Find a good outfit and learn the game's nuances, and you'll be hooked. [Sept 2003, p.76]

It can be difficult to keep your concentration when all hell is breaking loose, and I found myself pausing the game a fair bit just to get some bearing on what in the name of zombie jeebus was going on. But once the smoke, literally, clears and you come out the other side victorious, there's little more satisfying.

The Walking Dead's signature moral dilemmas are more nuanced than ever in a plot-heavy second episode.

Great combat and mountains of loot can't compensate for Amalur's generic world design and familiar story. [May 2012, p.72]

Perhaps the beat-'em-up genre's best ever roster of playable characters, let down by an inconsistent campaign that wears out too fast.

Excellent VR combat and movement wedged inside a repetitive quest system.

A promising, assured start, and a welcome return to form for Telltale.

Addictive action and loot collection make it worth putting up with constant irritation from nearly all other aspects of this uniquely beautiful shooter. [Holiday 2009, p.61]

Defense Grid 2 isn't just another tower defense game, it's the best new tower defense game.

A killer puzzle game that tests your skill and your patience.

I guess it's true what they say: Bad guys have more fun. [Oct 2007, p.64]

A captivating journey into a beautiful, atmospheric wilderness, with a touching story that doesn’t always hit the right notes.

It borrows from the proven models of other successful games, and puts them in a new venue. It’s fun, deep, and bug-free. [Jan 2002, p.70]

Ostfront offers just a single, limiting game mode. [Jun 2006, p.46]

But even with so much free material competing for the attention of Oblivion fans, Knights of the Nine offers a compelling package of polished content. [Mar 2007, p.64]

An okay platformer but a deeply imaginative horror game, Little Nightmares is worth playing for its array of disturbing imagery.

At last: royalty I feel emotionally invested in! Reigns: Her Majesty is a smart and surprising extension of the original swipe-'em narrative game.

An extremely intelligent sci-fi interrogation sim that’s unpredictable for all the right reasons.

Judero is peak indie game: Funky, weird, rough and wonderful in a way only such a small, ambitious project could be.

Darkest Dungeon 2 is a challenging yet fun roguelite experience, even if it does sacrifice some of what made the original great.

Joyful and surprising, even when you're cracking open an anthropomorphised egg.

Marathon is a brilliant distillation of what makes extraction shooters great, and a glimpse at where they could go next.

An endless font of bad jokes and cool guns in the series' most vapid story yet, Borderlands 3 skates by on watching numbers fly and goons explode.

A survival colony builder that generates stories of triumph, disaster, and white-knuckle rescues.

Lots of nice tweaking and some sweet new courses. Otherwise, par for the course. [Dec 2005, p.70]

One of the best to ever do it. Rollerdrome is an action showstopper.

Tense and thrilling with finely tuned systems, Saints & Sinners is a must-have VR experience.

Like any good ride, it delights at every twist and turn and leaves you wanting more. [Jan 2005, p.74]