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.