Dangerous Golf has a good variety of levels and lots of stuff to destroy, but offers weak, unsatisfying control over that destruction.

The level of freedom afforded is quite unparalleled for a game of this type. [Apr 2004, p.72]

A hideous collage of unconsidered platforming and vapid combat in a procedural world bleached of meaning. [Aug 2012, p.70]

Fascinating, but not in a good way. It's rare for a major publisher to release something that, for a significant part of its short length, feels so bad. Yes, the bike sections are standard fare for the series. RedLynx is good at making Trials levels, and has made a handful of them here. But their quality only serves to highlight how bad the other levels are. This is the worst Trials game. It's also the worst Blood Dragon. Neither series comes out of this partnership looking good.

This game should really be called "The Rather Mediocre Escape." [Nov 2003, p.116]

A cynical attempt at milking players for money. Bullet Run plays like a tacked-on online mode for a singleplayer game.

The Last Worker's free-flying hovercraft gameplay is inventive, but its most exciting implications are left boxed up.

Recommended only for history buffs on a budget. [July 2006, p.67]

It's unfortunate that the same level of fun didn't make it into the single-player campaign. [July 2004, p.73]

Just a series of abstract puzzles strung together by a very thing story, and no real interaction with other characters. [Dec 2004, p.89]

The main problem is, there isn't enough new here to maintain interest. [Mar 2002, p.64]

MUD TV's detail is swamped in white noise, and no amount of fiddling with the antennae will help a game so poorly tuned. [Jun 2010, p.85]

Shadwen begins with promise, but has neither the depth nor the variety needed to fulfill it.

Like a dinosaur skeleton in your local museum, Dino D-Day is barebones, missing some pieces, and ancient-looking. [July 2011, p.78]

These design flaws--along with some pedestrian puzzles and those aforementioned protagonist miscues--ultimately turn Belief & Betrayal into a servicable but largely forgettable European church tour. [Oct 2008, p.70]

Staving off complete suckage, multiplay is where Thrones actually works. [May 2004, p.69]

A big-time ripoff of other, better roleplaying games. [Apr 2002, p.73]

Redfall's empty open world, flimsy shooting, and siloed systems make for a flat, dull experience.

A free massively multiplayer tactical first-person shooter in the vein of "Counter-Strike" and the "Battlefield" games? Sounds too good to be true! And, guess what? It is! [June 2007, p.66]

When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die--there is no middle ground. [Holiday 2011, p.74]

Nearly every game I played (via a cable-modem connection) was hindered by lag issues at some point, and "network disconnects" were common. [July 2003, p.80]

Only for nostalgists and those who love getting lost on spelunking holidays.

Dragon Ball: The Breakers is the latest game to cash in on the cat-and-mouse multiplayer boom. Unfortunately, it does so without any of the mechanical depth that makes those games great.

The resolution maxes out at an ultra-cruddy 800X600, the sound effects are wimpy, and the dialogue is like a sad butchery of Hong Kong subtitling. [Apr 2004, p.70]

Definitely not for the squeamish. [Dec 1996, p.82]

It's not the most ambitious game ever, but All-Stars can become oddly addictive. [Sept 2002, p.81]

This clumsy, dated misadventure steals from all over and contributes no ideas of its own. Brilliantly bad dialog though. [March 2014, p.58]

You know you've got problems when the feature meant to enlighten a game makes it more tedious. [Sep 2006, p.94]