Strike Vector’s aerial combat is brilliant and beautiful, but it needs to be put into a package that does it justice.

Warlock 2 is now the best version of an enjoyably streamlined strategy series. Unfortunately, for owners of the original, it isn't so much better that it's worth wholeheartedly recommending.

An immaculately presented arcade racer with a thousand good ideas, but the twin-stick drifting wasn’t one of them.

Rocket Arena is the best kind of mindless fun.

A few fouled spark plugs turn a potentially great off-road racer into a good one. [Jan 2001, p.126]

A moderately entertaining, albeit retrograde, arcade driving experience. [Jan 2003, p.112]

A nice change of pace for city-builders, but it loses momentum once the immediate urgency of survival goes away.

Great graphics and addictive gameplay turn this worm into a butterfly. [Dec. 2006, p.122]

Fast, fluid and fun first-person platforming tied together with a warm narrative. Pace slows near the end, though.

Beyond Light is a fun campaign on a beautiful and expansive new world, but Destiny 2 is still some way from being the best version of itself.

Gears of War is fun as ever, but the technical flaws and limitations of Ultimate Edition are disappointing.

Oddworld: Soulstorm's charm, characters, and sincere narrative are imprisoned within buggy, erratic software.

Each new career is entertaining in its own way, but you probably won’t want to play through them more than once.

Frontlines genuinely feels like a game made by Battlefield fanatics for other fans. [May 2008, p.54]

A convincing examination of player choice set in an all-too-realistic modern world.

Hard Reset isn't just a reference to what you're expected to do to the killer robots infesting the city, but what the developer tries to do to the shooter design itself. [Holiday 2011, p.80]

A fun martial-arts romp that could have been a multiplayer classic. [Apr 2001, p.96]

A cool new twist on a grand strategy, hampered by technical problems. [July 2004, p.74]

Weighed down by a terrible campaign, this is still a superb multiplayer WW2 tactical RTS.

A glacial pace and abundance of busywork make My Time At Portia a tough recommendation.

If you're the slightest bit impatient, you'll be bored within five minutes. [Feb 2005, p.59]

SpellForce 3 competently blends RPG and RTS games into a generally enjoyable package, but there’s not enough creative force to create a lasting spell.

Unspectacular graphics and sometimes frustrating mini-games take away from Cars' short play, but even with these small problems, it's an enjoyable experience for prepubescent gamers. [Oct. 2006, p.108]

Buried by an unsatisfying combat loop and bad campaign, Outriders is a forgettable loot game that ends right as it's getting started.

We're in a milsim boom and Isonzo's thrilling, if limiting battlefields fit nicely into it.

Some of the best first-person shooting on PC, but the rest of the game struggles to keep up with it.

They've nailed the sensation of stomping around in a giant machine, but the F2P model needs an oil change.

The presentation is aced, but Hard West’s turn-based combat is too rote to be engrossing.