A solid - and sometimes spectacular - representation of the game. [Issue#215, p.83]

Virtua Tennis is more accessible and the better multiplayer game. [Issue#215, p.83]

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

It's compulsive - as all good action RPGs need to be - but lacks the quality to make it a game for all tastes. [Issue#215, p.80]

It's not as clever or as remarkable as the game it follows, but The Darkness II is still a great deal of fun for its six hours running time. [Issue#215, p.78]

Vita's black sheep. It's not awful by any stretch of the imagination, but it's difficult to recommend. [Issue#215, p.77]

A strong sense of having seen it all before and some forgettable touch screen integration doesn't stop Virtua Tennis 4 from being a fun fit for Vita. [Issue#215, p.76]

Brilliant, exciting, fun and impressive - but also closely following an established formula and throwing in mostly pointless, gimmicky extras - Golden Abyss is a reason to own PSVita, but it also shows Uncharted will need to innovate in order to survive. [Issue#215, p.70]

Its haunting atmosphere sure to leave a mark – just as, say, Flower did before it.

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.

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!

It's just so very, very dull. Turbo blurs the screen slightly and makes the colours uglier. The shortcuts are so timid and unexciting you're not even sure if they're shortcuts or poor flagged alternative routes you've accidentally stumbled upon.

Dungeon Hunter: Alliance is a bland port of a bland game doing bland things on an exciting system. Nothing else to see here. Move along.

It's not the game you want to justify your purchase of a Vita, as it won't have you signing the merits of its various technical features and thanking the Lord for a rear touchpad. But it's something more important than that – fun.

There's no great leaps for the series and it doesn't take huge advantage of the hardware's unique features, but it's still very bloody good.

Niggles aside, this is one of Vita's best games, a great game of football and a horrendous time-waster. Good enough for us.

It provides a basic distraction. It offers an introduction to control methods that both might be unfamiliar to Vita users and might not even end up being used in future games. It does what it means to and it handles itself competently – you'll just be bored of it within a week.

Make no mistake: Reality Fighters is a reasonably impressive technical showpiece first and foremost. The game, which is unfortunately the main draw and the main reason to buy the thing, is an afterthought. And a pretty poor one at that.

There's an inevitable faltering in the fact that this is 'merely' WipEout again – there's not too much that can be done with the formula, but to be honest there's little we'd want to see done to change things up. Though a crossover with PSone's Rollcage, thus adding wheeled vehicles, would be pretty nifty. All the same, this does mean you're getting a game made up of a very good experience – but a very good experience you've played through seven times before. Eight if you had an N64. WipEout 2048 still comes with an unconditional recommendation.

This is the choice for those wanting a relaxing, satisfying time, while Blazblue should be the choice for those looking to learn and hone their craft.

It trumps the last version on PS3 by merit of opening up more player options – generally it's the same game, but the method of taking a shot can use any one of five different mechanisms. Other than that it's business as usual – madly compulsive, quick to pick up and difficult to master, questionable representation of young girls.

It's a shame to see Telltale Games pump out such drivel. [Feb 2012, p.83]

Brilliant. [Feb 2012, p.83]

A surprisingly good effort. [Feb 2012, p.83]

A pleasant last hoorah for your PSP. [Feb 2012, p.83]

A rather tame experience. [Feb 2012, p.82]

Cheap as chips and wonderfully nostalgic, even for new players. [Feb 2012, p.81]

It will freshen up DC Universe for veterans, but new players should avid it altogether. [Feb 2012, p.81]