As far as cool new shooter innovations go, playing with time ranks up their with portal guns. It just hasn't quite reached its full potential. [Jan 2008, p.78]

It also takes tremendous patience to grow your commercial space empire to a healthy payoff stage, but for many, that's part of this franchise's allure. [Feb 2006, p.90]

Not too shabby for fans of the comics, but there are better FPS games out there. [Oct 2000, p.114]

Undoubtedly fun for the run-and-shoot fans, but a low-impact port all the same.

AI flaws and a limp campaign let down an otherwise-accomplished RTS revival.

Legends of Eisenwald is a slightly rough-hewn romp through Germanic legend that's engaging and entertaining despite its lack of depth.

The freedom, and the constant sense that I’d be surprised when I turned the next corner, somewhat smoothed over the frustrations of Death’s Gambit, but it’d be a stretch to say I enjoyed it as a whole. Figuring out the best strategy for each boss fight is satisfying, but actually beating them isn’t fun enough to justify the pain of battling the stingy stamina system. Throwing myself at the same boss 29 times in a row just wasn’t quite worth the hassle.

It's a good place for casual shooter fans who don't feel like dropping $20 to get the crap kicked out of them in CS. [Nov 2008, p.66]

A battle royale game that's fun to play in a loose, aggressive style, with melee combat that's trickier than it may first appear.

Two groups of players should consider buying Notum Wars: High-level diehard clan members, and those who have never played Anarchy Online before but would like to try it. [Mar 2003, p.109]

The single-player campaign alone is inspiring enough to warrant picking up this space shooter. [Apr 2002, p.84]

A dark, engrossing, and challenging narrative card and crafting game.

Social commentary delivered with baseball bat subtlety, Not Tonight owes a huge debt to Papers, Please, but finds its own voice in the bit-parts of post-Brexit Britain.

A superbly crafted game that serves as storyteller, teacher, and concerned friend.

An occasionally entertaining detective game blighted by poor writing, rote combat, and a dreary open world.

VR can’t elevate Edge of Nowhere’s mediocre climbing, shallow combat, and contrived story. [Tested with Oculus Rift]

A surprisingly fun genre-bending pirate game, equal parts RPG and strategy. [July 2001, p.70]

If you're dying for an RTS game set in China, here's one. So there. [June 2001, p.80]

A directionless excercise in solving incomprehensible puzzles. [May 2003, p.70]

A formidable simulation, but landlubbers are likely to run aground on its steep learning curve. [Oct 2004, p.90]

Great music, delivered in frustratingly bitty form. A clever rhythm game that doesn't mesh with its prominent story.

The final insult is the atrocious console save-system. The game saves automatically between each level and a couple of times during each level, but if you stop playing, you have to restart teh entire level. [Jan 2005, p.86]

Wild! is a must-buy for critter lovers and coaster-builders alike. [Apr 2006, p.100]

Half enjoyable adventure, half clunky mess, Beat Cop is a talented rookie in need of a long talk with HR.

Fun sniping and great mission design just barely eclipse bugs, exploitable AI, and other issues that would make a lesser game impossible to recommend.

It's still better than the first episode, but its weaknesses will leave you wishing you could go back in time to stop yourself from playing it--space time continuum be damned. [Sept 2011, p.73]

Combine the inability to skip cut scenes with a checkpoint save system, and you have the straw that broke the panda's back. [Oct 2008, p.67]

A "Jurassic Park" spin on an otherwise old-school RTS. [Holiday 2006, p.70]