More spider in the bath than friendly neighborhood superhero. [July 2013, p.100]

Fun in parts, but Prime would destroy this for breakfast. [Feb 2012, p.115]

It just isn't very fun. [Mar 2010, p.115]

Combat is gory, but the mechanics are weak. [May 2008, p.104]

The longer you spend in New Bordeaux, the more exasperating you'll find its stylish flourishes. Worthy topics and good kill list missions mask a so-so open world. [Dec 2016, p.67]

If it didn't suffocate you with screens of sub-par writing [a clumsy nod to Fate's visual novel roots] it could almost look the Persona series in the eye. Almost. [July 2012, p.117]

Binge on it and you'll be done before your thinking walnut's sizzling, as there simply aren't enough different mini-games to satisfy in the long-term. [Sept 2007, p.107]

Technically there’s little wrong with the game. It’s visually solid, smooth to play, and the 3D models do a decent job of replicating the style of an 8-bit side-scrolling shooter. Yet it feels anodyne. The magic sauce that made us shove ten-pence pieces into arcade machines is missing. [Issue@#185, p.82]

Despite the token attempts at longevity, the romance won't linger. [May 2016, p.94]

There's sadly no imagination here. [Sept 2007, p.108]

You certainly can’t fault Defiance for lack of content, then. Sadly, what you can fault it for is being an ugly, buggy and monotonous shooter with a tenuous link to a mediocre sci-fi TV drama.

Fine for fans, but no-one else should touch it with a greasy finger. [July 2007, p.114]

Over-complicated. [Christmas 2013, p.94]

A seemingly endless succession of chaotic, murky scraps in which it's a toss-up as to what will do you in first - wrestling the camera, the stabbing of grim-faced opponents off-screen or the growing feeling that this is a game that's missed its sweet-spot of public interest by a good six years. [Feb 2009, p.98]

Level progression will try even the most patient of gamers. [Christmas 2013, p.94]

Freddy’s first outing is a jump scare legend and a fantastic case study of pure, simple design. It’s too bad later outings simply don’t play well on a controller. [Issue#185, p.89]

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

A scary adventure that sacrifices as much gameplay as the cult in its story does followers. It also, unfortunately, suffers when compared to Resident Evil VII. [June 2017, p.79]

Those pay walls are simply too vast to ignore. [Oct 2014, p.92]

The whole enterprise smacks of a hopeless brief. [Jan 2008, p.103]

For all its good intentions and moments of skin-crawling tension, the areas it impresses in aren't as important as the ones it doesn't. Ultimately, it leaves you hollow. [Oct 2017, p.83]

It's gently hypnotic stuff, but fight a dozen super-intelligent skeletons and you'll soon be yearning for the simple pleasures of "Lumines." [Mar 2007, p.111]

It seems to have all the right ingredients on the outside looking in. That's before you start trying to unravel its awkward puzzles via its tedious time mechanics. [June 2017, p.86]

An interesting concept, but the game's lack of control over the scares removes any possible creeping horror. [July 2014, p.92]

This courts motion sickness with a bottle of wine and a mixtape. [Aug 2012, p.107]

The trouble is the interface, which is cumbersome like a one-legged elephant. [Sept 2011, p.109]

Feels like an underwhelming adventure trying to piggyback on VR's inherent charms. [Dec 2016, p.89]

PaRappa will always have a place in my heart, but if the original game was Snoop Dogg, this disappointing upscale is Lil' Bow Wow. [June 2017, p.87]