A solid idea, but that's all. [Dec 2016, p.73]

The story is muddled and not engaging, which could be forgivable if the action was more involving. Using the monocle to see clues is a nice idea, but it’s underutilised and poorly implemented (though it’s possible some of this could be a porting error). The encounters with the Mother are successfully tense, and the (few) monster designs are good. It’s almost a shame you don’t see more of them. Silver Chains does achieve some solid jump scares and would be worth a run-through with friends if you can pick it up in a sale. Overall, though, it sadly lacks both substance and polish. [Issue#186, p.85]

The lack of multiplayer is baffling. [July 2014, p.80]

Frustration is bad enough, but pain? Unacceptable. [Issue#186, p.82]

If you’re looking for a satisfying sneaky experience, then last year’s Sniper Elite delivers far more than Ghost Warrior 2, which is already destined to be filler for the pre-owned shelves at your local retailer. The odd joyful kill can’t make up for its appalling visuals, and this frustratingly hollow experience misses its target entirely.

Half-arsed superhero rubbish. [Christmas 2008, p.119]

Hell, Speedwalking Arcade would have more longevity than this. [Feb 2010, p.114]

Juddering. [July 2014, p.93]

This isn't an offensively bad game, merely a game with no purpose. [Sept 2012, p.115]

Brain-munchingly dull. [Aug 2012, p.111]

The shooting is less responsive, because Space Junkies doesn’t allow you to use PS Move controllers. Instead, you aim by pointing the DualShock – something that can work in slower-paced VR shooters like Resident Evil 7, but just isn’t suited to frenetic head-to-head combat, especially when the game’s crossplay links you up with PC players using full motion controls. [Issue#162, p.82]

A ham-fisted cover shooter with sloppy controls and dully weaponry (read: spells). [Sept 2011, p.116]

Poorly thought out and ultimately frustrating. [Oct 2007, p.108]

A mobile freemium game in a poor disguise, then, Guns Up! feels soulless, with all the variety locked-up tight, early on, behind level gates and constant, nagging pleas for cash. [Feb 2016, p.90]

Little more than an unfortunate blip on the gaming radar. [Sept 2011, p.116]

Like olden days Command & Conquer. Only minus the combat, the war, and the fun. [Sept 2011, p.116]

The on-foot sections provide passable, brain-numbing fun and fighting fans will enjoy collecting new combos and going up against familiar end-of-level bosses. But if you're expecting anything new or intellectually stimulating you're in for a bumpy ride. [Mar 2007, p.115]

It's essentially a third-person hack 'n' slash with an RPG film laid over the top.

By no means a disaster, but it captures none of the majestic, mechaphiliac idiocy of the movies. [Sept 2011, p.117]

Never has mass slaughter felt so pedestrian. [May 2011, p.103]

With a fantastic lineup, interesting fresh mechanics like the minions, and a bounty target being placed on the player performing best, Bounty Battle was in a good position to succeed, but it’s frankly hampered by being clunky and not much fun to play. A real shame. [Issue#181, p.86]

The combat system is leaden. [Aug 2007, p.114]

Misjudged difficulty and cumbersome controls. [Aug 2012, p.115]

It's cheesily charming in its own way, but this is one of PS3's most low-rent titles. [Dec 2011, p.91]

Tedious enemies. [Aug 2012, p.117]

Is it enough to make you forget you spent ten minutes trying to load a gun, or ignore the way the characters look like they were made in 1998, or forgive a story that delivers the emotional impact of Question Of Sport repeats? No. [Issue#176, p.74]

As far as being an actioner that's worthy of your time, this is not up to the standard we'd expect. In fact, it's nowhere Nier. [June 2010, p.105]

Maybe with another update Surgeon Sim will be a slice of VR brilliance, but until then, it's time to pull the plug and call it. [Feb 2017, p.96]

Trials of the Not-Very-Good Dragon, more like. A collection of mismatched parts, haphazardly assembled, this has to be one of 2016's biggest disappointments so far. [Sept 2016, p.106]

It's a minor tragedy that there are so many false starts within. [June 2016, p.87]

Botched and broken, irritating and offensive, this samey, soulless sandbox fails to overthrow the old regime's ruling shooters. Good guns, mind. [July 2016, p.75]

It's ambitious, but there's no real spark of life. [Sept 2016, p.111]

Even at a penny shy of five quid, this is hard to recommend. [Issue#158, p.86]

It just feels like it was made by children. And not in a cute way. [June 2016, p.94]

Shambles. [Aug 2008, p.104]

It's a solid enough bit of brain training, but there's nothing new here, nor anything more fun than a face full of yellow snow. [May 2011, p.113]

Only buy this game if you like watching little blue things die. [May 2011, p.113]

Feeble mimic. [Spring 2011, p.108]

Bland weapons and generic enemies. [Spring 2011, p.111]

A lazy wasteful mess. [June 2008, p.103]

A technical marvel this is not, but beneath the detritus lie some good ideas, at least. Open-world survival horror is a scintillating concept, conjuring images of casing out suspects at will, perhaps stumbling upon situations that blow the mystery wide open by chance. The reality’s much grimmer, of course – with so little to do between missions except tedious driving challenges, you often find yourself sleeping through the day to hurry it along.

Lamely executed. [July 2016, p.94]

Feels like the sort of shovelware your mate sneaked onto the school PCs in 1996. [Dec 2009, p.18]

The only redeemeing feature is that you don't have to deal with the AI's incompetence as much when playing against a mate. [Apr 2008, p.104]

More hands-on control makes for a marked improvement on last year's sadistically tedious effort. [Sept 2013, p.86]

A game that while atmospheric, turns monotonous very quickly, and whose ideas are never developed in a way that makes it interesting to play. [Issue#184, p.86]

An interesting concept with half-decent story beats, dragged to hell by shonky puzzles, odd dialogue jumps and bugs that are far more terrifying than the subject matter. [Aug 2014, p.87]

The game mostly consists of busywork. [July 2009, p.102]

It's basically an 8-bit knock-off of Wipeout, without all the fun destructive bits like mines or rockets. [June 2010, p.113]

Another of Sony's bite-sized attempts to make motion control work, and although skydiving's a better idea than skiiing (seek out "Feel Ski" for proof - or rather, don't), it still isn't much fun. [Mar 2008, p.113]

In a game build around multiplayer, it's baffling that the developer would undermine any gains made through Infinity being freely available by making it so difficult to play once you have it. [Aug 2014, p.91]

A Move interface would have worked better. [Jan 2012, p.114]

It takes a decent idea, then tries to compensate for its unpredictable framerate with grinding and shooting and powerslides that just make it a confusing mess. [Apr 2008, p.112]

Dull puzzles. [Sept 2008, p.96]

That those thrills are buried beneath so much frustration, however, is utter madness. [Aug 2014, p.94]

Just mildly incomprehensible. [May 2011, p.118]

If you stripped away the beloved license and were left with the barebones mechanics on show here, this would be a [twenty]. It's only the appeal of the iconic leviathans and John Williams' wonderful score which push Jurassic Park ever so slightly above awful.

The wrestling element has been butchered. [May 2007, p.90]

A swing and a miss, but a game that at least delivers an easily wieldable flying model and holds your attention for the first few missions by virtue of endless 'splosions. [Sept 2013, p.95]

Not just another fumbled tie-in but a painfully wasted opportunity.

Stop buying this crap and eventually they'll either cease making it, or make it better. [Sept 2009, p.104]

I wanted Amy to be good. It's a small developer trying to do something different, and a quality PSN survival horror game would have been perfect. But this is technically shoddy, poorly designed and unbearably frustrating. There's the odd moment when you care, but a dose of pure anger is never far behind.

Random turn-based combat and impenetrable inventory. [Spring 2011, p.116]

Mixed up and odd, like a platypus in a petting zoo. [Spring 2011, p.116]

It's all too simple, and a little basic, and aside from brief moments of arcade fun brings little new to PS VR. [June 2018, p.80]

An incoherent mix of unattractive art styles and an absurd plot. [Apr 2011, p.114]

An exercise in tedium. [Spring 2011, p.117]

The menus are cumbersome. [May 2009, p.99]

Far too often, Sports Bar VR takes its ball and goes home. [Christmas 2016, p.86]

Storm's thunderthighs remain strangely alluring though. [Apr 2011, p.118]

Placing your shots feels random. [July 2007, p.109]

In a word, "poor." [July 2010, p.107]

The only upside is the soundtrack. [Issue#51, p103]

It's a brilliant idea, let down irreparably by a sub-bar fighting engine. [May 2007, p.114]

One of the worst lightgun titles ever. [Christmas 2010]

Punishingly samey environments. [Aug 2017, p.93]

You realise that you've been driving across the same square of virtual earth for half of a real-life hour, and you feel empty inside. [Aug 2015, p.90]

While it's entertaining at first, the lack of variety leaves a sour taste. [Christmas 2011, p.104]

Look, I didn't say they were fun objectives. [Feb 2010, p.104]

Sometimes you'll want to hit yourself hard in the head with your controller, jus to break up the monotony. [Christmas 2011, p.105]

Gameplay is sandwiched between terrible cut-scenes. [Feb 2013, p.104]

There's just too much wrong at the grass roots level. [Nov 2014, p.92]

Looking past the glitches, Wander's environment fails to reward your curiosity. [Aug 2015, p.94]

Plagued with loading times and bad dialogue. [Dec 2012, p.117]

Pinball is awesome - this is just a massively unsatisfying version of it. [Dec 2009, p.18]

There's some mild appeal. [Christmas 2010]

Given that fans of the movie have surely long-since moved on, there is simply no reason for this game to exist. [May 2007, p.120]

Repetitive gameplay, soulless visuals, and uncomfortable fan service. [May 2018, p.80]

There's an element of novelty in the first few minutes of play, but it doesn't last long. It isn't even the sketchy gameplay that sinks this Battleship – it's the abhorrently commercial objective apparent in every second of rushed gameplay. There's no artistic vision here, and the original idea at its core hasn't been given the time and love needed to build a coherent or enjoyable game.

It's not worth it, mate. [Christmas 2008, p.116]

If the tracking listing consisted of Lady Gaga and Crystal Castles, twiddling a little arrow around and hitting the face buttons might be more satisfying. [Sept 2010, p.117]

A platformer in a supremely pixellated visual style. [Feb 2013, p.107]

There's nothing amazing about this Spidey. [Christmas 2011, p.115]

A good narrative could have saved Saint Seiya from bargain bin oblivion. [Feb 2014, p.94]

Fleeting moments of fun and an improved Escalation mode aren't enough to save Spark from becoming yet another bland tie-in destined for the bargain bin base. [Sept 2014, p.106]

Travis Strikes Again spends so much time calling back to other games, it forgets to be fun itself. [Issue#169, p.92]

Among the rubble there are elements of what could be a good game, but it's not worth your time to excavate them. Technically disastrous, it lets down its own story. [Sept 2014, p.111]

But MLB 09 instead. Now. [June 2009, p.96]