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]