The worst part is the voice acting. [Dec 2009, p.77]

It’s exactly the kind of cookie-cutter movie spin-off we could easily survive without. [Holiday 2001, p.88]

Even the combat is boring, since it's entirely automated and gives you no control whatsoever over your troops. [Dec 2003, p.132]

Even worse are the ridiculously tough environmental puzzles. Unless you're a member of MENSA, chances are you'll need a walkthrough to finish the game. [Mar 2004, p.62]

It's short, it's bland, and it's got all the ingredients to be PC Gamer's most generic shooter of '08. [Dec 2008, p.66]

Swing and a miss! You can safely skip this one even if they cut the price in half. [May 2007, p.63]

Payback is a disservice to the Soldier of Fortune franchise, and in no way captures the exciting action of its pedigree. [Feb 2008, p.86]

If there's one thing that blows chunks more than a bad console-to-PC port, it's a recycled low-budget PC game that's past its due. [Oct. 2006, p.58]

The Cartel's finest feature is a mess. Everything else is merely bland, repetitive, and dull. [Holiday 2011, p.80]

In short, <i>RF Online</i> fails as a PvE game, and its PvP gameplay isn't engaging enough to make up for that fatal flaw. [July 2006, p.78]

Playing Revolution is like driving a Lamborghini that's been torn apart and reassembled by a blindfolded mechanic: it's cheap, and the engine runs, but I wouldn't recommend you get behind the wheel, because there's bound to be some important parts left out. [May 2003, p.68]

A disaster. [Feb 2005, p.60]

A boring, unoriginal, morally bankrupt, ethically dubious glorification of war, that's not worth your time or money.

Save your money, fellow muggles: it's best spent elsewhere. [Mar 2006, p.102]

It's all been done before - and a hell of a lot better to boot. [Feb 2006, p.54]

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

You can barely tolerate the insane irrelevance of the details asked - they really are that dry. [Sept 2002, p.76]

EA Sports has once again screwed PC owners over with a cut-rate edition of one of its big fall sports games, and NHL 08 is even more of a disappointment than its football and golf comrades. [Holiday 2007, p.83]

Less unpleasant than having an alien probe stuck up your butt - but not by much. [Sept 1998, p.129a]

After Theatre of War 3: Korea crashed for the last time, I realized it'd only succeeded in whetting my appetite for a good Korean War real-time strategy game. [July 2011, p.69]

Slow, clunky, and prone to glitchiness, playing Daggerdale feels like a sentence to an actual dungeon.

Come enter! Our game interface is impressively awkward: you'll click three menus to find one performers statistics. [Nov 2004, p.94]

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.

Be warned...You Are Empty isn't so much a title as a disclaimer. [Mar 2008, p.74]

It has some good moments, but it shouldn't take an archaeological expedition to reach them. [Sept 2007, p.58]

After just a half-hour, SLC 2002 will be straight in the trash. It's a mathematical certainty. [May 2002, p.77]

With no online community, no single-player gameplay and no replayability, Crasher has already crashed. [June 2011, p.74]

This game will find an audience...that could fit into a high-school gymnasium. [Sept 2005, p.70]