Tortures your mind while tickling your funnybone. [June 2012, p.67]

Deep, old-school strategy gaming with all the expected idiosyncrasies that go with it. [July 2013, p.92]

Some say the Point-and-click adventure is dead, but with a combination of fun gameplay and humorous send ups, Sam & Max 201 proves that good things come in small packages. [Jan 2008, p.62]

UT3 has all the elements of a solid, well-executed deathmatch multiplayer game, with a passable singleplayer campaign and some vehicle modes bolted on. [Jan 2008, p.41]

Despite some flaws and stability issues, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is an engrossing RPG rich in atmosphere. [Issue#255, p.53]

A highly detailed look at a period of history that still manages to fascinate gamers after all these years. [Issue#264, p.69]

More fun than the entire French air force crashing into a firework factory. [Dec 2009, p.62]

Synergistic puzzle gameplay is headmeltingly addictive (and beautiful), though it's more like gardening than being a god. [Aug 2013, p.82]

Overture deals a winning hand with this gem, delivering addictive gameplay in spades. [Nov 2011, p.52]

A brief, gentle puzzle adventure tinged with melancholy. [Issue#264, p.71]

Beneath Gunpoint's trench coat is a witty, devious and intelligent shot of puzzling, systematic gameplay - with a healthy dose of punching. [Aug 2013, p.86]

The world of Adol keeps you at arm's length, but the intricate and clever fighting will pull you right in. [Issue#266, p.56]

Overall, Vegas 2 is a solid effort. Gameplay may not be particularly groundbreaking, but is of a high quality. [Jun 2008, p.57]

One of the best bat-and-ballers since Breakout itself.

An incredibly tight, good looking single player experience, the anti-CoD if you will. [July 2014, p.50]

Flawed but satisfying combination of epic turn-based tactical gameplay and incredible fidelity to the source material. [Issue#266, p.62]

You'll laugh, you'll die, and you'll come back for more. [Nov 2011, p.62]

Solid puzzling, decent combat and gorgeous art - all for cheap! [March 2012, p.60]

Gorgeously rendered and scored, if somewhat hazy when it comes to the actual story. [July 2014, p.54]

Though not without problems, Songbringer is a charming, challenging and addictive old fashioned ARPG. [Issue#266, p.64]

The guiltiest of pleasures. Indulge yourself and a few friends, but go read a book afterwards or something. [March 2012, p.62]

With insane stunts and explosions in a huge game world, this is pure adrenaline-fuelled action to the point of repetition. [June 2010, p.60]

Haemimont's third Tropico game brings welcome changes while not diverging too much from the well worn path. [July 2014, p.60]

A beautiful, melancholy, emotional sports RPG visual novel thing. [Issue#265, p.51]

Evolution is a fantastic expansion to an already amazing race sim. [Oct 2008, p.64]

Despite some concerns, the game is certainly not a bad one; it's no Call of Duty 3, by any stretch of the imagination – and Treyarch is definitely back in good form. The action is top notch, and the multiplayer will certainly keep people occupied for some time. [Christmas 2008, p.75]

Accomplished, amusing city-builder sequel that's more evolution than revolution. [Nov 2011, p.64]

Still the pick of the manager sims for this year, but the distance is shrinking. Reliability on match day crucial in the end. [Jan 2010, p.84]

Solid gameplay helps you stick around for more soccer jokes. [Issue#265, p.64]

Play this game like a hack-n-slash violence festival and it just doesn’t work. Play it according to the Creed, and it’s sublime – in the strictest sense of the word. [May 2008, p.53]

The game is really quite brutal, but individual runs quite short. It’s a perfect palate-cleaner game – quick to load, easy to switch to from other applications, and over pretty fast. Unless you’re good at it, which, you know… I’m pretty much not. But it’s also just wonderfully silly fun. Bright, chaotic in the all the best ways, and always surprising.

They cut the crap, made the good stuff better and here we have the best arcade racer you can buy today. [Aug 2014, p.48]

Manages to make the XCOM gameplay feel more polished than ever before, while adding a fresh new take on saving the world from alien domination. [Issue#248, p.55]

The Sims 3, while certainly not as comprehensive as The Sims 2, is a promising start to a new series. [Aug 2009, p.52]

You can't go wrong with sticking to Rocksteady's Bat-formula, however it is starting to feel a little played out. [December 2013, p.93]

A very different, beautifully constructed and compelling look at the horrors of war. [Aug 2014, p.58]

This is what Battlefield 2142 should have been. [Dec 2009, p.52]

Fun for a while, but less than the sum of its parts. [Issue#250, p.57]

Surprisingly deep city-building sim with lots of neat quirks. [Christmas 2009, p.62]

The movement in Mirror's Edge: Catalyst is still strong, but the unlikeable characters and clunky combat get in the way of complete enjoyment. [Issue#253, p.56]

At times too slavish a recreation of tabletop action, Armada is nonetheless entertaining and challenging. [Issue#250, p.68]

While the first few hours are incredible, sadly a lack of depth in handling and content leads to a game that needs a few more hours in the oven. [Issue#253, p.58]

Inoffensive, easy and relatively fun. [Sept 2010, p.60]

A promising start to an atmospheric series, ironically let down by its puzzles. [Sept 2010, p.63]

Anodyne falls between average and perfection, offering a strange, funny, horrifying few hours of old-school action-adventure. [June 2013, p.91]

While not exactly fun in the traditional sense, FS 17 can be a very satisfying way to pass the time. [Issue#258, p.64]

If you want to spend a night out with FreeSpace 2 in a slinky red dress, this is your game. Just don't expect thrilling dinner conversation. [March 2013, p.84]

Your typical Obsidian experience sans compelling companion characters. The foundation's there for a good sequel, at least. [Issue#258, p.70]

A schizophrenic shooter, equal parts entertaining and tedious. [Nov 2009, p.50]

Like an oboe, this game gets ruined in the playing. Well, a bit. [June 2013, p.94]

The game suffers from a major lack of restraint - next time they should focus on a smaller, more varied city with a limited set of better-balanced powers. [Sept 2009, p.70]

Mostly great bosses and some nice narrative flourishes do a lot to make up for the fairly repetitive combat and generic story. [Issue#253, p.63]

A conflicting mash of awesome and awful, with awesome maybe just edging out on top. [March 2013, p.92]

Maps are darker and more atmospheric. [Feb 2010, p.63]

The fur's not flying here - Mists of Pandaria is another solid addiction to World of Warcraft. [Nov 2012, p.68]

Fun but unremarkable sim racing that is impacted by various issues and an overall lack of polish. [July 2015, p.58]

An inventive physics-fueled game that pushes players' patience a little too hard in later levels. [Nov 2012, p.70]

A mix of good ideas, but they come off a little half-baked. [Feb 2010, p.59]

If you loved the first Dead Space, you'll like this one. Just not as much. [Mar 2011, p.64]

A flawed gem that's very much worth playing. [Jan 2012, p.44]

Mediocre gameplay hides an enjoyable RPG with moments of genius. But it could have been so much more. [Aug 2010, p.56]

Always fascinating, this devious puzzle-platformer makes up for in creativity and charm what it lacks in polish. [Nov 2012, p.81]

A pleasant trip down memory lane that’ll appeal to nostalgics and casuals.

Rather than wheel out a new car for this year's season, F1 2012 is content to dust off last year's model and slap on a new set of tyres. [Nov 2012, p.83]

A solid but unremarkable entry in a venerable franchise. [Jan 2012, p.56]

The most detailed Pets expansion for the series. Horses, in particular, are an exciting inclusion. [Jan 2012, p.60]

Unique and beautiful, but barely a game. [Mar 2011, p.71]

Unique puzzle mechanics provide some intriguing conundrums, but things end up stuck in the flat dimension. [Aug 2012, p.62]

Enormous potential, but desperately needs a modding community to realise it. [Issue#252, p.64]

More "Young Guns" than "Unforgiven" but still worth it. [Sept 2009, p.64]

A brilliant treatment of feudalism in terms of strategy and story, but requires major investment to overcome information overload. [May 2012, p.52]

The darker story and high production values make this one worth a peek, but otherwise its nothing special. [May 2010, p.70]

A fun old-school beat ‘em up with a few modern twists.

The kind of eccentric humour and senseless attention to detail makes this worth a look, even if it can seem somewhat short, repetitive and claustrophobic. [Aug 2008, p.61]

Despite its less than stellar story and struggling engine, Storm of Zehir is still an easy recommendation for the right RPG gamer. In many ways it is a more strategic game than the previous titles, just as Icewind Dale was to Baldur's Gate. [February 2009, p.57]

A solid fighting core surrounded by a very bare bones, somewhat unoptimised package. [Sept 2015, p.60]

An interesting take on a classic genre, with some great writing and variably rich worlds to explore. [Sept 2015, p.62]

It doesn’t really push the genre any further forward in terms of gameplay, and as such loses some of the jaw-drop factor that Crysis brought to the market in spades. But then, it isn’t designed to be groundbreaking. It’s designed to preach to the choir. [Dec 2008, p.69]

Conquest of the Aegean has the niche market cornered when it comes to simulating the German attacks on Greece and Crete, and the impressive Pausable Continuous Time engine strikes a reasonable balance between moving symbols around on maps and real-time play. [May 2008, p.63]

A lot of fun, but perhaps a little too polished. [May 2014, p.54]

Conceptually interesting, visually stunning, but ultimately feels hollow in the gameplay department. [May 2014, p.62]

Difficult, nerdy, tedious but satisfying. What more could you want in a lover? [May 2011, p.70]

A fresh take on survival, but narrower in scope than it should be. [Issue#249, p.61]

Modern Warfare plus squads and vehicles, and minus the stick up its arse. A solid multiplayer FPS. [May 2010, p.66]

A short experiment based around a fairly oblique puzzle system, Litter Inferno succeeds as a compelling curio. [Feb 2013, p.75]

Visually spectacular alien-blasting action; another fine port from Volition. [July 2011, p.60]

An amazingly deep and unique roleplaying experience but marred by roadblock mechanics and repetitive game elements (Hollingworth). A deep and fascinating world with a compelling narrative and large degree of player agency (Wilks) [Issue#260, p.53]

Rather satisfying post-medieval combat sim hidden behind jank, bugs, and general awkwardness. [July 2011, p.64]

Amazing rich gameplay that is sadly let down by an overly complex UI and hidden barely there tutorials. Sure to be a long term hit. [Issue#260, p.60]

A strange and effortlessly charming game that rewards those who take the time to parse its various idiosyncrasies. [Feb 2013, p.81]

Specialises in trick shots before mastering the fundamentals. Deeply flawed, but hard to ignore. [Issue#267, p.58]

A unique puzzler which will scratch you creationalist itch. [Feb 2013, p.83]

Frustrating interface and some instability aside, a return to these magical, and bleak, worlds is what we've been waiting for. [Dec 2014, p.60]

This is a gorgeous and amusing diversion, even if puzzling feels tacked-on, rather than integral. [July 2011, p.71]

Fun, but grindy and lacking reasons to return. [Sept 2014, p.50]

A little short but an excellent example of virtually realised physics. [Issue#267, p.62]

As PC's only alternative to GT5, Shift 2 is satisfactory at best. But true racing enthusiasts will need to go elsewhere to really satisfy their...need for speed. [July 2011, p.74]

A charming, multi-genre-hybrid experience, that will appeal to those who don't mind the sometimes tedious underlying gameplay. [July 2011, p.75]