Even more annoying is the omission of any kind of multiplay, which is where the real joy lies in this kind of game. [Sept 2004, p.70]

Too sloppy to be fun. [Sept 2002, p.81]

Getting from point A to point B doesn't get any more wearisome. [Aug 2008, p.74]

A decent adventure game may be lurking beneath The Secrets of Atlantis' tiresome pixel-hunting, nonsensical puzzles, and substandard imagery, but you'll have to work to find it [Sept 2007, p.58]

Maybe Global Star's next "Jetfighter" studio will get the formula right. We hope. [Apr 2006, p.100]

Crystal Key 2 isn't an adventure; it's a slide show with the occasional puzzle thrown in. And we've had enough of these kinds of games. [July 2004, p.65]

Under-delivers on the promise of the licence. A middling action-RPG that you’d have to be a Marvel fan to love.

Gearheads may be temporarily amused, but for the rest of us, Monster Garage delivers about as much entertainment value as a fender-bender with a Hell's Angel. [July 2004, p.65]

Events unfold inexplicably, unrealistically, and almost arbitrarily. [June 2002, p.69]

A horror game with few scares, Inmates is imprisoned by its lack of ambition.

Worst of all, there are no in-mission saves (only five "lives"), and each of the game's 13 missions can take up to an hour to complete. [Nov 2002, p.129]

There's little to recommend. Bad combat, horrible vehicles/animals, a miserably boring missions--yup, it's a game based on a film. [Jan 2010, p.84]

Dated graphics, poor AI, buggy gameplay, cumbersome controls, and uninspired design choices make playing Conquest an exasperating experience. [July 2008, p.64]

Fold this one. [Oct 2005, p.74]

SL's graphics engine is by far the buggiest and most poorly optimized that I've seen in years, with enough frame-rate bottlenecks, clipping, draw-through, and CD-access pauses to leave you gasping in your chair. [Mar 2003, p.91]

There are only so many ways you can arrange poker tables and slot machines. [July 2002, p.67]

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

What could have been a latter-day "Close Conbat" or a visually splashier "Combat Mission" is instead a tedious and underwrought quagmire. [Sept 2008, p.70]

Dear interactive movies: Go away, go away, go away. And get eaten by dinosaurs. Thank you very much.

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

Unintuitive, uninvolving and overpriced. Not even its satisfying trading system can put the wind in Port Royale 3's sails. [Sept 2012, p.66]

Just another tiresome and unimaginative RTS. It’s a real shame. [Holiday 2001, p.72]

A few good ideas, but Prospekt is hurt by uninspired design and infuriating combat encounters.

A mediocre XCOM-like in the form of a deeply worrying depiction of militarised police.

Whatever charm the campy dialogue provides wears off after about 10 minutes, leaving you with a game that suffers from obstructive camera angles, tedious gameplay, and uninspired combat. [July 2008, p.70]

As empty-headed a treatment of modern conflict as you’re likely to find on store shelves. [Feb 2002, p.80]

This isn't a bad console port--it's a bad game, period. [June 2008, p.74]

If Fort Solis really was a Netflix series, it wouldn’t get a second season.