An interesting gaming artifact, and very lovable...but essentially rubbish. [May 2008, p.79]

There's humour and effort here, but not much in the way of fun. [Christmas 2009, p.94]

The background tries so hard to be next generation it simply ends up putting you off or making the numbers too hard to read. [May 2007, p.77]

A dull, uninspired car crash of a game. A complete waste of PlayStation 3's power. [Aug 2007, p.74]

A slow, ugly, repetitive descent into block boredom. [Sept 2010, p.94]

Enjoy "Super Puzzle Fighter" - it's ace. Just a shame the rest of CPW is such balls. [Mar 2007, p.78]

Clunky, poorly animated, mostly unexplained, dreadfully written, utterly bland and archaic. [Aug 2011, p.92]

With horribly repetitive gameplay and awful graphics the choice between this and armageddon is still a close one. [Oct 2008, p.78]

Basically this is a hugely simplified, pointless and weird version of "Power Stone." So get that instead. [Feb 2007, p.78]

Even when Shellshock flirts with being playable, you realise there's a dozen PS3 shooters better than this mess. [Apr 2009, p.78]

Dumb AI, stupidly linear, crap guns... a disaster. [May 2008, p.79]

A terrible experience, years behind the competition. [Aug 2011, p.92]

It's just perverted. [Apr 2011, p.91]

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

Traveller's Tales have no excuse for serving up this steaming pile of Minotaur dung. [Nov 2008, p.84]

Overall Flying is sometimes a joy, but Iron Man is basically repetitive, confusing and graceless.

It's a budget PlayStation 2 game wearing its big sister's high-definition make-up. It's abominable, and just thinking about it makes the veins in our forehead bulge. [Feb 2007, p.64]

Don't do it. Unless you breathe Dave Mirra and have an irrational love of terrible games. You don't, right? [May 2007, p.79]

One of 2009's worst movie tie-ins proves boring beyond salvation. [July 2009, p.72]

It's descended into a dismally unimaginative hack-and-slash affair. [Christmas 2008, p.86]

Amy has all the survival horror elements, but the execution is so poor that the result is a poisonous chimera. [March 2012, p.113]

It's more bad karaoke compilation than game. [Christmas 2007, p.82]

It's actively irritating having to press the same buttons and complete the missions over and over again. [Apr 2009, p.78]

Like having your fond arcade memories groped by a ghoul's festering claw. [Sept 2011, p.111]

A cynical, sterile attempt to ? og cash out of Ski Sunday fans.

Clumsy and uninspired. Avoid this like a mugging. [May 2009, p.64]

One of PSP's worst games. [Christmas 2006, p.98]

It manages to distract you from how pointless it actually is for, ooh, at least half an hour. [July 2008, p.78]