It ticks all the boxes that a loot lover could possibly want. [Jan 2010, p.80]

Painful in so many ways. [Jan 2010, p.74]

The visuals, music, gameplay, feel and balance are all spot on. [Jan 2010, p.64]

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]

Immaculate physics. [Christmas 2009, p.84]

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]

This is the best of the best. [Jan 2010, p.75]

Bad everything. [Feb 2010, p.78]

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

It's not perfect, there are little problems and niggles that can be found if you look for them, but none of them spoil the game or ruin the playing experience.

Every vehicle n this package is an absolute dream to drive. [Jan 2010, p.72]

Risen is a solid, engrossing and beautifully presented RPG that's well worth your time and money. [Dec 2009, p.72]

Can't wait for more. [Jan 2010, p.82]

Every care has been made to make this a game that anyone from any region will enjoy. However, there just isn't that intangible harmony nor inset differentiation that the game would need to compete with WoW - and that's a shame, because otherwise, Aion is damn good at what it does. [Christmas 2009, p.74]

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]

If the combat has been a bit more sophisticated in the latter stages of the game, it'd have been a nailed-on Classic. [Dec 2009, p.62]

A highly enjoyable racing game with a lot of polish and it's good to see the franchise try a little harder. [Dec 2009, p.66]

A PC port done right. [Christmas 2009, p.88]

Addictive and it's fun, but it is more frustrating and rage-inducing than other PopCap efforts of late. [Feb 2010, p.85]

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]

Provides a simple, but pleasing action experience, with a refreshingly polished veneer. [Dec 2009, p.74]

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]

The puzzles are solid enough, too. [Dec 2009, p.75]

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

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

A relaxing, addictive and intuitive action-puzzler. [Christmas 2009, p.86]

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]

One of the best games ever. [Oct 2009, p.69]

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]

It's one of the most outrageous games I've ever played and for that alone I love it. [Oct 2009, p.67]

A brilliant combat game that can be dabbled with in short bursts or long bouts of human vs human combat, there's no denying that it is a must-play for PC fighting fans and those looking for a bit of short, sharp fun. If you've got a setup that allows you to play in your living room on the TV, add three extra points to the score.

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

Great setting and atmosphere. [Sept 2009, p.68]

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]

Overlord II's brand of guiltless comic villainy is more entertaining than 'true' evil could ever be. [Sept 2009, p.64]

An incongruous addition to Fallout 3 that has little or no bearing on the wider world itself. [Nov 2009, p.73]

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]

These improvements over the previous game nailed it - I became absolutely besotted. I've lost so many hours to The Sims 3 the PC Zone team were convinced they'd have to surgically remove my mouse from my hand to get me to work. [July 2009, p.56]

Clutch isn't worth the money. [Nov 2009, p.77]

A general lack of polish that makes me wonder if NovaLogic even care about the games they make any more. [Dec 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]

The game is tedious from start to end. [Sept 2009, p.74]

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

Still, it's better than any of Ugh Boll's films. [Sept 2009, p.72]

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]

Addictive. [July 2009, p.71]

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]

Satisfying. [Nov 2009, p.73]

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]

Recommended for FPS horror fans, although the environments are by definition a tad repetitive. [May 2009, p.72]

Despite it being more intuitive than the Combat Mission games, Africa 1943 is no picnic. [May 2010, p.88]

Other than a rubbish level in which you twat statues on the head with a stick you won't find many more issues. [Aug 2009, p.70]

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

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

Genuinely clever stuff. [July 2009, p.64]

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]

Multiplayer modes are very original. [July 2009, p.62]

An excellent game that would have breached the 90% barrier had it been a little bit more substantial and erred less on the combat side of things. [June 2009, p.62]

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]

Frustrating controls. [July 2009, p.70]

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

Plays a bit like "Psychonauts," but lacks any and all of that game's wonderful charms. [July 2009, p.76]

The whole thing is an abomination. [Aug 2009, p.73]

Awful on-foot controls. [July 2009, p.72]

The only things you'll get out of Stormrise are a headache and a stress-related heart attack from trying to select a unit. [June 2009, p.66]

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]

A very solid start to the series. [June 2009, p.72]

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