If horror films where the screams are sufficiently high-pitched to get the neighbourhood dogs howling are your kind of thing, then ObsCure II is easy to get into, not too taxing on the brain and just about competent enough to keep you playing for its 15-hour duration.

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]

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

Kane's Wrath is undeniably good value, but it is a bipolar expansion. While the campaign mode is at times unbalanced and blood-pissingly annoying, the Global Conquest mode is hours of the finest strategy action I've ever played.

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

The science may be sub-"Torchwood," but puzzle logic is intact. [June 2008, p.79]

While the story is light and terribly translated at times, the quests are rewarding enough (resource-wise) to keep you doing them. [June 2008, p.78]

If you can turn a blind eye to the ropey skirmishes, you'll be in for weeks of city building goodness. [Apr 2006, p.85]

In adding to the weight of maps and playable factions, as a collection, Dawn of War with Soulstorm alongside it sets itself apart from a lot of the more youthful games out there. [Apr 2008, p.66]

It's really hard to put into words how excruciatingly bad the acting is, but the phrase "unnecessary pauses" comes to mind. [Nov 2008, p.77]

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

Criminal lack of story. [June 2008, p.76]

FreeTime isn't bad. Actually, it's very good. [June 2008, p.80]

A puddle-deep affair that struggles to justify a full-price release. [Apr 2008, p.72]

Controlling the horse is a rather troublesome thing on the keyboard, and there's no option to use a gamepad. [Mar 2008, p.82]

A technological feat mingled with a fun, yet shallow game. [May 2008, p.76]

That this is the last game in the Penumbra series is a genuine tragegy, because the series has finally found its footing. [Apr 2006, p.84]

This may be Sam and Max at their most entertaining, but it's not their most logically coherent outing. [May 2008, p.89]

This game fails to bring anything of any lasting substance to the standing-room only tactical shooter party. [Apr 2006, p.82]

Light years ahead of the competition and to miss it would be unforgivable. And if another reviewer writes a better box-friendly quote than that, I'll piss in their face. [May 2008, p.80]

By peddling this sort of single-minded crud to children EA are creating a new generation of absolute morons who won't be able to think one step ahead of themselves. [May 2008, p.86]

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

What TWEW lacks in elegance and originality, it makes up for with flashes of imagination and brilliance that have been lacking in the inspirational franchise. [Oct 2008, p.63]

It's slicker, more varied and better-looking than its predecessor. [Oct 2007, p.84]

A lazy game that makes no effort to be atmospheric or fun, leaving only a husk of ideas that could have, potentially, been fun. [Apr 2008, p.76]

A strangely satisfying and therapeutic experience. [Jan 2008, p.86]

If you can, buy this with four friends, make a team and watch in awe as an excellent RPSRPGRTS unfolds around you. [Apr 2008, p.74]

Moai does manage to disguise the triple-puzzle rut of the series better than the other episodes. [May 2008, p.89]