"Quotation Forthcoming"

A decent strategy offering. [Oct 2010, p.81]

Essentially, things fail to get moving in Disciples III. [Sept 2010, p.91]

Arrowhead paints the most chilling picture of the horrors of war than any game has done yet. [Sept 2010, p.84]

Style over substance. [Oct 2010, p.74]

Only worth buying if you see it in a bargain bin. [Oct 2010, p.89]

At its best, Impact is an exhilarating, old school blaster that's very easy to dip in and out of. But at its worst, it's simplistic, repetitive fare with not enough to it. [Sept 2010, p.88]

That exhilarating core deserves more than the pretty rancid crust that tops it. [Aug 2010, p.76]

A money sucking expansion whore. [Oct 2010, p.88]

It's a good thing Ice Game Studios don't do bomb disposal because they clearly believe in learning through experience. [Sept 2010, p.89]

A better proposition than the first remake. [Aug 2010, p.86]

Dreadful voices. [Aug 2010, p.83]

There's not enough reason to come back after the initial wow factor from the visuals wears off. [July 2010, p.90]

Lag and server issues. [July 2010, p.88]

You'll be having Duke Nukem flashbacks and shouting "I've got balls of steel" in no time. [July 2010, p.84]

An absolute ton of very German micromanagement. [June 2010, p.87]

If it is indeed the last gasp of C&C as we know it, it's an incredibly sad way to go out. With a little more money, a little more time and a whole lot more reverence for what makes C&C C&C, the tiny exploding acorn underneath this confused, scrawny thing could have become a mighty oak of modern strategy.

It's by far their most accessible game yet. [June 2010, p.89]

A few performance issues mar an otherwise fun little racer. [Aug 2010, p.87]

Stylish, funny, but sadly disposable. [June 2010, p.87]

A good game, but it won't hit Peggle-esque heights of fame. [May 2010, p.87]

Right now, Star Trek Online is a mess of a title with little to recommend beyond the novelty of flying around in a replica of the Enterprise. As soon as that novelty wears off (ideally within the 30-day trial period), this will be one universe badly in need of a reboot.

Uninspired levels. [Aug 2010, p.88]

Playing Toki Tori is like putting your finger into a kitten's mouth, only to realise that the kitten is actually a great white shark. Except this is a good thing. [Oct 2010, p.86]

A criminal waste of time and energy, as standard and generic a game as you could hope to find. [Feb 2010, p.74]

Vancouver 2010 isn't a bad game, just very limited by its subject matter. [May 2010, p.90]

Tedious side quests. [Mar 2010, p.78]

Combat feels clunky and unsatisfying. [Feb 2010, p.72]

Running over zombie dogs is always fun. [Apr 2010, p.91]

A hollow experience. [Feb 2010, p.80]

Looks good...not enough is new. [Feb 2010, p.83]

This is one for gem completionists, but it won't be raising any bars or breaking any moulds. [Feb 2010, p.84]

If you own the first, then there's little reason to upgrade. [Apr 2010, p.90]

It's actually a bit dull if it doesn't strike you in the right way. [Apr 2010, p.91]

The definition of solid, but unspectacular. [Feb 2010, p.82]

A series of spectacularly presented levels. [Feb 2010, p.68]

A flawed gem. [Jan 2010, p.79]

You typical modern adventure really: none too shabby, but none too brilliant either. [July 2009, p.75]

If only it didn't look like such a dog's dinner. [Jan 2010, p.80]

Graphically dated. [Feb 2010, p.76]

Off the pitch of course, FIFA 10 is the usual feature packed, licensed to the gills affair. It's just a shame about the actual football. [Christmas 2009, p.85]

A really involving little sim. [Christmas 2009, p.78]

Deserves praise for artistic flair, but when it comes to gameplay approach with caution. [Jan 2010, p.81]

More medium than XL. [Christmas 2009, p.77]

Boring combat. [Jan 2010, p.76]

The forecast is bleak. [Feb 2010, p.85]

Ten years late. [Jan 2010, p.78]

The joy of breaking things apart with giant hammers really is enough to prop up any amount of dull shooting. [Oct 2009, p.58]

Lengthy load times, dated visuals, and obtuse interface and an unnecessarily decentralized recruitment system. [Dec 2009, p.73]

This is a simple game for simpler minds. [Dec 2009, p.76]

It's got too many issues to recommend it. [Oct 2010, p.]

Lacks a coherent structure. [Dec 2009, p.68]

Lots of tactical freedom. [Christmas 2009, p.89]

More Tufnell than Warne. [Nov 2009, p.74]

Long-time fans will be pretty appalled by this effort. [Dec 2009, p.70]

It's not a bad game, and if you're one of the aforementioned strategy fans, you will likely enjoy it. [Nov 2009, p.76]

Dramatic, entertaining and charming in the way that every Fallout expansion should be from now on. [Nov 2009, p.72]

A bit crackers. [Nov 2009, p.76]

East India Company manages to whisk you on a sedate journey through teatime. [Nov 2009, p.75]

Offers up one of the drabbest looking and tedious opening sections witnessed anywhere. [Oct 2009, p.62]

Officially generic. [Oct 2009, p.70]

It's for the patient. [Aug 2009, p.62]

While it's no classic, every Monkey Island fan should be playing this. [Oct 2009, p.68]

Trine deserves recognition for bringing the Lost Vikings template back to our PCs, but it isn't a classic. [Oct 2009, p.66]

May EA blight us with more Harry Potter games than our PCs' hard drives can possibly tolerate. [Oct 2009, p.71]

If you're a fan of the board game, you'll like this adaptation - but if you're not, it's not going to sit well with any logical imagining that you've ever had for a Blood Bowl game. [Nov 2009, p.68]

Early levels too underpowered. [Christmas 2009, p.87]

It's professor Rubbish AI and his evil sidekick Shite Physics. [Sept 2009, p.60]

It might sound trite, but if you like god games there's nothing here you won't have seen before. [Sept 2009, p.70]

In a disappointing move, we don't get to play any of the Ghostbusters. [Oct 2009, p.64]

Muzzled! isn't as laugh-out-loud funny as the previous episodes. [Oct 2009, p.73]

The plot is a bit of nonsense and the NPCs' AI is dumber than a bag of hair, but slashing up civilians with the Claw is always amusing. [Aug 2009, p.68]

An experience, not a game. [Oct 2009, p.70]

A disappointing and flat experience that's only really any fun when played with a friend, who may make an occasional error. [Nov 2009, p.75]

Everything is big and clunky. [Sept 2009, p.74]

It's just not good enough and, crucially, makes Holmes and Watson do things they just wouldn't do in the books. Which is, at the end of the day, the biggest flaw. [Apr 2010, p.89]

Cheap and cheerful. [Sept 2009, p.71]

Damnation is so deeply generic and boring, so it gets the sort of mark that it deserves. [Aug 2009, p.71]

NecroVisioN is out-and-out old school corridor (or rather trench) blasting and is unrepentant about it. [Apr 2009, p.69]

There are only a handful of official maps to play , although each one is substantial in size. [Aug 2009, p.77]

Surprisingly deep. [July 2009, p.66]

The Last resort is still enjoyable for fans of Wallace & Gromit, but seasoned adventurers will run through it like a summer breeze. [Aug 2009, p.74]

Barely explicable scantily clad slo-mo sequences aside, Velvet Assassin is a really solid game. [Aug 2009, p.66]

For 30 minutes of so, you'll be having a strange amount of fun. [Aug 2009, p.76]

An unreliably enjoyable experience. [July 2009, p.68]

If you like slide puzzles, it's disastrously addictive. [July 2009, p.73]

The Godfather II is an improvement over its predecessor, though that's hardly a gratuitous compliment. How about this - The Godfather II is surprisingly not as plain as you might have thought it would be, all things considered. [May 2009, p.70]

That Elven Legacy is so badly presented is a shame, as there's a surprisingly good strategy game hidden underneath the amateurish exterior. [July 2009, p.75]

The levels feed artificially protracted. [July 2009, p.74]

A boring game. [Aug 2009, p.72]

The menu system is a confusing mess. [June 2009, p.73]

Good fun, if a little short for the money. [June 2009, p.68]

BattleForge runs smoothly and is pretty enough, with a wide selection of large units to choose from. However, battles see you going up against the same units - the ones players have identified as being the best. So the only real variety BattleForge provides is on paper. [May 2009, p.73]

The combat is, despite flowing well, incredibly and utterly console. [June 2009, p.74]

It's leagues behind the subscription-based MMOs of the world. [July 2009, p.74]

If you have a lot of patience, follow The Path. If not, bugger off and pick up an FPS. [Aug 2009, p.75]

A vaguely comical arcade shooter in the clouds, and one that never pretends to be anything else. [June 2009, p.64]

To say that the game is shallow would be harsh, but it certainly doesn't plumb the potential depths of the period, and while it has multiplayer I can't see it having much longevity. [May 2009, p.77]