Combat is an interminable exercise in smashing the square and triangle buttons. [Dec 2009, p.123]

Basic gameplay, a by-the-numbers story, and graphics from a bygone era leave this PSP port stuck between a rock and a really outdated place. [July 2013, p.100]

The odd firefight generates some excitement, but this is all too rare considering that you're piloting a 30ft tall walking tank of death. [Issue#51, p.111]

Compared to Call of Duty 4's sensitive and intelligent treatment of the same material, Payback is a joyless, hoo-hahing head butt of a videogame. [Feb 2008, p.95]

Everything from the ideas to the backdrops feels rushed. [Feb 2009, p.100]

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

You’ve played this before, 25 years ago on PS1. The ideas are ancient, the implementation poor, and when a dubiously named hero is the only fun you get from a shooter in 2020 it’s time to avoid. [Issue#182, p.160]

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

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]

The warfare is as dull as the characters. [June 2007, p.101]

Dull, ineffectual combat. [Aug 2012, p.111]

Turgid mess. [July 2010, p.118]

This would have been an embarrassment in 1987. [Sept 2011, p.116]

A botched remake. [Sept 2011, p.116]

If you never got the chance to experience the original when it came to PS3 and want to pick this up out of curiosity, it’s probably best to avoid it – it’s outright damaging to the legacy of Crysis. [Issue#181, p.88]

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.

Few things are as disappointing as shoot-'em up Alien Zombie Death. [May 2010, p.104]

Absolutely abysmal. [Dec 2011, p.103]

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

Major bail. [Jan 2010, p.108]

On a technical level, the game is simply a shambles, with amateurish animation and obtrusive texture pop-in accompanying your every step. [June 2016, p.87]

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

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

This mess somehow gets worse with every play...It's like buying a Ferrari only for it to fall to pieces as you drive out of the dealership. [May 2007, p.118]

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

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

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]

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