To anyone less than a die-hard, PC-playing Shaun White fan: wait for budget. [Issue#16, p.64]

There hasn't been a better game this year. [Issue#15, p.55]

Not a mandatory purchase for EU Rome fans, but a reasonably priced expansion. [Issue#16, p.64]

Monotonous and slightly broken; a herculean task just to complete. [Issue#16, p.65]

A return to form with epic set-pieces. However, there are a few frustrating puzzles and camera issues. [Issue#14, p.58]

Three points for Sports Interactive, with its rivals still nowhere in sight. [Issue#15, p.66]

Its bravery and stunning execution deserve plaudits while its addictive nature deserves a health warning. [Issue#15, p.58]

Good for your Friday night pizza and beer social or as a budget-buy afterthought. [Issue#14, p.62]

Sacred 2 has a passable single-player mode, but it comes inot its own online with the right company. [Issue#14, p.52]

Shocking, chaotic and uberviolent. For those who can take it, there's a fine game lurking despite the flaws. [Issue#14, p.45]

An under-egged effort even more compromised by a token PC port. [Issue#17, p.69]

Nothing revolutionary, but Red Alert 3 is a colourful, stylish and unabashedly old-school RTS nevertheless. [Issue#13, p.47]

Vast, visceral and every inch of it is worthy of the highest acclaim. Pure genius. [Issue#14, p.48]

Fun, forgettable and well worth the impulse buy. [Issue#14, p.62]

If you plot a graph of genius times faltering game design, Far Cry 2 sits firmly in the top right. [Issue#13, p.50]

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A space sim that fans will enjoy and new players could love. [Issue#13, p.63]

A good performance from EA, with FIFA playing a fine game of footy. [Issue#13, p.58]

It's cheap, 62MB to download. DRM-free and highly addictive. [Issue#14, p.54]

Hell's Highway is held back by tunnel-vision solo play, but that shouldn't put you off. [Issue#12, p.55]

Surely space combat has come further than this in the last decade? [Issue#13, p.58]

Impressive in size, but the lack of multiplayer might turn some strategists off. [Issue#14, p.60]

80 percent of it you've seen before, but Lego Batman is still as fun as you'd hope. [Issue#13, p.62]

Tighter translation and a map editor is needed, but it's still a great TBS. [Issue#15, p.64]

Our American cousins will really enjoy this and, begrudgingly, so will we. [Issue#12, p.60]

Great for getting a quick RTS-style fix, it's unadulterated fun, if slightly on the light side. [Issue#13, p.56]

EA Mythic has hit on the perfect formula for a classy fantasy MMO. It's verything you'd expect, and maybe more. [Issue#11, p.80]

Entertaining in short doses, but severely lacking in variation. [Issue#14, p.56]