Bloated and hubristic, Assassin's Creed III is a shocking disappointment. If you adored Assassin's Creed II, you would be better served replaying that and forgetting this even exists. [Jan 2013, p.77]

Big Brother may be watching, but if I was him I would have switched off from boredom. [Issue#257, p.65]

If you will play literally anything featuring Total War and Rome in the same title and don't value your time, this is for you. [Nov 2013, p.80]

Dying Light should showcase everything Techland learned from Dead Island. Instead, it showcases everything they haven't. [March 2015, p.57]

Medal of Honor is just following the crowd, with no true identity to call its own. [Issue#185, p.70]

Terrible pings, no servers and a tiny player base. [July 2010, p.58]

Look, there is nothing wrong with Halo Wars 2... as a bonus game that comes free with Halo 6 or whatever. But as a premium, full-priced title? No. No, we deserve more than this. A franchise like Halo, with its rich fictional universe, its cool unit design, its super-clear mix of human and alien factions, deserves more than this.

Try again after a few months of patches. Maybe. [Mar 2011, p.67]

Like finding out your happy childhood home was full of asbestos. [Sept 2012, p.60]

Scant new features of gameplay are unsatisfying and unbalanced. Suitable for the stalwart fan, who doesn't mind repetitive tasks. [May 2012, p.60]

Dull combat, pointless dialogue wheel, overly scripted and plagued with connection issues. Avoid. [Jan 2012, p.64]

I may be alive, but I am completely dead inside. [Nov 2012, p.82]

Proof that gleeful surrealism does not automatically indicate arthouse brilliance. [Aug 2011, p.74]

Bland and basic chopper sim which may destroy your PC. [Mar 2011, p.70]

An intriguing exercise in interactive fiction, let down by shaky writing and a major lack of emotional engagement. [Apr 2012, p.50]

Looking for the greatest pick-up-and-play top-down car-combat game ever? This isn't it. [Oct 2012, p.80]

Buy it if you want to see Six Days in Fallujah someday. Though donating to Atomic Games directly would be less painful. [Apr 2011, p.71]

Codemasters should be ashamed for this brazen cash-in, made with the least possible effort. [Feb 2015, p.18]

So while the basics for a solid sneak-'em-up are here, a lack of polish makes for a dismal experience. [Sept 2009, p.69]

Look, just play Magicka. Because it at least makes some kind of sense. [July 2011, p.65]

Should never have been released in its current state - simple as that. [July 2011, p.72]

Flawed and monotonous. [Mar 2010, p.75]

There are flashes of brilliance in this game that are simply wasted. [Jan 2010, p.58]

Charming and child-like yet frustrating and flawed. [Christmas 2009, p.64]

The world is gorgeous; the gameplay dull and generic. A disappointing waste of potential. [Feb 2010, p.60]

Takes two great ideas and merges them into a half-baked mess of poor controls and monotony. [Issue#254, p.59]

Starts with so much promise, but eventually becomes an experience as barren as the desert it's set in. [Issue#256, p.61]

Developer with bad track record wants you to pay big for uninspiring loot-em-up. Choices is yours. [Issue#254, p.61]

A vile, ugly, offensive and ignorant game that should have been left to rot in an old box of floppies. Why did this get Kickstarted? [Sept 2013, p.85]

Plot holes, broken scripting and offensive self-contradiction makes Warfighter one of the worst games we've played all year. [Dec 2012, p.85]

The mechanics are competent but in no way fun. [July 2012, p.67]

Not serious to be legit, not funny enough to be, well, fun. [Oct 2012, p.78]

Disharmony's content is either so buggy or poorly designed that the expansion pack offers an inferior 4X experience to the vanilla of Endless Space. [Sept 2013, p.84]

Not only fails to live up to the legacy of Duke Nukem, it even fails to be a decent shooter. Don't ruin your precious memories. [Aug 2011, p.60]

When the best parts of a game are the parts that aren't the game, something is wrong. [Issue#260, p.64]

Omerta's 1920s mobster charm quickly wears away to show its shallowness, and any hope of mob-boss stardom dies with it. [Apr 2013, p.94]

Only buy it so Polyslash can afford to make something better. [Issue#255, p.60]

Revisit the Stupid Ned Stark meme instead. It's much more entertaining. [Christmas 2011, p.68]

An exhaustingly average game that still wouldn't be worth your time someone gave it to you. [Apr 2014, p.60]

Another free-to-play MMO in an over-saturated market. [Aug 2011, p.64]

Warriors Orochi is basically a semi-automatic keyboard-wearing-out application. You mash away at the keys while some bad graphics grunt at you and even worse techno grunges its ear-grating way through your speakers. [Jul 2008, p.60]

The idea of randomly generated levels and scares is sound, it's just that the pieces used are so limited that it becomes horrifyingly boring. [July 2014, p.58]

Might not have been built in a day, but sure feels like it at times. [Sept 2011, p.66]

Tryst makes you wonder what it is about StarCraft II that makes Blizzard's game at all tolerable. [Nov 2012, p.76]

This is one storm-chasing RTS that can't escape The Suck Zone. [Sept 2011, p.60]

Love ship sims? This won't actually scratch you niche itch. [Dec 2010, p.62]

None of this is enough to save this game from being anything but the mediocre rubbish big development companies with lucrative movie licenses seem to think we want to play. [Aug 2009, p.60]

Being unable to execute the obvious solution to a problem because of poor design and implementation is simply inexcusable. [Mar 2010, p.70]

Some interesting ideas can't save this dull, sloppy attempt at reinventing the RTS genre. [Apr 2011, p.56]

Glimmers of that CS charm, but needs another year in development and local servers before standing alongside such heavyweights. [Nov 2013, p.91]

Pretty screenshots are the only thing salvaged from this space debris. [Apr 2011, p.63]

Impiously impractical in implementation, impressive only to the impetuous. [Apr 2013, p.88]

An unfinished game that requires much more attention before it can realise its incredible promise. [Dec 2012, p.82]

Not offensive enough to cause outcry, not good enough to warrant paying attention to. [Aug 2015, p.60]

Boring and repetitive, even in multiplayer. [Sept 2009, p.68]

Inner Chains looks good, but beneath the veneer is a mess of bad mechanics and disappointing design. [Issue#263, p.69]

In the final analysis, Ford Off-Road is a shambles. Even without the numerous glitches and bugs the underlying game is so poorly realised that we find it hard to recommend this to even the most die-hard of Ford fans. [Jul 2008, p.58]

A crime. Send this one to the colonies. [Feb 2011, p.65]

An impenetrable mess with almost nothing to recommend it. Cast this one into the void. [Oct 2012, p.73]

A terrible shooter and a terrible stealth game all in one! [July 2011, p.62]

Well, pardner, I'd suggest you ride far, far away. Buy an Xbox and wait for Red Dead Redemption 2 if you have-ter.

Broken in nearly every single aspect, Fray fails to meet any criteria that would qualify it as a game. Do not buy. [Sept 2012, p.57]

The lesson I learned from The Golden Compass is that children these days can be viewed less as imaginative, problem solving young beings who deserve to be inspired by well made games, and more as an extension of the parental wallet. [Mar 2008, p.60]

Its mechanical foundation - like this Foundation Release - crumbles at the lightest touch. [March 2013, p.94]

Also, I'm pretty sure my farm is under surveillance by Interpol, because identical gunmetal grey FWDs keep spooling past on the highway just near my barn. [Mar 2011, p.73]

And it's this amateurish feeling that pervades the game...Best to swat this fly. [Sept 2011, p.71]

Maybe just spend your four bucks on the soundtrack, and go play Tyrian. [Christmas 2011, p.69]

A fantastic idea for a game that's been stripped of its valuables by the wrong approach to free-to-play. [Oct 2012, p.85]

It's not really worth going to town on this one. Try one of those crazy finished games. [Feb 2013, p.80]

No element of Day One appears stable, polished or functional. Avoid the big green "Add to Cart" button lest you suffer an incident of your own. [December 2013, p.82]

Promising, and if it had the time to finish, or even start, it could've been something fairly decent. Oh well. [December 2013, p.84]

Commits the quintessential crime of the T&A brawler: the girls aren't even hot. [Issue#253, p.61]

Lazy, broken, ugly and dispiriting. [Issue#269, p.60]