Fails miserably. [Issue#186, p.87]

Fuel is just too ugly, unpolished and lacking in focus to have any impact on the genre, crossing the finish line on just the wrong side of average.

Feels more like an expansion than a genuine innovation. [Issue#207, p.92]

No Mercy's biggest failing though is its atrocious netcode that makes playing games a nightmare. [Issue#182, p.83]

Inversion flirts with the idea of having ideas, but then gives up all pretence of inventiveness and settles for being a bland and forgettable third-person shooter. [Issue#220, p.80]

Boogie will probably hold appeal for any young aspiring X Factor winner that's currently running his bike ragged to buy a PS3. [Issue#161, p.99]

Not the worst sports game ever made, and capable of producing some enjoyment in multiplayer mode. But it won't last, will get annoying, and you will get very bored. [Issue#209, p.94]

It's dull, dull, dull and chockablock with the blandest levels and flick-the-right-switch challenges. [Issue 141, p.96]

The only truly decent thing in the game is the music, and the fact that it's undeniably cool to explore the sets from the trilogy. [Issue#154, p.68]

A clunky, confused mess of a game that simply doesn't know what it wants to be. There's comfort in how compulsive it can be, but that factor doesn't magically turn Dragon's Dogma into anything other than a flawed, dull and unfair experience. [Issue#218, p.76]

Lack of replayability. [Issue#185, p.87]

Released for free, this would have been an interesting experiment – if still backed up with a boring, chugging racing game. As it stands it's the latter point mixed in with a £20-shaped slap in the face. Absolutely pointless.

Despite the fact that this entry does make some genuine improvements, it fails to innovate enough to save the series. [Issue#252, p.66]

Dull and ever so slightly irritating. [Issue#146, p.95]

Does a good job of encapsulating the unique feel of Japanese horror, but only the most dedicated fans of the genre will persevere through the excessive description and dull mechanics in order to unlock every ending here. [Issue#229, p.83]

With Quantum Theory and Dark Void, Airtight has proven that it’s capable of creating interesting worlds with inventive mechanics, yet little of this is apparent in Murdered: Soul Suspect, a game that fails to develop its ideas beyond the very basics.

This is far from the return to form many have expected, and we now see why Sega was so keen to keep its new take on Sonic’s character a secret. Despite some promising moments, Sonic Unleashed collapses under the weight of its flaws.

It's short, dull and looks awful. Avoid. [Issue#184, p.72]

It's just not enough. [Issue#184, p.85]

As dull as the source material. [Issue#170, p.85]

Another showcase for how boring seemingly every idea is thrown at Move. [Issue#213, p.92]

As DLC for FIFA 12 this would be slightly more palatable, but as a full scale release it's not up to scratch. [Issue#217, p.78]

As much as we enjoyed Dead Space and look forward to its sequel, this really is a poor effort from Sumo Digital and Visceral Games. [Issue#199, p.103]

The replay value ain't up to much, either. [Issue#182, p.77]

A hollow, morbidly generic, barely functional game. [Issue#163, p.84]

Zombies don't automatically make a game good: remember this simple fact. [Issue#189, p.79]

For some, the idea of fighting through repetitive levels will be just that: a slog. [Issue#229, p.82]

Boring to play. [Issue#185, p.83]

The price is too high for what you get, especially if you factor in the free version available online. [Issue#153, p.75]

Irritation, apathy, mild disinterest - just a few things we felt while playing Moon Diver. [Issue#205, p.94]

Phantom Fortress has got smoe serious problems with minigames. [Issue#169, p.86]

The problem is the stupidity of your defence - the number on their shirts apparently representing their IQ. [Issue 141, p.102]

A central QTE mechanic [is] old by the second mission. [Issue#214, p.78]

Horrific controls. [Issue#186, p.87]

Frustrates and infuriates as poor design decisions smash into each other with alarming regularity. A real letdown, given the series it comes from, but in actuality this is as close to an SSX game as it is Tetris. [Issue#216, p.70]

Depends too much on trial and error. [Issue#170, p.91]

It's glitchy. [Issue#206, p.94]

A completely forgettable experience. [Issue 145, p.86]

Boring within minutes. [Issue#221, p.75]

If you get it for nothing, give it a half an hour. If you don't, don't. [Issue#219, p.81]

A humdrum shooter that runs on unabashed machismo and is completely devoid of imagination. [Issue#231, p.68]

A mediocre shooter tainted by the dullest of shootouts. [Issue#225, p.78]

Improvements have been made, but Koei's catering to its market here. [Issue#181, p.85]

Pirates was a children's movie that appealed to adults, whereas this will appeal to no-one. [Issue 143, p.93]

A tour de force in vapidity. [Issue#156, p.92]

You know those value brands that you often find in the big supermarkets? Fair Fencer F is the JRPG equivalent. With so much else around, it's not one we can recommend. [Issue#250, p.70]

Congratulations on a massive failure, this one is going in the history books. [Issue#163, p.90]

While it's not impossible to see why this series is so popular, each iteration fails to differentiate itself enough, and its poor gameplay, woeful design and awful sound repeatedly fails to impress. [Issue#176, p.92]

What interesting ideas are here end up lost beneath a tidal wave of bad ones. [Issue#223, p.87]

A derivative hack-and-slasher which offers nothing new and does nothing old particularly well. [Issue#213, p.89]

Poor design and an intrusive calibration mechanism result in a title that frustrates more than it excites. [Issue#199, p.91]

The battle system is interesting, but everything else about LR is sub-par. [Issue#191, p.79]

Occasionally average, but it's mostly dull and problematic. [Issue#157, p.90]

A nightmare to set up. [Issue#201, p.99]

A bold experiment, but one that ends up being a heap of cynical, misguided half-game. [Issue#206, p.86]

This game screams 'avoid'. [Issue#205, p.90]

It's as if Hydravision made a list of all that's tiresome about this genre then carefully made sure not one item on the list was left out of this game. Then added co-op to apologise for it. [Issue#157, p.91]

Not enough to warrant the asking price. [Issue#182, p.75]

A platformer that will leave anyone who doesn't remember the original cold. [Issue#234, p.80]

A great concept, but one whose execution screams for another year in development. [Issue#184, p.79]

Button-hammering combos, awful graphics, dire plot and annoying side-quests culminate in a big cloud of sweary yet camp violence. [Issue#139, p.92]

A mundane button-bashing title. [Issue#170, p.85]

Poor gameplay, substandard graphics and a lack of vision severely limit its appeal to shooter fans. [Issue#165, p.86]

Generic platforming. [Issue#153, p.68]

There just is no point in Raging Blast existing. [Issue#186, p.81]

It's a brief distraction and sometimes interesting, if you get to watch some kid in Moscow making the most beautiful sounds you've ever heard, but that doesn't exactly happen all the time.

A functional open world game, Mad Max captures none of what makes its source material great. Missions are uninteresting, the world is dead and there are next to no damn car chases. [Issue#262, p.64]

Just too basic to illicit any kind of reaction at all, besides boredom. [Issue#191, p.78]

Utterly avoidable and culturally irrelevant. [Issue#160, p.91]

It's also little more than a glorified back catalogue and the PS Vita launch line-up is stuffed to the point where this is almost entirely redundant. Unless you really like Beat It. Taptap!

Lots of stealth sections (too awkward), lots of puzzles (too hard), lots of fighting (too weird), lots of cutscenes (too many.) [Issue 141, p.97]

Buggy, ugly, and somehow unfinished after ten years...A huge disappointment. [Issue#229, p.68]

Just watch the movie and play Monkey Ball. [Issue#222, p.81]

A totally unnecessary expansion that actually adds very little. [Issue#229, p.78]

Ridiculously simple. [Issue#186, p.87]

Don't bother. [Issue#220, p.79]

Unresponsive controls and a twitchy camera, however, are a little harder to swallow and when added to the sheer monotony of the experience, you just end up with [a] weak title. [Issue 143, p.94]

It just isn't any fun. The diving and the multiplayer are amusing for a short time, but after that you'll be left wondering why you didn't buy "Pro Evo 5" instead. [Issue 142, p.95]

For an hour or so Supremacy MMA is mildly entertaining, but its lack of depth, strange submission systems and attempts to move away from many of the sport's fundamentals makes it a difficult sell. [Issue#211, p.85]

Not the worst game ever made, just doing a very good job of mimicking it on first impressions. [Issue#211, p.96]

A disappointing addition to an enjoyable game. [Issue#190, p.91]

All style and no substance...a dull, derivative slasher. [Issue#215, p.82]

Bland, boring and all too brief. [Issue#224, p.78]

Lacking. [Issue#220, p.76]

An insufferably boring platformer unworthy of attention. [Issue #150, p.91]

Avoid, as per usual. [Issue#155, p.90]

The worst thing about Genji: Days of hte Blade is that it doesn't just feel like a dated Playstation 3 game, it feels like a dated PS2 game also. [Issue 148, p.64]

Dull, and it never provides any sense of fun. [Issue#157, p.86]

Generic game making at its worst. [Issue#202, p.91]

Pointless. [Issue#155, p.89]

Irritating to the extreme, here is a game that deserves nothing but your complete ignorance. [Issue#139, p.97]

Matt Hazard was a good idea that could have been something like the gaming equivalent of Naked Gun. Unfortunately, Vicious Cycle messed it up, so as well as a bad game, we must now bear the disappointment of a wasted premise.

Ugly in every sense of the word. There’s almost nothing remotely likeable about Godfather II, and it’s glitchy and scruffy. One of the poorest EA games in a long time.

It's not a particularly fun game, but it does manage to capture the essence of the series pretty well, and has a couple of clever ideas that do make it enjoyable enough to play. [Issue#164, p.93]

Not offensively bad, just uninspired and lazy in every way. [Issue#212, p.99]

It's buggy, slightly broken and well worth avoiding. [Issue#181, p.84]

You'll find no joy in smiting these pitiful excuses for minions. [Issue#206, p.88]

Rubbish, but so bizarre as to be fun. That said, we wouldn't recommend paying real money for this, but if you happen across it in a drainage ditch take it home and play it. [Issue#218, p.81]