A minimalist experience that confuses collectibles for substance. [Issue#269, p.63]

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

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

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.

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

They didn’t disappoint me. Is this the best adventure, full stop? Apart from a few red herring moments, I was delighted by how design exceeded every other one of my expectations.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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]

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

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]

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]

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

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

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

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

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]