Transparently not finished. [June 2010, p.80]

While Silverfall's artictic style and nature vs technology theme do set it aside from its rivals, the game still feels a bit rough around the edges. [May 2007, p.70]

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

Looks and plays like a game from 1999. [Christmas 2006, p.93]

When you consider that the game is far too ugly to be shown on an unforgiving monitor - cel-shaded Ultimate Spider-Man looked infinitely better - and that it asks for an unjustifiable 6GB of HD space, and that we couldn't get more than 30 frames-a-second out of a fairly hot PC... Well, it doesn't seem like the best way to spend £30. Our advice would be to avoid the PC version of Spider-Man 3 like a spunk-filled bowler hat.

An interesting, glitchy reprise. Our most solemn, sincere advice would be to wait for February's boxed version, when everything could - hopefully - be more stable and friendly. [Feb 2008, p.76]

If you enjoy below average games or like adventures where the voices cut out halfway through every single sentence, then this one is for you. [Oct 2009, p.72]

Repetitive. [Feb 2008, p.83]

If you've exhausted X3 to an inhuman degree, you could do a lot worse than check this out, especially given the bargain price tag. [Sept 2007, p.86]

This game is badly made and overwhelmingly bleak, and while the original F.E.A.R. still exists, there's absolutely no way I could ever recommend anybody buy this, even if you're on fire and this game is a bucket of water. [Jan 2008, p.80]

An insecure game unsure of who wants to play it, but that's not to say it isn't fun. [Mar 2008, p.78]

More of a solid warrior and less of a gaming god. [Oct 2007, p.80]

If you're into the surreal, love your puzzles or you're simply sick of formulaic puzzle/adventure games, this could just be the perfect tonic for you. [Nov 2007, p.89]

Refuse to accept a game with such little creative effort put into it and vote with your wallets. [Feb 2010, p.79]

It looks fairly dated, and is only really for the devotee of life-sim games, feeling as it does like a semi-precious curiosity. [Dec 2006, p.68]

Utterly, shabbily redundant. [Nov 2007, p.87]

The shallowness of the gameplay quickly starts to show through the cracks. [May 2007, p.69]

It's still one of the best basketball sims available, just don't expect much beyond recycled goods. [Dec 2006, p.85]

With more ambition in the table design, Dream Pinball 3D has the potential to be great. As it stands, it's just good. [June 2008, p.82]

Somehow it manages to be far more entertaining than you'd expect. [May 2007, p.72]

For 20 quid, it's a half-decent ride while it lasts. [Sept 2007, p.73]

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

The game is very, very repetitive and very, very dumb, falling light years short of the novel's depth. [July 2009, p.77]

Massively ambitious, massively unplayable. [Sept 2007, p.74]

The dialogue is disappointing, being a case of exhausting the options rather than picking the right thing to say. [Apr 2007, p.68]

Awkward, clumsy, and unpolished. [Sept 2007, p.85]

Although the first half of the game falls into a lull of mundane and repetitive baddies, it definitely becomes more interesting, difficult and intense toward the closing acts. But dont' expect brilliant innovation. [Oct 2008, p.58]

It's a shame this isn't a hopelessly bad game, otherwise I could've called it "BlackShite" and been done with it, but instead it teeters on the edge of being a worthwhile purchase before deciding it's comfortable being ordinary and forgettable. [Feb 2008, p.72]