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

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]

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

Feels oddly hollow. [Aug 2014, p.94]

The whole thing's a lot like looking at a picture for ages and trying to find tiny objects. [Dec 2009, p.109]

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

A game that screams 'contractual agreement' rather than 'passionate creative endeavor.' [Dec 2014, p.83]

It's pretty much what you've played before. [Dec 2014, p.83]

There's still fun to be had here if you're a mutton for punishment. [Dec 2014, p.87]

It's never enough to help you forget the game's warts. [June 2014, p.85]

While this fishing simulator is visually a-lure-ing for a virtual reality game thanks to its Final Fantasy heritage, the snags are packed in like sardines. [Jan 2018, p.95]

As far as party games with mad quiz show hosts go. Jump Stars is serviceable, but there's better out there. [Aug 2017, p.86]

This is a game jam project spread too thinly over a full release. [Aug 2017, p.87]

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

Just a competent arcade game and a dire soundtrack. [Christmas 2011, p.97]

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

Buy the vastly superior "Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters" before going near this. [July 2007, p.114]

As solid as the combat is, there are numerous contemporaries that offer as much challenge and fun with much more visual flair, and without horrendous loading times.

Combat is totally hit and miss thanks to a crippling camera. [Apr 2008, p.112]

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]

It's an odd game, this. [June 2014, p.92]

Bizarrely, Disney Universe offers up no incentive to not die. [Christmas 2011, p.103]

What Pixel Gear does is accomplished, but it isn't satisfying enough to make you hit reload. [Christmas 2016, p.91]

Between the travel sickness, the lurid colours and the nightmare-inducing soundtrack, one level is the playable equivalent of food poisoning. Another over-used puzzle has you rolling around collecting stars as time ticks away in a manner horribly reminiscent of a smartphone app that would cost around £17 less.

Its simplistic design means TESO feels like little more than an Elder Scrolls-themed amusement park. [Aug 2015, p.88]

Just bang-average. [Christmas 2016, p.91]

Sadly, though, you'll spend more time fighting the controller than the enemies on screen. [June 2018, p.88]

Reveals itself to be a lot like space: beautiful, but mostly empty. [Christmas 2016, p.96]