We often found shooting to be off-target. [Feb 2012, p.109]

Lack of imagination and repetitive combat send this hurtling into Mount Doom. [Feb 2012, p.96]

A waste of time, of money and of Marketplace space, it's packs like these that give DLC a rotten name. [Dec 2011, p.112]

If anything, the fighting is more frustrating than ever. [Dec 2011, p.111]

Niggly, thoroughly uninspired, and lacking variety, Bodycount is destined to sink without trace in 360's deep pool of generic shooters. [Dec 2011, p.100]

A big disappointment. [Christmas 2011, p.113]

A colossal waste of cash. [Christmas 2011, p.112]

Even for the notoriously shabby ghetto of licensed-games, X-Men Destiny represents a new low. Activision have sent this one out to die. [Christmas 2011, p.102]

A real chien of a historical slasher. Its camp appeal is offset against its tendency to crash mid-game. Sheer hell. [Christmas 2011, p.101]

A messy, boring, button-mashing waste of time. [Nov 2011, p.111]

An inept shooter that manages to make Duke Nukem Forever look like Modern Warfare.

A lightweight gimmicky kids' game made completely verboten due to messy controls. [Sept 2011, p.93]

Tries to coast by on nostalgia, but even fans will see this as a total waste of 14 years. [Sept 2011, p.86]

Another insultingly uninspired stab at fooling fans of the comics and the movie. [Aug 2011, p.100]

A dull, zero budget hack-'n'-slasher with a mad plot and easy Achievements. [Aug 2011, p.95]

The worst 30 minutes of our gaming year so far. Please don't make it yours as well. [June 2011, p.119]

In a genre overlaoded with turds this one floats to somewhere near the top of the pile. [June 2011, p.98]

A few pleasant additions to the tried and tested formula but DW7 isn't searching for new fans. [June 2011, p.94]

Pretty, vacant. How 18 months' development could result in a game so trite is beyond us. [May 2011, p.101]

An engrossing quest sadly dumped on from great heights by a few unforgivable mistakes. [May 2011, p.100]

Better by degrees. Tiny, incremental degrees, barely worth noting. Give it a wide berth. [May 2011, p.99]

Enjoyable nothingness. [May 2011, p.99]

A well-made revival of a rotten formula, Bionic Commando is better in your head than on your screen. [Apr 2011, p.121]

The perennial police pap parps again. Lock your doors and drive on, meine freunde. [Apr 2011, p.98]

Time hasn't been kind to Quake Arena. [March 2011, p.118]

A braindead chore of a platformer, with no redeeming features. [March 2011, p.103]

Utterly rubbish, but bizarrely addictive. [March 2011, p.102]

If you need to satisfy your perverted cravings for dwarf tossing, go and play Oblivion (yet) again. But, please, don't buy this. [March 2011, p.100]

Cheesy acting. [Feb 2011, p.108]

A lie detector that doesn't detect lies. Pointless. [Feb 2011, p.108]

It's Family Game Night with just one (dull) game. [Feb 2011, p.108]

See Dance Paradise, read Dance Purgatory. [Jan 2011, p.15]

Another fitness game with added 'Spicey' goodness. [Jan 2011]

Who needs more than one Kinect dance game? Answer: not us, and not you. [Jan 2011]

At once percent per game we're being generous. [Feb 2011, p.108]

Not terrible, but largely without merit. [Jan 2011]

Audley Harrison puts up a better fight than this. [Feb 2011, p.108]

More Bowel Motionsports. [Feb 2011, p.108]

As uninspiring as it's bland title. Blah. [Jan 2011]

Suffers from being in a big sea of similar titles. [Jan 2011]

Wrong control system. [Feb 2011, p.108]

Some fun to be had, but not for long. [Feb 2011, p.108]

Weak enough to make even uber-fans blanch. [Jan 2011, p.113]

Yet another step-down for the ailing series. EA's given up on this one, it seems. [Jan 2011, p.89]

Zzzzzzzzzzzz. [Jan 2011, p.87]

Very faithful to the show, but massively hard work for anime and fighter fans alike. [Jan 2011, p.86]

Not the best, but Fatal Conspiracy is better than its individual parts would have you believe. [Jan 2011, p.82]

Quite probably the most repellently cutesy kid's game ever to grace the Xbox. Coochie-poo! [Issue#98, p.105]

A questionable franchise makes for an awkward game. It's not terrible, just utterly miserable. [Issue#98, p.105]

Ambitious but flimsy, and on 360 it lacks the one Tiger-beating weapon in its arsenal. [Issue#98, p.90]

A mildly entertaining fantasy yarn tragically coded by a team without any 360 experience. [May 2010, p.102]

It doesn't take a quantum theorist to see this is rotten.

Ponderous and lightweight racing atop near-vaporous water. Go and have a bath instead. [Oct 2010, p.121]

Cruddy game of cruddy movie non-shocker. The greatest legends of humanity, shat upon. [Aug 2010, p.99]

Little imagination, endless repetition and incredible frustration. [Oct 2010, p.90]

Rotten sniper slop with flimsy Call of Duty-esque levels glued onto the side. [Oct 2010, p.94]

A decent enough idea, but one bolted onto a mess of a game. Very naughty indeed. [Oct 2010, p.96]

A budget effort which has been created with little effort to please military buffs or gamers. [Oct 2010, p.97]

They stopped making Shrek games. And we all lived happily ever after. The end. [Oct 2010, p.98]

One of the best shooters of the mid-nineties, ruined spectacularly for the 21st Century. [Aug 2010, p.121]

A car crash of a game, and yet another howler to add to the execrable Hollywood tie-in bin. [Aug 2010, p.27]

Fancy time with Scofield, Sucre, Abruzzi and co? Buy the first season on DVD; it's much more fun.

A tedious top-down racer priced at three times its worth. Disappointing stuff from the N+ boys. [June 2010, p.121]

The worst RPG on 360 by a wide margin. [Christmas 2009, p.99]

As painfully endless and mind-numbing as ever, but it does at least try to add something new. [Apr 2010, p.96]

A collection of utterly shoddy Winter Olympics themed mini-games. Avoid. [Apr 2010, p.97]

A game done better many times before with gags so weak even unfunny art man Strike would scowl. [Apr 2010, p.121]

Jamie's not the only one who's crying. [Apr 2010, p.100]

Cheap and nasty. [Feb 2010, p.84]

A big mistake made all the more unbearable for its few glimpses of promise. [Feb 2010, p.88]

Alienates gamers to appease the fans and ends up impressing neither party. [Jan 2010, p.75]

Technically woeful by-the-numbers tot with a few perversely enjoyable bits. [Jan 2010, p.79]

Tepid platforming action. [June 2010, p.88]

Soulless, derivative guff. [Jan 2010, p.91]

Tedious, restrictive puzzler which happens to be beautiful and made by Darth Vader's dad. [Christmas 2009, p.120]

Should be put out of its misery. [Christmas 2009, p.98]

Tornadoes suck, blow, annoy and upset. Tornado Outbreak nails all of that. [Jan 2010, p.74]

It loves the sport, but this is a cheap racing game, besieged by big, game-ruining problems. [May 2010, p.80]

Balls indeed. [Christmas 2009, p.89]

There's too many options and too much going on for a console controller to handle. [Christmas 2009, p.119]

Bland, convoluted and plagued with counter-productive level design. [Dec 2009, p.105]

Episode one was weak; episode two clearly didn't notice. Who botches the Watchmen? [Nov 2009, p.105]

It's rubbish. Of course it's rubbish - it's a game where you bang one button, forever. [Oct 2009, p.103]

A perfectly charming guest that turns up to the party five years too late. [Christmas 2009, p.97]

Fleetingly daft fun but this is too expansive, too charmless and too hard. [Nov 2009, p.91]

Certainly faithful to the fiction but inferior to the last game in almost every single way.

Rigorously mediocre. [Oct 2009, p.95]

Hell's vengeance is indefensible scrot that has no place in this console generation. [Nov 2009, p.90]

When you make Michael "Bayhem" look smart, something's gone very wrong. [Oct 2009, p.94]

As it is, buying this overly, overly, overly familiar reprise would be akin to sticking two fingers up to every decent developer out there, then murdering their pets. Please Koei, no more. Please.

As a prototype of all that's come since, Wolfenstein is interesting - but not every antique is valuable. [Aug 2009, p.102]

A thoroughly tedious adventure with weak jokes and puzzles made hard through length not smarts. [July 2009, p.103]

One of the worst shooters of this generation. The clue really is in the name.

A deluxe compendium of cliche, worth a tenner to be fans of the film. [Jan 2010, p.90]

A shooter with all the usual pieces but none of the smarts needed to entertain.

A license squandered on a game which would have been no different with the Trek taken out. [Aug 2009, p.103]

Laughably outdated and, worse, overpriced. [Aug 2009, p.103]

Short and forgettable. [Aug 2009, p.82]