Some scenarios really capture the perverse freedoms of navigating an abandoned city. [July 2007, p.106]

The biggest change is the new edition's complete graphical overhaul. [Apr 2018, p.80]

Played with friends this is excellent fun full of teamwork and panic as you manage rather than defeat the undead. [Oct 2011, p.103]

The same relatively deep two-wheel sim as ever, but with each passing year the geriatric graphics engine kills even more appeal. [July 2012, p.117]

Unevenly brilliant and infuriating, CLOS2 combines incredible, tight combat and some spectacular visual treats with ropey stealth and a clunky narrative. Thankfully, the good outweighs the bad.

Good dumb fun, and if you expect nothing more it just about delivers. [Mar 2010, p.119]

A short, spooky soundscape with bags of atmosphere and sterling sound design, marred mainly by a lacklustre story and corny voice acting. [Christmas 2017, p.97]

Visually it's everything you could have hoped for, but the compromises required to reach that fidelity, and moments of narcissism as a result of it, are hugely damaging. [Apr 2015, p.81]

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

There's a pleasingly deep character creator to fiddle about with. [Apr 2013, p.118]

Outdated and in need of a serious overhaul. [Sept 2007, p.111]

Or just implode at the superpower-draining load times. [Aug 2007, p.114]

Fugly ships chugging along even fuglier tracks. [Aug 2008, p.104]

It's a close as you'll ever want to get to an actual walking dead scenario. [Sept 2017, p.91]

Not at all flashy, but genuinely absorbing. [June 2007, p.101]

Overall, it's a deliciously addictive experience. [Apr 2016, p.92]

What still comes across is a blistering sense of speed. Sure, it’s missing much in the way of the interesting track gravity you might expect from a zero-grav racer, but tight corridors and hairpin turns can still delight as you shove your pod nearly on its side. Two-player racing is also a welcome holdover. Racer was once very impressive and it still runs well enough, but it all feels basic now. It does raise the question – why haven’t we had a new version that’s as exciting as this was in its day in 21 years ago? [Issue#178, p.76]

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

Offers a decent afternoon's leisure at best. [Jan 2014, p.94]

A shiny update rather than a new game. [Jan 2008, p.114]

A competent yet ultimately insignificant addition. While the core shooting still delights, the lacklustre campaign is entirely skippable. [Issue#150, p.96]

A staccato, trick-land-trick-land experience. [Christmas 2008, p.118]

Like four boring cover-shooters layered together. Inventive firearms aside, there’s a crippling lack of ideas: the weapon interplay is mild fun, but it can’t elevate the bland whole.

IF you don't own a PS3, there's some fun to be had slinging touchdowns here. [Dec 2012, p.114]

By far the biggest problem here is how Sonic himself handles. [July 2012, p.106]

But losing it all still stings, not least since some runs stack the odds unfairly. You might wander into a room where two shooters are entirely shrouded by the inky shadows, where a wall obstructs your view of an advancing threat, or an enemy-stunning lantern stubbornly refuses to light. When the RNG is against you, too, West Of Dead feels someway south of a good time. [Issue#180, p.76]

There's potential here for a devilishly tactical racer, but the reality is dull and unbalanced. [Issue#150, p.90]

That no significant improvements have been made in five years is surely the final proof that Medal of Honor's PlayStation campaign has lost its way. [May 2007, p.92]