Despite my own selfish reservations, the switch to an attack focus is a very good thing. [Christmas 2006, p.78]

The multiplayer is what you'd expect: solid, if generic, shooting action around the levels that bored you in single-player. [Nov 2006, p.84]

A crippling absense in the multiplayer is online play. [June 2008, p.81]

Sadly, once the script stops, the game quickly becomes a joyless chore. [May 2006, p.90]

From the unfriendly, baffling set-up screen, everything is unwieldy and cobbled together. [Oct 2006, p.79]

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

The AI doesn't match up to the ambition. [Aug 2006, p.68]

Unfortunately, an hour's excitement out of eight is poor going, so RF Online is best played only if you enjoy continual grind with minimal reward. Most of us get enough of that at work.

Sad to say, the lumbering combat, laborious controls, frankly bizarre collision detection and remarkably glitchy graphics really put a bit of a kibosh on things. Disengage. [Mar 2007, p.70]

Food poisoning. [Dec 2007, p.81]

If you have a knowledge and love of golf, this might give you a more substantial - if less fun - game than "Tiger Woods."

Sadly, it seems Wing Commander fans will have to wait a bit longer for their salvation. [Dec 2008, p.69]

It's for kids and that's fine. But children deserve better. Get them a version they can actually control. Better still, get your beloved sprogs a game that won't decay their minds through dumb repetition. [June 2007, p.82]

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

A series that increasingly looks stuck in the past. [Jan 2007, p.77]

This is a tale best told on paper, if only because the book doesn't have such awful music and voice acting, and it isn't shoe-horned into a generic RPG template. [May 2008, p.88]

Hateful game. [Sept 2008, p.60]

With some ropey PC controls, SAW's something of a gory stinkpot. [Apr 2010, p.90]

Not that much more than meets the eye. [Oct 2007, p.78]

Sadly, much of the novelty wore off soon after and the rest of the game left me, just like many in the film, dead in the water.

Lacks any sane rationale behind its price and hides within it a game that could have been so much more, but just isn't. [Jan 2008, p.78]

Typography aside, Battle of Europe is an enjoyable game that simply fails to distinguish itself as a particularly great one. [Oct 2006, p.65]

If you absolutely must play this game, and the wretched commercial system that chugged out this idiot child hasn't put you off the whole sorry shebang, then get a console version. Please don't buy this. [Oct 2006, p.74]

Everything about it feels floaty and disconnected, slowing down time makes you feel really sluggish and inaccurate, and you can forget about hitting anything while driving as your crosshair is jerked about rudely like a pogo-stick at a sexy bikini photoshoot. [Dec 2006, p.80]

It's a bit shit...Dialogue is laughably bad. [Christmas 2006, p.94]

The menus are too awkward - selecting a betting amount is fiddly beyond reason - and there's too much competition out there for Stacked to distinguish itself as anything other than one of the ugly cliches from its own character selection menu. [June 2007, p.74]

Patently unrecommendable. [July 2008, p.87]

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