Ugly and full of bugs, but also quite fun and possessing some good ideas - an interesting start for an MMO. [Issue#231, p.73]

A lifeless case of quantity over quality that strives for great heights but technically falls short in every department. Despite the name attached to it, it's not a winner. [Issue#267, p.74]

A waste of time once you've mastered the strike technique. [Issue#163, p.86]

It's not entirely broken, it is entirely pointless. [Issue#193, p.95]

A game that's best left on the digital shelf. [Issue#184, p.85]

Trials of Topoq is tedious, and you really need floating arms to play it. [Issue#159, p.97]

Amazingly bland and perfunctory vehicular action, with seemingly no-one online to play with. Instantly forgettable. Our advice: just keep playing Rocket League. [Issue#266, p.68]

The core game mechanics and systems are as solid as ever for the most part, but the game engine is wobbly and the sheer lack of content is just impossible to ignore. [Issue#260, p.70]

Another year, another exercise in abject mediocrity, another Yuke's WWE Game. [Issue#212, p.96]

Beneath the lavish art style and the high quality production..., Broken Age ends up feeling rather empty and desolate. [Issue#257, p.72]

Far more likely to make you fall asleep than feel any excitement. [Issue#217, p.82]

It's a little slow to draw in today's wham-bam crowd, so the score reflects those coming in cold. [Issue#220, p.81]

With less personality than a Dynasty Warriors game, totally forgettable story and sparse content, Arslan is only somewhat redeemed by its minor combat improvements. [Issue#268, p.76]

This is average stuff, and occasionally it's worse than that. [Issue#154, p.76]

Worth a punt for its paltry asking price. [Issue#186, p.87]

It's so obviously a "Micro Machines" rip off that it's just insulting. [Issue 144, p.92]

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.