The most muddled and irritating Sonic game yet. [May 2007, p.110]

Yaiba is guilty of the most heinous crime: creating difficulty not with precision combat, but with myriad borked design calls and some utterly broken camera work.

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

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]

If Gearbox’s quality scale has Borderlands 2 at one end and Duke Nukem at the other, Colonial Marines sits somewhere in the middle.

The combat's decent, but it falls down on more complex stuff like clumsy boss battles and awful dialogue that makes you want to rip your own throat out. [Jan 2010, p.119]

Naughty Bear certainly isn't a sweatshop import with lead shot for eyes and asbestos filling, but it's no Steiff original either. [Aug 2010, p.116]

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]

There's simply nothing here to justify you buying it ahead of 2K's b-ball champ. [Jan 2014, p.84]

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

Patches may rescue this to some degree. For now, it’s an unfinished game which should remain unpurchased by your wallet. [Issue#170, p.86]

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

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

One of the most unfinished, least fun games of recent years, and almost unplayably jerky on a standard PS4. A total disaster of a game. [June 2018, p.97]

Good-looking but with simple repetitive combat, there's not enough on offer here to back up the potential of its two-girls-one-game premise. [Sept 2013, p.89]

Cheap and nasty. [Dec 2009, p.18]

The good stuff is hard to find among the mediocrity. [May 2007, p.120]

The guns are useless. [May 2008, p.112]

Above all Rock Revolution just doesn't have the charm or depth of its rivals. [Christmas 2008, p.111]

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]

It'll only make sense if you've got a PhD in the series. [May 2010, p.102]

This is a farce of a game and "Super Smash Bros" has already done the cartoon, co-op, beat-'em-up with infinitely more flair and class, nine long years ago. [Mar 2007, p.111]

The already absurdly wooden voice acting is sometimes marred with bugs. [Aug 2013, p.94]

Congratulating Rugby 18 for its base functionality is like cheering for FIFA because they remembered to include the ball. [Christmas 2017, p.83]

Ironically, this played better in 2003. [Issue#183, p.81]

What you get for your money is terrible, rendering the mid-level price insulting. There's no reality in which this is worth buying, virtual or otherwise. [Issue#158, p.97]

Stuttery. [March 2012, p.95]

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

It’s not terrible, but it’s not the game we (or anybody else) wanted either. This game gets tired long before 90 minutes have passed. [Issue#180, p.80]

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

Avoid. [July 2010, p.118]

Doomed to averageness. [Christmas 2011, p.97]

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

It's a shame Ace Banana can be so flustering, because there is a decent shooting gallery to unpeel here. [Christmas 2016, p.86]

A browser game on a disc. [Jan 2014, p.95]

No amount of ragdoll-fumbling can save this Gothic horror show. [Sept 2013, p.94]

Appalling textures, clunky systems and gameplay you have to shake yourself away from. [Dec 2013, p.95]

Wading through all that offal to get to the mildly interesting stuff is hardly time well spent. [Jan 2015, p.86]

If this were a PS2 game, we'd still consider the graphics a bitter letdown. [Feb 2008, p.98]

By any reasonable criteria, this is a bag of balls. [Jan 2009, p.102]

So casual it's wearing flip flops. [Jan 2011, p.118]

With a multiplayer option – which would alleviate the unpredictability of your companion when playing single player – and plenty of collectibles as well as stacks of puzzles, The Eternity Clock has a lot to offer but there are just too many frustrations to wholly recommend this.

A longer development period might have made this into something more playable, but it would still be a game of rehashed concepts notable only for its sheer banality. [May 2017, p.96]

Everything works and it will kill a few hours, but only in a rubber-necking, see-where-it-goes kind of way. [July 2011, p.103]

To facilitate the stalking, there's a present-giving mechanic. [June 2010, p.119]

An ill-conceived mess that goes down as the worst PlayStation game to besmirch the Resident Evil name. [Sept 2016, p.110]

The only fight this game is winning is the one for worst beat-em-up on PSP. [Aug 2007, p.114]

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

A couple hours in, and you're starting to feel pretty stupid yourself! [Jan 2011, p.118]

Not buying this would be the ultimate lucky escape. [May 2017, p.92]

It's a below-average platformer in a Bugs Bunny outfit, and that's all folks. [Christmas 2007, p.112]

Stale gameplay, unevocative level design and a control scheme that's about as responsive as a cave troll on Ketamine. [Oct 2015, p.89]

Dodgy ball-physics misery. [July 2007, p.114]

Left Alive is most disappointing because it had such potential to revitalise the stealth genre. Instead you get something far behind even the titles it tries to emulate. [Issue#161, p.85]

All nine stages are far too cramped and zoomed-in. [Nov 2015, p.107]

It's just dull. [Feb 2017, p.96]

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]

A joyless chore. [Apr 2018, p.84]

Two hours of unmitigated boredom. [Christmas 2010]

The game taught us that Japan lost the war thanks to shattered AI and terrible clipping. [May 2008, p.111]

Lamely executed. [July 2016, p.94]

Did the developers even watch the show before they made the game? [Aug 2007, p.112]

A fairly significant disaster. [July 2009, p.92]

It felt genuinely good to not be playing it anymore, and that is a rare thing in games nowadays. [Oct 2014, p.92]

Ice Age 4 isn't all bad. [Sept 2012, p.113]

The framerate is pathetic and the textures are sub-PS2. [Apr 2009, p.96]

If I stopped to process the notion that I'll never get the time back I spent wrestling with A-Men 2's spongy, imprecise jumping and clunky puzzles, I might never stop trembling with impotent rage. [Jan 2014, p.95]

Unfortunately, there’s just no hope for this one. Sure, it looks like a game – and we all love games – but the rot has taken hold and it’s too late to save it. You should go on ahead and we’ll put this sorry thing out of its misery.

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.

A cynical grab for gullible gamer Christmas cash made to coincide with Vita's first festive period, this COD shouldn't just be declassified; it should be erased from existence.

Pretty far from brilliant. [May 2007, p.120]

Almost everything about Weeping Doll underwhelms. [Jan 2016, p.115]

Excruciatingly sterile turn-based combat. [Sept 2007, p.116]

The biggest challenge is dealing with the wonky physics. [May 2007, p.114]

Not just a missed opportunity, but an insulting and pitiful gamble on the Tony Hawk name that deserves little more than a collectible agreement to pretend it didn't happen. [Dec 2015, p.84]

This may not be the worst Kick Off game ever, but even blind nostalgia can't redeem its many faults. [Sept 2016, p.108]

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

The AI appears to have all the intellect of an overcooked marrow, which might very well make a more appealing videogame. [May 2012, p.116]

This installment lacks the humour, thrill and charm of any of its franchise's predecessors. [Oct 2016, p.94]

Cheap, shonky, sometimes non-functional, Air Conflicts: Vietnam is so pitifully crap that it's almost adorable. Just like those little two-legged dogs with the wheels. [Oct 2014, p.95]

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

The Quiet Man is a once-in-a-generation terrible game mired by technical and racial issues, pretentious ideas, and poor execution. It’s an ineffable game that fails to land any of its posy punches. That it merely exists… now that is something to cry over. [Issue#157, p.97]

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

Depressing fare. [May 2014, p.83]

Should you even think about renting it for a laugh? To quote Dick Marcinko: "F*ck no." [Feb 2010, p.107]

I'd say that you should try playing this only to laugh at its total, across-the-board incompetence, but it'd be like recommending you throw eight quid into the bin and then roll around naked and giggling in a pile of your own faeces. Unrivaled indeed. [Sept 2010, p.115]

It only avoids the worst score I can give by virtue of the fact that it (just about) functions. Rambo inspires more anger than biting your tongue just after you’ve stubbed your toe.

A shoddy, cynical cash-in that has absolutely no right to be retailing at 32 Pounds. [Aug 2013, p.95]

A shattered kidney of a sports sim. [March 2015, p.94]

Burn this. It's the only way to be sure. [July 2009, p.93]

Riding to actual Hell over 1000 miles of broken glass using your own scrotum as a toboggan would be more enjoyable.

The visuals are lovely, so that'll stave off some tantrums. [Mar 2007, p.120]

The story's as thin as air but the XP grind is super-addictive. [Apr 2008, p.112]

Thanks for the memories, Mr. Wizard. Now toddle back to your castle and don't bother us again. [Oct 2007, p.113]

You'll only come over all outraged and teary when Edinburgh Castle goes 'boom'. [Sept 2007, p.116]

Had the developer spent a little more time on the haphazard real-time battling, Silverfall could have been so much more. [Sept 2007, p.116]

An essential addition to the Elder Scrolls universe. [Feb 2008, p.94]

It's a cheap way to show off your sexy new HDTV. [Christmas 2007, p.112]