The biggest challenge is dealing with the wonky physics. [May 2007, p.114]

Basic graphics, a beyond dull battle system and truly hateful lead characters make this an unwelcome flashback to deservedly forgotten J-RPGs of decade's past. [Apr 2010, p.100]

No amount of ragdoll-fumbling can save this Gothic horror show. [Sept 2013, p.94]

Another below-par racer that makes turning left every five seconds exactly as exhilarating as it sounds. [Sept 2008, p.103]

Most disappointing is the length of the game. It'll take anyone with opposable thumbs little over an hour to unlock all 17 songs. [Spring 2011, p.114]

It's an overly complicated system that screams of an attempt to be modern and forward-looking, but will actually end up with a bunch of pissed-off purchasers feeling like they've paid nearly 20 pounds for a trial version. Which, to be perfectly honest, is pretty much all this is.

An embarrassing, nauseating mess. [Spring 2011, p.116]

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

It just isn't any fun. [Apr 2011, p.114]

Pretty far from brilliant. [May 2007, p.120]

Stupid. [Apr 2011, p.118]

Think tower defense stripped down to the barest essentials. Think an empty screen an no sense of fun. [Issue#51, p.103]

Overpriced and shallow. [Christmas 2011, p.104]

By turns mildly irritating and laceratingly dull, Extinction is a hopeless mess with one of the worst third-person cameras you'll ever encounter. Give it a miss, eh? [June 2018, p.86]

Dropping bombs is fiddly and inaccurate - and they do as much damage as releasing a blancmange from a plane's undercarriage. [Feb 2013, p.101]

Unless you enjoy dressing-up games or cluster headaches, run for your life, and don't look back. [Dec 2012, p.117]

Whichever way you play, you start seeing the same levels repeated within 15 minutes. [Feb 2013, p.105]

This installment lacks the humour, thrill and charm of any of its franchise's predecessors. [Oct 2016, p.94]

There's crippling slowdown and the excruciating script. [May 2009, p.102]

I'd have happily raved about this clever Bejeweled-style puzzler were it not for its utterly outrageous price. [Sept 2009, p.107]

Dodgy ball-physics misery. [July 2007, p.114]

Did the developers even watch the show before they made the game? [Aug 2007, p.112]

The combat is still woeful. [Apr 2012, p.97]

The graphics and gameplay are so simplistic that this could probably be run on a high-end calculator. [Oct 2012, p.119]

2Dark will not make you feel annoyed, it will make you feel sad, and that's definitely worse. [May 2017, p.96]

Hideous graphics. [Nov 2011, p.99]

A longer development period might have made this into something more playable, but it would still be a game of rehashed concepts notable only for its sheer banality. [May 2017, p.96]

A game as dead in the water as its protagonist's bullet-ridden backside. [Nov 2012, p.119]