It's no Diablo, but this is decent nonetheless. [July 2011, p.95]

Not good enough to be set free, not bad enough to be tossed to the lions. [July 2011, p.95]

Laborious menus. [July 2011, p.95]

Get/bribe some mates and there's a great game here. [July 2011, p.92]

Weirdly charming. [July 2011, p.91]

Sexually frustrated robots aside, the gimmick of captaining two spacecraft means this is worth a look. [July 2011, p.91]

Might lack depth, but it certainly isn't short of fire power. [July 2011, p.91]

Maybe the linear route was cheaper, but the lesson is if you want to go to Mars, don't do it on a budget. [July 2011, p.90]

Sucker Punch has raised its game and then some. [July 2011, p.86]

It's still playable, but needs some extra coaching next time out. [June 2011, p.112]

It fatally crosses the streams after only a short amount of time. [June 2011, p.112]

Can it balls. [June 2011, p.112]

Has pleasingly strong gunplay. [June 2011, p.112]

Feels oddly satisfying. [June 2011, p.112]

Natural selection has rarely felt crueller. [June 2011, p.112]

At just five levels, the price is a little cheeky, so only cough up if giant lizards in ballet pumps get you really hot. [June 2011, p.111]

Looks awesome in a retro, scattering-of-bright-pixels way, but playing is like trying to perform keyhole surgery after a unicorn has barfed glitter straight into your eyes. [June 2011, p.111]

It's all pleasingly brightly coloured. [June 2011, p.111]

The complexity ramps up as you're given more tools to use in your liquid logic tests, but sadly the excitement never does. [June 2011, p.111]

A pitiful tie-in to a sub-standard movie. [June 2011, p.111]

The first half hour of this stat-heavy RPG is as incomprehensible as Mission: Impossible in Turkish. [June 2011, p.111]

A functional dancer, with no signs of its subject's genius. [June 2011, p.110]

A poor, watered-down substitute that even the most devoted space junkie can afford to skip. [June 2011, p.110]

A game so retro it feels like the illegitimate offspring of early Castlevania and Final Fantasy titles. [June 2011, p.109]

Far deeper than it first appears - though its extended loading times do leave a bitter aftertaste. [June 2011, p.109]

The team-based multiplayer is undeniably good. [June 2011, p.108]

Lord knows how long the San Diego boys can continue trumping themselves year after year, but for now their golden touch shows no sign of fading. [June 2011, p.106]

An involving story. [June 2011, p.103]

Deeply frustrating lack of checkpoints holds it back from retro greatness. [June 2011, p.103]

A solid, nostalgic fighter, but lack of depth in the core combat means it's unlikely to hold you attention for long in a crowded genre - and Street Fighter still pummels it into the dirt. [June 2011, p.102]

A great example of mould-breaking gaming at its best. [June 2011, p.100]

Helping you keep that momentum is a masterful handling model. [June 2011, p.96]

This golfing great's finally close to its best again. [May 2011, p.118]

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

If you see it in the bargain bin or have sired offspring in the last 15 years, this isn't the worst use of your moolah. [May 2011, p.118]

Low on longevity, but Slam Bolt Scrappers is loud, brash and brilliantly blocky. [May 2011, p.118]

Another half-hearted adventure to leave on the shelf. [May 2011, p.118]

There's not much depth, but plenty of eye candy, puzzling and cute. [May 2011, p.117]

There's no risk of failing the puzzles. [May 2011, p.117]

Decent, but no improvement on the (now cheaper) earlier games. [May 2011, p.117]

There isn't really a climax. It just finishes, coitus interruptus-style. [May 2011, p.114]

A teeny bit repetitive. [May 2011, p.113]

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

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]

As stylish as it is, it's never quite as likeable. [May 2011, p.113]

Visceral chose to stay so close to what's gone before. [May 2011, p.112]

The series to beat for nostalgic platforming. [May 2011, p.112]

Sure, it's no damp squib, but it's certainly not the firework display it should have been. [May 2011, p.110]

Any wrestling fanatic worth his salt will be in as soon as he sees the roster. [May 2011, p.108]

For 30quid there's a ton of high-quality gameplay here. [May 2011, p.106]

Ugly and limited. [May 2011, p.103]

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

Once you hit the sweet spots, it's the most satisfying ting on PSP. [May 2011, p.102]

The core of the experience is the racing. [May 2011, p.100]

Push through the early learning curve and you'll find an enjoyable blend of authenticity and gameplay that's perfect for anyone wanting to rank up their PlayStation soldiering. [May 2011, p.96]

Strung together in gleeful union, it's impressive and exhilarating. [Jan 2011, p.116]

It's more Golden Rasberry than red carpet. [Apr 2011, p.119]

You'd be better off being put to sleep for all eternity. [Apr 2011, p.118]

Only minus the satisfying touch-screen interaction. [Apr 2011, p.118]

Stupid. [Apr 2011, p.118]

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

Well-designed and beautifully animated. [Apr 2011, p.118]

The longer you play it, too, the more enjoyment you'll get out of it, but only because you start to accept TDU2's many shortcomings and instead enjoy its endless possibilities. [Apr 2011, p.116]

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

Despite sophisticated wand-waving, this tires fast. [Apr 2011, p.114]

If, like the makers of this game, you think the world needs another bad Arkanoid clone, then you deserve a toe-punt in the spine. [Apr 2011, p.114]

It just isn't any fun. [Apr 2011, p.114]

There's not enough room here to say how much I hate this game. I could write a novel about why Two Worlds II is the worst thing to happen to the fantasy RPG genre since encumbrance systems. [Apr 2011, p.114]

There are some new bells and whistles. [Apr 2011, p.114]

The sequel improves on almost everything about the first game. [Apr 2011, p.113]

The best we can expect for now. [Apr 2011, p.112]

Slickly presented, but under the decals it's more mobility aid than motor storm. [Apr 2011, p.112]

Has enough meat on its bones to feed the most voracious action fans. [Apr 2011, p.109]

A playground of destruction like nothing else you can buy. [Apr 2011, p.108]

Unquestionably an improvement on the original. [Apr 2011, p.106]

A thoroughly daft, slightly fugly and resolutely old-school action-RPG. [Apr 2011, p.104]

For a game that spends most of its time grinding you down, smashing you into pieces and throwing you off high-rise buildings, MotorStorm Apocalypse is as much fun to be around as a rock star uncle. [Apr 2011, p.102]

The high speed also means the novelty is unlikely to last with this one, but then that's exactly why it's got such a throwaway price. [Apr 2011, p.101]

Smart and simple. [Apr 2011, p.101]

It's fast and tricky. [Apr 2011, p.101]

No more than a rusty, slightly warped clone of the Lego games. [Apr 2011, p.101]

It's distracting rather than involving. [Apr 2011, p.101]

Aesthetically, it's a sweet piece of 2D Americana. [Apr 2011, p.101]

Everything that's good about Fight Night Champion is the stuff that's been least fiddled with from Round 4. [Apr 2011, p.100]

It's excellent - technically strong, visually outstanding and full of welcome fresh ideas. It also has a poorly-told story and a deadening first few hours, but - a crucial but - the de-faced alien at the chewy centre makes it all worthwhile. [Apr 2011, p.97]

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

Even on the easiest difficulty the computer puts up a stern test. [Spring 2011, p.116]

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

Still a classic, but slightly less fun when you don't have the option to play it on the go. [Spring 2011, p.116]

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

An embarrassing, nauseating mess. [Spring 2011, p.116]

For strategy buffs, Legends of War is complex, visually polished, and unyieldingly hardcore. [Spring 2011, p.116]

An enjoyable electro-frisbee to the face. [Spring 2011, p.115]

The extras on the basic frame mostly serve to make it worse. [Spring 2011, p.114]

Most disappointing is the length of the game. It'll take anyone with opposable thumbs little over an hour to unlock all 17 songs. [Spring 2011, p.114]

An infuriating test of trajectory skills and patience that will have you swearing, strooping and (perhaps most unbelievably of all) bloody well enjoying it. [Spring 2011, p.113]

It's actually fun, albeit about as memorable as a rich tea biscuit. [Spring 2011, p.113]

The controls...feel counter-intuitive at first and mean that most of your success is thanks to a very forgiving auto aim rather than sharp shooting. [Spring 2011, p.113]