All too often it feels like you're playing nanny to a thick, elephant-sized child. [Christmas 2010, p.91]

Amusing in a sick kind of way, but too repetitive and unwieldy. [Aug 2009, p.74]

Massively ordinary shooter with a bizarre plot and rubbish AI. [Oct 2009, p.78]

Perfectly decent, but an all-too-familiar outing. For raging/insatiable J-RPG addicts only. [Mar 2008, p.78]

The rosiest-tinted specs in the world can't save Gunstar Heroes from showing its age. [Sept 2009, p.76]

Even if it wasn't buggy and ugly, this would still be a chore to slog through. Dead Island's zombie plague is the stuff of nightmares in all the wrong ways. [Nov 2011, p.98]

Bouts also feel genuinely three dimensional. [Aug 2008, p.81]

Without PS2's power, MoH is tiresome and dull. [Christmas 2006, p.98]

Web Rushing makes you feel full-on super-powered. Although clumsy interior sections shatter the illusion, this is almost Spider-Man's Arkham. [Sept 2012, p.98]

Pure comedy, if not quite as fun as we'd expected. [Mar 2008, p.80]

Patchy fun, but lack of polish and predictability betray its lack of reach. [June 2009, p.68]

The new direction is bafflingly generic: a huge disappointment. [Aug 2011, p.90]

There's very little for bike-sim fans to complain about, but equally little to win over new comers to this niche genre. [July 2009, p.76]

Shockingly light on gameplay, but eclipses competitors in scale, cinematics and design. [Apr 2012, p.95]

Flimsy platforming and lame combat, but so funny it's hard to care. Fans will go nuts. [Christmas 2007, p.70]

A quality driving game disguised as child fodder. [Sept 2006, p.84]

We've come to expect big things from full-priced racers and this is just a fair racing sim. [Sept 2008, p.74]

Suitably atmospheric psycho-horror with a couple of flaws. [Dec 2008, p.72]

If the controls were completely reliable rather than "reliable most of the time", Escape Plan would be a classic. [Apr 2012, p.109]

Surprisingly good fun. A tad easy and simplistic to play, but with loads of variety. [Dec 2007, p.78]

Simply one long fetch quest. [Christmas 2007, p.82]

Not terrible, but there are many better dungeon-crawlers out there. [Aug 2011, p.86]

At 10 quid, this'd probably score in the mid 70s. Shame. [Jan 2011, p.96]

Mesmerising and beautiful. Just excellent. [May 2007, p.77]

Just make sure the folk you get to play this with you are both young and undemanding. [Jan 2008, p.78]

Competent but doesn't rectify the criticisms of Ace Combat X. [Oct 2010, p.96]

There's plenty here to excite action-orien[]ted RPG fans. [Apr 2011, p.90]

Swarm has a nice idea it screws up. [June 2011, p.93]