Sadly, developer Volatile misses the mark. [Jan. 2007, p.63]

Despite plenty of style and cheek, Keylocker can’t get past the repetitive grind of its battles.

There's only one good co-op map and a few middling deathmatch ones. The price is obscene for what you get.

A good idea executed without a trace of wit, energy, or style. About as dull as dishwater. [Sept 1996, p.138]

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

Though it looks gorgeous and is entertaining to play at times, it's conspicuously underpowered in three critical areas: physics, AI, and gameplay depth. [Holiday 2002, p.110]

Factor in BMT 2's dated graphics, clumsy truck physics, and lack of multiplay, and even liquored-up yokels will have a tough time finding any play value with this tiresome retread. [Jan 2005, p.110]

But LocoCycle is unchallenging, unengaging, and chronically unfunny, and when ideas start to repeat themselves, the game drags along like Pablo himself. [May 2014, p.74]

If I'm ever drafted for another tour of duty like this, I'm gonna shoot myself in the foot. [Holiday 2006, p.78]

Gore's single-player game shoots way over par. [Sept 2002, p.80]

Overall, OOTP 2006 is a big letdown, even for an unbiased SI fanboy and OOTP nut like myself. [Sep 2006, p.98]

A Weskered development gives us the Wong game. Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City is evil in the wrong sense. [Sept 2012, p.70]

Even if the new features had been awesome, this would have been a pointless re-release. [Jan 2012, p.810]

Concord feels out of touch and already out of time.

Finding good matches is not easy in APOX's sluggish community, however, and I cannot fathom why anyone should play this instead of the exponentially better games that it tries to emulate. [June 2011, p.77]

ReCore buries a great action platformer beneath layers and layers of open world busywork.

The story wouldn't be half-bad if it weren't for cliched dialogue (delivered by overly dramatic voice actors) and forgettable characters. [Jan 2005, p.81]

It's all by-the-numbers stuff that gets old quickly, and the game's muddy graphics, slim single-player options, and comically mistranslated dialog certainly don't help. [Oct 2007, p.57]

Defenders of Time multiplayer mode is conceptually interesting, but ultimately not worth trying because of many technical issues and poorly-executed fundamentals.

I like Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator's conceit—I used to love creating AI skirmishes in Garry's Mod—but here any potential drama is squandered by the poor execution. UEBS is good at the moneyshot—the ridiculous joy of seeing an unreasonable number of chickens swarm over some Nazis, or a super-powered turtle take on a cavalry brigade. But the joke soon wears thin, and, outside of that single gag, Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator fails to entertain.

A decent but cliched mob story and bland, frustrating gameplay make this the weakest Mafia yet.

All the gameplay ingredients are here, but a complete lack of seasoning makes this one dish that should be tossed down the disposal. [Oct 2004, p.98]

The basic combat is fine, but WWE 2K17 botches everything, from performance to presentation.

In short, Blitzkrieg II just doesn't cut the mustard. [May 2007, p.66]

An overpriced game with a solid combat system that's buried under a mountain of banality and monetisation.

The finished game doesn't live up to expectations. [Sept 2007, p.64]

It's got all the depth of a Petri dish. [Oct 2005, p.63]

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]