 2011, p.68]

For a title like Legend, it's a first class ticket to the recycle bin. [Nov 2008, p.68]

And that's about all you get, aside from a few new toys, some forgettable items, and another unnecessary boost to the level cap. [Holiday 2011, p.75]

This entry, however, is hardly legendary. [Jan. 2007, p.76]

For $19.99, Warpath is a good deal--in quantity, if not quality. [Jun 2006, p.50]

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

Despite an impressive variety in art direction and environments, Soul Axiom’s puzzle design is shallow and frustrating.

Earns faint praise for being the best-looking, best-playing version of the lot. [Holiday 2002, p.114]

Unspectacular graphics only serve to accentuate the game’s myriad physical and visual shortcomings.

Moscow to Berlin doesn't bring much to the RTS table, but war gamers familiar with "Desert Rats" will enjoy the new missions for the budget price of 30 bucks. [Sep 2006, p.60]

Paradise conjures the same kind of enchanting story, satisfying puzzles, magical machinery, and exotic fauna that "Syberia" did, and signs off with and ending that lingers in your mind long after the credits roll. [Aug 2006, p.84]

Essentially a B-movie game. Worth buying if you're hard up for an adventure game. [May 2001, p.65]

The strategy in Supremacy has all the depth of a wading pool. [June 2005, p.65]

I wouldn't strongly recommend this game to vets, but I might give a half-hearted recommendation to first-timers. [Nov 2003, p.132]

This game should tickle the hell out of most "Diablo" fans. [May 2003, p.78]

Not necessarily a bad superhero game, just one we’ve seen countless times before. The web-swinging, goon-bashing, crime-fighting fundamentals simply aren't fun.

This is a very generic, very buggy shooter. One other plus: translations and voice acting so bad, they're often entertaining. [July 2006, p.55]

But unless you prefer games that you watch and don't play, there's simply no reason for either history or strategy buffs to waste the coin. [May 2004, p.75]

Leave rocket building to the rocket scientists. [Apr 2006, p.100]

Toren is a good story that suffers in the telling, with simplistic platforming that's hampered by a sloppy camera and controls.

A flimsy remake of a flawed 16-bit favourite that exacerbates all the original’s problems while failing to recapture its strengths.

I'm still so amazed over Mortyr II's playability that I'm not thinking straight. [June 2005, p.72]

If converted to a turn-based game, many of D-Day's concepts, graphics, and missions would work well. In their current form, however, they don't. [Apr 2005, p.73]

But in spite of its repetitive gameplay, Age of Pirates offers Akella's most polished pirating excursion yet, and its introduction of a multiplayer mode, which allows you and up to 15 of your mateys to duke it out on the high seas, adds even more value to a solid sandbox game. [Dec. 2006, p.98]

Starsky isn't the grooviest racer around, but the cars handle well and the graphics ain't shabby. [Apr 2004, p.68]