I'd recommend this game at $50. At the cost of a quick snatch-and-grab from the nearest recruiting station, it's easy to call it a must-play. [Jan 2003, p.118]

A brilliant game in every facet of its design and execution, with not a single dull moment in the lot. [August 2002, p.62]

It's something many of these sims's aren't: fun. [Nov 2002, p.116]

Pretty darned awful...With barely five hours of gameplay, no voiceovers, non-existent AI, and amateruish chapter-ending cartoons, Hero X can't even rightly be called a decent bargain-bin pick. [Oct 2002, p.102]

It's a testament to the dullness of this game that its 25 missions feature a wide variety of mission types, yet all of them feel like the same monotonous hunts for brain-dead adversaries. [Oct 2002, p.100]

All told, BDB took less than 30 minutes to beat, and there's no point in playing it again. [Oct 2002, p.98]

I can live with a few little pissers when the overall game is so exciting, exquisitely designed, and meticulous in its historical accuracy. [Oct 2002, p.92]

Central to its pull is a storyline as persuasive as any I've encountered in a fantasy roleplaying game. [Sept 2002, p.60]

Its aesthetics need more polish - and it needs to offer more help for newcomers. [Sept 2002, p.64]

Unbearable drek like Jazz and Faust is the reason some people keep saying that the adventure genre is dead and buried. [Oct 2002, p.102]

Deep, classy, and fiercely addictive. [Sept 2002, p.86]

Perhaps the most impressive new feature is F1 2002's dedicated multiplayer support for up to 16 players. [Sept 2002, p.70]

Take it for what it is - an inexpensive and silly throwback. [Nov 2002, p.134]

Gore's single-player game shoots way over par. [Sept 2002, p.80]

The battles are pretty damn chaotic. They're also devoid of fun, have little rhyme or reason, and often leave you with no idea why you won or lost. [Oct 2002, p.97]

Unfortunately, after a two-stage porting job, all that's really left is some third-hand game code that won't even work properly on many current-generation PC setups. [Sept 2002, p.72]

Graphics and sound are passable at best, but I found it intriguing to manage the development of a burgeoning company.

All these practical problems obscure Sum's flat-out brilliant mission design. [August 2002, p.70]

One of the very best things about this game is its almost total lack of any visible interface. [July 2002, p.56]

While better than its predecessor on almost all counts, SOF II still does little to turn heads in the genre. Instead, it blows them clean off. [August 2002, p.66]

The dinosaurs just don't do much, whether you plop them down in their own cages or mix them in with modern animals. [Sept 2002, p.88]

A slap of pain tand an extra dimension can't hide the threadbare plot and archaic gameplay mechanics lurking beneath the surface. [July 2002, p.68]

It's not the most ambitious game ever, but All-Stars can become oddly addictive. [Sept 2002, p.81]

It's a lot of fun. [August 2002, p.72]

I'll still be playing it in months -- if not years -- from now, that's for sure. [July 2002, p.77]

A rush-job, and certainly not worth your time if you already own "FIFA 2002." [August 2002, p.67]

May not offer much more than BM2002 did, but the new online support is vital for those who want to match their managerial skills against other humans. [Sept 2002, p.84]

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