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

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

There are flashes of brilliance in this game that are simply wasted. [Jan 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.

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

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

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

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

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]

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

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

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]

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

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

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

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]

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]

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

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

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]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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