Humour doesn't work. [June 2010, p.86]

Matters are made worse by the pre-2003 3D models, the atrocious voice acting, and the shocking writing. [Sept 2008, p.77]

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

Paying money for something like this shameless and undercooked feels like shaking the hand of the guy who's shagging your wife. [May 2007, p.76]

While it lacks the charm and cleverness of the "Broken Sword" games, it retains the compelling one-more-chapter allure of the novel. [Aug 2006, p.83]

That the developers have endeavoured - and succeeded - in modelling the social turmoil of the period makes this a unique, rewarding, and dense experience that demands dedication and will reward players with weeks, if not months, of unique historical wargaming. [Sept 2006, p.80]

The plot is incoherent, with the panache of a 12-year-old's erotic Harry Potter fiction and the finish of a turd laced with pipe cleaners and glass. [Feb 2008, p.89]

It's the least fun I've had since I had a catheter fitted during a spell in the hospital. [May 2008, p.82]

Avoid. [Nov 2008, p.75]

A very lacklustre package. [Sept 2006, p.72]

Unless my brain is being fried by professor Xavier's Cerebro machine, I quite enjoyed X-Men: The Official Game. [Aug 2006, p.81]

It's choked by its own clumsy presentation and inability to develop its own ideas. [July 2007, p.83]

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

Aaaaaaagh! [Oct 2009, p.72]

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

It has nothing to offer that we haven't already seen in a thousand other hack-and-slash adventures. [Feb 2007, p.82]

Warriors Orochi never rises above simple hack-and-slash, but is fun, visceral and silly, with daft voice acting and Asian techno-jazz. [June 2008, p.83]

Sadly, ten years on, Hospital Tycoon has added nothing new to "Theme Hospital's" stellar gameplay and ends up feeling, a bit like its subject, cold and clinical. [Aug 2007, p.75]

It's mostly bland, somewhat interactive and slightly confusing. An improvement, then. [Oct 2007, p.75]

Mad Doc needs to do the full makeover in the expansion. [Jan 2008, p.72]

Entirely average. [Feb 2009, p.83]

Just because this game isn't as cynical as "The Godfather's" art-slashing antics, doesn't mean it's any good - it's with great regret I have to say it's not. [Nov 2006, p.74]

The script and the acting is great, but the imagination going into the levels is hugely lacking. [Oct 2006, p.78]

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

The handling is fairly woolly and there's no real sense of speed, but there's probably 20 quid's worth of fun.

This content pack really is unmitigated bum. [Sept 2007, p.82]

It hangs together. [Oct 2008, p.63]

Bad everything. [Feb 2010, p.78]