Looks good, but over-complicated controls and needlessly lengthy bouts mar Rocky Balboa, making it a real test of stamina and patience.

More flawed than fun, Star Wars: Imperial Academy is a mess of a shooter that fails to do justice to ngmoco's FPS track record or the Star Wars universe.

A feast for dragons, but a pitiable spread for the rest of us. Tasty visuals and concept let down by poor implementation.

There simply isn't enough to do, especially for a 3DS game. Throw in poor dialogue and barely evident stereoscopic 3D effects, and Bird Mania 3D just isn't worth your time.

A disappointing effort that manages to stall on nearly every count from lacklustre racing to limited content to technical issues preventing play.

Like its stars, High School Musical 2 is pretty to begin with, but quickly becomes annoying and repetitive.

Rambo: The Mobile Game may not be the worst game on the App Store, but it's still a lazy and expensive tie-in.

This conceptually solid music-based tunnel racer gets it all wrong in the execution, with disorientating track layouts and dull gameplay.

Grind-filled hands-off gameplay plus a licence with barely any traction in English speaking countries does not a good card battler make.

A potentially fantastic futuristic racer that completely fails to get the controls right, and as a result becomes a real challenge to enjoy.

Lacking cohesion and decent collision detection, Marvel Kapow! fails to land a decent blow.

Dungeon Hearts Blitz is just another Puzzle & Dragons clone - and not a particularly good one, at that.

A sparse, clunky golf game with a twist that fails to add anything meaningfully new to the genre

Just like Fix-It Felix, Wreck-It Ralph on 3DS is short, plain, and not a lot of fun to be around.

BlitzKeep is way more frustrating than fun.

An occasionally bright game that's beaten into submission by difficulty spikes and shouty IAPs.

Luscious presentation and satisfying sounds do little to disguise an unimaginative and bland take on an already well-worn genre.

Novel and at times rather pretty, yet also banal and ugly, only die-hard fans of LCD games need take on this disappointing downloadable.

Neither a fun trashy experience or a enjoyable casual game, Pillowfight Girls is a failure on many levels.

As gorgeous as it looks, and as clever as it sounds, Wide Sky plays like a mess.

One Tap Desert Hero is a bit broken, but a far bigger issue is how tedious it becomes.

Death Come True is a thriller devoid of tension, a comedy lacking in laughs, and a mystery that is unlikely to elicit more than a shrug.

While fun in short bursts, the DS version of Cake Mania lacks depth and overly repeats on you. Burp.

A pretty atmosphere and reliance on nostalgia don't make up for the simple gameplay, low amount of content, and buggy nature of this release.

A charmingly presented series of real-world fetch quests for your legs, sadly lacking focus and any real sense of reward for your efforts.

Without a strong grasp of the basics to make up for the improvements it tries and fails to implement, The Drowning is simply a boring shooter, with invasive IAPs, and so-so controls.

A straight-up port of the PSP RPG with no efforts taken to improve the experience, Romance Dawn is not a journey many One Piece fans will want to take.

A poorly constructed, shallow, and boring football management game that can't be saved by an underwhelming social element.

For all of its attractive window dressing, Blood Brothers plays about as nicely as cardboard tastes.

Like a bowl of volatile oatmeal, APB Retribution manages to be unpredictable and bland at the same time.

A predictably shallow, cynical tie-in that lays the IAPs on as thick as the action.

Typically, Crayola Treasure Adventures is a far better colouring-book than it is a game. There's very little range, and the mini-games won't hold your kids' attention for long, but if you're sick of losing crayons down the back of the couch this may be for you.

A true video game nasty in all the wrong ways, Splatterhouse is a poor conversion of a poor game, with shoddy virtual controls, one-dimensional beat-'em-up action and plain bad graphics.

Touch Battle Tank 3D has tanks, but not a whole lot else. Avoid, then avoid some more.

Repetitive action and a largely vacuous storyline do nothing to disguise the fact that DJ Rivals is essentially an advert for its Facebook-based big brother Nightclub City.

If the thought of shooting innocent woodland animals in slo-mo through X-ray specs doesn't make you flinch from the game, the freemium costs probably will.

There's a middling idea here, but it's not executed very well.

A jumble of ideas that don't work very well together or apart, this is one to avoid.

It's less to do with being the Man of Steel, more a rusty version of the tin man – because this is a game without a heart.

A passionless take on a great license. Only but the most battle hardened Call of Duty fans should even consider taking this one down to the range.

A novel release for sure, but one only the most steadfast Japanophiles will enjoy.

A bland casual puzzler with an irritatingly imprecise control system, FreeDum would seriously bug you if it wasn't so instantly forgettable.

Shaq was the player that got me into basketball, Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn might be the title that gets me out of gaming.

Naruto: Path of the Ninja may star a sprightly yellow-haired youth, but its gameplay is old and tired. Even fans of the manga are going to have a hard time choking down this stale piece of gaming.

Forget the freemium fluff: Real Football 2012's big problem is that its attempt to simulate the beautiful game is left sorely wanting, with jagged and jerky matches undermining all the social slop Gameloft's slapped on top.

If it weren't so unfairly difficult, Chopper I would be a good-looking but average-playing shmup. If you're really craving a super-tough shooter, this might barely fill that gap.

Escape from Laville 2 is a poorly-made adventure game of interest only to any Escape from Laville fans out there.

Offering no discernible improvement over its lacklustre predecessor and paling in comparison to more accomplished DS football titles, PES 2008 is best relegated to bench-warming duty.

With fundamentally broken combat and nothing new to bring to the table, Colossus Command is a boring and insipid retread of all that's come before it.

Ruh-roh! Another "Don't worry, the children will never see past the licence to realise the game is rubbish" attempt unmasked.

Humdrum presentation mingles with a bare minimum of gameplay to spawn a unique experiment, but little else.

A hollow experience, layered with dull humour, that you should definitely avoid.

Perfection contains a solid central mechanic and it's nicely presented, but the unadorned slicing wears thin very quickly.

A bland experienced robbed of energy and excitement by identikit missions and limited level design.

A short, undemanding romp through the dressings of an infinitely better console title.

This isn't a game. I don't know what it is, but it's not a game.

An average slingshot physics game spoiled by a pitiful fantasy veneer and an irritating freemium payment structure

Despite its shortcomings, not so much a bad game as just a boring (and buggy) one that lacks bite.

A game that leaves you lost and confused from the start, Violett just doesn't make any sense.

An abstract, atmospheric exploration adventure near-ruined by a breathtakingly ill-conceived iOS port.

An uninspired endless chase that never quite gets out of the starting blocks, Turbolab Pursuit has its moments, but they're few and far between.

An uninteresting matching puzzler that's slotted into a structure big on monotony, Cradle of Rome demonstrates game concepts shouldn't be built in a day.

The license promises much but Lord of the Rings: Conquest is a cheap cash-in that should be avoided. Even Grima Wormtongue would have to agree

Cursed with a lack of innovation, an unduly harsh challenge and a terrible script, Zombie Crisis 3D 2 is one of the less appealing twin-stick shooters currently available for iOS devices.

For all its silliness, Soccer Slammers is just too random to be really engaging.

Brakes are for Losers has some nice ideas, but the package is one that's going to leave you frustrated more often than not.

A considerable improvement on the first DS iteration, but still not the definitive Harvest Moon.

There's a set of ideas here that could have been something special, but it all falls flat on its windy face.

Floaty, occasionally unfair, cheap, and lacking in even the most basic of fan service, Cars 2 is your common garden film tie-in.

The Jurassic Park games have always been disappointing, but with less action and virtually no puzzles, episode three is the worst one yet.

It doesn't take a genius to work this one out - The X-Files: Deep State is boring, uninspired, and not worth your time.

Tiny Town will literally hold you to ransom: pay up or your town will die. A few interesting features, but there are far better sims on the App Store.

Lacking in flair and substance, Hyper Blaster is a bland arena shooter that does nothing new with the genre.

If ridiculously hard games are your thing, you might have a ball, if you don shades. For mere mortals, it's a joyless slog.

Thanks to its shabby presentation and pitiable gameplay, Air Force vs Luftwaffe doesn't stay in the air for long, and quickly comes down to earth with a bump.

A concept too basic to maintain any real interest, Guncrafter ends up feeling like a shameless attempt to cash in on Minecraft's success.

An inexcusably repetitive, soulless experience.

Gangstar Vegas is a surprisingly unpleasant game that's a bit too broken and a bit too hollow to recommend.

Fahrenheit was ambitious and innovative in 2005, but ten years later it's just clunky and tedious.

A bit of a mess. Some serious tidying up is needed to fix this frantically paced battler.

Want Mario Party, minus the fun, plus additional expense? Then you're crazy, but I guess Disney Infinity will be right up your street.

From the outdated graphics to lackluster gameplay, the game possesses more shortcomings than strengths, making it impossible to recommend to anyone but the Transformer faithful.

Ace Tennis 2010 Online is a well-intentioned tennis game that does everything wrong from ill-advised controls to sub par multiplayer.

A broken, bloody mess of a game. Even fans of the show should give Dexter the Game 2 as wide a berth as possible.

It's a largely ambitious game, but Osiris is let down by its mindless combat, dull plot, appalling controls and spate of glitches. It's not worth the premium price tag by a long shot.

A crude action game with few redeeming qualities, Hercules: Curse of the Hydra is a failure of mythic proportions.

As unoriginal as its titular villains, March to War takes all the intrigue of The Walking Dead and hides it behind muddy graphics and too many menus.

A decent range of great value, genuine arcade classics neutered by poorly implemented controls.

Wappy Dog possesses just slightly more sophistication than a Furby does. Only the very young and easily amused will get much from Wappy Dog, other than its sheer novelty.

Noblemen: 1896 tries its hand at something different, but in the end it's too muddled and clunky to enjoy.

A dumb concept, occasionally irksome physics and a painfully inconsistent frame rate all conspire to make Lawn Mower Madness a mess of a racer.

Tedious, complex, and unappealing on a variety of levels, D&D Tactics may have authenticity in spades, yet it lacks a modicum of accessibility.

A neat idea ruined by some poor execution, Dungeon of Legends is best avoided.

A truly forgettable driving game that neither offers the intensity of a true sim or the fun and thrills of an arcade racer.

Indeed, so much of what was an otherwise quality adventure has been lost in the transition, this is more like a book of the film where half of the pages have been torn out. Avoid.

Bland and tedious, Naught 2 offers a gentler challenge than the frustrating original, but little else of note.

Yesterday is as dark as a summer's day and as funny as a kick in the teeth. The puzzles are poorly designed and the story barely even makes sense. Leave this one in the past.

A dull hidden object game that's somehow simultaneously bland and unpalatably garish.