Despite some noble efforts to take Tony Hawk's back to its roots, Pro Skater 5 is ruined by glitches, sluggish movement and dull, lifeless levels. What might have been a glorious return ends up an unfortunate swan song. [Issue#130, p.78]

It suffers greatly from frustrating puzzle design. The jokes don't often land, either. [Issue#128, p.78]

A perfectly functional motorbike game that might appeal to cast-iron fans, Ride is otherwise a dull, dry, missed opportunity, which totally fails to capture the joy of two wheels. [Issue#125, p.86]

Despite some good ideas, cheery visuals and easy-to-understand mechanics, Happy Wars disappoints. [Issue#125, p.85]

It's fun for a couple of hours, but the novelty wears off. [Issue#123, p.84]

Menus, options and over-designed mechanics prevent you from ever getting into it. [Issue#123, p.83]

A choppy, piecemeal shooter. [Issue#123, p.82]

Plodding. [Issue#123, p.78]

Wonky motion controls, repetitive gameplay, poor visuals and misguided humour combine in Blue Estate for a short, sour dose of shooter action. [Issue#122, p.83]

Buy an amp and start a garage band instead. [Issue#119, p.86]

A poor entry into a solid series that doesn't try to improve the experience or come up with any new ideas. Stick with the past and wait for the future. [Issue#119, p.85]

There's a brave idea here in mixing two different mediums together, but the execution is lacking, particularly with the questionable Kinect controls. [Issue#120, p.86]

How so many irritations made it into a game with such an incredible world blows our minds. Should have spent more time in development.

We’ve seen it all before; the bones of the typical Saints Row’s design are creaking under the desire for new experiences.

An egregious rip off of a classic game, and one that manages to capture none of its class or drama. Even fans of the show will be disappointed. [Issue#118, p.87]

Ugly, limited and significantly worse than previous games in the series. [Issue#118, p.86]

Boring. Abysmal. Buy NBA 2K15. [Issue#118, p.83]

Korra isn't broken by any means, it's just mediocre in almost every area. This is for diehard Avatar fans only. [Issue#118, p.80]

An utterly inoffensive third-person shooter. [Issue#117, p.83]

A veritable mess. [Issue#116, p.78]

It is at least mercifully short. [Issue#114, p.82]

Beenox deliver a buggy, messy game that misses the essence of Spider-Man by a wide margin. Here’s hoping Activision entrusts the popular licence to another developer for the inevitable sequel.

Even Superman struggles to save this action RPG, which is dragged down by technical issues, uninspiring levels and graphics straight out of 2007. [Issue#109, p.78]

Rich in ideas yet terrible at executing them, Yaiba picks up all the things people hated about recent Ninja Gaiden games and just runs with them.

A disappointing twin-stick shooter, a waste of the Halo brand and an embarrassing installment into the Xbox One launch window line-up. [Issue#108, p.74]

Boring when it works, frustrating when it doesn't, Fighter Within is one of the worst games you could ever have the displeasure of playing. [Issue#107, p.]

It’s an awkward mix of Diablo and Soul Reaver that nobody asked for. Something to play if you’ve got a few hours and an itch to bump up your Gamerscore.

Disappointing on almost every level, EA needs to seriously rethink NBA Live if it ever wants to compete with the NBA 2K series.

TMNT is sloppy, unresponsive and it looks shocking. [Issue#106, p.86]

An exasperating experience. [Issue#106, p.85]

It's a bad game compromised further by awkward monetisation. [Issue#101, p.84]

Extremely boring. [Issue#101, p.80]

The lack of challenge only adds to the boredom. In every way, Army Of Two: The Devil’s Cartel is an embarrassment to videogames...Not just boring, but exactly the kind of ‘violence for violence‘s sake’ dross the anti-videogame lobbyists dredge up at the arrival of each new atrocity.

It can't hide its budget nature, presenting strategy fans with irksome gameplay, ugly visuals and an overall lack of polish or thought. This is a mess. [Issue#97, p.76]

Basically, it's broken. [Issue#97, p.73]

When it comes down to it, Crashed Ice isn't much more than an extra bit of advertising for Red Bull's own tournament. [Issue#94, p.82]

Offers little more than the free trial vision can provide. [Issue#93, p.88]

This game is a fossilised turd that never deserved to be excavated. [Issue#93, p.85]

Appalling levels, terrible writing, repetitive gags and weak shooting mechanics make for one of the least enjoyable experiences of 2012. Be smart and avoid at all costs. [Issue#93, p.82]

Poor controls. [Issue#92, p.88]

Terrifically boring. [Issue#92, p.84]

An impossible sell when you repress the action, screw the controls and forget to include AI. [Issue#91, p.88]

It's an improvement on staring out the window. [Issue#91, p.78]

If the awful premise wasn't bad enough, the gameplay you're presented with really makes the whole experience feel like an enormous waste of time.

Playing The Expendables 2 is like playing a port of Cannon Fodder coded by a dog while the entire population of America shouts at you. It's horrible. [Issue#90, p.87]

This game could send the blood pressure of a Buddhist monk into the stratosphere. [Issue#90, p.78]

Though you might think Kinect would be the perfect fit for its staccato gameplay, it ultimately makes things even more frustrating. [Issue#87, p.87]

Even if you're a fan of the TV series, the dullness just isn't worth it. [Issue#87, p.86]

Never before has a game's potential been squandered so much just because the hardware was unable to keep up with the vision. [Issue#87, p.80]

A good-looking but boring button masher that should be avoided. [Issue#86, p.100]

These robots could sure use a little extra life injected into them. [Issue#84, p.104]

Probably not the worst tower defence game anywhere ever, but certainly the worst we recall playing on Live Arcade. [Issue#84, p.104]

Poorly designed, monotonous and, aside from the hilariously bad voice acting, utterly, utterly bland. [Issue#84, p.89]

Motocross has so much more to offer than this dire racer. [Issue#84, p.87]

The fighting and climbing become exercises in frustration, and there isn't enough depth here. [Issue#83, p.100]

Intense, riveting, terrifying and masterful are just a few of the words we wouldn't use to describe Amy. One of the worst games on Xbox Live Arcade. [Issue#82, p.102]

If you're an oldie who remembers Voltron, do yourself a favor and don't soil those memories with this. [Issue #81, p.103]

It ranges from boring and stupid to totally incomprehensible, and neither end of the spectrum amounts to any fun at all. [Issue#80, p.87]

We were both bored and angered by it. [Issue#79, p.100]

An uninspired, cheap-looking Trials HD rip-off, plastered with the Red Bull logo. [Issue#78, p.103]

Broken, overly repetitive and frustrating to play. [Issue#78, p.89]

This game's destiny? The bargain bin. [Issue#78, p.84]

It's quickly frustrating. [Issue#77, p.91]

Couldn't feel much more dated if it tried. [Issue#76, p.102]

Generally speaking, Lucha Fury is a complete waste of time and Microsoft Points. [Issue#75, p.101]

The inherent ropey nature of this tie-in can't be ignored. [Issue#75, p.85]

So technical that it might as well be a manual. [Issue#75, p.85]

Simply too boring to even consider a rental. [Issue#75, p.84]

Painfully dull gameplay. [Issue#75, p.82]

A good idea in principle, and one that could have made for a great game, but its execution is so poor that it ends up looking like a complete mess. [Issue#75, p.76]

Pales next to the likes of Torchlight and the DeathSpank games. [Issue#74, p.102]

We can think of no reason for anyone to buy this. [Issue#74, p.101]

God of War minus the imagination, plus inordinate amounts of the colour green. [Issue#74, p.89]

An 18-rated game made for 13-year-olds, and yet it is the gameplay that is the biggest disappointment. [Issue#74, p.82]

Both a poor update and an unwieldy, near-cheating videogame overall. [Issue#73, p.101]

This just isn't worth bothering with. [Issue#73, p.89]

A rather depressing waste of money. [Issue#73, p.88]

More fun than being tortured and killed, but still not really much of an advertisement for 13th Century living. [Issue#73, p.87]

Unresponsive and inaccurate. [Issue#72, p.101]

A contradictory videogame premise that screams frustration from its opening stage, and continues in that vein thereafter. [Issue#71, p.103]

A videogame that thrills almost not at all that also happens to represent atrocious value. [Issue#71, p.102]

Ill-suited to the 360 platform and massively overpriced. [Issue#71, p.101]

What should be exhilarating, fast-paced and exciting turns out to be boring, samey and unbalanced to the point of being broken. [Issue#68, p.89]

Do yourself a favor and get Costume Quest instead. [Issue#67, p.105]

The eight-angle camera system serves only to confuse players with depressing regularity. [Issue#67, p.103]

There isn't a single mini-game here that won't seem anachronistic three months from now. [Issue#67, p.90]

A messy control system. [Issue#67, p.88]

It's simply lacking in every single respect. Not good. [Issue#67, p.86]

An annoying platform/adventure hybrid that fails to utilise its fictional universe effectively. [Issue#67, p.84]

Offers a smaller and less entertaining variety of workout than its fellow Kinect fitness titles. [Issue#66, p.93]

The core fighting system is designed well enough, but the Kinect control is lazily implemented and there's absolutely no variety to the fights. [Issue#66, p.93]

There's so much wrong with this game that we don't have space to list it all. [Issue#66, p.86]

One day someone will nail this series and make a game that does its mystery characteristics justice, but we're stuck waiting until then. [Issue#66, p.91]

A partner title without a fraction of the main series' spark. [Issue#66, p.103]

A truly rubbish shooter that lies deep in Gears' shadow, pillaging it for set pieces, designs and mechanics with zero subtlety. [Issue#64, p.89]

Steer clear. [Issue#64, p.103]

We've seen all of Sniper: Ghost Warrior's tricks before, and in far superior games. [Issue#62,p.88]

Mercifully short. [Issue#62,p.91]